Centralized catalog with groups, items and service components. Automatic cost price calculation plus a percentage or fixed markup. AI embeddings for matching with IFC models and other documents.
Without centralized catalog every offer starts from scratch. Different employees enter variants of the same item. Analytics become useless.
"Cement M500", "Cement 500", "M500 cement" - 3 records, one thing. AI embeddings recognize them as one.
Every estimator picks their own margin. Without centralized markup rules - you lose control.
A service needs multiple components with different prices. Manual cost price calculation - errors guaranteed.
An IFC model has elements. Without AI matching - mapping them to your nomenclature by hand takes hours.
Construction Team turns the catalog into an AI-powered tool for offers, QS and acts.
Groups with unlimited nesting. A multi-level hierarchy - Construction → Rough → Formwork → Slabs - with parent/child relations.
Set a markup on each item - a percentage (e.g. 15% over cost) or a fixed amount (e.g. +5 over cost). The selling price is calculated automatically.
For services - components with quantities and unit prices. The total cost is calculated automatically from the components, then the markup is applied to give the selling price.
Mark which items you track in the warehouse, and which need serial-number tracking for individual assets (equipment).
Each item gets an AI embedding. On IFC upload - elements are matched to your nomenclature automatically.
Instead of standard units - your own (e.g., "sqm facade", "lm curb"). Flexibility for specific works.
Four steps to professional catalog:
Define groups and subgroups by your logic. Multi-level hierarchy. Drag-and-drop for moving.
Add items with a price and markup. For services - add service components.
An AI embedding is generated for each item, preparing it for automatic matching.
Offers, BOQs, stock items automatically use nomenclature. With IFC - AI matching.
Any firm with more than 50 offer items:
Find items in seconds, pricing auto from markup. No manual calculations.
Consistent material naming across all documents.
Margin control via centralized markup rules.
Order with correct descriptions, no delivery errors.
Why centralization wins:
| Feature | Excel | Construction Team |
|---|---|---|
| Groups and hierarchy | Merged cells | Unlimited levels |
| Markup | Column formula | Percentage or fixed |
| Service components | Multiple formulas | Auto recalculate |
| AI matching | VLOOKUP | Embedding search |
| IFC integration | Impossible | Auto mapping |
| Trackable items | Column flag | Inventory tracking + stock items |
| Custom units | Manual | Custom measurement units |
Each item has a markup that is either a percentage or a fixed amount. The selling price is calculated automatically - cost price plus the percentage of cost, or cost price plus the fixed amount.
For service items - components (materials, labor and equipment) with quantities and prices. The total cost is calculated automatically from the components.
Each item is turned into an AI vector. On a new document (IFC, offer, etc.), a similarity search finds the closest match.
Yes. You can link an item to your own units (e.g. "sqm facade", "lm pipe") - specific to the work you do.
Inventory tracking - tracks quantities (e.g. cement bags, 1000 units). Serial-number tracking - tracks each unique instance (e.g. excavator "BG-123-AB").
No limit. Each group can sit under a parent at any level - a hierarchy as deep as you need. Typically 3-5 levels.
Yes. You can archive an item. Archived items don't appear in new documents but keep their references in old ones - for audit and history.