{"id":15958,"date":"2025-05-30T06:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buildxact.com\/au\/?post_type=news_media&p=24931"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:57:14","slug":"buildxact-delivers-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"news_media","link":"https:\/\/www.buildxact.com\/uk\/news_media\/buildxact-delivers-breakthroughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Buildxact Delivers Estimating Breakthroughs for Builders Battling Labour Shortages and Rising Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Enhanced AI-powered platform delivers smart takeoffs, instant estimates and personalised estimate reviews <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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MELBOURNE \u2013 2 JUNE 2025 \u2014 <\/span><\/b>Buildxact,<\/span><\/a> a global software as a service (SaaS) company that provides a simple solution for small-to-medium sized residential builders and renovators to better manage and grow their business, launched an enhanced version of its platform today.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Buildxact now includes three powerful AI-assisted features to empower small-to-medium residential home builders, renovators and contractors, to manage jobs more efficiently and to earn more profit. These features are delivered by Blu, Buildxact\u2019s new AI-powered building assistant, and include Blu: Takeoff Assistant, Blu: Estimate Generator, Blu: Estimate Reviewer, and Blu: Recipe\/Assembly Assistant.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Blu: Takeoff Assistant allows the user to upload plans that can be automatically scaled in an instant. Additionally, the tool automatically names the pages based on information from the uploaded plan and includes the precise area of the project. The tool then provides a hands-free measurement of the spaces by drawing around the perimeters to capture the total square footage. In addition, new \u201cpoint add\u201d and \u201cpoint edit\u201d functionality allows a user to edit individual areas of the takeoff where needed, rather than the time-consuming task of deleting and starting over again.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Blu: Estimate Generator gives the user the capability to generate labour and building items based on local data. The feature pulls pricing from supplier catalogues, including partners such as Dahlsens, Mitre 10, and Bunnings, to name a few. The first iteration of the feature can generate kitchen and bath renovation estimates, with expanded options such as whole-of-house builds, common extensions, and other common renovation type estimates launching in coming months.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The new Blu: Estimate Reviewer feature can audit an estimate, giving suggestions on any missed items along with recommendations on how to improve an estimate. The user can enter important details like room types, environmental factors, and energy ratings to get detailed and accurate input. Blu will create a task checklist for any potential improvements, providing a list of suggestions from insurance to energy compliance. The user can mark items complete on the checklist as they are addressed.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u201cAI is giving our users unprecedented control,\u201d said Chris Rennie, chief product officer at Buildxact. \u201cWith these new features, users will win more quotes and keep projects running on time and on budget. The Blu: Estimate Reviewer is like sending an estimate to your own personal estimator to get feedback on items missing and other areas of concern, breaking through the ongoing challenge of too much work and not enough support.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Buildxact also is launching a customizable pricing structure to be more accessible to more of the industry that helps users grow at their own pace. Initial pricing gives them basic tools and allows for instant upgrades as their business necessitates and grows. Plus, each plan offers unlimited users and customer training and support.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u201cUnlike rigid, one-size-fits-all software, we listen to our customers and build solutions for their real-world challenges, and we aren\u2019t afraid to challenge ourselves to do that,\u201d said Steve Yates, CEO at Buildxact. \u201cWe now offer unlimited users so an entire team can see the benefits without the extra cost. Plus, we\u2019re offering industry-first, AI estimating that speeds up workflows and does the work for the user, without sacrificing accuracy.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In addition to these new AI features, Buildxact\u2019s platform is boosted with the addition of digital signatures, timesheets, task lists, and enhanced client selections.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The digital signatures feature allows users to sign quotes and variations quickly online for speed and better coordination with customers. Timesheet updates allow onsite crew to record time on each project by category and item level using the Buildxact Onsite app also automatically generating a work order to connect work hours and costs to the right project, category and item. Finally, enhanced client selections improve communications with the homeowner and empower them to make decisions quickly online so the project can be efficient and there is transparency choice by choice.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

About Buildxact\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Buildxact gives small-to-medium sized home builders, trades and suppliers control of their business to get the job done. With AI-powered technology alongside the strength of user-informed programming, job estimates take less time and ordering materials is possible 24\/7 with integrated supplier price lists. Founded in 2011 in Australia with North American headquarters in Austin, Texas, Buildxact continues to expand its global presence with customers in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

For more information about how builders and suppliers benefit using Buildxact, visit <\/span>Buildxact.com<\/span><\/a> or follow Buildxact on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X. To get started today, <\/span>book a demo<\/span><\/a> with a dedicated team member or try before you buy with a 14-day risk <\/span>free trial<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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