What does free actually include?
The whole tool, for one project: budget with honest brackets, plan and schedule, cashflow, the trade pipeline, materials and the decision log, plus one full run of the kick-off wizard, so the AI drafts your first plan before you've paid a penny. After that you get 20 assistant actions a month, enough to chat to your project, have a quote read or a price checked when it matters, and notice what you'd use if it weren't metered. The £7 removes the meter. No trial clock, and free stays free.
Can you see my numbers?
Your project is encrypted, EU-hosted, and readable by your account and by nobody else unless you say so. Never sold, never used for adverts, deleted when you say so. There are two ways it reaches anyone else, and you control both. You can invite someone to look at a project, choosing which parts they see and whether costs are included; they can comment but cannot change anything, and removing them cuts off their access there and then. And you can share what a job actually cost, anonymously, so everyone's estimates get better: the type of job, its size, the region and the rate, never your name, address or project. Both are off until you switch them on.
Is the AI actually any good?
It's a well-briefed assistant, not an oracle. It prices jobs for your area within sensible brackets, spots what a quote suspiciously fails to mention, and turns "sort out the bathroom" into a task list. You stay the project manager; it just makes you a faster, better-informed one. Nothing it says replaces a structural engineer, and it will tell you so itself. Read the AI disclaimer
What else does it do?
The four above are the spine. Around them it tracks when money actually leaves your account month by month, keeps a materials list down to the fixings with order-by dates, chases whatever is slipping, logs every decision and why it was made, and turns the whole lot into a report you can hand to a builder, a partner or a lender.
Can someone else follow my project?
Yes, and it just landed. Invite your partner, your builder or your project manager by email; you choose which screens they see and whether costs are included. They can comment on any line, and the conversation stays attached to the thing it is about. They cannot change anything, and removing them ends their access immediately. Sharing is part of the £7 plan.
What are you building next?
It is early, and the roadmap is open rather than a secret. The near list: a cost picture built from what projects really cost rather than published guides, which owners can contribute to anonymously if they want to. Professional, for people running client work, is live: branding, letterhead reports, team seats and monthly invoicing. So is the document check: show it the quote or proposal you have been sent, and get a reading of it before you sign. Further out, help with picking suppliers and getting a budget back down to the number you first had in mind. The fuller list is here, and if what you need is not on it, say so: at this size, one email genuinely moves it.
Why not just use a spreadsheet?
We did. It was going fine until the second structural surprise, the fourth revised quote and the schedule slipping into a second year. A spreadsheet records a renovation; it doesn't run one. If yours is coping, honestly, keep it. Ours is exported to CSV whenever you fancy comparing notes.
