Building margins with AI

Your profit is leaking.
We find exactly where.

BuilderLogix uses AI to identify hidden profit leakage across your building projects and gives you a clear, prioritised plan to recover it.

Profit Leakage Report — Q1 2026 Live analysis
Revenue
$4.2M
12 active projects
Leakage found
$318K
7.6% of revenue
Recoverable
$241K
76% addressable
Leakage by category
Variation orders
$98K
Supplier pricing
$74K
Labour overruns
$56K
Rework costs
$36K
Contract gaps
$26K
48hrs
To your first leakage report
76%
Of leakage directly recoverable
$241K
Average recovery per engagement
From data to recovered profit
in three steps
We connect to your existing tools, do the heavy lifting, and hand you a clear action plan — no disruption to your team.
1

Connect your data

We integrate with your accounting, estimating, and project management tools. Most builders are live within 48 hours.

2

AI finds the leaks

Our models scan every project, trade, and line item — surfacing margin erosion that spreadsheets consistently miss.

3

You recover the profit

We deliver a clear, prioritised action plan. You choose what to fix first — we guide you through every step.

What your P&L isn't telling you
Most profit leakage is invisible in standard reporting. Our AI finds the gaps between what was quoted, invoiced, and actually recovered.

Variation orders

Claims not raised, under-priced, or never recovered from the client.

Supplier pricing

Creeping invoice inflation that slips through approval processes.

Labour overruns

Hours absorbed silently that were never built into the contract.

Rework costs

Defect rectification that should have been a trade's responsibility.

Contract gaps

Ambiguous scope that trades exploit at your expense.

Preliminary blowouts

Site costs that expand beyond what was allowed in the estimate.

The process

Simple to start.
Powerful from day one.

No complicated setup. No disruption to your team. We connect to your existing systems and start finding leakage within 48 hours.

Day 1
Onboarding call & system access
Day 2
Data integration complete
Day 3–5
First leakage report delivered
Week 2+
Action plan & ongoing monitoring
1

Connect your data

We integrate directly with the tools you already use — no new software, no manual exports. Our team handles the setup end to end.

XeroMYOBBuildertrendCoConstructProcoreDatabuild
2

AI scans every project

Our models analyse every transaction, variation, invoice, and labour entry across all active and completed projects — identifying patterns of margin erosion your team would never catch manually.

Variation analysisSupplier benchmarkingLabour reconciliationContract gap detection
3

You get a clear report

We deliver a prioritised leakage report with every finding ranked by dollar value. No jargon, no complexity — just a clear picture of where your profit went and how to get it back.

Executive summaryProject-level breakdownRecovery roadmap
4

We guide recovery & monitor ongoing

Our team works alongside you to implement the recovery plan — and keeps monitoring your projects so leakage doesn't creep back in.

Weekly monitoringGuided implementationMonthly review calls
Works with what you already use
We connect to the leading accounting, estimating, and project management platforms used by Australian and US builders.

Accounting

Xero · MYOB · QuickBooks

Project mgmt

Buildertrend · CoConstruct · Procore

Estimating

Databuild · Buildsoft · Cubit

Other

Excel · CSV · Custom ERP

Who we work with

Built for builders
serious about margins.

We work with home builders and development groups who know their numbers should be better — and are ready to find out exactly why they aren't.

Volume builders

20+ simultaneous projects

  • Margin erosion compounds across a large portfolio
  • Variation management is inconsistent across sites
  • Labour cost overruns are hard to track at scale
  • Supplier pricing is difficult to benchmark centrally

Custom home builders

High-value, complex builds

  • Fixed-price contracts create high variation exposure
  • Scope creep is common and hard to document
  • Rework costs are frequently absorbed without recovery
  • Contract gaps leave money on the table

Development groups

Active project portfolios

  • Margins across projects vary widely without clear reason
  • Preliminary cost blowouts erode feasibility assumptions
  • Trade pricing lacks consistency across projects
  • Reporting doesn't surface leakage in real time
Sound familiar?
These are the situations we hear most often from builders before they start with us.
Variations

"We're doing more work than we quoted but margins keep shrinking."

Variation orders are often under-claimed or not raised at all, silently eating into project margins project after project.

Reporting

"Our P&L looks fine but something doesn't add up."

Standard accounting reports don't show leakage — they show what was recorded, not what was lost before it reached the books.

Labour

"We keep absorbing labour costs we shouldn't have to."

Hours that fall outside contract scope are routinely absorbed rather than claimed back, often because the documentation trail is weak.

Suppliers

"Our material costs keep creeping up but we can't pin down why."

Supplier pricing drift is one of the most consistent sources of margin erosion — and one of the hardest to spot without AI-level analysis.

