LienLien moves money through the full Owner → GC → Sub → Supplier chain — automating AIA G702 pay apps, conditional waivers, lien deadlines, and retention releases so your crews get paid in 14 days, not 90.
Pay apps that submit themselves.
Almost.
Project accountants spend 12 hours a week on pay app paperwork. Lien cuts that to 45 minutes — from SOV setup to certified PDF delivery.
AIA G702 / G703 Generation
Auto-populate Schedule of Values from project setup. Export certified PDFs in seconds.
Schedule of Values Tracking
Line-item progress billing with stored material tracking and lien waiver linkage.
Approval Routing
Multi-tier approval chains with deadline alerts. No pay app sits in an inbox for 30 days.
Retainage Calculation
Automatic holdback computation per contract terms. Tracks release eligibility by milestone.
Waivers that don't fall
through the cracks.
Missing a conditional waiver costs subs their lien rights. Lien auto-generates, routes, and tracks every waiver against its corresponding payment — with jurisdiction-specific templates for all 50 states.
Lien Rights at Risk
Riverside Commons conditional waiver unsigned. Lien deadline in 12 days — California Civil Code §8132. Lien will send signature request to subcontractor automatically at 9:00 AM.
Miss a deadline. Lose your rights.
We don't let that happen.
Lien deadline rules vary by state, project type, and claimant tier. Lien's rules engine knows every jurisdiction — and files or alerts before the window closes.
- Prelim notice: 20 days from first furnishing
- Mechanics lien: 90 days after completion
- Stop notice: Same as lien deadline
- Monthly notice required (2nd–15th)
- Lien deadline: 15th of 4th month after last furnishing
- Retainage lien: Separate deadline
- Prelim notice: Before or at start of work
- Lien deadline: 90 days after last furnishing
- Bond claim: 30 days after completion
$855,900 sitting in holdback.
We track every dollar.
Retention gets forgotten. Lien monitors every holdback balance, tracks release milestones, and generates release applications automatically when eligibility is met.
30 active jobs. One screen.
Zero surprises.
CFOs at mid-size GCs need portfolio-level cash flow visibility, not job-by-job spreadsheets. Lien's reporting layer aggregates everything — pay app aging, lien exposure, retention balance — in real time.
Pay App Aging Report
Days outstanding by project, GC, and sub tier. Identify bottlenecks before they become disputes.
Lien Exposure Summary
Total lien exposure by project and jurisdiction. Know your risk before the lien lands.
Retention Balance Report
All holdback balances, release dates, and eligibility status across every active job.
People who used to call their lawyer.
"Before Lien, I spent every Monday morning reconciling pay app status across 22 active jobs in a spreadsheet I built myself. Now I open one screen and the queue is already sorted by risk. I've cut my Monday to three hours."
"We had a sub threaten a $400K mechanics lien on a hospital project because our GC's AP team missed a conditional waiver. That was our last manual process. Lien tracks every waiver against every payment. We haven't had a lien filed against us since."
"I've been in electrical contracting for 19 years. 'Payment pending' used to mean wait 90 days and pray. With Lien, I can see exactly where my pay app is in the approval chain, which waivers are outstanding, and when money is actually moving."
Download & Process Your
First Pay App Free.
Import your Schedule of Values, generate a certified AIA G702, and route it for approval — all in under 10 minutes. If it doesn't work, we'll set it up for you.
Lien for Desktop
The full command center. Multi-project dashboard, bulk processing, and Excel export.