Contractor capability profile
Your delivery record, backed by evidence from your own jobs. It builds over time, and you decide who sees it: your broker, a surety or a lender.
Capacity,
backed by evidence.
Contractors deliver more than a WIP report can show. Surely turns real project execution into evidence that contractors and their brokers can bring to bonding and lending decisions.
Self-reported. Hard to verify.
JobPercent complete
Highway interchangeCivil
Water treatment plantIndustrial
Elementary schoolInstitutional
Transit maintenance facilityCommercial
Example portfolio. Jobs and figures are illustrative.
Bonding decisions have always rested on three C’s. Execution evidence adds a fourth.
- Character.
- Reputation, integrity and relationships.
- Capital.
- Financial strength and working capital.
- Capacity.
- Backlog, WIP and existing commitments.
- Capability.
- What the contractor can actually deliver, shown by how their jobs are really going.
What Surely does
WIP-to-Actual
Checks reported WIP against what’s happening on site, so schedule pressure, margin fade and change-order exposure surface early, while there’s still time to get ahead of them.
Project complexity and contractor fit
Shows how a new job lines up with what the contractor has delivered and has on the books, so a stretch project can go to market with the right support behind it.
One evidence layer between the work and the capital behind it
Contractors
Own your track record. Share evidence of what you deliver, only with the people you choose.
Brokers
Bring stronger bonding submissions and give carriers a clearer picture of your clients.
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Execution evidence the contractor controls
Surety carriers
Back bonding capacity decisions with evidence from the job site, not just the paperwork.
Construction lenders
See how projects are really going on the loans you fund.
Better evidence. Your decision.
Contractors control what’s shared and with whom. Surely doesn’t replace underwriters or raise limits on its own. It puts the same, better evidence in front of everyone at the table.
Who’s behind Surely
Surely is built by a team with decades of construction experience. We’re bringing that into surety and lending, and building it with the people who will use it.
- Built by construction people
- We know how jobs actually run, and what a WIP report leaves out.
- Independent
- We don’t issue bonds or make loans. We provide the evidence and leave the decision with you.
- Early, on purpose
- The surety product is being shaped with design partners now, before it’s locked in.
Writing from Surely
The Fourth C.
Notes on surety, lending and construction: what contractors can actually deliver, and how the people who back them can tell.
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What a WIP report can’t tell you
Percent complete is one number. The job site has a lot more to say.
Same contractor, different job
Why a contractor who is solid on one kind of project can be stretched on the next.
Help us prove it on real decisions.
We’re working with a small group of brokers, contractors, sureties and lenders to show that execution evidence changes real underwriting and credit decisions. If that question matters to you, let’s talk.
- AgreePick the jobs, files or decision to test against.
- ConnectShare data on a few active projects, on your terms.
- CompareRun Surely alongside your current process.
- DecideSee together whether the evidence changed the call.