BuildCost is construction cost management software, from control budget to a report built only from confirmed cost.
BuildCost manages versioned control budgets, site receipts captured by phone camera, variations and purchase orders for construction projects. Only a cost that a person has confirmed reaches a BuildCost report.
Site receipts reach the office late, so a construction project's real cost is known only once the work is finished.
Estimates and budgets live in several spreadsheet versions, and nobody is certain which version is the approved baseline.
Variations and purchases start without an approved document, so recovering the cost and placing accountability becomes hard.
Unreviewed costs mix into reports, so management decisions rest on numbers no one has confirmed.
BuildCost holds a construction control budget as versions, so the approved baseline stays identifiable. BuildCost can also generate a control budget per schedule task, which keeps the cost plan aligned with the construction programme.
BuildCost captures site receipts with a phone camera. BuildCost AI extracts the amount, the date and the supplier from the photo, attaches a confidence score, and places the result in a review queue for a person to confirm. BuildCost installs to the phone home screen straight from the browser, so crews need nothing from an app store.
BuildCost includes only confirmed costs in its budget-versus-actual and WBS-level reports, so a construction manager compares the approved budget against cost a person has checked.
Control budgets: BuildCost builds versioned control budgets for a construction project, and can generate a budget per schedule task.
Resources and purchase orders: BuildCost keeps a resource catalogue for the rates a project buys, and raises purchase orders against the budget. BuildCost tracks payment due dates and raises overdue payments on the dashboard. A material order approved in BuildManage arrives in BuildCost as a draft purchase order.
Receipt capture: BuildCost captures a site receipt with a phone camera, and BuildCost AI extracts the amount, the date and the supplier with a confidence score.
Review queue: every extracted receipt lands in the BuildCost review queue, and only a cost a person has confirmed reaches BuildCost reports.
Variations and approvals: BuildCost manages variations and approves them on the four-eyes principle: nobody approves what they submitted themselves. Where an organisation enables electronic signing, the approval also produces an officially signed PDF.
AI assistant: the BuildCost AI assistant drafts estimates, books receipts and drafts variations from budget overruns, and always waits for a confirmation card before anything is saved.
BuildCost isolates each organisation's cost data and grants access by role. BuildCost approvals always run on the four-eyes principle: the approver cannot be the person who submitted. Where an organisation enables electronic signing, the approval also produces an officially signed PDF of the approved document. The BuildCost AI assistant never saves an estimate, a receipt or a variation on its own โ every BuildCost AI action waits behind a confirmation card. BuildCost shares single sign-on with BuildManage.
A.BuildCost is construction cost management software. BuildCost manages versioned control budgets, actual costs captured from site receipts, variations, purchase orders and a resource catalogue, and reports budget versus actual at project and WBS level.
A.BuildCost captures costs from the construction site by phone camera: a site user photographs a receipt, and BuildCost AI extracts the amount, the date and the supplier and attaches a confidence score. Every extracted receipt goes into a BuildCost review queue rather than straight into the accounts.
A.No. BuildCost AI never records a cost on its own. AI-extracted receipts land in a review queue, only confirmed costs reach BuildCost reports, and the BuildCost AI assistant โ which drafts estimates, books receipts and drafts variations from budget overruns โ always asks for approval on a confirmation card first.
A.BuildCost approves budgets and variations on the four-eyes principle, meaning a second authorised person has to approve and nobody can approve their own submission. That rule is always in force. Where an organisation enables electronic signing, a completed approval additionally produces an officially signed PDF of the approved document.
A.BuildCost produces budget-versus-actual reports and WBS-level cost reports for a construction project, built only from confirmed costs. Because BuildCost can generate a control budget per schedule task, those cost reports line up with the construction schedule. BuildCost can also generate a report for a chosen period and project with an AI summary, and download it as Excel.