We're relying on the other side's photographs
Their progress shots, their schedules, our money.
What's happening?
When the only photographs of the job belong to the other side, every disagreement starts on their evidence: their angles, their dates, their selection of what was worth capturing. Records are not neutral - what gets photographed is what the keeper wanted remembered - and a valuation argued against someone else's archive is argued uphill.
The fix is unglamorous: your own capture habit, run to your own standard - progress photographed on the dates that matter to your money, the shots logged and indexed as yours. It costs minutes a week, and it changes the shape of every later conversation, because both sides now bring records, and the argument shrinks to what the records genuinely leave open.
The solution
Your work recorded by your own camera.