Architects + Insurance Claim: The Challenge
As an architect, preparing bank statements for insurance claim is a common but time-consuming task. Insurance claims for business interruption, theft, or fraud require bank statements as evidence of financial loss. Insurers need clear, organised financial documentation.
How BankScan AI Helps Architects with Insurance Claim
Convert your bank statements to structured spreadsheets to match stage payments against projects, track professional fees, and prepare for your accountant. For insurance claim specifically, BankScan AI extracts Pre-loss revenue baseline, post-loss revenue decline, increased cost of working, automatically.
How Architects Handle Insurance Claim
When preparing bank statements for insurance claim, architects need to Architects invoice clients at RIBA work stages (concept, developed design, technical design, construction), then reconcile bank statements to verify p. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: RIBA work stages, stage payment, fee proposal, professional indemnity.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload 12-24 months pre-loss for baseline comparison, plus the entire loss period; business interruption claims may need 3+ years of historical data of statements for insurance claim.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Pre-loss revenue baseline, post-loss revenue decline, increa — formatted for architects workflows.
Complete your insurance claim work
Download Excel files ready for insurance claim. Month-by-month comparison of pre-loss versus post-loss periods, with seasonal adjustments shown; clear separation of insured versus uninsured losses
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Architects — Insurance Claim
- Built for Architects — Saves 1-2 hours per month on project payment tracking and expense allocation across concurrent projects for a typical small practice
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Xero, FreeAgent, Harvest
- Built for Insurance Claim — Convert bank statements to structured Excel spreadsheets showing income patterns, loss periods, and transaction evidence for insurance claim submissions.
- Key data extracted — Pre-loss revenue baseline, post-loss revenue decline, increased cost of working, continuing fixed costs during interruption, any saved expenses or alternative revenue
Compliance: Architects + Insurance Claim
When architects prepare bank statements for insurance claim, specific compliance requirements apply.
- ARB (Architects Registration Board) registration is required to practise. Professional indemnity insurance is mandatory and costs must be tracked. RIBA Chartered Practice standards include financial management requirements. CIS may apply when architects act as principal contractors.
- Legal basis: Insurance Act 2015 (duty of fair presentation); policy-specific claims conditions; Financial Ombudsman Service rules on fair claims handling
Insurance Claim — Built for Architects
Most policies require notification within 30 days and full claim submission within 6-12 months; delays give insurers grounds to question or deny the claim
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