One of the persistent frustrations for project managers working on active unit-price contracts is the inability to see accurate total placed quantities in real time. In most inspection workflows, placed quantities are only official once an inspection has been approved. This means that any inspection still in draft or pending status creates a gap in the visible totals. PMs trying to answer the question of how much of a given item has been placed have to either wait for all open inspections to close or manually add up approved and in-progress placements across multiple documents.
The Placements dashboard in Oversite solves this directly. It provides a live, item-by-item view of all approved placements across the entire project, independent of where the team is in the current pay period or inspection approval cycle. PMs can see at a glance how much of each contract item has been placed, what percentage of the contract quantity that represents, and where the project stands relative to its financial and physical completion targets.
For agency owners and stakeholders with platform access, this view is equally valuable. The most common reactive question in project oversight, which is where the project currently stands on the contract, goes from a phone call or email request to a self-service answer. Stakeholders can check in on a project's progress themselves at any time without asking the inspection firm to pause and compile a status report.
For firms preparing for pay requests, the Placements view also functions as a pre-check. It shows the running totals before the pay request is formally generated, making it easy to spot any items that look out of range, confirm that all expected placements have been recorded, and go into the billing process with confidence. One active client described it as the feature they did not know they needed until it existed. Once you have accurate, real-time placed quantity visibility, preparing a pay request without it feels like navigating without a map.