Author

Mal

Customer Success, Build Paperless

Mal looks after customer success at Build Paperless. He sees what happens to a job after the quote is accepted, which is where most builders lose their margin, and he writes about the gap between an estimating tool that produces a tidy number and a platform that carries that number through to the final account.

Areas of Expertise

Construction estimating and takeoffQuoting and margin protectionEstimating-led platformsResidential build cost management

Articles by Mal

Industry Insights•7 min read•

Buildxact is good at estimating. That is the whole problem.

Buildxact is Australian, it is estimating-led, and it does that job well. The trouble starts after the quote is accepted, because that is where a build actually loses its margin.