Commercial Assurance & Operational Governance

Commercial assurance intelligence.

Validate contractor claims, invoices, quotations, rates, quantities and supporting evidence before approvals are issued — across FM, construction and project delivery.

A governance layer between operational delivery and financial approval workflows. Not CAFM. Not procurement. Not your ERP.

Govern before you approve. Reduce commercial risk.

Assurance snapshot

98.7%

Line-item confidence after SoR comparison

Rate uplift unsupported
Quantity exceeds evidence
Duplicate schedule item

Governance before approval.

Cross-sector commercial intelligence.

Audit-ready assurance records.

What Valtra is

A governance layer — not another operational system.

Valtra sits between operational delivery and financial approval workflows, giving commercial teams structured assurance before pay decisions are made.

Not a CAFM replacement

Valtra does not manage assets, work orders or field operations. It governs what gets approved financially.

Not a procurement platform

Valtra does not run sourcing, tendering or supplier onboarding. It validates claims against what was already agreed.

Not a finance ERP

Valtra does not post journals, run AP ledgers or replace your core finance system. It sits upstream of payment approval.

Commercial assurance intelligence

One reasoning engine. FM, construction and projects — without separate platforms.

Demos show the same platform understanding contextual relationships between contracts, claims, quantities, evidence and payments — naturally, across sectors. Valtra is building commercial assurance intelligence, not a niche FM AI tool.

  • Contracts linked to what is being claimed
  • Quantities checked against evidence and scope
  • Rates validated against agreed commercial terms
  • Payments assessed before approval workflows complete

Strategic positioning

Sector-agnostic governance. Context-aware assurance.

Whether you manage reactive FM claims, construction valuations or project milestone payments, the commercial relationships are the same — and Valtra is built to understand them.

Platform capabilities

Commercial Assurance

Validate contractor claims, invoices, quotations, rates, quantities and supporting evidence before approvals are issued — with consistent reasoning across every review.

Operational Governance

Apply structured controls between operational delivery and financial sign-off, so approvals reflect what was actually delivered and contractually allowed.

Auditability & Visibility

Every discrepancy carries transparent reasoning, evidence links and exportable records — giving commercial and audit teams a defensible trail.

What Valtra validates

Every commercial input. One assurance workflow.

Validate contractor claims, invoices, quotations, rates, quantities and supporting evidence before approvals are issued — with consistent governance across your portfolio.

Contractor claims & applications

Invoices & payment requests

Quotations & rate proposals

Schedule of rates compliance

Quantities & measured works

Supporting evidence packs

Variations & scope changes

Contractual rates & uplifts

Contractor validation workflows

Structured workflows for every claim path.

From reactive call-outs to interim valuations, Valtra applies the same commercial assurance logic — tailored to the documents and evidence your teams already receive.

Payment applications and valuations

Reactive and planned maintenance claims

Variation and scope-change submissions

Schedule of rates and lump-sum checks

Quotation-to-contract alignment

Evidence pack cross-referencing

Recommended payable assessment

01

Assess

Score each payable line against contract terms, claimed quantities, rates and attached evidence.

02

Recommend

Surface supported, challenged and unsupported amounts with clear commercial rationale.

03

Approve with confidence

Issue approvals knowing discrepancies were identified before money leaves the organisation.

Real assurance example

Supplier claim submitted

£12,450

A contractor application is checked against the agreed schedule of rates, claimed quantities and supporting evidence before approval.

Discrepancies identified

Unsupported uplift

Duplicate schedule item

Quantity exceeds supporting evidence

Potential saving identified

£2,360

The review record gives teams a clear basis for challenge, approval decisions and audit follow-up.

Platform demo

See commercial assurance in motion.

  • Upload claims, invoices, quotations and evidence
  • Compare rates, quantities and contractual context
  • Govern approvals with discrepancies surfaced first

£482,000+

Potential savings identified

12,000+

Commercial line items verified

1,400+

Discrepancies surfaced

70%+

Estimated reduction in manual verification time

Based on internal validation testing across commercial claim datasets.

