Know the risk before you price the job.
CIX helps UK contractors check payment, client, main contractor, developer, PM, QS and project risk before accepting work.
- Evidence-backed
- Moderated reports
- Privacy-first
- Restricted data
- Right to reply
- Built in
Project Risk Report
Sample preview
2.8/10
4.1/10
- Variation Risk
- High
- Dispute Risk
- Medium
- Evidence Status
- Verified Evidence
- Connections
- 6 linked · 3 dissolved
- Visibility
- Verified Contractors Only
Clients check contractors. Contractors should check clients too.
Late payments, poor communication, unfair QS decisions and unapproved extras can destroy profit before a project even starts.
Construction loses more companies to insolvency than any other UK sector — around 4,000 firms a year — and late payment is the most common trigger.
- Late payments destroy cash flow.
- Poor QS decisions kill profit.
- Slow communication delays projects.
- Unapproved extras become disputes.
- Contractors usually find out too late.
Every contractor learns the same lesson separately. CIX helps the industry learn together.
What CIX tracks
Six dimensions of project risk
Client Risk
How a client behaves through a project — decision-making, fairness and reliability.
Payment Behaviour
Patterns around on-time payment, retentions, delays and unpaid balances.
PM Risk
Project management quality — instructions, sign-offs, scheduling and coordination.
QS Risk
Quantity surveying fairness — valuations, deductions and contract administration.
Project Risk
Overall delivery risk — variations, scope creep and the likelihood of disputes.
Evidence Level
How well a report is supported — from basic notes to documented, verified evidence.
How It Works
Moderated, evidence-led, privacy-first
Every report follows the same governed process before it can be seen.
- 1
Contractor submits report
A verified contractor records their real business experience on a project.
- 2
Evidence is uploaded or requested
Supporting evidence is attached, or requested during moderation.
- 3
CIX moderates the report
Each report is reviewed before publication — nothing goes live automatically.
- 4
Risk score is calculated
Payment, communication, variation and dispute risk form an overall picture.
- 5
Sensitive personal data is restricted
Personal names and exact project addresses are never published publicly.
- 6
Verified contractors access deeper reports
Restricted detail is available to verified contractors where legally appropriate.
Example risk report
What a moderated report looks like
Main Contractor
Northline Build Group Ltd
Abandoned invoices
2 reported · £46,500 unpaid for over 60 days
- Company No.
- 09421765
- Region
- Manchester
- Avg payment delay
- 24 days
- Retention returned
- Not returned · 1 of 4
- Court / formal dispute
- 1 of 4 reports
- Total contract value
- £2.4m
Public Summary
“Subcontractors report late payment, deductions that were not agreed, and extra work requested before costs were approved.”
How to read this
Scores summarise what subcontractors reported: payment gauges are built from real invoice delays, behaviour from contract conduct. Two or more abandoned invoices with a low payment score force the overall risk to High — and the evidence badge shows how well the reports are supported.
CIX reports are based on contractor-submitted experiences and moderated evidence. Reports indicate risk patterns, not legal findings.
Example only. Fictional data for illustration.
Warn others — and others will warn you.
Every project teaches you something about a client: who pays on time, who buries you in unapproved extras, who keeps their word. Right now that knowledge dies with the project. Share it — the next contractor won’t walk into the same trap, and someone else’s report may save you from yours.
Changed the company name, left the debts behind?
CIX links directors to their dissolved and liquidated companies — so a “brand-new” firm with an old track record can’t hide it.
And report the good ones too. A client who pays in 14 days deserves to be found. Good payers win better subcontractors, good subcontractors win better clients — that’s how the industry gets fairer, one honest report at a time.