Construction firms deploying this system typically target a meaningful reduction in invoice processing cycle time within the first 90 days - the working target is invoices that took 3-5 days to process and post clearing in hours instead. Margin protection is the bigger lever: Finance catches billing errors, scope creep, and unauthorized change orders before payment, with a working target of 1-3% of margin protected per project. AIA draw approval cycles are targeted to compress by roughly a third because Finance can validate invoice accuracy in real time, cutting the back-and-forth with project managers and architects. Compliance exposure shrinks by mechanism, not by promise: prevailing wage invoices are auto-validated against Davis-Bacon requirements, so the audit trail is built as invoices flow.
ROI compounds over 12 months. The model targets recouping deployment costs in months 1-3 through labor savings alone - Finance capacity freed from invoice processing redirects to margin analysis, cost forecasting, and estimator support. By month 6, the target is a cash position measured in days gained across your project portfolio, because accurate invoices mean faster draws - a meaningful working capital gain for mid-sized firms. By month 12, margin protection and process efficiency combine, with the system becoming a core control in your project financial management. The assessment scopes those targets against your actual invoice volumes and project structures.