Run your builds.
Not your spreadsheets.
One workspace for the whole job — quote, contract, schedule, build, claim, deliver. Replaces five disconnected apps with a single source of truth your office, site supervisor, and clients all see.
No card required · cancel any time · save 25% with a 12-month commit
Five apps, one tab
Stop paying for five tools that don't talk to each other and stitching them with spreadsheets. CPM Pro replaces all five for less than the cost of one.
From the first client meeting to defect close-out
Estimating that doesn't lie
15 pricebook templates across every sector — fitout, reno, new build, civil, bridges, tunneling. Open the calculator, drop lines from the pricebook, watch margin live. Close the estimate to flip into the project-management spreadsheet.
Branded proposals + e-signatures
One-click PDF proposal with your logo, banner, accent colour. Email a Sign Now button — client signs on phone, signature image lands in your file with their IP and timestamp. No DocuSign account needed.
AI-assisted plan takeoff
Upload a PDF plan, click '🤖 AI takeoff'. Claude vision reads the drawings and suggests item counts — doors, windows, GPOs, downlights, fixtures — per page with a confidence score. You review every line before it joins the estimate. Strong verify-before-quoting warning baked in. Included on every plan — no API key, no setup.
Hourly rate calculator
Work out the TRUE cost of every position — boss, PM, site manager, employees, labourers, subbies — wages, super/on-costs, insurance, vehicle & fuel, overhead. Country-accurate defaults for AU/NZ/IE/FR/US/CA/CH, AI market-rate sense-check, then push the charge-out rate straight into your pricebook.
Economic dashboard
A living briefing on the local and global conditions that actually affect a builder — interest rates, material cost trends, building approvals, currency swings — plus a plain-English watch list and practical steps to protect your business against the next shock.
MBA for Builders — included free
Every CPM Pro subscription includes The Missing Module, our companion training course covering the business and admin side of running a trade or building company: pricing, cash flow, contracts, hiring, and more — the stuff most builders never got taught.
Tailored building contracts
Region-specific builder-protective contracts (AU/NZ/IE/FR/US/CA). Auto-fill parties + price + payment terms from the project. Edit any clause. Send for sign-now. Client signature locked in PDF.
Live Gantt schedule
Drag tasks, drop dependencies, watch the bar chart update. Auto-extends when variations are approved. Site supervisor sees the same plan you do — no more 'which version is current?'
Region-specific safety pack
Picks the correct safety act and regulator citations automatically for your project's region. Generate the SSMP, EAP, induction record, JSA, and SWMS request emails — all branded, all auditor-ready.
QR sign-in + self-induction + JSA
One A4 poster with three QRs. Big QR for daily sign-in/out. Smaller QRs for first-timer self-induction (region-aware: White Card AU / Safe Pass IE / Carte BTP FR / OSHA US / SiteSafe NZ / CSO cert CA) and Job Safety Analysis for trades without a SWMS. Geolocation logged. All three feed the project's safety register — auditor-ready by default.
Variations that actually flow
Raise → email client → Sign Now button → APPROVED → contract value updates → schedule extends. The whole loop happens in under 60 seconds. No more 'can you sign and email back the variation form?'
Progress claims that match reality
Estimate sections drive a default payment schedule (deposit, per-section claim, final retention release). You override any row in the proposal editor. The claim PDF goes to the client; the receipt goes back into the file.
Subcontractor compliance vault
Public liability, workers comp, builder licence, professional indemnity — all expiry dates tracked. Dashboard alert 30 days before any subbie's docs lapse. No more lapsed insurance discovered the day of an incident.
Defect close-out by trade
Raise a defect → one-click email to the assigned trade with their own URL. Trade clicks 'Mark as fixed' on their phone, takes a photo of the rectified work, leaves a note, and the defect flips to CLOSED with their evidence attached. No login required. You see 'Trade opened the link' the moment they visit. Single-use token — forwarded emails can't be reused.
Role-based access (RBAC)
Project managers see everything. Site managers see operations only — no contract values, no variation $$, no supplier rates. Most builder platforms charge extra for this. We include it on every plan.
Inbox-into-app
Client replies to your proposal email? They land back in the project's email log AND your normal inbox. No more 'I sent you that ages ago — let me dig it out of my inbox.'
On-demand backup
One click → ZIP of every project, photo, plan, document, contract — under your control. We're not your backup; you are. We make taking one effortless.
