We're building the live margin instrument we couldn't buy, and V1 is already running.
Contractors live on the gap between revenue and cost. Today it's reconciled in spreadsheets after the job's done. We made it live: budget, program and margin on one spine.
Where tectm began
Two brothers, one platform. Cameron, a QS with four years experience across Tier One, Residential, and Reactive works, who's spent enough Sundays watching commercial teams rebuild margin in Excel to know the problem wasn't the people. Ollie understands the data and has built the platform.
Every month was the same: contractors guessing accruals because dockets hadn't arrived, QSs reconciling claims against contracts that lived in PDFs, project managers telling the board cost was up but not where, variations approved on a handshake and disputed six months later when the paper trail couldn't back them up.
Existing software either did one piece and stopped (Payapps wraps a claim, Procore stores documents, Hammertech checks compliance) or tried to do everything from a generic ERP base and didn't understand a single construction contract. None of them connected the docket to the budget line to the margin number.
So we built it. Project cost control on the contract: with the budget, the program and the margin on one spine, and the dockets, claims and variations as the evidence underneath. It's live end-to-end today, and we ship the rest in public.
Where we fit
A schedule that knows the cost
MS Project and Primavera draw the bars. Ours is cost-loaded and tied to the margin.
Not a document store
Procore does that. We keep the documents that carry money: the contract, the purchase order, the certificate, each tied to the figure it moves.
Not a compliance checklist
Hammertech does that.
We do one thing: turn the contract, the docket and the program into a live margin number. Everything else is on the roadmap or off the table.
What drives us
We measure ourselves on whether you know your margin live, not on shipping more buttons. Every dollar in tectm traces back to a docket, a clause or an approval, and you can open any figure to see which. Our contract AI reads and cites clauses, so you get extraction with a source rather than a chatbot volunteering financial or legal advice. And we tell you what's live, what's next, and what we got wrong.
Where this goes
Today the wedge is labour and plant hire: high docket volume, claim off dockets, immediate value. The destination is full leading-contractor cost control across a portfolio. The model is symmetric, so the same platform walks up the chain with the customer. Forecasting, procurement, the Tectus assistant and the revenue side of the model are all live today. What is still ahead is cash: not what the job will cost, but what leaves the bank each week and what lands, terms and retention included.
Come build it with us.
We're onboarding pilots now. The teams who come on early help shape what ships.