Engagement · BuildWatch

Greyline BuildWatch

Independent verification of what is actually happening on your building site, documented to an evidential standard, every month.

What This Is

What this is.


Owners funding construction from abroad rely on progress reports from the people spending the money. That arrangement works well when it is honest, and poorly when it is not.

BuildWatch provides an independent record. A verified in-country associate attends the site on a scheduled monthly basis, working to a standardised documentation protocol agreed at the outset. Every report is reviewed and signed off by the principal before it is released.

This is documented verification, not surveillance, and it is not an investigation of the contractor. It exists to give an owner a reliable, independent account of progress alongside whatever the contractor already reports.

What Is Included

What is included.


Title and documentation search at the outset, checked against available public records

Scheduled monthly site attendance by a verified in-country associate

Geotagged, timestamped photographic and video record, captured to a fixed protocol

Materials observed on site, checked against the schedule provided by the client or contractor

A written monthly report, principal-reviewed, structured consistently for month-on-month comparison

A named point of contact for escalation between reports

Sample Record

What a BuildWatch record looks like.


Every monthly record follows the same fixed-vantage protocol. These specimens show what that produces in practice, with all client, site and personal details redacted or replaced with placeholder figures.

A BuildWatch capture frame showing the fixed vantage index and full capture metadata: position, bearing, scale reference, file integrity hash and reviewing principal.
Every frame carries fixed-vantage positioning and unaltered capture metadata.
A month-on-month comparison of two site photographs captured from the same fixed vantage point, showing observed construction progress and one flagged exception.
The same fixed vantage point, compared month to month, so progress is seen rather than described.
A specimen page from a redacted BuildWatch monthly site record, showing attendance, progress against schedule, materials observed, exceptions and the limitations of the record.
One page from a redacted specimen monthly report.

These are illustrative specimens with placeholder figures, not a real client record. Client, site and personal details on a live engagement are never disclosed to a third party.

What Is Not Included

What is not included.


A valuation, quantity survey, or certification of the works

A legal opinion on title or ownership

Engineering, structural or building-standards inspection

Covert observation of any individual

Who This Is For

Who this is for.


Property owners resident in the UK, United States, Canada or Australia funding construction in Nigeria most commonly instruct this work. Family offices and executors managing overseas estates also instruct it.

How It Runs

How it runs.


  1. An inquiry is submitted and a scoping call confirms the project, its location, and the schedule to check against.

  2. A title and documentation search establishes the position at the outset, against available public records.

  3. The in-country associate attends site on the agreed monthly date and records progress to the fixed protocol.

  4. The principal reviews the record against the schedule and prepares the monthly report.

  5. The report is delivered, with a named point of contact available for any question before the next attendance.

Cadence and Deliverable

How this is delivered.


Shape
Ongoing
Cadence
Monthly
Deliverable
Written monthly report with a geotagged photographic and video record
Review
Principal-reviewed before release
Limitations and Scope

Limitations and scope.


This work has defined boundaries, stated plainly so a client knows exactly what the record does, and does not, establish.

  • Title searches report what available records show at the date of search. They are not a legal opinion on title, and a qualified local solicitor should be instructed on any matter of ownership.
  • Materials and progress are recorded as observed on the date of attendance, checked against the schedule the client or contractor provides. Greyline records observation; it does not certify the value or quality of the works.
  • Site records are captured with the site owner's authority. Any identifiable third party appearing incidentally in the imagery is obscured before the record is released.
Ready to Begin

Submit a confidential inquiry.

Every enquiry is reviewed by an analyst and routed to a scoping call, a written scope is confirmed before any work begins.