Invoice Chasing for Construction Subcontractors
DolceDrago 309 — a skill for the money held between the valuation and the bank
Variant of Nº019 — The Invoice Chaser
What it is
Builds the payment chase for a construction subcontractor, where nobody simply issues an invoice: a valuation is applied for, certified, cut, set off against and part-retained. It runs the ladder against the contract's clocks rather than the calendar, keeps retention release as its own dated chase, and refuses the moves that turn a creditor into a defaulting party. Use it when an application goes unpaid, when a contractor pleads that the employer has not paid him, or before anyone walks off site.
What you receive
a construction payment-recovery ladder — from application validity check to final notice before formal action — with the separate retention chase and the notice-deadline calendar that decides whether the money is still claimable
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “main contractor hasn't paid my payment application”
- “he says he can't pay me until the client pays him”
- “chasing retention two years after the job finished”
- “no payment notice was issued can I still get paid”
- “can I stop work on site if I haven't been paid”
Record
lineage: variant · parent 019
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.