CostMan is the estimating and cost-control tool for interior designers, architects and design-build agencies. Quote from a library that remembers how you build, send the proposal in a click, then watch the money against it — live, not at month-end.
Most firms can answer that at the end of the job. By then it is a post-mortem, not a decision. Three things a spreadsheet structurally cannot fix:
Your estimator rebuilds the same wardrobe every month — boards, hinges, handles, screws, finishing, labour — when the only thing that changed was the dimensions. The knowledge lives in one person's head and last month's file.
The proposal goes out, the site starts buying, and the two live in different files. Halfway through nobody can answer the only two questions that matter: are we inside budget, and how much profit is left?
It needed training, a consultant and three months to do a job Excel already half-did. So everyone went back to Excel — and the two problems above stayed exactly where they were.
A Smart Assembly is how your firm builds something: the parts, the formulas that size them from the dimensions, the wastage, the labour. Insert it and the whole recipe lands priced — including the hinges and screws nobody remembers to add.
No re-typing into Word, no reformatting, no copy-paste that drops a row. The BoQ is the proposal — press the button and it prints on your letterhead, with your reference number, your terms and your payment milestones.
Every expense and every client payment is measured against the approved BoQ the moment it's entered. Budget versus actual, cash in hand, and the profit still left on the job — all live, all on one screen.
Every expense carries a category you define — materials, labour, transport, site overheads, whatever your business actually spends on. The breakdown is one click from any project, or across all of them at once.
Every live job as a card — value, received, receivable, spent, and the cash it is actually generating. Hand a project over when it's done and it moves out of the way, into a summary that shows what each one finally earned.
CostMan was not designed by a software company guessing at how a fit-out works. It was built inside a practising interior and construction firm, to solve that firm's own estimating and costing problem — and it runs that business every day. Every default in it is an argument someone had on a real project.
Nothing to install, nothing to licence per machine. Open a browser on the site, in the office, or on the client's sofa — it's the same workspace.
Desktop for the estimate, phone for the receipt. No app store, no install.
Pages load a page of data, not the whole database. The type-ahead answers as you type.
Hosted in the region. Export the library, the quotes and the ledger any time.
If a new estimator needs a course to build their first BoQ, we built it wrong.
These are not settings someone added. They are how it was built from the first line.
Monthly, in BDT. No setup fee, no consultant, no minimum term. Estimating is on every plan — the paid ones add cost tracking, your team and the schedule.
Estimating for a single user — build a library and quote from it.
A small team, with cost tracking and spreadsheet import.
Everything, including AI-assisted import and the PWD schedule.
Everything, uncapped.
Limits are checked when you create something, never swept — so moving down a plan never deletes or hides work you already have.
Keep it — import it. The difference isn't arithmetic, it's memory. The spreadsheet can't tell you what a wardrobe cost you last time, and it can't compare the quote you sent to the money you've spent. If neither is a problem for you, stay where you are.
Immediately — you can type free-text lines from the first minute. The compounding comes from the library, which you build as you quote, or import from a price list you already keep.
No. A BoQ snapshots what it was priced with. Updating your library never moves a quote already sent, and an approved BoQ is frozen — changes after approval are possible, but they're marked as changes so the client can see what moved.
Not from the proposal. Profit is distributed into the printed line rates rather than shown as a row, so the contract figure is right and the margin isn't legible. Internally your estimator still sees it broken out.
Yes, and it's two separate permissions rather than one. Someone can be shown what a job has cost against its budget without being shown the margin on it, and a site engineer can be given expense entry and nothing else at all.
Deliberately not. CostMan is estimating and job costing. Each of those is a different product with a different owner in the business — bolting them on is how the ERP everyone abandoned got that way.
Start free, build one assembly, and see what the second quote costs you in time. That's the whole pitch.