How to Prove SLA Compliance to Every Client — Before They Ask
Who this is for
You manage a facilities company serving corporate clients under SLA contracts. Your technicians do the rounds — AC servicing, generator checks, electrical inspections — and they fill out paper rounds sheets. You're in an SLA dispute right now, or you've been in one recently. The client says the work wasn't done. You say it was. Neither of you has evidence that settles it cleanly.
The problem
Paper rounds sheets that can be pre-signed, backdated, or filled in at the end of the week aren't evidence — they're a vulnerability dressed up as record-keeping. When a client says "the AC unit on the third floor wasn't serviced last month" and you produce a form with a date and a technician's signature, the follow-up question is: where's the photo taken at the unit, and why does the entry timestamp suggest it was completed at 10 PM on a Sunday? The harder part is that you might genuinely be doing the work, and still lose the dispute because you can't prove it. Contracts get terminated not necessarily because the service was bad, but because you can't demonstrate that it was good. The SLA dispute cycle — emails, counter-claims, a formal review — costs more in account management time than a year of the service itself. And once a client has been through one dispute with you, even if it resolved in your favour, their renewal conversation starts from a different place.
What you can achieve
- Every maintenance visit produces a timestamped, photo-evidenced service record — retrievable by client name, building, date, and the specific technician who did the work
- SLA disputes drop from a two-week email chain to a five-minute PDF review: you show the client the photo of the AC unit, the timestamp from when the technician was on-site, and the dispute closes
- Your most demanding clients — the ones who audit everything and push back hardest — become your most loyal ones when the records hold up under scrutiny
- Technician fabrication is structurally difficult: on-site photos and timestamps have to be captured at the building, and the gap is immediately visible if they weren't
- Contract renewal conversations shift from defending whether you met the SLA to reviewing 12 months of documented service records together
- You can see per-technician service completion rates and compliance metrics — which turns performance management from a gut feeling into a data conversation
The workflow in Hakiki
- 1Client Building SelectionOne choice
Select the client building or facility being serviced — enables per-client reporting for SLA reviews
- 2Floor / ZoneText
Enter the specific floor or zone being inspected during this maintenance round
- 3AC Units Inspected (Count)Text
Enter number of AC units inspected — reconciled against the SLA asset register
- 4Filter ConditionOne choice
Select: Clean / Requires Cleaning / Replaced / Defective — per unit
- 5AC Unit PhotoFile upload
Photo of the serviced AC unit — taken during the visit as evidence of actual presence
- 6Distribution Board PhotoFile upload
Photo of the DB board showing all breakers — visual evidence of electrical inspection
- 7All Breakers OnYes or no
Confirm all circuit breakers are in the correct position — flag any tripped or labelled as faulty
- 8Generator Fuel LevelText
Enter current fuel level (%) — required for SLA compliance on backup power availability
- 9Generator Test RunYes or no
Confirm generator test run completed per SLA schedule
- 10Generator PhotoFile upload
Photo of generator and fuel gauge — timestamped visual confirmation of test run completion
- 11Technician Sign-OffYes or no
Technician confirms all maintenance tasks are complete — creates the tamper-evident service record
Hakiki features used
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