People bring me what isn't working. I build the system that makes it work.
I'm Bilal Amdhala, a quantity surveyor and Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (MCIOB). My day job, for more than seven years, has been commercial management on construction and long-term contracts: protecting margins, recovering money the contract owes us, forecasting, and building the reporting the directors rely on. Book a conversation →
I earned my degree through a part-time apprenticeship while working full-time - five years of doing the job by day and studying it by night.
The other thing I've always done - before I had a name for it - is build systems for people. It started at work: redesigning payment application processes, building dashboards and workbooks that other surveyors now train on. Then it moved beyond the day job: a tailor of thirty-five years and an occupational therapist going independent, both given the business their skill deserved, both still running. See the work →
Somewhere in there I noticed the pattern. The businesses around us - trades, small contractors, construction consultancies, clinics, family firms - are run by people brilliant at their craft, with everything around it left to evenings and memory. The tools that would fix it already exist, for a small subscription. What's missing is the person who looks at a specific business, picks the right pieces, connects them properly and stays until it sticks. That's the gap I work in.
I'll never sell you technology. What I sell is the commercial side of the job done properly: extras captured while the people who did the work are still on site, applications going in on the contract date, and money that is owed actually chased.
Thirty minutes, no charge.
Five principles.
- 01
Diagnosis before prescription.
Every build starts with a paid health check and a written report, so the only thing I ever recommend is what the evidence supports; the monthly services and the sprint stand on their own.
- 02
Fixed fees, agreed up front.
You'll never get a surprise invoice from me. I spend my working life on the other side of payment disputes; I don't create them.
- 03
Few clients, done properly.
A deliberately small client list. You get me, at the standard I sign my name to.
- 04
Your systems, your data.
Every tool is set up in your name from day one. No lock-in, no dependency.
- 05
Straight talk.
If your house is in order, the report will say so. If I can't help, I'll tell you in the first conversation.
On paper.
- 01MCIOB - Chartered Member, Chartered Institute of Building
- 02BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying
- 037+ years' commercial management: fit-out, new build, refurbishment and long-term contracts - portfolio commercial lead across 15 contracts, c.£15m annual value
- 04Builder of two live businesses
The work is the best way to judge that.
Thirty minutes, no charge.