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Software for Construction and Infrastructure Companies

Construction loses money in two places: material at site, and subcontractor bills that nobody can check against what was actually done. Both are visibility problems, and both are solvable before they become a cost overrun.

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What makes this industry its own problem

  • Work spread across sites, each effectively its own operation
  • Material issued and consumed away from any office
  • Subcontractors billing against measured work
  • Labour and equipment deployed daily across activities
  • Progress measured against a bill of quantities
  • Cost known accurately only after the project has moved on

The chain

  1. Project
  2. BOQ
  3. Procurement
  4. Site receipt
  5. Consumption
  6. Measurement
  7. Billing

The problem

Where construction & infrastructure operations lose control

Written in the vocabulary your plant actually uses. If none of these sound like you, this is probably not the right page — and we would rather you knew that now.
  • 01

    Material at site is untracked

    Material is delivered to site and consumed without a record. Reconciling issued material against work done becomes impossible, and shortage or wastage is absorbed into project cost.

  • 02

    Subcontractor bills cannot be verified

    A bill arrives for quantities nobody independently measured. It is approved because the project needs to move, and the difference is found much later, if ever.

  • 03

    Procurement at site bypasses approval

    Urgent purchases happen locally because the approval route is too slow, and the commitment is discovered when the invoice arrives.

  • 04

    Progress against BOQ is manual

    Physical progress is measured on paper and consolidated in a spreadsheet, so the comparison with planned progress and billed value is always behind.

  • 05

    Labour and equipment deployment unrecorded

    Daily deployment is known at site but not centrally, so productivity per activity and idle equipment are invisible.

  • 06

    Project cost known too late

    The true cost position emerges at project close, when there is nothing left to correct.

What we build

Systems for construction & infrastructure operations

  • Site material control

    Receipt, issue and consumption recorded at site on a phone, against activity and BOQ item, so material can be reconciled against work done.

  • Procurement with a site route

    Site requisitions with an approval route quick enough to be used, including a defined emergency path with a named authority — so urgent purchases stay inside the system.

  • Subcontractor measurement and billing

    Work measured and recorded before a bill is raised, with running account bills checked against measured quantities, retention and deductions applied consistently.

  • Labour and equipment records

    Daily deployment by activity, with output, so productivity and equipment idle time become measurable.

  • Progress against BOQ

    Physical progress recorded against BOQ items and compared with planned progress and billed value in one view.

  • Project cost as it accrues

    Material, subcontractor, labour and equipment cost accumulating against budget per activity while the project is still running.

Automation

What runs by itself in a construction & infrastructure operation

Each rule replaces a moment where somebody currently has to notice something and tell somebody else.

  • Material is received at site

    Stock and the purchase order are updated together

  • Material is consumed against an activity

    Cost accrues to that activity and BOQ item

  • A site requisition is raised

    It routes for approval with its budget position attached

  • A subcontractor bill is submitted

    It is checked against measured quantities before approval

  • Activity cost exceeds its budget

    It is flagged to the project manager immediately

  • Progress is recorded

    Planned against actual and billed value are recalculated

None of these need a person to remember them. That is the whole point.

Management visibility

What you will be able to see

If a system does not make at least one of these visible for the first time, it has not earned its cost.
  • Material received, issued and consumed per site and activity
  • Cost against budget per activity, while the project runs
  • Subcontractor measured quantity against billed quantity
  • Physical progress against planned progress and billed value
  • Labour and equipment deployment and productivity
  • Procurement commitments per site, before they become invoices

How it works

From operational chaos to a connected business system

Five steps, in this order, every time. The first two produce no software at all — and they are the ones that decide whether the software will be used.
  1. 01

    Understand

    We sit with each department and learn the process as it is actually run — including the workarounds, the informal exceptions and the things people do because the official way does not work. This is where most of the value of the project is decided.

    You getA written map of your current processes, departments and bottlenecks

    1–2 weeks

  2. 02

    Map

    We trace how information moves between people, departments and systems: where it is created, where it is re-entered, where it is lost, and where a decision waits on something nobody can see. The re-entry points are almost always the expensive ones.

    You getAn information flow map, with every handoff and duplication marked

    1–2 weeks

  3. 03

    Design

    We design the target workflow — owners, rules, gates, automations and the screens each role needs — and agree it with the people who will live in it. We also agree what we are deliberately not building yet, and say so plainly.

    You getA workflow design, screen list and phased build plan with scope you have signed off

    2–3 weeks

  4. 04

    Build

    We build in phases, so one department is genuinely using something early rather than waiting for a full system. Each phase is delivered, tested with real data and put into use before the next begins — which is also how the awkward details get found while they are still cheap.

    You getWorking software in real use, phase by phase, with integrations and reports

    Phased, typically 4–12 weeks per phase

  5. 05

    Optimize

    After go-live we look at what is actually being used, which alerts are being acted on and which are being ignored, where people are still keeping a parallel sheet, and what the data now reveals that nobody could see before. Then we improve it.

    You getUsage review, workflow refinements, new reports and ongoing support

    Ongoing

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Questions

Construction & Infrastructure — questions we are asked

The questions that come up when we first sit down with a company in this industry.

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Will site staff actually record material on a phone?

They will if it takes seconds and works with poor connectivity. We design site screens to a small number of fields with offline capture and later sync. If recording material takes longer than that, it will not happen consistently and the system will be worthless.

Can it handle running account bills and retention?

Yes. Running account bills against measured quantities, with retention, advances, deductions and recoveries applied to your own contract terms rather than to a generic template.

Does it work across multiple sites and projects?

Yes. Each site operates independently with its own material, labour and progress, while management sees consolidated cost and progress across projects on the same definitions.

Can it integrate with our accounting software?

Yes. Purchase, subcontractor billing and material cost are the natural handover to accounts, with the system of record for each agreed in advance so the two do not diverge.

What about equipment and machinery hire?

Deployment, hours or shifts, hire cost and idle time tracked per site and activity, so equipment cost can be compared against the work it produced rather than treated as a fixed overhead.

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Where to go next

The solutions most often built for companies in this industry.

Other industries

We work across operational businesses

Different products, the same underlying structure — departments, handoffs and data that has to survive both.

Next step

Your business has a process. Let's turn it into a system.

From manual workflows and disconnected departments to connected operations, automated processes and real-time visibility.

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