Neartime Reporting — Better Decisions on Complex Projects

Why We Exist

The problems we keep seeing

Major construction projects are becoming increasingly complex while the people responsible for delivering them are expected to achieve more with fewer resources. Projects generate vast quantities of information, yet many decisions are still made without a complete understanding of what that information is actually saying.

Experienced professionals spend too much of their time searching for data, recreating reports and reacting to problems instead of preventing them. The information exists. It is rarely connected in a way that supports timely, informed decisions.

These are not isolated project failures. They are recurring patterns that appear on project after project, across different sectors, organisations and contract forms.

How We Think The Ecosystem

Information trapped within disciplines

Commercial, planning and operational data rarely connects. Each team sees its own view — nobody sees the whole picture.

Estimates forgotten once projects start

The assumptions behind the tender rarely survive first contact with site. Without a link back to the original model, performance cannot be understood.

Programme information inaccessible

Critical path analysis remains the territory of specialist planners. Commercial and operational teams cannot interrogate it without expert help.

Contract administration consuming management time

NEC contracts impose strict procedural obligations. Managing them manually, across spreadsheets and email chains, creates risk and wastes capacity.

Operational records fragmented or absent

Site activity is recorded on paper, in notebooks, or not at all. By the time a report is produced, the opportunity to act on it has passed.

What We Do

Two complementary ways to help

Consultancy and software are not separate offerings — they are different expressions of the same objective. Understanding complex projects well enough to make them better.

Henderson Commercial Services

Consultancy

Specialist commercial and project support on major infrastructure projects. Commercial management, change and claims, programme analysis, systems thinking. Applied directly to the project problems that matter.

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Neartime Reporting

Software

Practical tools developed from direct experience on live projects. Each one addresses a recurring problem that we kept encountering — and decided deserved a better, repeatable solution.

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The Ecosystem

Where consultancy and software connect

Neither business exists in isolation. Live projects generate experience. Experience reveals patterns. Patterns that recur across multiple projects deserve something more than a one-off fix — they deserve a reusable solution.

That is where software comes from. Not from a product roadmap designed in isolation, but from repeated observation of the same problem on real projects, and a decision that a practical tool would help future teams avoid it.

The software then improves future projects — which generates more experience, identifies new patterns, and the cycle continues.

The Full Ecosystem

Live Projects

Experience gained

Observation

Patterns identified

Understanding

Root causes clear

Better Processes

Methods improved

Software

Solutions built

Better Projects

Cycle continues

Neartime Reporting

Our software tools

Four tools, each addressing a different recurring problem in construction project delivery. All developed from direct project experience.

Resource & Performance

Near Time Reporting

Connects resource tracking, lookahead programming, allocation sheets, cost management and performance dashboards. Digitises the workflows your team already uses and links them together for real-time project insight.

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Site Tracking

Neartime Pulse

Multi-workstream site tracking. Operators record daily activity on mobile. Supervisors approve. Managers see live dashboards. Contemporaneous, signed records with direct commercial application.

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NEC Contract Administration

NECCAT

Complete NEC3/NEC4 contract administration. Every communication type, correct procedural sequence, automated deadlines and deemed-acceptance logic. Built by a practising NEC contract administrator.

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CE Assessment & TIA

XER Inspector

NEC Compensation Event assessment platform. Upload your Primavera P6 programme, run full CPM scheduling, generate contract-ready CE quotations and Time Impact Analysis — without re-running logic in a spreadsheet.

Learn More Open XER Inspector

Get in Touch

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Whether you want to discuss a project challenge, find out more about a specific tool, or explore how consultancy and software might work together on your project — we're happy to talk.

We work best when there is a genuine problem to understand. If you have one, get in touch and we will start there.

Based in Dundee, Scotland. Working on infrastructure projects across the UK.

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