The work grew. The record did not.
Scope grew in standups and Slack threads. The team built what was asked. At invoice time half of it reads as “not in the SoW”, and the argument starts with the firm’s own margin on the table.
For software services firms and the clients who hire them
Keep software delivery commercially aligned from agreement to invoice.
Worql is the running record of a software engagement: what was agreed, every change since, who accepted each one, and what that means for the bill. One record. Both sides read it.
- 1 Every assertion names the party who made it, and when. System entries say so.
- 2 The baseline is never rewritten. Changes are numbered amendments both sides accept.
- 3 Neither side sees the other’s private notes.
Built for cross-border software delivery · US and India first
WQ-SAMPLE-2026-017 · COMMERCIAL RECORDILLUSTRATIVE
BASELINE v3 · in force since 2026-07-02 · 2 amendments · last accepted by [Client, Inc.] (CLIENT) on 2026-07-28
AWAITING [CLIENT, INC.] · decision on Milestone 4 · submitted 2026-08-01 by [Vendor Technologies Pvt. Ltd.]
- 2026-08-01[Vendor Technologies Pvt. Ltd.] (VENDOR) submitted Milestone 4 for decision, evidence attached
- 2026-07-28[Client, Inc.] (CLIENT) approved Amendment 2: retry SLA restated, webhook scope added
- 2026-07-19[Vendor Technologies Pvt. Ltd.] (VENDOR) proposed Amendment 2
Every line: who asserted it, and when.SAMPLE
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The disagreement, before it exists
Both sides are usually right. The shared record is what is missing.
The invoice arrives without its history.
It carries work nobody remembers authorizing, against criteria nobody can find, and the only trail is a reconstruction assembled by the party that sent the bill.
Every system is working. None of them holds the agreement.
The agreement sits in a PDF, the plan in a tracker, the code in GitHub, the decisions in email. No system holds what was agreed, what changed, and who accepted it in one place both sides can read.
What makes it neutral
Three rules, held for both sides.
R1
Every assertion is attributed.
Every assertion — an acceptance, a decision, a proposal — names the party who made it and the moment they did. Entries the system writes are bookkeeping, and say so: they carry no party’s name. And no one is rated: the shared record holds no vendor score, no client score, no number that decides anything. The firm cannot claim the client agreed; the record shows whether they did. The client cannot claim scope was never raised; the record shows when it was.
R2
The baseline is amend-only.
What both parties accepted is written once and never edited in place. Every change after that is a numbered amendment with its own acceptance record. Six months later, “which version were we working to in March” has exactly one answer.
R3
Private positions stay private.
Worql shows each side what was asserted between the parties, never the other side’s internal notes, pricing thinking, or negotiating position. It is a shared record, not a surveillance tool.
The commercial chain
One governed history from agreement to invoice.
Every engagement runs the same loop: something is agreed, something changes, something ships, someone decides, someone bills. Worql keeps each step attached to the one before it.
01
Agreement
Start from what both parties accepted
The SoW, commercial terms, deliverables, and acceptance criteria enter the record as the baseline, versioned from day one.
02
Authorized Change
Record change as a decision, not a drift
Requested changes carry who asked, who approved, and what they touch. Work outside the baseline is visible as exactly that.
03
Delivery Evidence
Attach evidence to the obligation it supports
Jira work, GitHub activity, tests, and documents link to specific criteria. Activity is evidence for a decision, never the decision itself.
04
Client Decision
Put the decision on the record
The authorized reviewer accepts, rejects, or qualifies against criteria both sides can see, and the record keeps who decided and when.
05
Billing State
Let the invoice inherit its history
What the decision means for billing is recorded with it, without automatically creating an invoice or releasing payment. The invoice arrives already explained.
Assisted recordkeeping · human authority
AI removes reconstruction, not accountability.
Worql organizes the record, surfaces gaps, and prepares review. Evidence supports the people with authority; it does not make their decisions for them.
Extract the commercial objects
AI can help identify deliverables, criteria, rates, budgets, approvers, and other terms. The extracted record remains reviewable against the governing source.
Source-linkedReviewableNo invented authority
Map evidence without turning it into a verdict
Worql can connect Jira work, GitHub activity, tests, deployments, documents, and time records to the obligation they may support. A ticket, merge, or test does not prove contractual completion on its own.
Delivery evidenceGap detectionEvidence, not authority
Prepare decisions and downstream handoffs
Organize the baseline, changes, evidence, and open questions for the authorized reviewer. Preserve the human decision and resulting billing state without approving an invoice or releasing payment automatically.
Client decisionBilling stateHuman control
Engagement models
One commercial record across different ways of working.
Worql is designed for fixed-price, time-and-materials, and hybrid or retainer engagements. The governing question changes; the need for an authorized, evidence-linked history does not.
Fixed-price or milestone
Was the agreed outcome accepted by the authorized client reviewer against the governing baseline and approved changes?
OutcomeAcceptanceMilestone billing
Time and materials
Was the invoiced work authorized, correctly classified, within agreed guardrails, and supported by the relevant delivery and time records?
AuthorizationClassificationGuardrails
Hybrid or retainer
Did capacity consumed and committed outcomes remain aligned with the agreement, approved changes, and the period being billed?
CapacityCommitmentsBilling period
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