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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CIS, MTD VAT, project P&L, retentions, applications for payment. The stuff that keeps the lights on and the accountant in a good mood.
The portal your subbies actually open. Send work packages, receive applications for payment, get insurance and CIS certificates back without chasing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
£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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We do not ask you to throw away the bits that work. Sage still runs your accounts. BrightPay still runs payroll. WhatsApp is still where the foreman sends a photo. Unibuild sits in the middle and keeps the records straight.
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.
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-2AES-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 1.3Single sign-on with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Optional MFA. Role-based permissions go to field level. Audit log is unfakeable.
SSO · MFA · RBACGDPR 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+99.97% trailing twelve months. Live status page, no spin. Releases ship Tuesday and Thursday before 10am, never on Fridays.
99.97% · 12 moBristol office, UK working hours, phone, email and WhatsApp. Answered by a person who has read your account first. No tier one queue.
Bristol · UK hoursYour 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 clickSame 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 buildMost firms are live in three weeks, on real projects, with real people. Here is the shape of those three weeks. We do the heavy lifting. You turn up and approve.