BUILT FOR CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS, BY CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS
Area, the construction intelligence platform.
One scheme record from brief to final account: cost plans, tenders, change control, valuations, cost reports and cash flow. AI reads the documents, and your team checks and approves every figure.
Free for 30 days · Up to 3 people · No card needed
Everything a cost consultancy needs to run a scheme, in one place the whole team trusts.
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THE WHOLE LIFECYCLE
One scheme record, from brief to final account.
Plan & Procure carries a scheme from Stage 0 to contract award, then Construct takes it to the final account. The record, the team and the numbers move with it, so nothing is typed in twice.
Plan & Procure
Brief, cost plan and programme, kept in step from RIBA Stage 0.
Capture the client's brief, build cost plans against it, and sign off each RIBA stage against a checklist your practice sets. Area works out the stage from the work done.
- Cost plans measured against the brief, with every version kept
- Stage sign-off checklists set by your practice
- Site, programme and risk register from day one
AI, WOVEN IN
AI does the reading. You keep the authority.
Area's AI reads your documents and drafts the data, but nothing is saved until one of your team has checked it. Nothing is certified, issued or reported until you say so.
Answers come from the scheme's own registers. As with any AI, check a figure before you rely on it.
Ask Area and insights
Ask about outturn, movement, valuations or risk and get an answer from the scheme's own registers. Automatic checks flag missing data and figures worth a second look.
Documents read for you
Contracts, instructions, valuations, briefs, tender returns and more are read into the right fields, for you to check before anything is saved.
Minutes and site reports
Meeting notes become drafted minutes, with the actions sent to tasks. Site reports are read for progress, issues and the photo worth keeping.
Tender returns
An AI read of each return, with suggested queries, beside the like-for-like comparison your team prepares.
PMI-014.pdf
Ellingwold Quarter — Phase 2
Employer's Agent Instruction No. PMI 014
Date: 12 September 2026
Description: Divert the existing 225mm foul drain clear of Block C
foundations, including CCTV survey and reinstatement.
Contractor's quotation: £48,700.00 (excluding VAT)
Programme effect: none claimed
Extracted for review
Reading…- Reference
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- Date
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- Description
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- Value
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- Programme effect
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- Reason for change
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The same check applies to contracts, instructions, valuations, cost reports, briefs, cost plans, tender returns, programmes, fee quotes and invoices, meeting notes and site reports.
TRUST & CONTROL
Built for work that has to stand up to scrutiny.
Your data stays yours
Your firm's data is kept separate from every other firm's, and only the people you invite can see it.
Full audit trail
Every change, sign-off and handover is recorded against the person who made it.
Access you control
Choose who works on each scheme, keep schemes confidential, and sign in with a passkey or two-factor.
UK QS practice, respected
JCT and NEC wording, RIBA Plan of Work stages, and figures that add up to the penny.
Area's AI runs on paid services that don't use your data to train their models.
“Area has seamlessly embedded into our workflow and enabled us to improve efficiencies and consistency whilst maintaining our high standards of output and opening the doors to our own valuable project data.”
PRICING
One platform, plans for every size of practice.
Every plan includes Plan & Procure and Construct. Tell us the size of your team to see what fits.
How many people at your firm will use Area?
Free trial
Freefor 30 days
Up to 3 people. No card needed.
Includes
- Plan & Procure and Construct
- Area's standard cost report template, with your logo and cover colours
Professional
From£150a month
Choose the package that fits your team.
- Up to 3 people5× the standard AI allowance£150 a month
- Up to 10 people10× the standard AI allowance£400 a month
- Up to 50 people25× the standard AI allowance£1,750 a month
Everything in the free trial, plus
- Your whole team, up to 50 people
- Top up if you need more, with limits you set
Custom
Tailoredto your firm
Price and a one-off onboarding fee, agreed with you.
Custom plans can add
You pay for the package that fits your team, not per person, and can cancel any time.
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Ready to run your schemes on Area?
Join the practices moving their pre-contract and post-contract work off spreadsheets and into one live, audited record.
Free for 30 days · Up to 3 people · No card needed