Increase Sales

Cost planning software that supports clients early, differentiates against competitors, and can execute your strategic sales messaging during bids

Work with clients earlier than your competitors by providing a differentiated approach to cost planning and be their trusted advisor

Customisable and flexible structure to format your cost plans in line with sales messaging

Create detailed cost plans with speed, beating market expectations and your competitive set

Break up your costs plans into strategic parts to demonstrate key sales messaging and align with your win strategy

Present your cost plans in an easy-to-read format, with as much or as little detail that is required to win the deal

Approach cost planning more wholistically than your competitors, with the ability to report on total project sum, in addition to contract sums

Remove the need to double handle and make mistakes by matching the structure of your cost plan to what is specified within RFP’s

Know your numbers, their strengths and weaknesses, to submit at the right number to win, while leaving room to increase profit over time

The ability to easily include and exclude scope and costs, while presenting them in a digestible format, for an easy client experience

Built in functionality to collaborate with design partners, ensuring aligned scope and price for submissions

Maximise Profits

Visualise and track your profit live, with insights into current position and likely exit position

Set clear targets from the outset, measure current status and potential final positions to ensure margins are achieved

Profit plan through the “Stretch” function, identifying your pathway to target, and managing it throughout the journey

Instantaneous live data through dashboards and ribbons, ensuring you have the right information at hand, for precise and strategic business decisions

Strategically approach how you option scope in and out of the cost plan, all while understanding margin implications for all scenarios

Analyse cost plans at multiple levels of detail, isolating areas of low profitability, and create an action plan to rectify profit margins

Manage your “cost” and “sell” sides of the cost plan in equal measure, resulting in a profit-based mindset

Utilise a market evaluation process with your clients when required, and help drive the sell side of your cost plan

Compare trade pricing against your cost side budgets to ensure best prices are procured and scope is fully captured

Built in cost recovery functionality to recapture costs such as labour or general overheads

Manage and collaborate with design stakeholders, working proactively to advise assigned budgets and avoid overdesign of scope and budget blowout

Support Clients

Provide true value to clients, providing them information in an accurate and timely manner, while managing their expectations

Become a cost advisor to your clients, presenting information to them in the format they require to make decisions

Create detailed reports for clients prior to business case approval, and throughout the entire sales and pre-contract phases, ensuring alignment between all parties

Track total project cost, not just contract sums, so clients can see their total spend is meeting their approved CAPEX budget

Work with clients, project managers, tenant advisors, leasing agents and other stakeholders to provide the information they need to progress the project

Break up your cost plan into sectors (portions) to better help your clients understand their capex spend and structure their business cases accordingly

Shopping list items resulting in seamless value engineering throughout, assisting your clients in achieving their budgets and maximising their scope

Provide analysis per square metre, per square foot, by number of rooms, or any other measure the client requires

Help your clients manage their cash flow by providing forecasts of progress claims for the duration of the project

Respond to client requests rapidly, seamlessly updating and re-issuing cost plans as required

Provide detailed specifications to remove client ambiguity of scope and minimise their contractual risk

Enhance Performance

Software that works for your team, and not the other way around, maximising performance and efficiency

Create, update and modify your cost plans with ease, with the ability to re-issue reports to clients with a click of a button

The ability to adjust the user interface so that it is easy to identify active items, while maintaining instant access to the entire library

Understand your path to target to avoid unnecessary re-work or enter negotiations uninformed or ill prepared

Generate reports in the format and order of your choosing, with a simple and easy user interface, ensuring no double handling post production

Seamlessly manipulate and update costs by utilising the accordion style opening and closing of sectors and inactive scope

Avoid double handling by having one source of truth that drives dashboards, reports, trade comparisons, market evaluations and progress claims

All scope is one click away by utilising a matrix grid model, while providing a clean user interface to identify active scope

Save time and avoid errors throughout the process by having access to instantaneous and live data and insights

Avoiding double handling and last minute mistakes by adjusting the structure of the cost plan at the outset to match RFP specifications

Ribbon analytics frozen in view ensuring you never need to click away to another screen to understand your financial position

“I only knew how to make profit once I could visualise it”