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Dana Ruiz · Halvorsen Builders
agent@elmcourt.co
Pay app #7, September · Elm Court
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PA-07 G702-G703.pdf1.2 MB
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Waiver #6 conditional.pdf284 KB
Hi team, pay app #7 for September is attached with the conditional waiver. CO-14 is billed this month. Thanks, Dana
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agent@elmcourt.co 07:02:14 new mail from dana@halvorsen… 2 attachments
read PA-07 G702-G703.pdf · 3 pages · 14 schedule lines
match contract C-114 · Halvorsen Builders · schedule of values ✓
math lines 1–14 recomputed · total requested $94,180 ✓
waiver #6 conditional · dated after last payment ✓
site walk electrical billed 65% vs walked 63% within your 5% tolerance ✓
change CO-14 $18,750 · approval status not approved ✗
file → Box / Elm Court / 02 Pay Applications
model → Draw ledger.xlsx · rows 7–12 updated
done in 41s · 1 hold · message drafted for #elm-court-payables
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2026-09 PA-07 Halvorsen G702-G703.pdfWillow agent · just now1.2 MB
2026-09 Waiver-06 Halvorsen conditional.pdfWillow agent · just now284 KB
2026-08 PA-06 Halvorsen G702-G703.pdfAug 29 · Willow agent1.1 MB
2026-08 Waiver-05 Halvorsen unconditional.pdfAug 29 · Willow agent262 KB
2026-07 PA-05 Halvorsen G702-G703.pdfJul 30 · Willow agent1.1 MB
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XDraw ledger.xlsxSaved · Willow agent
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G9=IF(ABS(D9-E9)>0.05,"Review",IF(D9=E9,"Clear","Within 5%"))
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Line | Contract | Prior billed | Billed % | Walked % | This period | Check |
| 7 | Site work | $120,000 | $120,000 | 100% | 100% | $0 | Clear |
| 8 | Concrete | $410,000 | $389,570 | 100% | 100% | $20,430 | Clear |
| 9 | Electrical | $550,000 | $302,500 | 65% | 63% | $55,000 | Within 5% |
| 10 | Mechanical | $308,000 | $92,400 | 30% | 30% | $0 | Clear |
| 11 | CO-14 Facade | Not approved | $0 | n/a | n/a | $18,750 | Hold |
| 12 | Pay app #7 | $94,180 | $75,430 clear |
LedgerWaiversChange ordersSite walks
Elm Court
General
# elm-court-payables
# site-walks
# lender-draws
# elm-court-payables
Willow agent · 7:03 AM
Halvorsen pay app #7 checks out against the contract and waiver #6. $75,430 is clear to pay. CO-14 isn't approved, so its $18,750 is held. Filed to Elm Court / 02 Pay Applications.
- Clear to pay
- $75,430
- Held
- $18,750 · CO-14
- Checked against
- Contract C-114, waiver #6, site walk 9/26
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- 01Tell Ryan the most annoying part of your job
Twenty minutes on the phone about one task: the mail, the pay apps, the quarterly report. No forms, no requirements doc.
- 02Ryan builds it on your sample files
It gets a small machine in your office, its own inbox and logins to the tools you already use.
- 03You only make the call
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I spent three years in equity research at Goldman Sachs. A lot of my job was reading large documents, entering data, and triple-checking output. The same work agents can now do.
I started Willow Applied to pass off the work no one wants to do. Our mission is to end busywork, giving employees real time back to focus on what matters.
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- The agent runs on a machine in your office and works inside the systems you already use. To read a document, it sends the text to Anthropic’s commercial API, which doesn’t train on customer data. Nothing goes anywhere else, and you can unplug it at any time.
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- Only what you give it: its own inbox and the folders and logins you set up for it. It reads, enters data, files and drafts. It never pays, signs or sends anything to anyone on its own; a person approves every decision.
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- It shows its work: what it read, what it changed, and why. Anything that doesn’t tie out is held and flagged for you instead of passed along.
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