Most contractors only find out what a job really made at the final account. I-Cost lets you manage your construction projects in one place, from the client's BOQ to supplier quotes, purchase orders, site hours and carbon, and shows your forecast margin from day one, while there is still time to act.
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Built for UK contractors & commercial teams
Six problems we hear from contractors every week, and what changes when the whole job sits in one place.
The client's BOQ is retyped into spreadsheets, line by line.
Import the Excel BOQ, or the quantities from a BIM model, straight into the estimate.
Prices are guessed from an old job, a spreadsheet or an AI chatbot.
Price from real supplier quotes and your own orders. Copied estimates are checked against what you last paid.
Supplier quotes sit in inboxes and get compared by hand.
Send one request to several suppliers, see the prices side by side and order from the best in one click.
Nobody sees committed cost against budget until it is too late.
Budget, committed, spent and forecast final margin, live on every project.
Site hours and deliveries arrive on paper, days late.
Hours logged on a phone and approved. Goods received and QR delivery notes against each order.
Tenders now ask for carbon figures, and consultants are expensive.
Embodied carbon from the same estimate, and whole life carbon assessments (beta).
Why guessing costs so much
Real prices come from your suppliers and your own orders. With margins this thin, one wrong guess can cost the whole profit.
Average pre-tax margin of the UK's top 100 contractors.
The Construction Index, Top 100, 2025Rise in UK construction material prices in one year. Structural steel rose 21.2%.
Department for Business and Trade, August 2026Of project value lost to avoidable errors, up to £25bn a year in the UK.
Get It Right Initiative / CITB, 2026In a 2024 university study, GPT-4's estimates were “inaccurate, inconsistent, and not relevant” until the researchers gave it real labour, plant and material rates. Ghasemi & Dai, Smart Construction, 2024
On a £1m job at a 3% margin, material rates 5% too low on £600,000 of materials cost £30,000: the whole profit. Illustrative example.
See it working
Watch a client BOQ become a priced estimate, supplier quotes, purchase orders and a live cost report, all in one place.
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Who it's for
A buying decision involves the whole team. Here is what changes for each of them.
See every project's forecast margin now, not at the final account.
Budget, committed and cost to complete without rebuilding spreadsheets.
Import the BOQ, price it from real rates and send the client quotation the same day.
Quotes from several suppliers side by side, suggested suppliers and one-click orders.
Log hours and deliveries on a phone, and see the programme and what is running late.
Carbon figures for tenders and planning from the same quantities as the cost.
Goods received, accruals, invoices against orders and credit notes, all in one place.
A free portal to price requests and follow orders, with no email chasing.
The platform in practice
Disconnected spreadsheets leave teams piecing the story together. I-Cost connects the baseline, commitments and delivery records in one commercial workflow.
01 / Cost visibility
Compare the estimate, committed value and forecast final cost across active projects.
02 / Connected delivery
Follow project setup, estimating, procurement, timesheets, carbon and reporting through a visible lifecycle.
03 / The commercial baseline
Build detailed cost and carbon estimates that stay connected to procurement and delivery.
04 / Site to commercial team
Link daily activity, records and working hours back to the commercial picture.
Everything in one place
Every stage of a job, from the client's BOQ to the final report, connected so nothing is retyped, lost or guessed.
Stop retyping the client's BOQ.
Send a clear quotation and keep the agreed figure.
Get real prices, not guesses.
Know what is ordered, delivered and invoiced.
See the margin while you can still change it.
See what is late before it costs money.
Real labour cost, not paper sheets.
Carbon figures from the quantities you already have.
A clearer commercial position
I-Cost brings estimates, commitments, forecast movement and delivery data together so commercial teams can act earlier.
The baseline against which delivery is measured.
The cost already committed to suppliers and packages.
The expected cost position as the project develops.
Cost movement and risks that need commercial attention.
Reporting
No copying figures into spreadsheets at month end. Every report is built from the project as it stands today, and every figure opens the records behind it.
Contract value, cost budget, committed, spent, forecast final cost and forecast margin, by area and by cost type.
Show or hide sections, write your own introduction, add your company logo and download the project report as Word or PDF.
Every order with what is received, invoiced and still to invoice, plus accruals.
Staff and site labour hours by project, week and person, with approved hours shown.
Embodied carbon by estimate line and material, and whole life carbon results by life-cycle stage Beta
What is late, what is coming up and progress across projects, with an Excel download.
A quotation PDF with a summary page, your terms and an acceptance box, ready to send.
Click any total to see the orders, invoices and timesheets that make it up.
Commercial and sustainability teams, connected
Every estimate line can carry both a financial rate and an embodied-carbon factor, so commercial and sustainability teams work from the same quantities. When a tender or planning condition asks for more, whole life carbon assessments (beta) cover stages A1–A5 through to D, following the RICS Professional Standard (2nd edition) and BS EN 15978.
Illustrative values only. Margin is calculated as a percentage of the selling rate; carbon uses the selected factor.
On site and in the office
I-Cost runs in the browser and installs like an app, with no app store and nothing to download. Site teams log hours and check deliveries from their phone. The office sees the same live figures.
Add I-Cost to the home screen. A “Log my hours” shortcut opens a one-screen timesheet.
Install from Chrome or Edge and I-Cost opens in its own window, like any desktop app.
No separate mobile version and no syncing: everyone works from the same project data.
Team, access and support
Give each person the access they need, keep every conversation on the project, and get help inside the app.
I-Cost is construction estimating, procurement, cost control and carbon software for UK contractors. The client's BOQ, your estimate, supplier quotes, purchase orders, site hours, programme and reports sit in one place, so you can see the forecast margin on every project.
UK main contractors and specialist subcontractors: commercial directors, quantity surveyors, estimators, buyers, project and site managers, sustainability leads and finance teams. Suppliers use the supplier portal free of charge.
Yes. Upload the Excel or CSV bill of quantities, tell I-Cost what each column is, check the preview and the total, and bring the lines straight into your estimate. Nobody has to retype it.
Yes, in beta. Choose an IFC file exported from Revit, ArchiCAD, Tekla or a similar program. I-Cost adds up the quantities in your browser and shows them in the same preview as a BOQ import. The model itself is not uploaded to our server.
An AI chatbot can help draft an estimate, but it does not know today's prices from your suppliers, and material prices move every month. Research has found AI estimates unreliable until they are given real rates. I-Cost keeps your supplier quotes and your own purchase order prices in one place, and checks copied estimates against what you last paid.
Yes. Each estimate line can carry a carbon factor, from UK ICE data or your own EPD figures. Whole life carbon assessments (beta) cover life-cycle stages A1 to A5 through to D, following the RICS Professional Standard (2nd edition) and BS EN 15978.
Yes. I-Cost runs in the browser and installs like an app on phone, tablet and PC, with no app store. Site teams log their hours from their phone with a Log my hours shortcut.
No. Suppliers get a free portal where they receive your quotation requests, send prices and follow your orders.
£35 per user per month after a 7-day free trial. No bank card is needed to start the trial. See pricing
You can run the commercial side of a construction project in one place: the client's BOQ and estimate, the client quotation, supplier quotes, purchase orders and deliveries, site hours, the programme, and cost and carbon reports. I-Cost does not replace drawing management, RFI or snagging tools.
Yes. You pay £35 per user per month with no set-up fee, so a team of two costs £70 a month, and you can start with a 7-day free trial on one live project. Suppliers use the portal free.
A spreadsheet only knows what someone typed into it. In I-Cost, orders, invoices, deliveries and site hours update the committed cost and the forecast margin as they happen, every figure links to the records behind it, and nothing is copied between files.
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