For people building their own home
A step-by-step guide, a budget you can trust and builders you can compare.
Tender finder
Track public and private tenders and turn a good one into a bid.
A tender is an invitation to price a job. Log the ones you find or are invited to, note the closing date and grading needed, and convert the right ones into bids. Example: a school extension for the Ministry of Education closing 30 November.
Early estimate
A cost range per square metre before any drawings exist.
A feasibility estimate prices a building from its type, size and specification, using cost per m² benchmarks for your country. It gives a low, likely and high figure so a client can decide whether to go ahead. It becomes a full BoQ once drawings are uploaded.
Rate library
Your own unit rates, reused on every bid.
A unit rate is the price for one unit of work, for example one m² of 230 mm brickwork. It is built from labour, materials, plant and waste. Keeping your rates here means every bid uses the same, current prices.
Bid builder
Turn a BoQ into a priced tender with overheads, profit and risk.
A bid is your price for the job. Start from a BoQ, then add overheads (running the business), profit, contingency (unknowns) and preliminaries (site set-up, supervision, insurance). The builder shows the total update as you change each one.
Quote comparison
Compare subcontractor and supplier quotes side by side.
Send a work package to several subcontractors and record each price. The comparison shows the lowest, average and highest. Choosing anything except the lowest needs a written reason.
Proposals
Branded quotes your client can accept and sign online.
A proposal is the document the client sees: cover letter, scope, price, programme and terms, under your logo. They open a link, accept and sign. Acceptance turns it into a live project.
Leads
Every enquiry from first call to won or lost.
Track each enquiry through Lead, Qualifying, Estimating, Submitted and Negotiating to Won or Lost. Recording why you lost tells you which work to chase.
Company documents
Registrations, tax clearance and insurance, with expiry alerts.
Tenders ask for the same documents every time. Keep them here with their expiry dates. You get reminders 60, 30 and 7 days before anything expires.
Client approvals
Choices and sign-offs the client must make, in one place.
Selections (tiles, finishes, fittings), variations and certificates the client needs to approve. Late decisions are a common cause of delay, so each one has a date.
Self-build stages
A step-by-step guide to building your own house.
For homeowners: each stage from land to moving in, with a checklist, a typical cost and duration for your country, and what can go wrong.
Pick the features you need.
Four questions to set up, a sample project to try every screen, and only the features you choose in your menu.