Why does it not estimate the cost?

Because any figure would be invented. Cost depends on design, ground conditions, permits, specification and market rates. A calculator that produced a number from four fields would be guessing, and both you and the client would find out later. The construction demo linked below does show a cost estimator — that is a built site, where the rates and the rules were defined for that company. The demo shows what we can build once those inputs exist. This page has no company behind it, so it has nothing to calculate from.

What is the one number it does produce?

Total built area — your footprint multiplied by the number of floors. It is arithmetic on what you typed, with no assumption in it, and the assumptions list says exactly that.

What is the list of questions for?

Those are the questions that decide a price. A builder asks them on the first visit; having them answered before the visit is the entire saving.

Can it be tuned for our company?

The scope lists are per company. If your work always raises a question this one does not, it goes in — what will not go in is a coefficient that pretends to know your programme.

Industry · Construction

Establish the scope before the site visit.

Built area is arithmetic on your own figures. Everything that turns scope into a price — permits, structure, access, waste — is a question, and this lists the ones that have to be answered first.

Project outline

Footprint per floor (m²)

Number of floors

Project type

Site access

Demolition included

Structural changes

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Why this exists

Construction is the one trade where an online cost estimate is almost always a lie. A price depends on ground conditions, permits, the drawing set, the specification and what steel costs this quarter — and none of that is knowable from a web form.

So this tool refuses to guess. It computes one figure, total built area, which is your footprint multiplied by your floors and nothing more. Everything else it produces is a list: the questions a builder must answer before quoting, and the documents a client has to supply. That list is the honest part of the conversation, and it is the part that usually happens three weeks late.

What we build for construction businesses

Scope capture — Enquiries arrive with project type, area, access and structural scope already stated.
Document handling — Permits, drawings, surveys and certificates filed per project and searchable in Fioka.
Lina for first contact — Answers capability, area and process questions out of hours, in the client’s language.
Project sites — A page per project with progress photos, on your own domain.
Site photo capture — Photos filed against the project from a phone, not lost in a chat thread.
Project dashboards — Live projects, outstanding documents and upcoming inspections on one screen.

Questions

Why does it not estimate the cost?: Because any figure would be invented. Cost depends on design, ground conditions, permits, specification and market rates. A calculator that produced a number from four fields would be guessing, and both you and the client would find out later. The construction demo linked below does show a cost estimator — that is a built site, where the rates and the rules were defined for that company. The demo shows what we can build once those inputs exist. This page has no company behind it, so it has nothing to calculate from.
What is the one number it does produce?: Total built area — your footprint multiplied by the number of floors. It is arithmetic on what you typed, with no assumption in it, and the assumptions list says exactly that.
What is the list of questions for?: Those are the questions that decide a price. A builder asks them on the first visit; having them answered before the visit is the entire saving.
Can it be tuned for our company?: The scope lists are per company. If your work always raises a question this one does not, it goes in — what will not go in is a coefficient that pretends to know your programme.