🎉 Founders Program — Pro free for 6 months
Built for Ethiopian Construction Professionals

ለኢትዮጵያ ግንባታ ባለሙያዎች የተሰራ — Amharic support coming soon, see FAQ

Stop Losing Bids
to Guesswork. Professional cost estimation, finally.

Import your BOQ, match it against your rates, generate unit-rate analyses, and get a costed CPM schedule — in hours, not days.

No email required for the sample project — opens in Conio if it's already installed.

Windows 10 / 11 · No account required · Your data never leaves your machine · Free tier is free forever
The Pipeline

From BOQ to Bid

Four steps, one dataset — no re-keying between spreadsheets, rate books, and the programme.

STEP 01
Import
Excel or Google Sheets: BOQ, rate tables, resource price books.
STEP 02
Match
AI pairs every BOQ line with your rate items; you review and approve.
STEP 03
Price
AI builds material/labor/equipment breakdowns from your price book.
STEP 04
Schedule
One click to a costed CPM programme with cash-flow S-curve, exported to MS Project or Excel.
Features & Benefits

Built on your data,
not a shipped database

Every feature below is shipped and verifiable in the product today. Conio drafts — you review and approve every match, rate, and sequence.

MATCH ALL: PRO

Match a 500-Item BOQ Before Lunch

Semantic BOQ↔rate matching with construction-aware synonym handling and spec extraction. Scored candidates, approve or override per item, one-click Match All across hundreds of lines. Days of line-by-line lookup become a review pass. Manual candidate matching is Free.

PRO

Defensible Rates, Not Guesses

Full material/labor/equipment breakdowns priced from your resource price book. Batch generation and coverage analysis show which work types you can already price. Every rate is traceable to a breakdown you can open, edit, and reuse.

SEEDING: PRO

Your Second Bid Is Faster Than Your First

Completed analyses become templates. Identical items are re-priced instantly from the current price book with no AI drift; near matches are AI-adjusted from your recipe. The tool compounds with use — free to use once built, AI seeding is Pro.

SEQUENCING: PRO

A Bid Programme in One Click

A real critical-path engine (FS/SS/FF/SF + lag), interactive Gantt, task splitting, working-day calendars with local holidays, progress and earned-value tracking, and a cash-flow S-curve — from the same priced BOQ. Core scheduling is Free; AI sequencing drafts the predecessor logic for you on Pro.

Fits the Submission You Already Have

MS Project XML, Excel, and Power BI exports, plus BOQ/URA exports formatted the way tender submissions expect. Free on every tier.

Your Bid Data Never Leaves Your Office

Runs on your machine via Docker, all data in a local file you control, works offline, no account. Choose your AI: Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, or Ollama for fully-offline local AI. Multi-provider configuration is Pro.

Example scenario, not a customer result
A 400-item BOQ: ~4 days of manual matching and rate build-up → under a day with review.
Pricing

Free forever. Pro when you need it.

Prices are public from day one — the free period below is a promotion, not the price.

Free
0 ETB · forever

Getting started; students.

  • Import BOQ & rate tables
  • Manual matching
  • Full CPM schedule + Gantt + S-curve
  • MS Project / Excel / Power BI export
  • Unlimited local projects
Solo
3,500 ETB/mo
billed annually · fixed at $20/mo USD

Individual QS / freelance estimator.

  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Match All, AI URA generation & batch generation
  • Coverage analysis
  • AI schedule sequencing & description refinement
  • For projects up to 300 BOQ items (fair-use cap)

Solo licenses are for individual use. Use within a firm's bid workflow requires an Office license.

Prices shown in ETB for easy budgeting. Your contracted price is fixed in USD (shown under each tier). Invoices are issued in ETB at the prevailing rate on the invoice date, payable by bank transfer or other methods.

Solo licenses are for individual use. Use within a firm's bid workflow requires an Office license — see license terms.

Office licenses activate on up to 5 devices — need more? Contact us.

AI features use your own Gemini/Claude API key or a local Ollama model — you control the AI cost and the data path.

When a license expires, Conio downgrades gracefully to Free — your data is always yours and always exportable.

Founders Program — Limited Period

Pro. Free for 6 months.

Every new user gets full Pro access at no cost for six months, then 50% off their first paid year. Prices on this page are the standard list prices — this is the promotion, not a different price.

No card required — Pro is activated by a license token we email you.

Common Questions

FAQ

Why not just use Excel?

Excel holds the numbers; Conio holds the logic — matching, rate build-up, and programme come from one dataset, so a BOQ revision doesn't mean starting over.

Why not a generic or free construction ERP?

Built for local bid practice — BOQ formats, URA breakdown conventions, ETB, local working calendars — not adapted from foreign workflows.

Why not a cloud estimating tool?

Your bid data stays on your machine. No uploads, no accounts, works through internet outages.

What's the difference between Solo and Office licenses?

Solo licenses are for individual use. Use within a firm's bid workflow requires an Office license — see license terms.

How many devices does an Office license cover?

Office licenses activate on up to 5 devices — need more? Contact us.

Do I need my own AI API key?

AI features use your own Gemini/Claude API key or a local Ollama model — you control the AI cost and the data path.

What happens when my license expires?

When a license expires, Conio downgrades gracefully to Free — your data is always yours and always exportable.

Is there an Amharic version?

Coming soon — Amharic support is planned for the download form and setup guide first, with fuller site translation to follow.

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