How Underwriters Read Your WIP Schedule
The one document that drives your bonding capacity — and how to make it work for you.
In contract surety, your work-in-progress schedule does more to set your capacity than almost anything else. It shows how you estimate, how you bill, and whether your jobs are making the money you expected.
This guide breaks down exactly what a surety reads in your WIP and what raises flags. Enter your email to unlock it — and grab our WIP template from the Resources page.
Read the full guide
- What underwriters read line by line
- The flags that shrink your capacity (and how to avoid them)
- A clean WIP template you can reuse
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