For South African contractors & builders

Catch the overrun at the first certificate, not at final account.

Log the slip from the bakkie. See the line running hot by week three. Fix it while the walls are still going up.

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Retention
Certified to dateR838,000
Held back at 5%R41,900
Released onPractical completion

Retention, tracked — not remembered.

Every certified claim holds back its 5%. siteMargin keeps the running total, so the release isn't a surprise on either side of the table.

Purchase orders
PO-0417 · Plumbing rough-inR38,500
SupplierTrident Plumbing
StatusAPPROVED

Commitments on the line, before they're invoices.

Raise a PO against a line item and its budget already knows the money's spoken for.

Progress vs spend
Joinery & carpentry62% spent
Work complete41%
GapAHEAD OF PROGRESS

Spend running ahead of the work.

Money out is 21 points ahead of work done on this line. That's the one to walk before the next claim goes in.

Three fights you won’t have at final account.Everything that's inside
Why not the spreadsheet

Your sheet isn't wrong. It's late.

The number that gives an overrun away isn’t the budget — it’s the gap between money spent and work actually done. Proper cost-control software watches that gap, but it is built for firms with a full-time QS and a budget to match. For a two-to-ten person outfit it is overkill, so the job ends up in a spreadsheet nobody updates until it matters.

That is not a discipline problem. It is a structural one: the only person you can trust with the whole file is the one person with no time to open it — and the people with time are the ones you can’t show your margins to.

Your spreadsheetsiteMargin
Who can update it You, or whoever you trust with the whole file Your foreman, from site, without seeing a single margin
When it is right The evening you sit down and rebuild it The afternoon the slip was photographed
When a line goes over Nothing. It waits for you to notice Turns amber the day spend gets ahead of the work
Who this is for

Whoever’s on site, same numbers.

Contractors
3free site seats

Runs the job

Budget vs actual that updates itself, not a spreadsheet you rebuild every Friday.

Subcontractors
Freesite seats cost nothing

Does the work

Clean POs, visible payment and retention status.

Home owners
R899once-off, one build

Pays for the build

On budget, on track — not a platform built for a GC.

Developers
5%retention tracked per unit

Holds the retention

You hold the retention and pay for the variations. The same numbers, read from your side of the table.

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Everywhere on site

Six tools. One set of numbers.

The six you’ll use most, colour-coded so you know which one you’re in.

Cost & ProgressR232k over Daily Log6 photos today Snag List4 open ScheduleRoof due Fri Payments & RetentionR41,900 held DrawingsRev D, explained
The principle

Made for the size of outfit that never gets proper software.

Built in Cape Town for South African contractors — JBCC-aware, rand-native, retention held the way your contracts hold it.

  1. <1 MIN per entry

    Fast to update

    Log spend in under a minute — a tool nobody updates is worse than none.

  2. 4 languages

    Plain-language

    Drawings explained in English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa or isiZulu. No variance formulas, just numbers you can read.

  3. From R399 per month

    Priced for small businesses

    30-day free trial, then free on your first project. Paid plans for outfits running two to ten, not enterprises.

Before you sign up

The questions we get on WhatsApp.

Do I need a QS background?
No. It talks plain site language, not variance formulas.
Can I bring my existing budget?
Yes. Excel, CSV, PDF or a Word quote, checked line by line.
Will it price my job?
No. You bring your prices; it tracks what happens to them.
Does it replace my QS?
No. Your QS can check its certificates; it isn’t a JBCC compliance tool.
What does it need from me?
Spend logged and progress measured. No updates, no warning.
What happens to my data?
It’s yours. Any job downloads as PDF, Excel or CSV on a paid plan.

All questions, answered →

Resources

The forms and registers you’d make yourself, already made.

Retention registers, VO forms, snag lists. Download them, use them, no strings.

Guide

Retention, explained

What it is, when you actually get it back, and a register to track it. Free spreadsheet.

 Template

Snagging list

Free download — the same list the app turns into a proper record.

 Checklist

Before you sign

Twenty questions on payment terms, retention and variations. No sign-up.

 Spreadsheet

Cash-flow forecast

See which job needs capital next, before it needs it. Free Excel.

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