Who it's for
A painter's job is not a groundworker's.
BuiltUp prices a job however it arrives, from drawings, from site photographs, or from the client's own schedule of works. Which of those you get is decided by the work you do, not by the software. Pick your trade and start at the door you actually use.
No card. One active project, three takeoffs and three AI estimates.
Door one
A spreadsheet with an empty rate column
Somebody else's quantity surveyor has already itemised the work. Your job is to put a rate against each line and send their document back. BuiltUp prices every item and hands back the same workbook. Their sections, their item references, their wording, in their order. Their original is never modified, and anything it cannot price is left blank with the reason beside it.
Door two
A drawing set and a return date
A tender pack, an architect's set, a landscape plan. BuiltUp measures it, grades every quantity high, medium or low confidence, groups the work into trade packages you can send out as enquiries, and lists the open questions it could not settle from the drawings. Then it prices the lot against your own materials and labour roles.
- Main contractorsMain contractor, principal contractor, or just the builder. Measure the pack, package the trades.See how it fits
- Custom home buildersOne-off and custom-build houses, priced so a private client can read it and signed off so they cannot forget it.See how it fits
- LandscapersAreas by finish, boundaries in metres, muck-away by the load, and a programme that reads the forecast.See how it fits
Door three
A walk round and a phone
No document exists yet. You are the one who has to make it. Photograph the job, or narrate the visit and let it transcribe, and it writes one observation per photograph, counts what can be counted, and refuses to invent the rest. Then it hands you the list of measurements to go and take, each phrased as a question, with the value it assumed in the meantime.
- Painters and decoratorsCoats, prep and making good, and a straight answer about why a photograph will not give you m².See how it fits
- ElectriciansPriced by the point, the circuit and the fix. Counting is what a photograph is genuinely good at.See how it fits
- Plumbing and heatingPlanned, reactive and housing work. Three different shapes, out of the same van.See how it fits
And after
A job that is already won
Not everybody prices. If the estimate arrives on your desk already agreed, the problem is that it stops being true the day the first delivery is late. The orders, the variations, the tasks and the invoices are all made from the estimate itself, so there is nothing to reconcile at the end.
Not on the list?
Nine pages is nine trades, and there are more than nine trades. The takeoff runs five sectors: commercial fit-out, office and workplace, residential, local authority and social housing. Or let it work out which from the uploads. The labour library ships 27 UK trades across twelve regions, so most work that gets measured and priced is covered whether or not it has a page here. Roofers, bricklayers, plasterers, tilers, dry liners, glaziers, scaffolders and drainage engineers all have their own day rate in the library on day one.
The quickest way to find out whether it fits is to run a job you have already priced through it, which costs nothing.
If it does not fit and you can say why, email support@builtup.io. That is how most of what is on the roadmap got there.
Everything it does, in one listStart at the door you actually use.
A schedule, a drawing set, or twenty photographs off your phone. Whichever it is, run one you have already priced.
No card. One active project, three takeoffs and three AI estimates.
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