Crestline is process intelligence software for EPC and construction companies. It reads your ERP read-only, rebuilds how work actually flows through billing, approvals and payments, and prices every delay in rupees with a named owner.

What is process mining, in plain words?

Process mining rebuilds the real map of how work flows by reading the timestamps your software already records, rather than by asking people how they think it works. Crestline mines your ERP's event log and then prices what each delay costs.

Does Crestline replace SAP, Tally or our ERP?

No. Crestline is read-only and replaces nothing. It sits on top of the systems you already run, reads the trail they write, and never writes back to them.

How long does it take to go live?

About 15 days from the read-only connection being approved. The first process map and the first ranked list of delays come out of that first sync.

What does Crestline actually find?

Where cases wait longest, which stretches get repeated, which controls get skipped, which clients pay slowest and where cash leaves earlier than the agreed terms required. Each one is priced from your own volumes and waiting times.

Who is Crestline not for?

Crestline is built for EPC and construction finance: RA bills, retention, variations, subcontractor payments. For a manufacturing shop floor, a contact centre or a global multi-process rollout, a general process mining platform will fit better and we will say so on the call.

The connection is read-only throughout, and data is held per tenant with separate encryption. Crestline never writes to your systems and never moves data between customers.

Process intelligence for EPC CFOsProcess intelligence for EPC & construction CFOs

See where your project cash is stuck. Get it back.

Crestline reads your ERP and shows which bills and payments hold up your cash.

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Read-only
Live in 15 days
Works with your ERP

How does Crestline work?

Crestline connects read-only to your ERP, rebuilds how work actually flows through billing, approvals and payments, and returns a weekly list of delays priced in rupees with a named owner.

01
01We connect to your ERP
Read-only. Your data and processes stay exactly as they are.
02
02We show where money waits
Every RA bill, vendor payment and approval: how long it sits, and with whom.
03
03We tell you what to fix
A weekly list ranked by rupee impact, tracked until the cash comes in.

Five lenses

Where does project cash get stuck on a construction project?

Crestline process-mines five lenses straight from your ERP’s own event log: working capital, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, client and vendor.

WC01
Working capital
The cash a project eats before it pays you back.
70 dcash cycle
O2C02
Order-to-cash
From work done on site to money in the bank.
23.4 dstuck at certification
P2P03
Procure-to-pay
From a site's material request to the vendor getting paid.
38%paid before terms
Client04
Client
Which clients pay slow, and why.
118 dslowest client DSO
Vendor05
Vendor
Which vendors cost more than their rate.
+2.8%hidden rate premium

Inside the app

What does Crestline show a finance team?

Crestline shows the real process, where it waits, and a short list of what to do next.

Projects / Project A / Process Map

ERP read-only · synced hourly

How work actually flows, where it waits, and what each wait costs.

Cases: 2,418
Events: 27,006
Median cycle: 94 d; ▲ 6 d vs Q1
Conformance: 64%
Rework: 31%; of bills
Cash held: ₹38.4 Cr

How work actually flowsShow

Colour = median wait: green short, amber watch, red long · Dashed = cross-system handoff (retention ledger)

AIAbout this step · Client review

Takes 23.4 d against 14 d in the contract. 62% of the wait sits with the client's engineer.

Where the wait concentrates

Step	Median	P80	Whose wait
Client review	23.4 d	41 d	Client
Payment received	41 d	68 d	Client
RA bill submitted	4.8 d	9 d	Us
Tax invoice	6.0 d	8 d	Us

ActionablesDo this first

BAD
Cut client review from 23.4 d to 14 d, the contract's term.Owner: Commercial head
WATCH
31% of RA bills come back. Attach measurement sheets.Owner: Billing engineer

Project A · Process Map

Order-to-cash

FrequencyDurationCash

Cases: 2,418
Median cycle: 94 d; ▲ 6 d
Conformance: 64%
Rework: 31%

How work actually flows

Work executed
2,418 cases
1.2 d
RA bill submitted
2,401
4.8 d
Client review
median 23.4 d · 31% sent back
6.0 d
Certified
1,977
41 d
Payment received
94 days end to end

AIAbout this step · Client review

Takes 23.4 d against 14 d in the contract. 62% of the wait sits with the client's engineer.

ActionablesDo this first

BAD
Cut client review from 23.4 d to 14 d, the contract's term.Owner: Commercial head
WATCH
31% of RA bills come back. Attach measurement sheets.Owner: Billing engineer

Raise ticket Alert owner

01 · Working capital

Where does working capital get trapped on a project?

Crestline measures the money a project eats before it pays you back: cash spent but not yet collected, and when you will need the bank to cover it.

