For QS and PM firms

Time back on take-off.
Capacity without headcount.
Fees you can defend.

Take-off and bills of quantities drafted from the drawings, against your own rate library, so your senior surveyors spend their hours on the advisory work clients pay premium fees for. Every output is a draft for your surveyor to approve, with the working shown.

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Independent QS practices and PM consultancies Founding Partner places open · closed beta now
Where revenue per fee earner stalls

Three quiet ways QS practices cap their own ceiling.

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Senior time on measurement

Your best surveyors are still measuring by hand, because a junior takes longer and outsourcing eats the margin. It is the most expensive hour in the practice spent on the least differentiated work, and there is no way out that does not start with hiring.

Addressed by Tender Intelligence · in closed beta
02

Capacity is the ceiling

You cannot take on more work without hiring, and a good surveyor is expensive, slow to find, and takes years to bring on. Every new instruction becomes a yes with caveats or a regretful no, and growth flattens against headcount.

Addressed by Tender Intelligence · in closed beta
03

Fee compression

Clients squeeze fee scales every cycle. You deliver the same scope for less, and the only routes out are to deliver in fewer hours or to give away more advisory time for nothing. Both routes end in the same place.

Addressed by Commercial Engine · sequenced 2027 to 2028
The shift

Your surveyors start from a draft rather than a blank page, and the judgement stays where it belongs.

Two modules. Built for fee earners.

Pre-contract and post-contract, on one record.

ConstructEther is a four-module platform. Most QS and PM practices live in two of them. Tender Intelligence is in closed beta now. Commercial Engine is sequenced rather than built, and what follows describes the design. If your practice offers project management, principal designer or CDM services, ask about the other two on the demo.

Module · pre-contract

Tender Intelligence

Take-off and bills of quantities drafted from the tender drawings, against the rate library your practice already maintains, so a senior surveyor reviews the measure rather than producing it.

  • Take-off from the drawings, with the working shown against each quantity
  • Bills of quantities grounded in NRM2
  • Priced against the rate library you supply or subscribe to
  • Discrepancies between drawings, specification and bill flagged before you issue
  • One project record, replacing the Bluebeam and CostX handoff
In closed beta
Module · post-contract

Commercial Engine

Cost value reconciliation, valuations, the variations register and post-contract reporting, running off the same project record rather than a separate set of spreadsheets.

  • CVR running off the same data as the bill
  • Valuations and applications tracked per project
  • Variations register with a full audit trail
  • Post-contract reporting drafted from the record
  • Final account assembled from what is already there
Sequenced 2027 to 2028
Honest about timing

Four modules. One operating system. Your two core modules ship first, by design.

Tender Intelligence is in closed beta with Founding Partners now, with full launch in Q1 2027. Commercial Engine follows, then Project Delivery and Compliance, in sequence through 2027 and 2028. Founding Partners shape the order.

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In closed beta

Tender Intelligence

Your primary module. Take-off, bills of quantities grounded in NRM2, discrepancy detection.

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Sequenced 2027 to 2028

Commercial Engine

Your second core module. CVR, valuations, variations register, post-contract reporting.

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Sequenced 2027 to 2028

Project Delivery

If your practice offers project management. Programme, milestones and contractor performance.

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Sequenced 2027 to 2028

Compliance

If your practice offers principal designer or CDM services. Document control aligned to ISO 19650.

In closed beta with Founding Partners Your core modules · sequenced next
How Tender Intelligence works

Three steps. One workflow.

Step 01

The project pack goes in

Drawings, specification, bill template and contract amendments, taken in one go. No manual sorting, no re-keying, no copy and paste between two systems.

Step 02

The platform measures and drafts

Take-off, a bill of quantities against your own rates, and a discrepancy report, each quantity traceable back to the drawing it came from. Nothing leaves the platform without your surveyor's approval.

Step 03

Your surveyor reviews and advises

The senior review is where your fee is earned, and it stays exactly where it is. What changes is that the hours before it are spent on judgement rather than on measurement.

What you are actually getting

Three things you can check for yourself.

NRM2
Bills of quantities generated against NRM2, as a draft for surveyor approval. Never a certified measurement.
Your rates
Priced against the rate library you supply or subscribe to. ConstructEther never supplies rates and never prices the job for you.
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Tools consolidated: Bluebeam, Procore, CostX, Microsoft Project and SharePoint. Count your licences and your handoffs.

Any output containing rates, quantities or a contractual position is a draft requiring quantity surveyor review.

Built by surveyors, for surveying practices

Not a software vendor pitch. A peer's playbook.

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I run a consultancy that delivers the same work your practice does. ConstructEther is not software pitched at surveyors from the outside. It is being built to the workflow I have used for twenty years, and every commercial workflow in it gets pressure-tested against what actually happens on a job.

Andrew Elsworth Co-Founder and CFO · MCIOB · over 20 years
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John Ellis
Founder and Chief Executive

Twenty-five years in UK construction, starting on the tools before qualifying as a quantity surveyor. Thirteen of those years in commercial roles across Mace, Morgan Sindall, Esh Group, Elliott and Modulaire, and Lindum, delivering in excess of £275 million of construction works. He sets product direction and commercial strategy.

The questions you will ask

Straight answers, no vendor waffle.

If your question is not here, we will handle it on the demo call. No script, no offer to check with the team.

When can my practice actually start using this?
Tender Intelligence is in closed beta with Founding Partner firms now, with full launch in Q1 2027. Commercial Engine follows, then Project Delivery and Compliance, in sequence through 2027 and 2028. There are ten Founding Partner places, one of which is confirmed. Founding Partners shape the rollout order and get early access.
How accurate is the take-off against a manual measure?
We are not going to give you an accuracy percentage, because beta has only just started and we have no dataset that would support one. Anyone quoting you a figure at this stage is guessing. What we will tell you is how it works: every quantity is traceable to the drawing it came from with the working shown, so your surveyor checks the measure rather than taking it on trust, and nothing leaves the practice without that approval. The honest test is the one we offer on the demo. Send us a bill you have already measured, we measure it too, and you compare it line by line.
How do I adopt this without interrupting live projects?
You do not put it near a live job first. Start on the next new instruction that lands, alongside your existing workflow, while current projects run exactly as they do now. We are in closed beta, so we will agree the pace with you rather than quote you a timetable we cannot yet stand behind. No migration, no firm-wide switchover, no risk to work already in progress.
Will my juniors still learn the craft?
It is a fair worry and we take it seriously. Our view is that surveyors learn by reviewing work, questioning it and gradually taking on responsibility for it, and that reviewing a draft with the working shown is closer to how a junior learns from a senior than measuring in silence is. The dialogue that teaches judgement does not go anywhere. That said, this is our view rather than a proven outcome, and it is worth arguing with us about on the call.
How is it priced?
Per practice rather than per seat, so you are not penalised for putting a junior on the platform. Pricing is confirmed on the demo call against your actual project volume, and Founding Partner terms are set out in the relevant agreement. We are not going to publish a price list for a product in closed beta.
Founding Partner places open

Send a bill you have already measured.

No slides. We measure it too, you compare it line by line, and you keep the output either way. If it does not stand up against your own measure, you will know inside an hour.

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Ten Founding Partner places · one confirmed · closed beta now