AI Lien Waiver & Payment Ops 2026: Levelset & Siteline

Chapter 1: The Slow-Pay Bleed: Why Subs Lose Six Figures a Year Every specialty contractor in America runs the same experiment whether they know it or not: how much working capital can we float before something breaks? You front the labor. You front the material. You submit the pay app on the 25th. Then you wait — through the GC's internal review, through the owner's draw cycle, through the lender's inspection, through the "we never got your waiver" email that arrives eleven days after you sent it. Somewhere between 60 and 120 days later, money shows up. Usually less than...