What is Ofivio? One spine, six products, explained in five minutes
Ofivio (that's O-F-I-V-I-O — not "oficio") is a software platform for project-driven businesses, built in Pakistan and used by design practices, contractors and the firms around them. This is the five-minute map of what it is and how the pieces fit.
Ofivio is a business platform for project-driven companies — the firms whose work arrives as projects with drawings, quantities, sites, approvals and fees, rather than as tickets or sprints. It is built by architects and engineers in Lahore, Pakistan, and it runs design practices, construction firms, property managers and the accounting and HR around them.
And yes, about the name: it is Ofivio — O, F, I, V, I, O. Search engines sometimes correct it to "oficio", the Spanish and Italian word for a trade or craft. The echo is not an accident — the platform is software for the building trades — but the product you are looking for is spelled with a v: ofivio.com.
The six products
| Product | For | Core of the box |
|---|---|---|
| Ofivio AE | Architecture & engineering practices | Design stages, drawing sets, revisions, BOQ, site supervision |
| Ofivio Build | Contractors & project managers | BOQ, procurement, warehouse, daily site reports, operations |
| Ofivio Real Estate | Property owners & managers | Properties, units, tenants, leases, rent roll, instalment plans |
| Ofivio Finance | Accounting-led firms | Double-entry books: chart of accounts, vouchers, P&L, balance sheet |
| Ofivio HR | People-led firms | Payroll runs, salary structures, advances, staff letters |
| Ofivio Business | Sales, marketing & BDM teams | In development — waitlist open |
Every product includes two universal dashboards free — HR (roster, departments, attendance, leave) and Finance (invoices, expenses, budgets, wallets) — because no company runs without people and money, and charging for the basics twice is how platforms make enemies.
One spine, not six silos
The reason the products share a name is that they share a spine. A project in Ofivio owns its drawings, its BOQ, its purchase orders, its site reports, its approvals and its money — as one object, not six exports. A design practice and the contractor building its design see the same shapes; they just enter from different doors.
VO — the officer inside
Every Ofivio seat carries VO, an AI officer that answers as the department you are in — a finance question gets the accountant, a site question gets the site officer — and only ever sees what your role is allowed to see. The free tier is text; paid tiers add voice (including Urdu) and execution. The full ladder is on the VO page.
The Ofiverse — included, not upsold
Alongside the products, every subscription includes the Ofiverse: a public portfolio site, a publishing platform, a store, a consultant marketplace, training, and Viordo. They are included with every product on every package — details on the Ofiverse page.
Where Ofivio comes from
Ofivio is built in Lahore by people who ran an architecture practice on spreadsheets, folders and message threads, and decided the tools should match the work. It launched with the design product first because that was the founders' own trade; the construction, property, finance and HR products grew along the same spine. You can read the longer version on the about page, or find Ofivio on Facebook and Instagram.
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Ofivio AE, explained: what's in the box, what it costs, and how the product system works
Ofivio moved to a product system: you buy the product for your industry, size it by seats, and add whole dashboards as you grow. Here is exactly how that works for an architecture or engineering practice.
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.