Build the BOQ. Price it your way. Send it. Track it.
Build your bill of quantities, price it with resource-loaded rates and accurate take-offs, present cost proposals exactly the way you want clients to see them — and track the status the moment they open.
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Takeoff canvas
Built for trades like yours
You know this workflow. It shouldn't still look like this.
The old way
- A spreadsheet with a margin formula only one person understands
- A PDF exported by hand and emailed off into the void
- No idea if the client ever opened it, let alone read it
- Rates copied from the last job, hoping they still hold up
With buildBOQ
- Trades, prelims and dev costs built the same way, every time
- A client-facing link delivered alongside your usual PDF
- Every open logged and fed straight into your pipeline
- Org-level price lists so every estimate starts from your numbers
Three steps, start to signed.
You build the estimate. buildBOQ handles the link, the tracking, and everything after.
01 / 03 — Estimate & takeoff
Build the estimate.
Trades, preliminaries and development costs in one builder, with a measurement canvas for quantities — unit conversion and breakdown copy/paste built in.
See it in the app02 / 03 — Client-facing link
Send the client link.
A read-only, expiring link the client can reopen anytime — no login, no re-sending the PDF. Reusable, time-limited, and revocable, delivered alongside your PDF, not instead of it.
See it in the app03 / 03 — Sales CRM
Track it in your pipeline.
Every view is logged and fed straight into your pipeline, so you know who's actually looking — and who's gone quiet — before you pick up the phone.
See it in the appEverything a construction builder's quoting workflow needs
Estimate & Takeoff
Trade / prelim / dev-cost builder with a measurement canvas for quantities — unit conversion and breakdown copy/paste built in.
AI Prefill & AI Estimate
Upload plans or a brief and get a reviewable first pass you can append or replace into an estimate.
Client-facing proposal links
Reusable, time-limited, revocable links with view-tracking — delivered alongside your PDF, not instead of it.
Price Lists
Org-level rate and trade templates, so every new estimate starts from your numbers, not a blank page.
Sales CRM & Vendor Compliance
Pipeline tracking fed by real proposal activity, plus expiry tracking for subcontractor compliance documents.
Roles, policies & audit log
Custom roles with per-action policies, and an activity log across every mutating action in the org.
Clients, subbies & suppliers
Named client, subcontractor and supplier directories with per-contact history — so proposals, compliance tracking and pipeline data all point back to a real record, not a spreadsheet tab.
Sub-contract management
Prepare trade packages with the BOQ and supporting documents, send them to your listed subbies and suppliers, track quotes as they land, and produce quote comparison statements side by side.
Built for the way construction teams quote.
One tool for the pre-contract stage — from first estimate to a proposal the client can actually check the status of.
Commercial builders
Price big scopes with confidence
Resource-loaded rates and accurate take-offs across large, multi-trade scopes — every line traceable back to the BOQ.
Fitout builders
Turn a brief into a number fast
Prefill from the plans, refine on the take-off canvas, and issue trade packages to your subbies in the same place.
Residential builders
Quote every job the same way
Standardise trades, prelims and dev costs so any estimator produces a proposal that looks and adds up the same.
Renovations & extensions
One record per client
Proposals, compliance and pipeline all point back to a named client, subbie or supplier — not a tab in a spreadsheet.
Design & construct
Present it your way
Cost proposals presented exactly the way you want clients to see them, delivered as a link alongside your PDF.
Developers & contractors
Know when it lands
Every client open is logged and fed into your pipeline, so follow-up is timed to interest, not guesswork.
Trusted by the trade
Builders and developers who estimate with us.
Why buildBOQ
Built on 27+ years of pre-contract construction.
Every part of buildBOQ — how trades and preliminaries are structured, what a client-facing proposal actually needs to show, what subcontractor compliance tracking assumes about your deadlines — comes out of 27+ years doing pre-contract construction work, not a generic project-management template bent into a construction shape.
Simple, seat-based pricing
One plan with everything included — a flat monthly price with one seat included, extra seats billed per-unit. Pay yearly and get 2 months free. All prices in AUD, ex GST.
Advanced
Everything buildBOQ does, including AI.
$110+ GST AUD / month
Includes 1 seat · +$25 + GST/seat/mo after that
Pay yearly: $1,100 + GST2 months free
One upfront payment covers 12 months.
- 1,500 AI credits every month, shared by your team
- Estimate builder & takeoff canvas
- Price Lists (org rate templates)
- Sales CRM pipeline
- Subbies & Vendor Compliance
- Clients & interaction history
- Client-facing proposal links
- Excel & PDF export
- Custom roles & policies
- Activity & audit log
- AI Estimate — first-pass pricing from a brief
- AI Prefill — upload plans, review, append to an estimate
- Priority support
Common questions
No trial gate — create your organization and build a real estimate straight away, with no credit card required upfront.