Payment compliance for California GCs

Every payment, matched to the right waiver.

Lien Waivers Pro reads your pay apps and waiver bundles, ties each pay application to the waivers it requires, and shows which dollars are covered and which are exposed before payment is released.

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CIV. CODE §8132§8134§8136§8138AIA G702 / G703
Draw 07 · Waiver status Bundle: 142 pages · 6 claimants
ILLUSTRATIVE
Claimant Paid Cond. Uncond. Status
Ridgeline Concrete $184,250.00 8132 ✓ 8134 ✓ Cleared
Summit Electric $96,410.00 8132 ✓ 8134 ✓ Cleared
Coastal Framing $71,880.00 8132 ✓ pending Awaiting payment
Delta Mechanical $128,000.00 missing 8134 ✓ Exposed: no conditional
Pacific Glazing $42,615.00 8132 ✓ 8134 ✓ Cleared
Granite Site Works $58,900.00 8132 ✓ 8134 ✓ Cleared
● 4 cleared ● 1 awaiting payment ● 1 exposed

Your pay apps, checks and waivers already exist.
But the risk lives between them.

The problem

The risk isn't signing early. It's paying without the right paper.

Form class
Unconditional means unconditional

An unconditional waiver is enforceable on signing, check or no check. Knowing which form you hold, against which payment, is the whole game.

Volume
Gaps hide inside big bundles

A missing first-tier waiver looks like every other page in a several-hundred-page draw package, until an owner or lender finds it first.

Fragmentation
Three sources, no single view

Pay apps, check runs and signed waivers arrive through different inboxes and get reconciled by hand, draw after draw.

Approach

From raw bundle to release-ready in five steps.

Your team keeps its process. We take the reading, matching and chasing off its plate.

  1. 01
    Intake

    Forward the draw package as it is: pay apps, waivers, scans and all. No reformatting, no templates to fill.

  2. 02
    Classify

    Every page identified: statutory form class, claimant, amount, through-date and signature.

  3. 03
    Match

    Each pay application tied to its waivers: conditional matched to unconditional, amounts checked.

  4. 04
    Flag

    Missing forms, amount mismatches, wrong form for the payment state and parties to verify, surfaced per claimant.

  5. 05
    Report

    Covered and exposed dollars per pay application, with the page behind every fact, ready for the owner, the lender or the file.

How it works

Keyed to payment events, the way the statute is.

Each claimant moves through the California waiver cycle every billing period. Lien Waivers Pro tracks where each one stands, and what has to be true before the next dollar moves.

EACH BILLING CYCLE · PER CLAIMANT
EVENTPay app submittedG702 / G703
FORMConditional progress§8132
EVENTPayment clearsCheck / ACH
FORMUnconditional progress§8134
AT JOB CLOSE
FORMConditional final§8136
EVENTFinal payment clearsRetention released
FORMUnconditional final§8138
Job closed with a complete waiver chain for every claimant.
Gap detection

Find the missing waiver before the owner does.

Missing first-tier waivers, amount mismatches, stale through-dates and the wrong form for the payment state, shown per claimant before payment goes out.

Exceptions · Draw 073 openILLUSTRATIVE
Unconditional without a conditionalDelta Mechanical · $128,000.00
Waiver amount below paymentCoastal Framing · $71,880.00 vs $69,400.00
Through-date older than pay appPacific Glazing · 08/31 vs 09/30
Claimant rosterregistryILLUSTRATIVE
Ridgeline Concrete Inc.3 name variants merged
confirmed
Summit Electric LLC2 spellings merged
confirmed
Granite Site Workspossible match, needs a look
review
Party registry

Every party on the job, one record.

Name variants across pay apps and waivers resolve to one reviewed party, with every correction kept on the record.

Capabilities

What we help with

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Bundle intake

Multi-hundred-page draw packages split into documents, including image scans and mixed batches.

Statutory form recognition

Conditional vs. unconditional, progress vs. final, with claimant, amount and through-date pulled from each.

Coverage by pay application

For every pay application, which dollars are covered by a signed waiver on file and which are exposed.

Gap detection

Missing first-tier waivers, amount mismatches and out-of-order forms raised before release, not after.

Party and alias registry

One company is written many ways. Every spelling resolves to one reviewed party.

Audit-ready export

A reconciled package for owners and lenders, with every correction and decision on the record.

Built for the field

For general contractors who actually run the work.

Project accountants

Stop reconciling waivers against check runs by hand. Open a draw and see what is covered.

Project managers

Know which subs are holding up release, and exactly which form you need from them.

Owners and principals

Lien exposure visible per job, per claimant, every billing cycle, instead of at closeout.

Start with a Waiver Review

Bring one bundle. We'll show you what's in it.

Send a past draw package. We'll map every claimant, form and gap we find, on your own data, and show you where the risk sits today.

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