Cash cycle: 70 d; ▲ 6 d
Peak funding: ₹4.5 Cr; Dec
DSO − DPO: 33 d

Collections against paymentsMonthly cash in and out, with the running positionSample data

Collected
Paid out
Cumulative cash · ₹ Cr

Peak funding need ₹8.5 Cr in Dec

ActionablesDo this first

WATCH
Collections dip below payments for 3 straight months from Oct.Owner: Finance controller

02 · Order-to-cash

How long does it take to turn work done into cash?

Crestline times every step from work done on site to money in the bank: measure, RA bill, certify, invoice, collect, retention. It shows which step holds the cash longest and what that wait costs.

Certification: 23.4 d; vs 14 d
Sent back: 31%; of bills
Collected: 82%

How long each hand-off takesActual median days against what the contract allowsSample data

Actual median
Contract allows

Work measured2.1 d against 3 d allowed
RA bill raised4.8 d against 5 d allowed
Client certifies23.4 d against 14 d allowed
Tax invoice6.0 d against 7 d allowed
Payment received41 d against 30 d allowed

ActionablesDo this first

BAD
Payment received takes 41 d against 30 d terms.Owner: Collections

03 · Procure-to-pay

Are we paying vendors before we have to?

Crestline follows every payment from a site's material request to the vendor getting paid: indent, PO, GRN, bill, match, payment. It prices the cash that leaves earlier than the agreed terms required.

Paid early: 38%; ₹20 Cr
On terms: 44%
3-way match: 2.4; rounds

Are we paying early, on terms, or late?Payments by days against their own due date · ₹ CrSample data

← Paid earlyDue datePaid late →

4.130+ early
6.315 to 30 early
9.81 to 15 early
14.2On terms
7.41 to 15 late
3.915 to 30 late
2.230+ late

ActionablesDo this first

WATCH
14 payments on Package B released before client bills certified.Owner: AP lead

04 · Client

Which clients pay slowest, and why?

Crestline ranks every client by how long they actually take to pay against their own contract terms, and shows where in the cycle the delay sits.

Held late: ₹11.2 Cr
Paid on time: 41%
Worst client: 118 d; DSO

Does each client do what it signed?Promised payment days against actual, per clientSample data

Promised
Actually pays

Client A+88d late: promised 30 days, pays in 118
Client B+41d late: promised 45 days, pays in 86
Client C+11d late: promised 60 days, pays in 71
Client D+28d late: promised 30 days, pays in 58

ActionablesDo this first

WATCH
Client C is our delay: bills go out 11 days after measurement.Owner: Billing engineer

05 · Vendor

Which vendors cost more than their rate?

Crestline prices each vendor's rate and the credit they give together, at your own cost of funds, so a cheap rate paid early can be compared with a dearer one paid late.

DPO: 61 d
Credit unused: 19 d; nearby
Premium: +2.8%; Vendor A

Which vendor to buy from, on total costQuoted rate against real cost after credit · indexSample data

Quoted rate
Real cost after credit

Vendor AQuoted 100, real cost 101.8
Vendor BQuoted 103, real cost 98.6 (lowest real cost)
Vendor CQuoted 98, real cost 99.9
Vendor DQuoted 101, real cost 100.2

ActionablesDo this first

GOOD
Shift next TMT order to Vendor B unless A matches terms.Owner: Procurement head

Crestline AI

What does the Crestline AI CFO auditor do?

Crestline's AI CFO auditor reads the mined process, writes the finding, names the owner and follows up until the cash moves. Every figure in it is computed from your ERP, never generated: it never makes up a number.

AI CFO auditorReviews every panel

Finds where the process leaks, and whose desk it's on.

BADVendor payments leave AP before they're dueOwner: AP lead
WATCHRA bills come back for missing measurementsOwner: Billing
BADClient A certifies 12 days past its windowOwner: Commercial

Ticket raised
Reminders
Re-measured
Verified

Ask any chartAnswers from the chart's own figures

Click a bar. Ask “what if?”

Median cycle · days

What if Client A certified on time?

Certified 12 d sooner → invoiced sooner → DSO falls → ₹3.1 Cr less borrowing

Ours · send measurements
Client · certify in window

Cash cycle simulatorComputed, not AI

Test the fix before you make it.

Collect sooner (DSO)10 days

Use full vendor terms (DPO)5 days

Cash cycle · floored at contract terms70 d → 55 d

New cycle: 55 d
Cash released: ₹17.5 Cr

Vendor deal advisorSample

Buy on total cost, not the quoted rate.

Price and credit, priced together	Vendor A	Vendor B
Quoted rate (index)	100	103
Credit days	15	60
Total economic cost	100	98.6 (lower)

AI opening line: “Ask Vendor A to match the credit it already gives your other site on TMT bar.”

