Built by the people who used to reject the claims.
Ashton Blake exists to close the gap between doing great work and getting paid for it. That gap, on every complex UK construction project, is worth somewhere between £200,000 and £2 million — and it's almost always taken by the side that documents better.
Our partners spent decades on the main contractor side. We've drafted the back-to-back clauses. We've issued the pay-less notices. We've rejected the variation claims that arrived without contemporaneous records. We know the rejection patterns because we wrote them.
Today we work exclusively for the specialist subcontractor — façade, steel and roofing. Same chartered credentials (RICS, MCIOB), same technical depth, but pointed in the other direction. We protect the side of the table we used to negotiate against.
That asymmetry is the firm's biggest asset. When we draft an EWN, the main contractor's QS reads it and sees something they can't easily reject — because it's drafted the way they'd want to write it themselves.