Ofivio Build, explained: construction management on the product system
Ofivio Build is the construction product on the Ofivio spine: the BOQ is the backbone, and procurement, warehouse and site reporting hang off it. Here is what's in the box and how the pricing works.
A contractor's project does not revolve around drawings — it revolves around the bill of quantities. Every purchase order traces to a BOQ line, every store-room issue draws down a quantity, every site report is progress against the same lines. Ofivio Build is the Ofivio product built around exactly that shape. Where Ofivio AE's atom is a deliverable, Build's atom is a BOQ line.
What's in the Ofivio Build box
Build ships six dashboards in its base price — $45/month solo, $300/month business — plus the free universal pair (HR and Finance) that every Ofivio product includes.
| Dashboard | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ofivio BOQ | Bill of quantities, volume groups, rate library, Excel import, cost analysis. |
| Ofivio Procurement | Purchase orders, suppliers, rentals, procurement wallet, BOQ to PO. |
| Ofivio Warehouse | Inventory, stock in / out / transfer, store room, valuation. |
| Ofivio Site | Daily progress, site photos, snag lists, labour and material-on-site logs. |
| Ofivio Operations | Execution tracking across the firm — who is doing what, where, today. |
| Ofivio People | Payroll runs, salary structures, advances, warnings and staff letters. |
| Ofivio HR (free, universal) | Employees, departments, teams, tasking, attendance and leave. |
| Ofivio Finance (free, universal) | Invoices, expenses, budgets, wallets, milestone cash, receivables. |
The chain that matters: BOQ → PO → store → site
The expensive failures in construction admin are transcription failures: a quantity retyped from the BOQ into a purchase order, a delivery logged in a diary that never reconciles against the order, steel issued from the store with no line item drawn down. Build's whole architecture is that these are one chain, not four documents.
- 1The BOQ holds quantities in volume groups with a reusable rate library — imported from Excel if that is where yours lives today.
- 2A purchase order is raised FROM BOQ lines. The quantity travels; nobody retypes it.
- 3Goods arrive into the warehouse: stock in, stock out, transfers, and valuation against what was ordered.
- 4The site logs daily progress, photos, labour and material-on-site against the same project the BOQ belongs to.
Daily site reports, from the site
Site reporting is mobile-first: the site engineer logs the day's progress, photos and snags from a phone, and the office sees it the same day — attached to the project, not an email thread. The report references real drawings and real BOQ lines, so "60% done" is a claim against a quantity, not a feeling.
Who Build is for — and who should buy AE instead
| You are… | Buy |
|---|---|
| A contractor executing works someone else designed | Ofivio Build |
| A design practice producing drawings and BOQs | Ofivio AE |
| A design-build firm doing both | Start with the side that bills more; add the other side's dashboards as add-ons |
| A developer managing property after handover | Ofivio Real Estate |
Because add-ons are whole dashboards at one price per band, a Build subscriber who also designs can add Ofivio Studio, and an AE subscriber who also executes can add Procurement and Warehouse — the system is built for firms that straddle the line, which in Pakistan and the Gulf is most firms. Contract structures under FIDIC assume the engineer and contractor are separate parties; the software should not force your firm to pretend it is only one of them.
VO on a construction project
VO Voice matters more on site than anywhere else: speech in and out, in Urdu, hands-free — a site engineer can ask for today's deliveries or log a note without taking gloves off. VO Officer adds execution: watchers on approvals, a daily briefing of what moved, and drafting the routine paperwork. Both are priced per seat on the VO page, and the same daily-allowance rule applies — VO pauses when the allowance runs out; it never bills you for overage.
Pricing, with the ceiling
Build follows the same three-axis system as every Ofivio product: base $45/$300 by band, whole-dashboard add-ons, VO per seat — hard-capped at $100 solo / $500 business, where everything unlocks. A 25-seat contractor with VO across the team reaches the ceiling and simply gets Complete; the bill never exceeds the number you saw on the pricing page.
See Ofivio Build's dashboards with real project data, or price your own configuration.
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