BUILT FOR CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS, BY CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS
Area, the construction intelligence platform.
Run every scheme from contract to final account — change control, valuations, cost reports and cash flow, live, multi-user and audit-tracked. AI does the data entry; you keep control of every figure.
Invite-only access · Built around UK QS practice · JCT & NEC aware
Everything a cost-reporting practice needs, in one place your whole team trusts.
6 apps
One platform across the whole project lifecycle
7 document types
Extracted by AI and reviewed side-by-side before saving
Every action
Captured in a full, exportable audit trail
Real-time
Multi-user editing with no refresh, no version clashes
ONE PLATFORM, SIX APPS
The whole project lifecycle, one connected platform.
Schemes flow from pre-contract planning into live cost management and beyond — no re-keying, no lost history. Cost Portal is live today; the rest of the suite is arriving.
Plan & Procure
Take a scheme from brief and cost planning through tender to contract.
In development- Flagship
Cost Portal
Post-contract commercial management: change control, valuations, cost reports and cash flow.
Live · Flagship Manage
Site delivery and contract administration.
Coming soonKnowledge Hub
Benchmarks and cost insight across your portfolio.
Coming soonWrap Up
Project closeout, final accounts and lessons learned.
Coming soonClient Portal
A firm-branded, read-only dashboard you share with your client.
Live · Add-on
COST PORTAL
Everything post-contract, handled in one place.
The flagship app quantity surveyors run their live schemes on — change control, valuations, cost reports and the whole commercial position, always reconciled.
Change control
Change control that reconciles itself.
Track instructions, anticipated variations and claims in three linked registers. Values roll straight into your projected outturn, provisional sums and contingency — so the numbers always agree.
- Instructions, variations and claims in one place
- Provisional sums and contingency tracked automatically
- Bulk-upload up to 50 PDFs for AI extraction
- NEC-aware: instructions become compensation events
Valuations & certificates
Valuations and certificates, done properly.
Build interim valuations with gross, deductions, retention and payment due — single-rate or sectional. Issue formal certificates with named Prepared, Checked and Approved sign-off and a point-in-time snapshot.
- Sectional retention and cash-flow period assignment
- Prepared / Checked / Approved certificate workflow
- Email reminders ahead of every key valuation date
- Auto-filled from an uploaded valuation
Cost reports & sign-off
Cost reports your clients sign off with confidence.
Generate branded, RICS-aware cost report PDFs from templates and a cover editor. Route them through a named sign-off chain with e-signatures, a live review PDF, an action timeline and a “raise a query” loop.
- Movement analysis with reasons for change, report to report
- Multi-step sign-off flow with digital signatures
- Document-first review with query loop
- Import historic reports — AI lifts the figures for you
Portfolio & commercial position
See the whole commercial position at a glance.
Forecast cash flow month by month, track professional fees against budget, and score your risk register by probability and impact. Then step up to a portfolio dashboard with a computed health score across every scheme.
- Monthly cash-flow forecast vs actual
- Fee tracking against budget and PO
- Risk register with probability × impact scoring
- Portfolio health score and attention list
- My Dashboard: everything waiting on you, across every scheme
AI, WOVEN IN
AI does the typing. You keep the authority.
Area's AI reads your documents and drafts your data — but every figure waits in a side-by-side review for your approval. Nothing is certified until you say so.
What's the current projected outturn?
The projected outturn is £14,286,400 — the contract sum plus agreed variations and anticipated change, net of contingency drawdown.
Source: change control register + latest valuation (Val 07).
Grounded only in this scheme's live data — Ask Area never invents figures.
Ask Area
A project assistant grounded in the live scheme. Ask about outturn, valuations or risk and get answers from your data — never guesses.
Review-first extraction
Every extracted field lands in a side-by-side review before it's saved — nothing is written without your say-so.
Bulk ingestion
Drop up to 50 PDFs at once and let AI structure them into instructions, valuations and more.
Insights engine
Automatic, non-benchmarked checks surface priority risks, missing data and things to watch.
- Contracts
- Instructions
- Valuations
- Risks
- Professional fees
- Cost reports
- Scheme profile
CLIENT PORTAL
Give clients a live window — on your terms.
Enable a firm-branded portal on any scheme and choose exactly what your client sees. Share a real-time dashboard or a controlled point-in-time snapshot — disabled sections never leave our servers.
- Live or scheduled snapshot dashboards
- Section-by-section control, enforced server-side
- Your logo, colours and theme throughout
- Email invitations with last-viewed tracking
TRUST & CONTROL
Built for work that has to stand up to scrutiny.
Org-scoped isolation
Every figure is walled to your organisation and enforced at the data layer.
Full audit trail
Every create, edit and sign-off is logged, attributed and exportable.
Access you control
Role-based scheme membership, confidential schemes and request-to-edit flows.
UK QS practice, respected
JCT and NEC aware terminology, RICS-aware reporting, precise pence-based maths.
“Area has seamlessly embedded into our workflow and enabled us to improve efficiencies and consistency whilst maintaining our high standards of output and opening the doors to our own valuable project data.”
PLANS
One platform, plans for every size of practice.
Tailored to your practice
From sole practitioners to multi-office consultancies — every plan includes the full Cost Portal. While we onboard practices personally, pricing is agreed directly with you. Tell us about your team and we'll take care of the rest.
- Full Cost Portal on every plan
- Client Portal available as an add-on
- Personal onboarding and setup
Area is invite-only while we onboard practices carefully. Request access and we'll be in touch.
Ready to run your schemes on Area?
Join the practices moving their cost reporting off spreadsheets and into one live, audited platform.
Invite-only · No credit card · We'll set your team up personally.