BUILT FOR CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS, BY CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS
Area, the construction intelligence platform.
One scheme record from brief to final account. Cost planning, procurement, change control, valuations, cost reports and cash flow — live, multi-user and audit-tracked, with AI reading the documents so your team keeps authority over every figure.
Built around UK QS practice · JCT & NEC aware · RIBA Plan of Work aligned
Everything a cost consultancy needs to run a scheme, in one place the whole team trusts.
One record
Brief to final account — no re-keying between stages
Documents in, data out
Contracts to site reports, read by AI and reviewed side by side
Every action
Captured in a full, exportable audit trail
Real-time
Multi-user editing with no refresh, no version clashes
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THE WHOLE LIFECYCLE
One scheme record, from brief to final account.
Plan & Procure carries a scheme from Stage 0 to contract award; Construct takes it from there. The record, the team and the numbers move with it — nothing is re-keyed at the handover.
Plan & Procure
Brief, cost plan and programme, kept in step from RIBA Stage 0.
Capture the client's brief, build elemental cost plans against it, and pass each stage through a gateway checklist your practice defines. The RIBA stage is derived from the work done — never set by hand.
- Elemental cost plans with version history and variance to the brief
- Gateway sign-off templates per organisation, advisory by default
- Site, programme and risk register from day one
TWO LIVE APPS
Pre-contract and post-contract, built to hand over cleanly.
Each app is complete on its own. Together they carry the appointment, the team and the cost data across the contract line without anyone re-typing a figure.
Plan & Procure
Pre-contract, run as one workspace rather than a folder of files.
Brief, cost plans, site, programme, risks, team and procurement sit on the same scheme record. The RIBA stage is derived from what has actually been done, and each stage passes through a gateway checklist your practice defines.
- Elemental cost plans against the brief, with variance and version history
- Tender packages, returns and an itemised evaluation through to award
- Gateway sign-off templates, advisory by default, per organisation
Construct
Post-contract cost management the whole team can stand behind.
Change control, valuations, certificates, cost reports and cash flow on one live record, with programme, meetings, site reports and the risk register alongside. Every figure reconciles; every action is attributed.
- Instructions, variations and claims roll straight into the projected outturn
- Valuations and certificates with named Prepared, Checked and Approved sign-off
- Branded cost reports through a multi-step approval chain, then a client portal on your terms
AI, WOVEN IN
AI does the reading. 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 a named person to approve. Nothing is certified, issued or reported until you say so.
Answers are grounded only in the scheme's own registers and cite where the figure came from. Ask Area never invents a number.
Ask Area
A scheme assistant grounded in the live registers. Ask about outturn, movement, valuations or risk and get a cited answer from your own data — never a guess.
Review-first extraction
Contracts, instructions, valuations, briefs, tender returns and more are read into structured fields, each shown against its source quote before anything is saved.
Minutes and site reports
Meeting notes become drafted minutes with actions routed to tasks; site reports are read for progress, issues and the photograph worth keeping.
Tender return analysis
Returned tenders are normalised for a like-for-like comparison, with every adjustment itemised so the evaluation stands up to a challenge.
Insights
Automatic, non-benchmarked checks surface priority risks, missing data and figures that no longer agree, scheme by scheme.
PMI-014.pdf
Ellingwold Quarter — Phase 2
Employer's Agent Instruction No. PMI 014
Date: 12 September 2026
Description: Divert the existing 225mm foul drain clear of Block C
foundations, including CCTV survey and reinstatement.
Contractor's quotation: £48,700.00 (excluding VAT)
Programme effect: none claimed
Extracted for review
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The same review step applies to every document type Area reads:
- Contracts
- Instructions
- Valuations
- Cost reports
- Briefs
- Cost plans
- Tender returns
- Programmes
- Meeting notes
- Site reports
- Fee quotes and invoices
- Risk schedules
TRUST & CONTROL
Built for work that has to stand up to scrutiny.
Organisation-scoped isolation
Every figure is walled to your organisation and the check is enforced at the data layer, not in the interface.
Full audit trail
Every create, edit, sign-off and handover is logged, attributed to a named user and exportable.
Access you control
Scheme membership by role, confidential schemes, request-to-edit flows, passkeys and two-factor sign-in.
UK QS practice, respected
JCT and NEC aware terminology, RIBA Plan of Work stages, RICS-aware reporting and pence-precise arithmetic throughout.
“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 both apps. While we onboard practices personally, pricing is agreed directly with you and scaled to the size of your team. Tell us about your practice and we'll take care of the rest.
- Plan & Procure and Construct on every plan
- Client Portal available as an add-on
- Personal onboarding and setup by the Area team
Ready to run your schemes on Area?
Join the practices moving their pre-contract and post-contract work off spreadsheets and into one live, audited record.
Personal onboarding · Pricing agreed with you.