Job costs drift
Budgets live in Excel. Actuals come from emails. The reconciliation happens too late to act on.
Construction & contracting
Job costs that never reconcile. CIS chased on spreadsheets.
When your margins are tight and your admin is fragile, every week costs more than it should. Meridian builds custom job-costing, subcontractor and compliance software for UK construction and contracting firms that have outgrown Excel.
The manual work that costs you
Sound familiar?
Most construction and contracting businesses run on the same broken layer of spreadsheets, email chains and last-minute chases. The overhead is hidden until a project goes wrong.
CIS is a weekly chase
Verifying subcontractors, tracking deductions and producing monthly returns means someone's entire Friday.
Compliance certs get lost
CSCS cards, insurance docs and accreditations are scattered across inboxes with no expiry tracking.
Margin visible too late
You find out a job ran over when you invoice — not when you could have done something about it.
Subcontractor admin multiplies
Each subie means another thread of onboarding docs, payment runs and retention tracking.
No single source of truth
Project managers, quantity surveyors and the office all have different versions of the same numbers.
What we build
Custom systems built around how your site and office actually work.
01 — Job-costing & P&L dashboards
Live job margin, not last month's.
A single place where budget vs actual updates as costs are logged — so project managers and directors see the same numbers, in real time, before a job runs over.
02 — CIS & subcontractor management
Replace the CIS spreadsheet entirely.
Verify subcontractors, track deduction status, log payments and produce monthly returns — all in one system that keeps the audit trail HMRC expects.
03 — Compliance & certification tracking
Certs, cards and accreditations — tracked automatically.
A compliance register for every worker and subcontractor, with expiry alerts before the certificate lapses — not after someone's already on site without valid cover.
04 — Automations & integrations
Connect the tools you already use.
Stop copying data between your accounting software, project tools and site teams. We automate the repetitive handovers that eat into your admin time every week.
What we have delivered
Delivered for UK operations businesses.
We protect client identity but share what was built — the operational challenge, the system we designed, and the time it saved.
Secure budgeting & P&L platform
For a UK events and touring company: a live job-costing and P&L system replacing a tangle of shared spreadsheets, with role-based access and finance reporting.
Operational software in private healthcare
Patient admin, compliance tracking and appointment workflows built for a UK clinic group to replace fragmented manual processes.
Subcontractor & document management
Certification register, expiry-alert automations and payment-run records for an operations-heavy UK service business.
How it works
A fixed, clear process
from first call to handover.
No retainer. No ongoing licence. A focused build, a fixed price, and a system your team owns when we are done.
01
Free operations audit
A free 30-minute call. We identify your two or three biggest manual-work problems — job costing, CIS, compliance or otherwise — and give you a straight view of what is worth fixing first.
02
Fixed-price proposal
If the fit is right, we scope the system precisely and give you a fixed price. You know the cost before we start. No hourly billing, no scope creep.
03
Built and handed over clean
We build the system, test it with your team and hand it over with full documentation. Secure, simple to use, and yours to run from day one.
Free operations audit
30 minutes. No pitch.
We talk through your current process — job costing, CIS, compliance or wherever the friction is — and give you a clear view of what modern software could fix, what it would cost, and whether it is worth it.
- We meet on Google Meet
- No obligation, no deck
- Prefer not to call? Email us