A project manager on your side in Senegal

The role: being on your side, from the quote to the final account

On a building site, everyone defends their own interests. The builder wants to be paid, the supplier wants to sell, the relative who drops by wants to reassure you. The owner is often far away and has to decide without seeing everything. Your SEETLU project manager fills the missing place: they represent your interests on site, check before you pay and tell you clearly what is going well and what is not.

This role is also called the owner's representative. The idea is simple: you remain the owner and the only one who decides, and you have at your side someone who knows construction and has only one client, you.

What your project manager does

• Helps you choose your builder and checks the quote: quantities, unit prices, missing items, payment terms
• Checks every payment request from the builder (valuation) on site, before you pay
• Checks every extra: is it needed, is it already in the quote, is its price justified
• Chases delays and tells you what is holding things up, and why
• Reports to you in your client portal, with dated, geolocated and sealed photos
• At the end of the build, checks the final account: what was done, what was paid, what is still owed

This work rests on evidence: site visits, dated, geolocated and sealed photos that nobody can retouch without it showing, a report within 24 hours and your client portal, where everything stays available.

What they never do

• They do not build and do not replace your builder
• They do not hire or pay the workers
• Your money never goes through them: you pay your builder directly
• They sign nothing in your place: contracts and payments remain your decision
• They take no commission from the builder or the suppliers
• They do not sell materials

We do not build and we do not hire the workers. Your builder builds; SEETLU represents you. You pay your builder directly: your money never goes through SEETLU.

Who it is for

For diaspora families building in Senegal from France, Italy, Spain, the United States or elsewhere, who cannot be on site at every stage.

For private owners who today juggle a relative, a site monitor and the builder, and receive three different versions of the progress. With a project manager, you have one contact, on your side, and one version: the one in the sealed photos.

The difference with your builder

The builder builds. He has his own interests: getting paid, keeping his margin, working at his own pace. That is normal, but they are not always yours.

Your project manager is paid only by you. They have nothing to sell to the builder or his suppliers. When they tell you that a payment request matches what is built, or that an extra is not justified, they say it for you.

Project manager price

The exact price depends on your project: size of the house, location, stage of the build, pace of the visits. It is given to you in a written quote, after a first conversation.

You do not need someone at your side for the whole build? The quote check is done once, before you sign, from 75,000 FCFA, and our monitoring + payment checks plans start at 39,000 FCFA a month.

How it starts

• A call: you tell us about your project, where the plot or the build stands, and what worries you
• The documents you have: plans, the builder's quote, contract, photos, receipts for payments already made
• A written proposal: what your project manager will do, the pace of the visits, the price and the start date

You read the proposal, you ask your questions and you decide. Nothing starts without your agreement.

Property developers

For developers, we offer "steering missions", on quotation. We never accept them on a project where SEETLU also writes the independent progress reports for the bank or for the buyers.

Frequently asked questions