Retainage release · fixed fee
Your retainage is
not a dispute.It is a paperwork backlog.
Five to ten percent of your contract is held until the job closes out, and it is usually the whole profit. We finish the closeout paperwork standing in front of it and work the release in your name, for a fixed fee.
- Held
- $0
- Missing
- 9 of 14 requirements
- Nearest deadline
- Mar 14, 2026
- Status
- Waiting
Riverside Medical Office · specimen figures.
Average wait for a subcontractor to receive withheld retainage. The GC above them waits 99 days.
Of your contract value, held back until the job closes out. Usually the entire profit on the job.
Substantial completion to final check, across a study of 39 commercial projects.
The bottleneck is almost never a dispute.
It is as-builts, O&M manuals, warranties, waivers from every lower tier vendor, consent of surety, and a final pay application that references all of it.
Getting those documents takes six to ten weeks of asking six different parties, at the moment your crew has already moved to the next job.
Internal closeout rarely fails on competence. It fails because follow-up number four never happens.
Your GC's portal is a mailbox. It tells you the package is incomplete and never tells you what to do about it.
| Requirement | Section | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| As-built drawings, full setYour superintendent | 1.7.3 | Your superintendent | Waiting |
| O&M manuals, mechanicalEquipment supplier | 1.7.4 | Equipment supplier | Waiting |
| Manufacturer warranties, 3 of 5Suppliers | 1.7.6 | Suppliers | Waiting |
| Final unconditional waivers, lower tierYour vendors | 9.10.2 | Your vendors | Waiting |
| Consent of surety to final paymentBonding agent | 9.10.3 | Bonding agent | Ready |
| Final pay application, G702 and G703We assemble it | 9.10.1 | We assemble it | Ready |
Your map cites your own contract, by section, on your own job.
One claim, five words, until the money is released.
Nothing to log into. One email every Monday morning, and at most one small thing needed from you.
- MappingWe read your subcontract
- Waiting9 of 14 requirements out for collection
- Ready14 of 14 complete, package indexed
- SubmittedPackage with the GC, follow-up weekly
- Released$84,000 cleared Mar 14, 2026
Released, specimen
$0
Released is the only word we celebrate, and it is the day the money cleared, not the day we submitted.
We never promise a GC will pay. We promise the paperwork will not be the reason they do not.
Four steps, and three of them are ours.
You send one subcontract
We read it and write a Release Map, free: what is held, what your contract requires to release it, what is missing, who has it, and the deadlines.
We get the missing pieces
Every request goes out in your name, on a dated cadence, to your GC, your suppliers, your broker and your bonding agent.
We assemble the package
One indexed PDF in the order your GC asked for it, with a final pay application that references every item in it.
We work the release
Weekly follow-up with the GC's project manager and their accounting desk. A person approves every message before it leaves.
A fixed fee, named by the fact that sets it.
One payment per claim. No subscription, no percentage of what is released, nothing assigned, no card stored.
The subcontract value sets the price, so there is nothing to choose. A $1,500 fee against $84,000 held is the whole argument.
Guarantee
If your GC rejects the package as incomplete, we fix it and resubmit at no charge. If it is still incomplete after that, the fee for that claim is refunded.
Nothing to cancel. You add the next job when it closes out.
One action
Send one subcontract. We read it and write the map.
Nothing on this page collects your details. Email one subcontract PDF and we read it by hand and send the Release Map back, free, on one job.