Scope

What is Crestline not?

Crestline is process intelligence for EPC and construction finance, and nothing else. The honest boundary, so you know when to look elsewhere.

Not an ERP, and not accounting software: Crestline holds no ledger and issues no invoice. It reads what your ERP already recorded and replaces nothing you run.
Not project management or scheduling: It does not plan the work or hold the programme. It measures what happened to the money after the work was done.
Not a general-purpose process mining platform: It is built for EPC and construction finance: RA bills, retention, variations, subcontractor payments. For a manufacturing shop floor or a call centre, a general platform such as Celonis or a PM4Py-based build will fit better.
Not a write-back or automation tool: The connection is read-only by design. Crestline raises the finding and tracks the ticket; the change is made by your team in your systems.

Security

Is our ERP data safe with Crestline?

Crestline reads your books and never writes to them. The connection is read-only throughout, and your ERP stays exactly as it is.

Enforced
Read-only access
No postings, approvals or edits. The login simply can't.
Hourly
Every sync on record
Hourly syncs, listed in settings for your IT team.
In progress
ISO 27001:2022
Certification in progress with an accredited body.
Your choice
Where data lives
[Hosting region and options for India and the UAE.]

Pricing

What does Crestline cost?

Tailored to you

Custom

Let's talk

Crestline is one plan, shaped to your processes, systems and scale. There is no list price, because the scope decides it. Tell us your setup and we'll design the best-fit scope and price.

to go live: 15 d
read-only: R/O
streams: 3

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Everything Crestline does

Unlimited processes
Conformance checking + root-cause
Real-time alerts & monitoring
Custom KPI builder + query console
Realized-Impact Ledger · REST API
Simulation & scenario analysis
SSO / SAML + SCIM · advanced RBAC
Audit logs · data residency
SDK / notebook · dedicated support
Custom process & connector scope
Custom integrations & data pipelines
Bespoke security & compliance reviews
Dedicated solutions engineer
Volume & multi-year pricing
Unlimited analyst seats & free viewers

Questions

What do CFOs ask about Crestline?

Short answers. Where the answer is 'it depends', we say what it depends on.

What is Crestline?: Crestline is process intelligence software for EPC and construction companies. It reads your ERP read-only, rebuilds how work actually flows through billing, approvals and payments, and prices every delay in rupees with a named owner.
What is process mining, in plain words?: Process mining rebuilds the real map of how work flows by reading the timestamps your software already records, rather than by asking people how they think it works. Crestline mines your ERP's event log and then prices what each delay costs.
Does Crestline replace SAP, Tally or our ERP?: No. Crestline is read-only and replaces nothing. It sits on top of the systems you already run, reads the trail they write, and never writes back to them.
How long does it take to go live?: About 15 days from the read-only connection being approved. The first process map and the first ranked list of delays come out of that first sync.
What does Crestline actually find?: Where cases wait longest, which stretches get repeated, which controls get skipped, which clients pay slowest and where cash leaves earlier than the agreed terms required. Each one is priced from your own volumes and waiting times.
Who is Crestline not for?: Crestline is built for EPC and construction finance: RA bills, retention, variations, subcontractor payments. For a manufacturing shop floor, a contact centre or a global multi-process rollout, a general process mining platform will fit better and we will say so on the call.
What does it cost?: One plan, scoped to your processes, systems and scale. There is no list price, because the scope decides it. Tell us your setup on the call and we will price it there.
Is our data safe?: The connection is read-only throughout, and data is held per tenant with separate encryption. Crestline never writes to your systems and never moves data between customers.

More definitions in the glossary of process and working-capital terms, and the technique itself on how Crestline mines your ERP.

30-minute discovery call

Bring one question about your cash. We'll answer it from your own data.

With Rajat Kate, founder. For CEOs and CFOs of EPC and construction companies.

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See where your project cash is stuck. Get it back.

How does Crestline work?

Where does project cash get stuck on a construction project?

Working capital

Order-to-cash

Procure-to-pay

Client

Vendor

What does Crestline show a finance team?

Where does working capital get trapped on a project?

How long does it take to turn work done into cash?

Are we paying vendors before we have to?

Which clients pay slowest, and why?

Which vendors cost more than their rate?

What does the Crestline AI CFO auditor do?

Finds where the process leaks, and whose desk it's on.

Click a bar. Ask “what if?”

Test the fix before you make it.

Buy on total cost, not the quoted rate.

What is Crestline not?

Is our ERP data safe with Crestline?

Read-only access

Every sync on record

ISO 27001:2022

Where data lives

What does Crestline cost?

Custom

Everything Crestline does

What do CFOs ask about Crestline?

Bring one question about your cash. We'll answer it from your own data.