Construction estimating · Ghana
Contractors lose money in the quiet places — a markup mistaken for a margin, waste left out of a quantity, a rate quoted from memory. We built the system that closes them, from the first site visit to the last retention payment.
What we do
Estimating, quotations, contracts, invoicing and project financials for contractors, builders and quantity surveyors working in cedis — with your own supplier rates, your regions and your milestones.
Every stage carries its figures forward. Nothing is retyped between a spreadsheet and a letterhead, and nothing that has been issued to a client is quietly overwritten.
The difference
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Estimates are built the way a quantity surveyor works: measure once, apply a composite rate, let waste sit inside the quantity. One square metre of six-inch blockwork carries its blocks, mortar, sand and mason hours every time it is used, priced from your own supplier list.
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Overhead is recovered before profit, not out of it. Markup and margin are shown as the different figures they are. Milestone invoices follow the spending curve, and part-payments by Mobile Money land against the invoice they belong to.
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Rates carry the date they were confirmed and the supplier they came from. Issued quotations keep every version. Variations adjust the contract value without rewriting the original. When a job is questioned months later, the answer is a filing exercise rather than an argument.
By the numbers
Not a global template with a currency switch. Regions, units, trades, taxes and payment habits are modelled on Ghanaian practice, and the arithmetic that decides your margin is written in code that can be tested — never generated.
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Ghana regions
Prices held nationally, regionally, by city and by supplier.
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Construction categories
Preliminaries and earthworks through MEP to external works.
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Roles, enforced server-side
Owner through viewer, checked on every request.
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Prices generated by AI
The model suggests scope. The platform calculates money.
Leads, clients, projects, estimates, quotations, contracts, variations, invoices, payments and site expenses — one system, one set of figures, one history.
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Lead
The enquiry, the site visit, the next action — logged before it is forgotten.
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Estimate
Measured, priced from your rate book, with margin visible while you type.
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Quotation
Issued as a document the client accepts, declines or questions from a phone.
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Final account
Milestones invoiced, variations agreed, retention tracked to release.
What we hear on site
Recorded during product interviews with contractors and quantity surveyors in Accra, Tema and Kumasi. Quoted with permission; these are observations from practice, not endorsements.
I do not need software that guesses what a building costs. I need software that stops me forgetting the crane.
Contractor
Tema · residential and light industrial
The fastest estimators are not the ones who type quickly. They are the ones who never derive the same factor twice.
Quantity surveyor
Kumasi · 14 years in practice
The client is not resisting the price. They are resisting the surprise.
Project manager
Accra · fit-out and renovation
Field notes
Estimating · 6 min
Markup is not margin, and the difference is your salary
Adding 20% to your cost does not give you a 20% margin. On a GHS 500,000 job that mistake is worth about GHS 16,000 — roughly what most small contractors take home in a quarter.
29 Jul 2026
Estimating · 7 min
How to price a 20-metre boundary wall in twenty minutes
A worked method for the job every contractor in Ghana is asked to price at least once a month — and the six lines that people forget.
15 Jul 2026
Estimating · 5 min
Three costs that quietly eat Ghanaian construction margins
Waste, haulage and site loss rarely appear on a bill of quantities. They always appear in the bank account.
24 Jun 2026
Load a handful of your own rates, build one estimate, and look at the margin before you send it. That is enough to know whether this belongs in your office.
