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The platform

Everything from the gate
to the bank, in one place.

Most firms run on fifteen apps stitched together with WhatsApp, spreadsheets and goodwill. Unibuild is one platform, one login, one number that everyone in the firm trusts. The workforce, the sites, the safety paperwork, the money in and the money out, all sat on top of the same shared records.

30+ modules 52 integrations live in two weeks hosted in London CDM · CIS · MTD as standard
Platform anatomy

Four shared records.
Thirty-plus modules on top.

The reason a stack of point tools never quite works is that every tool has its own version of the truth. Unibuild starts from the other end. There are four records that everyone shares, and the modules are simply different views into them. Update a person, a project, a job or a pound, and every screen that touches it updates with you.

People

Workers Office staff Site managers Subbies

Projects

Sites Phases Drawings RAMS

Jobs

Work packages Day jobs Variations Snags

Money

Quotes Costs Payroll CIS & VAT
The point One database, so every screen agrees Records flow up · modules read across
The modules

Thirty-plus modules,
no seams.

Use the lot or use the four you actually need. Either way the records sit in the same database, the people log in once and the figures reconcile to a penny by the end of the month. The nine below are where most firms start.

Workforce
and time

Daily

Who is on which site, who clocked in, who is off sick, who is on holiday, who has a ticket expiring on the 19th. One roster, with a timesheet inside it.

  • GPS-anchored clock in and out
  • Tickets, training and right-to-work
  • Holiday, sickness, TOIL
  • Auto-feed to payroll on Friday
Inside · Roster, TimesheetsLive

Health
and safety

CDM

RAMS, toolbox talks, inductions, near-misses, RIDDOR. The bits that win you the next tender if you can produce them, and lose you a job if you cannot.

  • RAMS templates by trade
  • Daily toolbox talks, signed on phone
  • RIDDOR-ready incident logs
  • CDM 2015 documentation pack
Inside · RAMS, RIDDOR, CDMLive

Project
and site

Live

The plan vs the actual. Phases, day jobs, snags, drawings, variations and the photo trail behind every line item. What the PM walks through every Monday.

  • Gantt and day jobs in one view
  • Drawings register, current revision
  • Variations with sign-off trail
  • Snags with photos, owner, due date
Inside · Plan, Snags, DrawingsLive

Financial
management

MTD

Applications for payment, retention, aged debt and a live cost position. The stuff that keeps the lights on and the accountant in a good mood.

  • Applications, retention, aged debt
  • VAT treatments including reverse charge
  • Live cost position per job
  • Feeds your accounts package
Inside · CIS, MTD, P&LLive

Subcontractor
portal

Subbies

The portal your subbies actually open. Send work packages, receive applications for payment, get insurance and CIS certificates back without chasing.

  • Send packages, get acceptance back
  • Applications for payment, signed
  • Insurance, CIS, UTR all on file
  • Self-service onboarding
Inside · Packages, AfP, DocsLive

Plant
and equipment

Reg

The register of what you own and what you hire. PAT and LOLER dates, hire returns, fuel logs and where every tower is standing this week.

  • Owned and hired in one register
  • PAT, LOLER, service due dates
  • Hire returns, on-hire on-time
  • Site allocation, photo on collection
Inside · Register, HiresLive

Estimating
and quotes

Pre

From a measure to a written quote your client signs. Reusable line items, mark-up rules, tender packs and the gross margin on the page before you send it.

  • Reusable cost library by trade
  • Mark-up rules by client, by job
  • Quote PDFs in your branding
  • Won/Lost reasons, fed to insight
Inside · Library, QuotesLive

Comms
and inbox

WA

The end of "did you see my WhatsApp?" Every message, request, sign-off and photo lives against the project record so the next person picking it up can read the room.

  • WhatsApp Business two-way bridge
  • Email threads pinned to project
  • Photos auto-tagged to job
  • Sign-offs with audit trail
Inside · Threads, WA BridgeLive

Insight
and reporting

Board

The dashboards the directors actually log in for. Margin by project, productivity by gang, debtor days, RIDDOR rate, the questions you would otherwise ask the bookkeeper.

  • Live margin per project
  • Productivity per gang, per day
  • Debtor days, retentions due
  • Custom reports without an analyst
Inside · Dashboards, ReportsLive
Role by role

What each of them sees
when they log in.

Everyone on the firm logs in to the same Unibuild, but the first screen is different depending on what they came to do. The director sees the numbers. The foreman sees today's gang. The accounts assistant sees what is due. Same data, six rooms.

Director

The numbers, with the why, on one screen.

The first thing the director sees is the firm at a glance. Live margin per project, debtor days, RIDDOR rate, the gang most under or over. Click any line and you are looking at the source records, not a frozen export from last quarter.

Live margin Debtor days Cash forecast RIDDOR rate Group P&L Custom reports
Director · Tuesday 10:14
Group margin, this period14.7%
Largest project · Beech Laneon track
Debtor days, rolling 9032
Cash · 30-day forecast£412k
RIDDOR · last 12 mo0
Open variations, group7
Quotes out, awaiting11 · £1.94m
A day on Unibuild

A Tuesday, minute
by minute.

