One measurement.Every module.
Most construction software is a set of tools that happen to share a login. Buildiante is built so a number entered once carries forward. Here is a single quantity — measured on a drawing — travelling all the way to a purchase order. Every step below is a real feature you can use today, not a diagram of an intention.
Measure the room on the drawing
Open a PDF drawing, set the scale once, and measure the floor area directly on it. The measurement stays linked to the sheet it came from.
- Areas, lengths, and counts measured on the actual drawing — no printing, no scale ruler.
- Select the finished measurements and send them on; the quantity travels with its label and unit.
AI-assisted: If the BOQ arrived as a PDF with a real table, Buildiante can read that table into draft positions instead — you review every row before it lands.
It arrives as a BOQ line — you price it
The measured quantity lands as a position in the BOQ, in the section you chose, with the rate left blank. You set the rate; the section total and the BOQ grand total recalculate as you type.
- The quantity is carried through — you never retype a number you just measured.
- "From history" offers the median of what you have charged for the same item before; you can take it or type your own.
- A rule-based check can flag a rate that sits well outside your own history — labelled "not a model", with the sample size shown.
Smart alerts: Rate anomaly flags and the "from history" suggestion are arithmetic on your own past BOQs — not a prediction, not a trained model.
The priced BOQ becomes a first schedule
"Generate from BOQ" creates one activity per priced top-level section, split by each section’s cost share and chained back-to-back from a start date you give. It adds activities; it never edits or removes ones you already have.
- A starting programme derived from the scope you already priced, not rebuilt from scratch in a separate tool.
- Critical path and float are computed from there; rule-based delay-risk flags point at the activities most likely to slip.
Package the same lines out to bid
Select BOQ positions into a bid package. Subcontractors get a scoped, expiring link — no account — and see the descriptions and quantities, never your rates. Compare what comes back side by side.
- The scope is the same BOQ lines — no copying items into a new document.
- Automatic flags on the comparison: a line one bidder didn’t price, a rate far outside the others, a total far off your estimate.
Smart alerts: Bid anomaly flags are stated rules on the bids in front of you — missing lines, per-line outliers, deviation from your estimate. No model.
Award writes back, a PO follows, the invoice checks itself
Awarding the winning bid records a subcontract and drafts its purchase order — the same scope, not re-keyed. On the PO, ordered vs. received vs. invoiced is checked line by line.
- The award rate writes back to the BOQ; the PO carries the awarded scope.
- The three-way match ranks any mismatch by money at risk, with a plain likely cause — so you look at the big discrepancy first.
- A vendor invoice PDF can be read into the invoice form for you to confirm; recording it is the same manual step as always.
AI-assisted: Invoice extraction reads a tabular invoice PDF and suggests a PO-line match with a confidence figure — you confirm before anything is recorded.
Enter it once.Use it everywhere.
Start with a drawing and finish with a purchase order — without retyping the number in between.