The Missing Module
Builders rarely go under because of bad workmanship. They go under because of the business side nobody taught them: pricing on gut feel, late claims, no cash buffer, variations given away. The Missing Module is our 26-module course that fixes exactly that — every module with a plain-English read, a live calculator that works on your numbers, and real Australian rules behind it. It's the knowledge; CPM Pro is the machine that runs it every day.
- ✓Know your real hourly rate, not a guess
- ✓Price with margin instead of hope
- ✓QBCC payment rules, worked properly
- ✓Spot cash trouble months before it hits
- ✓Hire, negotiate and grow without breaking what works
- ✓Live calculators that run on your own numbers
- ✓Monthly plan or no plan? $849 one-off, lifetime access
CPM Pro vs the alternatives
No PR fluff — these are the things builders we talk to actually compare. Tick = included on every plan, dash = not offered or behind a paywall on the competitor's most expensive tier.
CPM Pro from $149/mo | Estimating-only tools ~$70–170/mo | Enterprise PM platforms $10k+/yr | Other builder PM apps ~$150–250/mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimating + branded proposal PDFs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI plan takeoff (Claude vision) — included | ✓ | — | add-on $$ | — |
| Hourly rate calculator (country-accurate on-costs) | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Economic dashboard — AI macro-risk briefing | ✓ | — | — | — |
| MBA for Builders training course — included free | ✓ | — | — | — |
| E-signature (Sign Now button) | ✓ | — | add-on | — |
| Region-tailored building contracts | ✓ AU/NZ/IE/FR/US/CA | — | — | — |
| Live Gantt schedule with dependency tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Region-specific safety pack with auto-citations | ✓ 6 markets | — | — | — |
| QR sign-in + self-induction + JSA on one A4 | ✓ | — | add-on | — |
| SWMS request workflow + risk-item tracker | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Defect close-out by trade (email link, no login) | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Site folder + 11 printable forms | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Variation flow with client e-sign + auto schedule update | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subcontractor compliance vault + expiry alerts | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inbox-into-app — replies route to project log | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Role-based access (PM vs Site Manager) | ✓ free | paid tier | paid tier | paid tier |
| Audit log + ISO 27001 readiness pack | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| On-demand full data backup ZIP | ✓ | — | — | — |
| AI + email sending included — zero setup, zero API keys | ✓ | — | — | — |
| In-region data sovereignty | ✓ | ✓ | USA | ✓ |
| 14-day free trial, no card | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
Pricing ranges based on advertised public rates of comparable tools mid-2026. Enterprise-tier platforms typically don't publish pricing; figures are industry estimates.
3–15× cheaper than the dedicated tools
Togal, Kreo and Beam are excellent AI takeoff products — but they're standalone apps that don't talk to your estimate, contract, schedule or PO flow. CPM Pro bakes the same idea into the workflow you already use, at a fraction of the cost.
CPM Pro AI Tools from $19/mo · add-on | Togal.AI ~$300+/mo · standalone | Kreo ~$300+/mo · standalone | Beam AI ~$300+/mo · standalone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI count takeoff (doors / windows / GPOs / fixtures) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Confidence score per suggestion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Per-line review + accept / edit / reject | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Suggestions flow straight to your estimate | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Runs on CPM Pro's AI account — nothing to set up | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Bundled with PM, contracts, scheduling, safety | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Regional pricebook auto-link on accept | ✓ 6 regions | — | — | — |
| Strong verify-before-quoting warning baked in | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Solo / small / large pricing tiers | ✓ $19/$39/$79 | single price | single price | single price |
| No separate login or extra app to learn | ✓ | — | — | — |
AI plan takeoff is included on every CPM Pro plan, no setup required. The AI Tools add-on above is only for teams who want a higher usage ceiling and priority access to the more capable model — it's an upgrade, not a requirement.
CPM Pro Studio vs Bluebeam Revu
Bluebeam is a very good PDF markup platform with takeoff added on top. CPM Pro is a construction business with takeoff built in. That difference decides where your measurement ends up: in a spreadsheet you still have to re-key, or on the quote you're about to send.
