Your spreadsheets are costing your clients real money.
You spend three days on a takeoff that should take three hours. Your WIP report is out of date before you send it. Variations get buried in email chains. BuiltUp gives quantity surveyors AI-powered measurement, live cost tracking, and automated reporting so you protect the budget instead of chasing data.
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Faster takeoff time
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WIP report generation
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Variation audit trail
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You are the budget guardian using 2005 tools.
Your job is to protect costs and forecast accurately. But manual measurement, disconnected spreadsheets, and email-based variation tracking make that nearly impossible.
Takeoffs eat your most productive days
You scale drawings by hand, count fittings from spec sheets, and build the BOQ line by line in Excel. A residential job takes a full day. A commercial one takes a week. Meanwhile the contractor is already getting numbers from someone faster than you.
Your WIP report is wrong by the time you send it
Pulling certified amounts from one file, committed costs from another, and forecast-to-complete from a third. You spend an entire day reconciling numbers that should update themselves. Your client sees a snapshot from last Tuesday, not today.
Variations are approved but never valued
The PM emails a site instruction on Monday. You are on another project. By Friday the work is done, the sub invoices for it, and nobody captured the cost impact against the budget. Now it shows up as an unexplained overrun at the next client meeting.
One platform from first estimate to final account.
BuiltUp replaces the disconnected spreadsheets with a single cost management system. Measure, track, report, and certify -- all in one place.
AI-Powered Takeoffs
Upload drawings and BuiltUp extracts quantities by trade, maps them to your rate library, and generates a priced BOQ. Review, adjust, and issue -- what used to take days now takes hours. Your rate library gets smarter with every project.
Live WIP Dashboard
Earned value, billed-to-date, cost-to-complete, and projected final cost across every project on one screen. Export client-ready reports in one click. No more month-end spreadsheet marathons that take two days and produce stale numbers.
Automated Variation Register
BuiltUp flags scope changes from project communications, links them to the original BOQ line, calculates cost impact, and tracks them through instruction, approval, and payment. Every variation has a complete audit trail.
Payment Certification Workflow
Generate interim valuations tied to measured progress. Track applications, certify amounts, manage retention, and issue payment certificates. The contractor and client both see the same numbers through their portal.
Cost Benchmarking & Rate Intelligence
Compare actual vs. estimated costs by trade, element, and project type. Identify which subcontractors consistently come in under or over. Build a rate library backed by real project data, not guesswork.
BuiltClip Material Price Sourcing
Browse any supplier website and clip current prices directly into your estimate. Compare across vendors without leaving your desk. Stop using material rates that are six months out of date.
Multi-Project Cost Portfolio
See budget status, cost risk flags, and forecast accuracy across your entire project portfolio. Know which jobs need your attention this week without opening six separate files.
Timestamped Audit Trail
Every measurement, variation, approval, and valuation is logged with user, date, and version. Protect yourself in disputes, satisfy NRM/POMI compliance, and demonstrate governance your clients can trust.
I manage cost on six live projects and I was spending every Friday reconciling spreadsheets instead of advising my clients. BuiltUp cut my takeoff time from two days to half a day on a recent commercial fit-out. The WIP dashboard means I walk into client meetings with numbers I actually trust. My clients started asking me to recommend it to their other consultants.
James M.
Chartered QS, Independent Practice (MRICS)
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