TALOS Forensic Pay-Application Audits
For owner's representatives
talos.build · benlloyd@aeonik.ai

The draw was inspected for work done.
Nobody checked what was actually installed.

Talos reads the pay application, the specification, and the approved submittals together, and flags every line where a contractor billed for what the contract required but installed something cheaper. Spec'd versus billed, cited to the document, line, and page. It runs in minutes on a package that takes a person a day to read, and it never invents a finding.

The gap it closes

Draw / lender software
Matches the invoice to the budget. Confirms the math, not the material.
Architect of record
Matches the submittal to the spec at approval. Months before the bill.
Talos
Matches the pay app to the approved submittal — the check that catches a material substitution. Nobody else runs it.

Proof — run on a real project manual

$26,000caught on one draw · 2 findings · verdict REJECT
On the real 492-page Delaware Air National Guard Building 2900 HVAC manual, Talos caught a York/Johnson Controls central-station system billed at $88,000 while a residential Goodman unit was the approved record, with no credit change order — plus hot-water-coil connections billed on a unit that has no coil. Eleven of thirteen billed lines came back clean. Every finding cites the manual page. See the three-page walkthrough report.

The offer

EngagementPriceWhat you get
Per package$2,500One pay application audited against spec and submittals. A findings report you can hand the owner. Under the typical draw's expense threshold.
Per active projectsubscriptionEvery draw on the project audited before you certify it, for about the cost of one caught substitution a year. Volume-tiered across your portfolio.
White labelfirm licensePresent the three-way audit as your firm's premium service, under your name. A margin center and a differentiator no other rep offers.

How to start — no integration, no commitment

Run one free audit

Forward a redacted, closed-out draw package. You get a findings report within 48 hours. If it catches nothing, you have learned your contractor is clean — also worth knowing.

Founding trial

Your next three draws, audited under subscription terms, founding rate locked for twelve months. The founding cohort is five firms.

Talos · a forensic audit, built by Benlloyd Goldstein, M.Arch (SCI-Arc)
benlloyd@aeonik.ai · talos.build