We publish what people say about us, and we do not touch it.
Every review on this page was written by the firm that wrote it, published exactly as typed, and can be taken back by them at any time. Beside it is the argument itself — what a working week looks like before Ofivio and after it — and the rules that govern this page, including the one power we keep.
Reviews, without hindrance.
Nothing on this panel is written by Ofivio. A firm types its own words inside its own workspace and presses publish; this page draws them the moment it happens. We can show a review or hide it — that is the whole of our power over it, and the next panel says so in full.
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Life before Ofivio. Life after it.
The same week in the same practice, twice. The left column is not a caricature — it is how this office ran, with a folder, a spreadsheet and a group chat, before any of this was written. The right column names the room that does it now, so you can go and look at it instead of believing us.
- MondayThe drawing goes outBefore
Rev C is emailed to the contractor from somebody's own mailbox. The file is on a desktop, the transmittal is a line in a notebook, and the only record that it was ever sent is in the sent items of whoever sent it. Three weeks later nobody can say which revision the site is holding.
AfterThe drawing is issued from the Studio's delivery desk against its stage. The revision, the date, the recipient and the transmittal are one record, and the next person to ask which revision is on site reads the answer instead of asking the person who left.
Ofivio Architecture - TuesdayThe bill of quantitiesBefore
A spreadsheet with the rates in it, a second copy someone took home to work on, and a third that the client was sent. Change a material price and you change it in whichever of the three you remember. The one that goes to the client is the one that was open.
AfterRates are built up from materials, labour and plant. Move the price of steel once and every rate underneath it re-derives — because the system knows what a rate is instead of storing a number somebody typed.
Ofivio Planning & QS - WednesdayThe site instructionBefore
A photograph in a group chat, a voice note under it, and an instruction nobody wrote down. The variation is argued about at the end of the job, from a phone gallery, against a memory.
AfterThe snag is raised against the project with its picture attached, the instruction is a record, and the variation it becomes is already priced against the BOQ line it came from.
Ofivio Build - ThursdayThe client asks where it isBefore
Somebody opens four folders and a chat history, then answers on Friday. The honest answer is that nobody in the office could see the whole job at once, because no two parts of it lived in the same place.
AfterThe project's own page already says it: the stage, what is out, what is approved, what is owed and what is next. The client portal shows the client their half without anyone assembling it.
The projects hub - FridayThe invoiceBefore
Typed again, from the drawings, into an accounting package that has never heard of a design stage. The ledger and the work are two separate stories that are reconciled once a quarter by hand, badly.
AfterThe fee is raised from the stage that was delivered, and the double-entry is written by the work that already happened. Nobody re-types a job into the books, because the books are downstream of the job.
Ofivio Books - Month endPayrollBefore
Attendance is a register, leave is a memory, and the salary sheet is a spreadsheet that is right until somebody joins mid-month. Every letter is written from scratch.
AfterThe roster, the attendance, the leave and the payroll are one chain, and the letters come out of the record rather than out of a template somebody edits.
Ofivio People - The yearWhat the practice is worth knowingBefore
Which projects made money is a feeling. Which client is slow is a feeling. Which of the eleven jobs is quietly late is the one nobody mentions, and the first anyone hears of it is when it is too late to fix.
AfterIt is a number, on a page, drawn from the same record the work wrote. The office you can see is the only office you can actually run.
Ofivio explained
No minutes saved, no percentages. We have not put a number on this page because we cannot verify one for your practice, and a figure we cannot stand behind would undo every other sentence here. What is claimed above is only that the work happens in one record instead of six places — which you can test in a free workspace before you pay anything.
The rules this page is bound by.
Six of them. The fifth is the one that costs us something, which is why it is here — a promise with nothing at stake is an advertisement.
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We do not write them and we cannot edit them.
A review is typed by the firm itself, from inside its own workspace, in Settings ▸ Consent. There is no route in the Owner Console — none, not a hidden one — that changes the words of a published review. The moment the seller can retouch a quote, it stops being evidence and becomes copy.
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We publish the bad ones too.
A three-star review with a paragraph about what is missing is worth more to the next buyer than a wall of five stars, and it is the reason anything else on this page is believable. What we will not publish is abuse, somebody's private data, or a claim about a named third party.
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The star rating is theirs, not an average we compose.
Each card shows the stars that firm gave. There is no headline score on this site, because a single averaged number is the easiest thing on a website to quietly move.
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Nothing is anonymous, and nothing is a stock photo.
Every card carries the person, their role and their firm. A review with no name attached is not a review; it is a sentence we could have written ourselves.
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The one power we keep — and it cuts both ways.
We can show a review or hide it, and we say so plainly rather than claim a purity no publisher has. It is how abuse and leaked client data come down. It is also the honest limit of this page: you are trusting that we do not use it to bury criticism — so we publish criticism, which is the only proof of that available to anyone.
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A firm can take its own words back.
Consent is withdrawn from the same screen that gave it, and the quote and the logo come off the site. We do not keep a review a firm no longer stands behind, and we do not ask why.
Where a review comes from. A firm running on Ofivio opens Settings ▸ Consent inside its own workspace, writes its words, gives its stars and decides whether its logo may appear. Nobody is asked for a review in exchange for anything, and no discount, credit or feature has ever been given for one.
Everything else you are entitled to check.
Transparency is not a page, it is whether the answers exist before you ask. These are already published, already indexed, and every one of them is allowed to say "not yet" — several of them do.
What we have not built yet. There is no third-party audit report, no SOC 2 and no public incident history, because none of the three exists yet — and a page that implied otherwise would be the exact failure this centre is for. The trust page lists each gap by name.