3 days measuring. 2 days chasing rates. One fixed-price bid.
Draft BOQ in minutes — every quantity traced back to the drawing. Still yours to review.
Sign the contract and the number is final. If a quantity was wrong, the client does not pay for the difference — you do, out of the margin that was supposed to be the job's profit.
3 days gone — before the price is even set.
Counted by hand, on a tender with days left, not weeks.
Whatever time is left over — that's review time.
Supplier calls. Rate checks. Procurement. All week. Review gets the scraps.
It doesn't look like a mistake. It looks like your margin — gone.
Found on site, months later. The number can't be changed.
Sidoku does the sourcing-adjacent work first — matching rates, drafting quantities, flagging what is not yet approved — so review is the first thing a QS's day is spent on, not whatever is left of it.
Not a warning. Just arithmetic — on the number you choose.
A full salary. Every month. Whether the tender lands or not.
Fixed quote before work starts, by sheet count and scope.
This is the working prototype, not a picture of one. Pick a region on the plan and Sidoku QS measures it, prices it against the Cambodia rate library, flags what it could not resolve, and builds the supplier request.
Every number here has a reason behind it, shown right under the description — the formula, the source drawing region, and a confidence dot you can hover for how sure the read is.
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A takeoff that never becomes a signed job is unpaid work. The same record now starts earlier — at the inquiry — and carries on through the job, the costs and the invoice, so the number a client accepts is the one the drawings produced.
Enquiries arrive by Telegram, by referral, by a phone call from a developer you met once. The pipeline holds the stage, the value and the date you said you would call back — and turns that date red when it passes.
When it is time to price, the estimate takes its total from the project's draft BOQ. The number the client sees and the number the drawings produced are the same.
So what: a $186,500 job doesn't die because a follow-up date got forgotten.
Once the bid is won the work moves to site, where it stops being a bill of quantities and becomes a list of things somebody has to do this week. Tasks sit against the job they belong to, carry a name and a date, and say plainly when they are blocked on someone else.
Milestones group that work and show how much of it is finished — not a percentage somebody typed in, but a count of the tasks underneath.
So what: a blocked task shows up as blocked — not as silence until the site visit.
Most contractors find out what a job made when the last invoice is filed, which is far too late to do anything about it. The budget here is the estimate the client accepted — not a second figure typed somewhere else — and every cost booked against the job moves the margin in front of you.
Only approved costs count against that margin. Anything still awaiting approval is shown beside it, so a job cannot look healthy simply because nobody has signed off the supplier invoices yet.
So what: you find a job is losing money at week two of five, not on the final invoice.
A valuation goes out, the client is slow, and nobody notices until the month closes. Invoices carry a due date, payments are recorded against the invoice they settle, and anything past its date is called overdue rather than left to blend in.
Part payments are normal on a Cambodian job, so an invoice can be part paid and still show exactly what is left on it. A payment larger than the balance outstanding is refused, because it is a typing mistake every time.
So what: $5,520 sitting overdue shows up on your dashboard, not just in your head.
Sidoku QS does not bid tenders. Your drawings and prices stay with your reviewer. If our sister company is bidding the same tender, we decline the job, so your number is never seen by a competitor.
Your drawings stay with your reviewer and are deleted 90 days after delivery. Payment runs on ABA; we never see your card or bank details. NDA on request before you send anything.
Sidoeun Ly, Licensed PE (Cambodia), ACPE. 12+ years in civil, water resources and building works. M.Eng, INHA University, Korea. Signs every BOQ.
Contractors bidding a tender can choose a lower upfront fee plus % of the contract value if you win.
Send drawingsTwo ways in. Start a live estimate on the demonstration drawing and watch the draft BOQ build line by line against the Cambodia rate library — or take the finished sample report first and see exactly what comes out the other end before you upload anything of your own.
The demonstration project loads a CAD-exported structural plan, S-101, already indexed and ready to measure.
Select regions of the plan. Quantities are measured, priced against the Cambodia rate library, and flagged where the drawing is ambiguous.
Export a draft BOQ to CSV, or open a printable report you can save as a PDF and attach to the tender file.
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Not supported yet: scanned drawings, photographs of printed drawings, and native DWG measurement. Rates are drawn from the Cambodia rate library and must be confirmed against current supplier quotations before any bid is issued.
Tell us what you are building and how to reach you. A quantity surveyor reads every request — nothing here is answered by a machine.
Test the workflow on one real Cambodian project and measure the difference between manual takeoff and AI-assisted preparation.
Start with a drawing →Upload a CAD-exported PDF. This prototype indexes the sheet, then opens the workspace where you select regions to measure. Scans and photographs are not supported yet.