Pricing · Subcontractors · Brisbane & SEQ
Four steps, and you can stop at any of them.
The writing that wins your work and gets you paid, from your own project history, your own rates, your own words, with a human sign-off trail.
Which of these is your business?
On this ladder: these are the numbers you will hear on a call. Nothing here is a “from” price, nothing is quoted by the hour, there is a setup fee and it is fixed, and the middle step comes off the next one in full if you keep going.
Answer Gap Report
Free
no catch, no card
and we ask you for nothing
One page on what you have already published: the claims a shortlister cannot check from your own material, and what they would need to see instead.
Ask for a gap report →What you get
- –Built only from what you have already made public: your capability statement, your website, your public profiles
- –Read against the procurement policy that is published and current, so you can see what it was measured with
- –No documents, no price list, no call, no account, and nothing from anyone else's tender
- –Dated, with every source it used named on the page, so you can check us rather than take our word
- –Yours to use whether or not you ever reply to us
Where it stops
It reads what you have published, so a gap on the page can mean the evidence exists and is not published rather than that it does not exist. It shows you the gaps and does not fill them. That is the next rung, and we would rather say so than pretend a free page is the whole job.
Single-Tender Engagement
the one most people start atA$1,500
one-off
credited in full against setup, so the build is then A$1,000 instead of A$2,500. All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
We write one real submission with you, end to end, on the tender of your choosing. You keep the response and the library it produced regardless of what you decide afterwards.
Book a single tender →What you get
- –Your rates, past projects, insurances and accreditations loaded and checked against source documents
- –A full response drafted from your own past submissions, on your letterhead
- –Every claim not backed by evidence you can produce is flagged, not written around
- –A working session to review it, so the wording ends up yours rather than ours
- –Credited in full against the Library Build: go ahead and the build costs A$1,000, so this rung cost you nothing
Where it stops
One tender, one deadline. It does not arm anything for next month; nothing keeps working after we finish unless you go on to the build.
Bid & Claim Library Build
A$2,500
one-off · A$4,500 after the first 10 clients
one-off, fixed, not an hourly estimate. Less the A$1,500 if you did a single tender first. All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
The week-one engagement that turns your filing cabinet into something that writes. Past submissions, capability statements, insurances, accreditations and your project register, all loaded and governed.
Talk about a build →What you get
- –Your rate and schedule library and project register, verified line by line against the source documents
- –Four formats reverse-engineered from your own past submissions and claims
- –Letterhead and export configured before you are shown a single draft
- –One narrow rule armed on the estimating or contracts inbox: one rule, never five
- –An approver group set so the contracts manager signs what the estimator drafts
Where it stops
It is setup, not a subscription. Your library comes out in a file you keep (rates, projects, reference documents, formats), and the drafting stops if the subscription does.
Contractor subscription
A$690
per month · founding rate A$5,880 for the year, paid up front
Everyone in the office included, with no per-person charge. The founding year works out at A$490 a month and we hold that rate for 12 months. No minimum term either way — cancel a prepaid year and we refund the unused portion of what you paid, calculated to the day. All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
The office keeps writing. Tenders, prequalification answers, variation claims, extension-of-time notices and payment claims, from the library your build produced.
See the plan →What you get
- –Everyone in the office on the one library: estimators, contracts, admin, the owner. No per-person charge, ever
- –Every document carries a sign-off trail: who approved it, when, and against what
- –Your rates and terms maintained once, used by everyone
- –Take your library out whenever you like: rates, projects, reference documents, formats. Cancel and it is still yours. The approval history is a record of what happened here: you can print it, and it keeps meaning something because of where it was made
Where it stops
It writes; a person still approves. Nothing is ever sent, signed or submitted without someone reading it first, which is the point, not a limitation we are apologising for. The year is not charged on the day you sign: nothing bills for the first 30 days, so a full month of real output goes past before the money does.
Not every office needs a subscription
If you only bid a few times a year.
A$1,500
per submission
The same engagement as step 02, bought whenever a tender lands. We write one real submission with you, end to end, and you pay for that one. Nothing runs between them and nothing bills between them.
All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
Ask about per-submissionWhat you get
- –A$1,500 a submission, quoted before we start, not by the hour
- –Your rates, past projects, insurances and accreditations loaded and checked against the source documents
- –A full response drafted from your own past submissions, on your letterhead
- –A working session to review it, so the wording ends up yours rather than ours
- –Everything it builds stays in your account, ready for the next one
Where it stops
Nothing keeps working between submissions: no inbox rule, no approver group, no drafting on a Tuesday when you feel like it. Bid more than about four times a year and the subscription costs less than the submissions do — we will say so rather than let you work that out on your own.
Already on the subscription and the pipeline has gone quiet? You can move to this instead of cancelling. Your library stays where it is.
The subscription in detail
A$690 a month, everyone included.
For subcontractors who win the work on paperwork, then get paid on it.
- –Everything in Team, and everyone in the office is included at no extra charge
- –Tender and prequalification answers drawn from your own past submissions
- –Variation claims, extension-of-time notices and payment claims in your contract's own wording
- –Your rates, subcontract terms and project history, shared across the office
- –Every document carries a sign-off trail: who approved it, when, against what
Every person in the office is included — estimators, contracts, admin, the owner — and there is no per-person charge however many of them there are. Smaller offices with only one or two people writing should look at the self-serve plans instead: the same product without the setup engagement.
Drafting past about 2,600 documents a month runs on your own provider account rather than ours. It is a term of the plan, not a surprise: we tell you before you reach it, adding a key takes a minute, and nothing else about the plan changes.