Who we're not for

BuilderLogix is designed for established builders with active project pipelines. If you're running fewer than 5 concurrent projects or are just starting out, we may not be the right fit yet — but we'd love to have a conversation about where you're headed.

Results

Real leakage.
Real recovery.

Every engagement tells the same story — builders doing good work, losing more than they should. Here's what we consistently find and recover.

7.6%
Average leakage as a % of revenue
76%
Of leakage is directly recoverable
$241K
Average recovered per engagement
48hrs
To first leakage report
Engagements at a glance
These represent the typical range of findings across our builder engagements. Client details are anonymised.

Volume builder — South East Queensland

$4.2M revenue · 12 active projects · residential

$241K
recovered

Leakage found

  • $98K in variation orders not recovered
  • $74K in supplier pricing above benchmark
  • $56K in unrecorded labour overruns
  • $36K in absorbed rework costs

Actions taken

  • Variation claim process overhauled
  • 3 supplier contracts renegotiated
  • Labour reconciliation workflow introduced
  • Rework recovery clause added to contracts

Custom home builder — Melbourne

$2.8M revenue · 6 active projects · luxury residential

$186K
recovered

Leakage found

  • $84K in scope creep not documented
  • $52K in preliminary cost blowouts
  • $31K in trade pricing above market
  • $19K in contract gap exploitation

Actions taken

  • Scope change documentation tightened
  • Preliminary allowances revised upward
  • Trade tender process restructured
  • Contract templates updated

Development group — Sydney

$9.1M revenue · 4 active developments · multi-residential

$412K
recovered

Leakage found

  • $178K in variation management gaps
  • $124K in supplier pricing inconsistency
  • $66K in labour cost overruns
  • $44K in preliminary blowouts

Actions taken

  • Portfolio-wide variation protocol introduced
  • Central supplier register established
  • Labour cost reporting standardised
  • Feasibility preliminary model rebuilt
Leakage by type — across all engagements
31%
Variation orders
Most common source — claims not raised or recovered.
23%
Supplier pricing
Invoice inflation undetected without benchmarking.
18%
Labour overruns
Uncontracted hours absorbed without recovery.
14%
Preliminaries
Site costs expanding beyond estimate allowances.
9%
Rework
Defect costs absorbed rather than recovered from trades.
5%
Contract gaps
Ambiguous scope exploited at the builder's expense.
About BuilderLogix

Built by someone who
knows where it hurts.

BuilderLogix was founded by a builder profitability consultant who spent years watching good builders lose money they'd already earned — not through bad decisions, but through gaps that no one was looking for. We built the AI so you don't have to look manually.

$2.4M+
Recovered for builder clients to date
7.6%
Average leakage found as a share of revenue
48hrs
From sign-up to first leakage report

"Every builder we've worked with was doing the right things — quoting carefully, managing their trades, watching their costs. The money was disappearing in the gaps between systems. That's a data problem, and AI solves it."

Why we built this

For years, working as a builder profitability consultant meant sitting across from business owners who were building good homes, running tight operations, and still watching their margins erode. The problem was never obvious — no single line item was catastrophically wrong. The damage was in the accumulation of small gaps: the variation that wasn't claimed, the supplier invoice that came in 4% over quote, the labour hours absorbed because no one wanted to have the conversation.

Manually identifying that leakage was slow, expensive, and incomplete. We knew there had to be a better way. BuilderLogix is that better way. By connecting directly to a builder's existing systems and applying AI-level analysis across every transaction, we can find in hours what would take a consultant weeks to surface manually — and we can monitor it continuously so it doesn't creep back in.

The mission is simple: builders should keep the money they earn. We're here to make sure they do.

Our values

Builder-first, always

Everything we build starts with a builder problem. We speak the language, understand the constraints, and never bring solutions that don't fit the real world.

Clarity over complexity

AI does the hard work. What you receive is simple, clear, and immediately actionable — not a dense report that sits unread.

Outcomes, not outputs

We're not interested in finding leakage for the sake of a report. We stay with you through recovery because that's where the value is.

Honest about what we find

We tell you what the data shows, even when it's uncomfortable. That honesty is the foundation of every engagement we run.

Book a free audit

Let's find out
what you're leaving behind.

Book a free 30-minute profit audit call. We'll ask a few questions about your business and give you an honest assessment of where we think leakage is most likely to be hiding.

Book your free audit

What happens next

After submitting, we'll reach out within one business day to confirm your 30-minute call. No hard sell — just a genuine conversation about your numbers.

Prefer to reach out directly?

Email us at bob@builderlogix.com or visit builderlogix.com for more information.

Based in

Working with builders across the US.

Your free audit includes

  • 30-minute video or phone call
  • Review of your current reporting gaps
  • Estimate of likely leakage based on your profile
  • Clear recommendation on next steps
  • No obligation, no hard sell