Construction: weekly job-cost dashboards (labor variance, committed vs actual materials, change orders, billing vs % complete, backlog) catch margin erosion before month-end financials arrive

Claim: Construction: weekly job-cost dashboards covering labor-productivity variance, committed vs. actual materials, change orders, billing vs. % complete, backlog to catch margin erosion before month-end financials arrive — by which point "that bad pour, slow crew, or expensive material swap is old news."

Source: Industry practitioner consensus.

Confidence: Industry-consensus.

Why this matters for Candid: The clearest worked example of a dashboard tied to named decisions with clear thresholds — the The "what would I do if this number doubled or halved tomorrow?" test — if no action follows, it's vanity test is trivial here. For Ontario GC clients in the existing psychology cluster, weekly job-cost is the canonical internal dashboard.