Working demos for UK construction firms Don't just look at it. Use it.
Most software demos are screens you can click but can't change. These run on a real pricing engine. Price a job, try to break the margin check, put it on a programme and watch the dashboard move.
All three follow one fictional business, Example Flooring Ltd, from the enquiry to the money coming in.
- Free working prototype first
- Fixed price, from £3,000 + VAT
- You own it
- No per-user fees
Before
Where a job lives today
One enquiry, priced in a workbook only one person understands, chased from memory, invoiced from another spreadsheet. If any of this is familiar, the demos below are for you.
Tangled spreadsheets
rates v4 FINAL (2).xlsx
Scattered group chats
Office WhatsApp
What uplift did we use for the Hendersons?
Ask Sam
Sam's on site till 4
Buried email threads
Inbox (41)
RE: RE: FW: Surgery floors, pricing
Did you get our quote? (sent 3 weeks ago)
Variation 3, Station Rd: can you invoice?
Clunky Word templates
Quote template v7.docx
“Dear [CLIENT NAME]” left in from the last job
Totals retyped by hand, then saved as PDF
Unmatched supplier costs
Supplier statement
Floor adhesive · £486.20
Which job was this?
Forgotten reminders
Sticky note
Did we put the skip in the surgery one??
Chase Example Builders re quote
Retention due, Station Rd? CIS return 19th
After
One job, typed once
Follow the surgery refurb from the estimator's inbox to the money coming in. Every step below works in the demos, on the same job.
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1 Today, 07:42
The enquiry lands
Surgery refurb, ground floor for Example Builders Ltd. It goes straight into Sam's inbox with the client's details, not into a folder.
Open the inbox → -
2 A minute later
Priced from the rate library
Materials, labour and plant at your rates. The laying labour, prep, moisture tests and the skip are added for you, and the margin is checked before anything goes out.
Price it yourself → -
3 Days 1 to 3
Sent, opened, chased
The quote goes out as a PDF and a link. You see when it's opened, and on day three a chaser is drafted, so nothing relies on memory.
Send the sample quote → -
4 Accepted
A programme, from the quote
The priced lines become activities with dates, a critical path and stage payments. Nothing is typed in again.
See the programme → -
5 On site
Margin against the estimate
Cost to date against what you priced, variations waiting to be invoiced, and the jobs that are slipping, on one screen.
Open the dashboard → -
6 Paid
Invoices, retentions and CIS
Overdue invoices, retentions coming due and CIS deducted this tax year, without a separate spreadsheet for each.
See the money →
1 · Look
Three working demos, no form, no login
The data's invented, the arithmetic isn't. The tools we build for clients run on their own rates, jobs and numbers.
Construction quoting
Price a job, get a PDF
Open an enquiry, price it from the rate library, then try to break the margin check.
Open the demo →
Job programme
Schedule the job you priced
Turn the quote into a programme, then drag it and watch the cash move.
Open the demo →
Contractor dashboard
Run the business from one screen
Won and lost quotes, job margins, retentions, overdue invoices and CIS on one screen.
Open the demo →Want the theory behind the programme? Read the construction Gantt chart guide, with its own sample programme to drag.
2 · Find out
What does quoting cost you now?
Put in your own figures. It adds up the hours and the money quoting takes over a year, so you can judge whether a tool is worth it before you talk to anyone.
Hours a year
690
Working days
86
Cost a year
£24,150
Based on 46 working weeks a year and an 8-hour day.
Rather have a number for the tool itself? . No call. Tell us what you want it to do, attach a recent quote or spreadsheet if you have one, and we'll email you a ballpark price.
What it costs
All prices ex VAT
- Working prototype
- £0
- Your build, fixed price
- from £3,000
- Care plan (optional)
- from £250/month
- Per-user fees
- £0
- Lock-in
- None
- Who owns it
- You
The spec guarantee: If it doesn't do what we agreed in the spec within 30 days of go-live, we'll fix it or refund you. Terms · Full pricing
The usual worries
Our pricing is too complicated for software.
That's usually why off-the-shelf tools don't fit. The rules in the demo (laying labour per finish, moisture tests on a ground-floor slab, a minimum margin) are the kind we build from how your estimator already prices. Yours would follow your rules, exceptions included.
We'd have to stop using Xero and our spreadsheets.
No. The tool sits alongside what you use and hands work on: an accepted quote can become an invoice in Xero, and existing rate sheets are imported rather than retyped.
I wouldn't know what to ask for.
You don't need a spec. The free prototype is built on one of your real jobs after a short call, so you react to something working instead of writing a document.
What if it doesn't do what we agreed?
If it doesn't do what we agreed in the spec within 30 days of go-live, we'll fix it or refund you. The build is a fixed price, from £3,000 + VAT, agreed before we start.
Who looks after it once it's built?
We do, on an optional care plan for hosting, fixes and new work. You own the software outright, with no per-user fees, so you're never locked in.
Three ways in. Pick whichever suits you.
1 · Look
Use the demos
No form, no login. Price a job, schedule it, run the dashboard.
Price a sample job →2 · Find out
See it on your rates
Send one rate sheet and we'll price one of your own jobs in the quoting tool. No call needed.
Send a rate sheet →3 · Try
Get your free prototype
A short call, then we build a working first version of your quoting tool, priced on one of your real jobs. We build 4 a month. If it isn't worth doing, we'll say so.