All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
Clients 1–10
What the founding rate costs you
You get
- Setup at A$2,500 instead of A$4,500, or A$1,000 of it if you did a single tender first
- A$5,880 for the first year instead of A$8,280 — A$490 a month against A$690, held for 12 months. Paying the year up front is what buys the rate; it is not a term you are held to
- The founder doing the build personally, and a direct line afterwards
We ask
- A named case study with the real numbers, once it is earning its keep
- Three introductions to businesses like yours
- A monthly call telling us what is wrong with it
Priced in and asked for up front, in writing. Not a favour we come back for in six months.
Founding pricing applies to the first 10 clients. Ask on the call how many places are left. We will tell you, and we will not pretend it is fewer than it is.
The honest bit
Is it actually paying off? Ask it.
Every tool on the internet promises to save you time. This one keeps score, and it keeps what it measured separate from what it estimated, because rendering a guess with the authority of a measurement is the one thing a number like this must never do.
It counts what it actually produced, prices it against assumptions you set and can change, and lets you tick off the work you won. Once a month it emails you the summary, whether or not it flatters us. Anything it had to guess is labelled a guess, and it will not state a win rate at all until enough outcomes are recorded for one to mean anything.
- Documents produced
- 38measured
- Time it would have taken
- 10 hrsmodelled · 20 min each
- What that time is worth
- A$750modelled · at A$75/hr
- Work you marked won
- A$18,400attested · your figures
An example, not a promise. Yours is built from what it actually did. It under-claims when it isn't sure.
If you have to put this to someone
The case for whoever holds the budget.
Nobody signs a subscription to make an afternoon nicer. Three arguments that survive contact with whoever holds the budget.
The work you win is capped at what one person's evenings allow
Six tenders a year instead of twenty, because that is what one estimator can carry after hours. Variations absorbed instead of claimed, because nobody wrote them up. And all of it stops the week that person takes leave. That is not a productivity problem, it is a ceiling on the size of the business. And in this labour market you cannot hire your way past it.
You are already paying for this function. Just not on the payroll
A freelance bid writer is one to three thousand dollars a submission. A contracts administrator is a six-figure salary plus the eighteen months it takes to find one. The work is getting done either way, at night, by somebody who was already finished for the day.
And nobody can currently tell you what a number was based on
Somebody in the office is already putting your paperwork through a chat tool. That is not a reason to panic and it is probably making them faster. But there is no record of which price they used, nothing stopping a figure from last year's schedule going out this week, and no name against what was sent. When a client asks about a claim, that is the gap worth closing.
Before you commit
What people ask on the call.
Why is there a setup fee at all when the smaller plans have none?
Because the work is different. A self-serve account starts from a price list and five documents. This starts from your past submissions, your accreditations and insurances, your project register and your subcontract terms: all loaded, verified line by line against the source documents, and governed so a figure that contradicts a certified one cannot reach a draft. That week is the difference between a tool you have to feed and a library that writes. It is quoted as a fixed one-off, not as an hourly estimate.
Does the A$1,500 really come off the build?
In full. Do the Single-Tender Engagement and the Library Build costs A$1,000 instead of A$2,500, so the middle rung cost you nothing except a tender you were going to write anyway. That is the point of it: it exists so that saying yes is cheap, and crediting it is what makes that true rather than a slogan.
What if we do the single tender and then stop?
You keep the response and the library it produced, and you owe nothing further. Nothing keeps working after we finish (the drafting is what the subscription buys), but the material is yours, exported in full. We would rather say that plainly than pretend a one-off engagement arms anything for next month.
Can we skip the engagement and just subscribe?
Not at this stage, and it is a deliberate limit rather than an upsell. An account with no library in it drafts from nothing, and a subcontractor who subscribes to that concludes within a fortnight that the product does not work. The setup is what makes the subscription worth paying for.
How long does the build take?
A week of elapsed time, and roughly a day of yours: mostly handing over documents and one working session to review the first real output. It ends with your letterhead configured, one narrow rule armed on the estimating or contracts inbox, and an approver group set so the contracts manager signs what the estimator drafts.
What happens after the founding cohort fills up?
Setup goes to A$4,500 and the subscription to A$690/month. Founding clients pay A$5,880 for the first year up front, which works out at A$490/month, and we hold that rate for 12 months. That is a price we hold, not a term you are held to. It is a separate line on the invoice, not a coupon we can quietly withdraw.
Is there a contract, and can we leave?
No minimum term, on any of it. The founding rate is a year paid up front, and that is what buys the discount — not a lock-in. Cancel part way through and we refund the unused portion of what you paid, calculated to the day, within 10 business days. Prefer to pay monthly? That is A$690/month, cancel any time, no year up front. Either way, export everything whenever you like, and the library is still yours.
When do we actually pay the year?
Thirty days after your account goes live, not on the day you sign. Your card goes on file at signup and nothing is charged for the first month, so you have a full month of real output behind you before the year is paid for. The setup fee is separate and is invoiced when we start.
Do these prices include GST?
Australian dollars, and every figure we publish includes GST — the number you read is the number you pay. Your invoice shows the GST component separately so you can claim it. We are an Australian business billing in AUD, so there is no currency conversion for Australian customers.
Is there a limit on how much we can draft?
The plan covers ~6,500 documents / month, pooled across everyone in the office. Past about 2,600 documents a month, drafting runs on your own provider account rather than ours — you add a key in Settings, we tell you before you get there, and it changes nothing else about your plan. If you would rather not, that is a cancellation and the refund above applies.
Start at the rung that costs nothing.
One page on what you have already published: the claims a shortlister cannot check from your own material, and what they would need to see instead. No documents, no prices, no call, no account.