Multilingual outputs

Outputs your commercial and audit teams can act on.

Structured assurance outputs designed for review, challenge and approval — not buried in unstructured document comments.

Structured review summaries for commercial teams

Exportable discrepancy reports for audit and challenge

Evidence-linked reasoning in consistent formats

Outputs aligned to your approval workflow — not locked to one language of record

Use cases

FM, construction and projects — one platform.

The same commercial assurance intelligence applies across sectors without rebuilding workflows for each environment.

Facilities Management

Reactive maintenance, PPM claims, SoR compliance and multi-site contractor assurance at scale.

Construction

Interim valuations, variations, measured works and application-for-payment reviews against contract baselines.

Projects & Capital Delivery

Milestone claims, change orders and supplier submissions across complex delivery programmes.

Governance & commercial risk reduction

Reduce approval risk without slowing delivery.

Reduce commercial and approval risk before payment

Strengthen governance between delivery teams and finance

Improve consistency of contractor claim reviews

Create defensible audit trails for challenged amounts

Shorten time-to-decision without weakening controls

Why teams use Valtra

Operational governance with commercial outcomes.

Govern contractor spend before approval

Reduce commercial and operational risk

Surface unsupported charges with clear rationale

Create audit-ready assurance records

Scale consistent reviews across sectors

The problem

Governance gaps shouldn't live in spreadsheets.

Governance between delivery and finance is often informal

Contractor claim reviews rely on inconsistent manual checks

Rates, quantities and evidence are not always cross-referenced

Approval pressure outpaces commercial assurance capacity

Audit trails are fragmented across spreadsheets and inboxes

Industry voice

Industry Feedback

Feedback from commercial, FM, construction and project teams points to the same need: structured assurance between delivery and financial approval — with lower risk and clearer audit trails.

The biggest challenge is validating contractor claims, invoices and quotations against agreed rates, scope, quantities and supporting evidence before approvals are issued.
Teams need governance between operational delivery and financial sign-off — not another system to replace CAFM or ERP.
There is room for intelligence that understands how contracts, claims, quantities, evidence and payments relate — not just document extraction.
Commercial assurance is hard to scale consistently across FM, construction and project environments.
Approval risk drops when discrepancies are surfaced with clear reasoning before pay runs are authorised.

How it works

01

Upload

Upload contractor claims, invoices, quotations, schedules of rates and supporting evidence.

02

Extract

Valtra extracts commercial data — quantities, rates, descriptions, totals and contextual relationships.

03

Compare

Line items are checked against contractual rates, scope, quantities and evidence packs.

04

Govern

Discrepancies, unsupported charges and compliance risks are surfaced before approval is issued.

What Valtra detects

Unsupported charges

Rate mismatches

Quantity discrepancies

Duplicate billing

Incorrect uplifts

SoR non-compliance

Unsupported variations

Arithmetic inconsistencies

Why Valtra

Commercial assurance intelligence — built for governance.

Valtra combines structured extraction, contextual reasoning and operational governance workflows into one platform — reducing commercial risk, strengthening approvals and giving teams defensible visibility across FM, construction and projects.

Faster verification.

Stronger controls.

Audit-ready records.

Every commercial discrepancy includes transparent reasoning and exportable evidence.

Ideal for

Built for teams accountable for commercial governance.

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Commercial Directors

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Commercial & Contract Managers

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Quantity Surveyors

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FM Governance Leads

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Project Commercial Managers

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Finance & AP Assurance Teams

Speak to Valtra

Start with a demo or join the pilot.

Choose what you are interested in, share your details, and the lead goes directly to Jake at Valtra.

Primary CTA

Book Demo

Tell us where commercial assurance and governance currently slows approvals down — Jake will come back with demo times.

No sales pressure — we'll simply understand your current process and show how Valtra works.