CPM Pro Studio included · every plan · every user | Bluebeam Revu $260–$590 per user per year | |
|---|---|---|
| Scale from the sheet's own size — pick 1:100 and it's exact | ✓ | manual calibration |
| Zoom, pan, snap to existing points, ortho lock | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live length / area readout while you draw | ✓ | ✓ |
| Perimeter, volume and angle measurement | ✓ all plans | Core+ · $330/yr |
| Deduct openings and voids so m² is net, not gross | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-detect an enclosed area in one click | — | ✓ Complete · $440/yr |
| Depth of PDF markup tooling (stamps, sets, scripting) | core toolset | ✓ deeper |
| Revision clouds, callouts, shapes, flatten to PDF | ✓ | ✓ |
| Measure 40 walls into one priced condition | ✓ | custom columns |
| Condition total lands on the estimate at your pricebook rate | ✓ one click | — Excel export |
| Pricebook with supply / labour split and waste allowance | ✓ | — |
| Branded client proposal straight off the takeoff | ✓ | — |
| Takeoff → estimate → contract → PO → invoice → variation | ✓ one thread | — |
| AI plan takeoff included | ✓ every plan | Max only · $590/yr |
| Runs on Mac, iPad and Android, not just Windows | ✓ browser | Windows desktop |
| Priced per company, not per estimator | ✓ | — per user |
| Scheduling, safety, defects, RFIs, site diary in the same app | ✓ | — |
If your job is reviewing and redlining drawing sets all day — a document controller, a design manager, a large consultancy — Revu's markup depth, stamp libraries, batch tooling and one-click area detection are ahead of us and we're not pretending otherwise. Plenty of estimators will keep both. Our Studio exports a flattened PDF with the original vectors untouched underneath, so it drops straight into a Bluebeam workflow.
Bluebeam's takeoff ends at a total. Ours ends at a sent quote. Measure the partitions into a condition, the quantity lands on the estimate at your own supply and labour rates with your waste allowance applied, and the branded proposal goes to the client — no CSV, no re-keying, no version of the numbers living in someone's spreadsheet. And every estimator on your team gets it without another per-seat licence.
Bluebeam tier names and prices are taken from bluebeam.com's published pricing (August 2026) and are per user per year. Bluebeam is a trademark of Bluebeam, Inc.; CPM Pro is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Comparison reflects our reading of publicly documented features — check their current pricing before you decide.
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What builders are saying
"I was running my business out of three apps and a stack of spreadsheets. CPM Pro replaced all of it in a week. Site supervisors stopped calling me asking which version of the plan to use, clients started signing proposals from their phones, and I got my evenings back.
"The AI estimator reads our plan PDFs and produces a line-by-line takeoff that's about 90% there before we touch it. What used to be three days of measuring is now an hour of review. We've quoted twice as many jobs this quarter without hiring an extra estimator.
"Site sign-in by QR poster, voice diary entries that the AI cleans up into the daily log, defects emailed straight to the trade with a sign-off link — my clipboard-and-pen days are over. The Gantt prints to A3 so I can leave a fresh programme on the site office wall every Monday.
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Common questions
- Will it actually work for my type of build?
- If you're a residential renovator, commercial fitout builder, civil contractor, heritage restoration team, or design-build firm — yes. We ship 15 sector-specific pricebook templates and let you tag any project to one. The estimate templates auto-load the right line items so a fitout doesn't get loaded with bridge piers.
- What if I'm already on another system?
- Import a real project on the trial. If it doesn't beat what you're using, walk away — we won't be offended. Most trials end with the user importing 2-3 more projects in week 2.
- Does my site supervisor need a separate licence?
- No. Every plan includes role-based access from day one. You add a Site Manager user; they see the schedule, photos, defects, safety, and attendance — but not contract values, variations, or supplier rates. Some other platforms charge extra for this; we don't.
- Can my client sign a proposal on their phone?
- Yes. The proposal email has a Sign Now button. Tap it, signature pad opens in their browser, type their name, hit Accept. Their signature, name, IP and timestamp stamp into the PDF and the project record. No DocuSign needed.
- What's included in the MBA for Builders course?
- It's The Missing Module — our companion training course on the business and admin side of running a trade or building company: pricing jobs properly, cash flow, contracts, hiring, and the stuff most builders pick up the hard way. It's included free with every CPM Pro subscription.
- Where is my data hosted?
- Hosted in a hardened cloud datacentre with full TLS encryption. Your data stays inside the platform — it only leaves for Stripe payment processing and AI requests, which run through CPM Pro's own AI account by default (or your own key, if you've added one in Settings → AI). Region-specific privacy rules (Privacy Act, GDPR, etc.) apply per your project's region.
- What about ISO 27001 / data security?
- We've built the technical controls expected by ISO 27001 Annex A — RBAC, audit logging, encrypted transport (TLS), encrypted password storage (bcrypt), tenant-isolated database queries, optional 2FA, on-demand backup. There's a dedicated readiness page in the app you can hand your auditor.
- What if I want a feature you don't have?
- Email it through. We're a small team building this for builders we know — your feedback drives the roadmap. Real example: a customer asked for QR site sign-in last month; it shipped two weeks later.