How long does a review take?
A day embedded with the team as standard; up to a week where you want a whole slice of the month watched rather than sampled.
Updated: 22 August 2026
The answer
The standard project review is one working day inside a live commercial cycle, timed for a week when real work is happening: a valuation being assembled, variations being priced, the CVR being updated. A day is enough to count where the hours go and to read one job's records properly. Where you want more than a sample, I embed with the team for up to a week and watch a whole slice of the month run, which catches the quiet failures a single day can miss: the chase that takes three days, the record that only thins when the job gets busy. The business review is sized differently, by the number of live jobs and the weight of the month-end, and usually runs across a month-end so the reporting can be watched being assembled rather than described. Either way the fee is fixed and in writing before anything is booked.