A real Tuesday on a 32 person firm running three live sites. Every event below is one tap, one screen, one record getting touched. No double entry. No phoning the office to find the variation. No spreadsheet at the end of the week.

06:30
Pre-start

Gangs clock in at the gate, against today's RAMS.

22 operatives clock in on the phone. The right RAMS for their trade is on screen. They sign it, the system stamps it and the day's roster is locked in two minutes.

Workforce + Health and Safety
07:45
Site walk

Foreman raises a snag against the south gable.

A photo, a tag on the drawing, owner set to the M&E subbie, due Friday. The subbie sees it on their portal before the foreman gets back to the cabin.

Project + Subbie portal
09:10
Office

Variation signed by the client on email.

£4,800, signed PDF stored against the project. Quote updated. Forecast cash and forecast margin both move. The PM sees it on their dashboard before lunch.

Estimating + Insight
11:20
Plant

Tower hire returned a day early.

On-hire log closes. Daily charge stops. Cost on the project drops by £62. Nobody had to email the hire desk to chase the off-hire confirmation.

Plant + Financial
13:00
Lunch

Toolbox talk on heat stress, signed on the phone.

Five-minute talk, twelve signatures, filed against the site, the trade and the operative. Ready for the next CDM audit without a folder being touched.

Health and Safety
15:40
Accounts

Subbie application for payment, ten minutes.

Submission lands on the AfP queue. CIS band auto-applied, retention auto-held, payable date set against the contract. Approved, queued for Friday's run.

Subbie portal + Financial
17:15
Close

Director closes the day on one screen.

Margin moved up 0.4%, debtor days down a day, no incidents, one variation signed, two quotes still out. Phone goes in the drawer. Nobody chased anyone.

Insight
What it talks to

Plays nicely with
what you already use.

We do not ask you to throw away the bits that work. Your accounts package still runs your accounts, your payroll still runs payroll, and WhatsApp is still where the foreman sends a photo. Unibuild keeps the records straight between them.

Finance

Sage 50Sage 200Xero QuickBooksFreeAgentHMRC MTD StripeGoCardlessWise

Bookkeeping & files

QuickBooksDext captureOneDrive Email delivery and loggingWeather feed

Storage & docs

OneDriveGoogle DriveDropbox SharePointBoxiManage DocuSignAdobe Sign

Comms

WhatsApp BusinessMicrosoft 365Google Workspace OutlookTeamsSlack Twilio SMS

Compliance

CITBCSCSSMAS CHASConstructionlineAchilles HSE RIDDOR

Site & plant

Hire stationsSpeedy HireSunbelt What3WordsOS OpenDataDrone PDF Procore CSV
How it is built

UK hosted, UK supported.
Boring on purpose.

The least exciting page on the site, and the one you should probably read twice. We made boring choices in the boring places so that the rest of the platform can do the interesting work.

Hosting

AWS eu-west-2 (London). Data does not leave the United Kingdom. We do not use third-party trackers, ad-tech or analytics brokers.

aws · eu-west-2

Encryption

AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit. Keys rotated quarterly. Backups encrypted, off-site, retained 35 days, restorable to the minute.

AES-256 · TLS 1.3

Access

Single sign-on with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Optional MFA. Role-based permissions go to field level. Audit log is unfakeable.

SSO · MFA · RBAC

Compliance

GDPR by default, ICO registered, Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001 in progress. Sub-processors listed in the DPA, not hidden in the small print.

GDPR · ICO · CE+

Uptime

99.97% trailing twelve months. Live status page, no spin. Releases ship Tuesday and Thursday before 10am, never on Fridays.

99.97% · 12 mo

Support

London office, UK working hours, phone, email and WhatsApp. Answered by a person who has read your account first. No tier one queue.

London · UK hours

Data ownership

Your records are yours. Export everything in CSV and PDF, one click, any time. Leave and we hand back a tidy bundle within five working days.

Export · 1 click

Releases

Same release for every customer. No premium tier holding the good features back. Release notes go out by email and live on the site.

All customers, same build
How rollout works

Onboarding, shaped to your firm.

Every rollout is bespoke: small teams move quickly, bigger firms we stage site by site. Most firms are live in two weeks. We do the heavy lifting; you turn up and approve.

Stage 1

Setup & data move

  • 45-minute kick-off call
  • We pull your existing job and client data
  • Trading entities, project and cost codes
  • Project codes, cost codes
  • Holiday calendar, payroll dates
You spend · 30 min · total
Stage 2

Office training

  • Two sessions, 60 min each
  • Run on your live data, not a demo
  • Accounts, finance, payroll feed
  • One PM walkthrough on a real job
  • Questions answered the same day
You spend · 3 hours · total
Stage 3

Site training

  • Foremen and site managers, on site
  • Phones in hand, real RAMS
  • Subbies onboarded by self-service
  • WhatsApp Business bridge plugged in
  • Pilot site up and running
You spend · 1 morning · per site
Stage 4 onwards

Live, then roll the rest

  • Pilot site running on Unibuild
  • Roll the next sites once the pilot's bedded in
  • Old stack switched off when you're ready
  • Monthly check-in with success
  • You ring us only when you want to
Paced to your firm