The desk work: takeoff, real-cost estimate, scope, exclusions - while you stay on the tools.
Real builder costs, not a price book. A tender pack built to win - and the real money in my fee only lands when you do.
Priced from real delivered costs - the number that beats the price-book quotes.
Days at my desk, not your nights at the kitchen table.
Small fee to start. The real money in my fee only exists if the job's yours.
White-label pack under your name. I'm the desk, never the face.
WhatsApp, call, or the form - a line on the job is enough to start. I'll reply the same day with where to email the full drawing pack (big files don't travel well on WhatsApp).
Within 24 hours: winnable or not, and exactly what I'd charge. No obligation until you say go.
Real-cost pricing with the exclusions and PC sums that protect your margin. Presented under your name.
A London builder almost turned down a £227,000 new-build - great on site, but a job that size felt too big to price. Full takeoff, estimate from real delivered costs, programme, piling tender, pre-start pack. Tender out in days. He won it. He's on site now. My fee: 4%, paid as the job ran - only because it won.
Two ways to use the desk - both a fraction of the £800 to £1,600 a QS bills win or lose.
I turn jobs down - long-shot bids with five builders and no drawings waste your money and my name. If it's not a fit I'll tell you in one message, free.
Fees ex VAT. An engagement starts only on a signed one-pager. Mutual confidentiality applies - your prices and your client details stay yours. I never price two builders on the same tender.
He priced my tender off a standard price book, it went in high, and it lost. When I asked him to share the risk, he refused - he gets paid either way. So I built the desk he wouldn't be: real costs, a small fee to start, the real money only when the job's won.
Clients don't pick the cheapest quote - they pick the one that feels safe and specific next to four vague lump sums. Don't take our word for it - see a real one.
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A real engagement, anonymised - builder and client names changed, every price and line item genuine.
Not an estimating mill, not a software subscription. One builder's tender desk - an AI-driven estimating system trained on real delivered costs from real jobs - opened up to other builders. I answer my own WhatsApp, and if your job isn't winnable I'll say so before you spend a pound.
No - and it's in writing. I don't chase your clients, your patch, or your work type, and I never price two builders on the same tender. Everything is white-label: your name on the pack, your client relationship untouched, your prices in confidence.
A QS prices from a standard price book, overprices the job, loses you the tender - then bills £800 to £1,600 win or lose. The £100 online estimating mills are the same book with a faster turnaround, and what they send you is an estimate, not a tender. I price from real delivered builder costs and I build the full client-facing pack - and the bulk of my fee is tied to you actually winning.
It's defined in writing before we start: you sign a contract, take a deposit, or start on site for the tendered job (or a materially similar scope with that client) within 6 months of submission. If the scope shrinks, the fee shrinks with it, pro-rata. No small print games - the definition is on the one-pager you sign.
You shouldn't, and you don't. The win fee prices the odds, and I set it at the free first look from the facts of the tender: repeat relationship, how many bidders, whether there's a favourite in the race. Strong position, fewer bidders - the rate comes down. The fee is on your side either way: it only exists if you win.
On the Win Desk you've spent £495 - the commitment fee that covers the work - not £1,600. No win fee, no chasing, and the pack is still yours. And if I didn't think it was winnable, I'd have told you at the free look and saved you even that.
No - a job you win at a losing margin is worse than a job you lose, and it would be my name on the number. Every pack states the margin logic: if a job can't be won at a sane margin, my verdict is "don't bid", not a lower price.
Days, not weeks - and not your evenings. The pricing runs on a system built across hundreds of real construction line items and real delivered costs, so a tender that would cost you a week of nights takes the desk a fraction of that.
Message me first - WhatsApp, call, or the form. I'll reply the same day with the desk email for the full drawing pack. Architect PDFs run big, and email carries them cleanly where WhatsApp compresses or refuses them.
That's exactly the right way to start. Send one job. Get the pack. If it wins you work and saves your evenings, we talk about the next one. No retainer, no lock-in.
Message me the job - within 24 hours you'll know if it's winnable and exactly what I'd charge. Free, straight, no obligation. Drawings follow by email once we're talking.
WhatsApp me the jobI'll come back to you personally, usually same day.