B Breinz
Brisbane, Australia

We build the software Australian builders run their jobs on

Breinz is a small Australian software company. We make one thing, and we make it for one trade: SmarteBuild, the estimating and construction management system used by residential builders to price a job, run it, and get paid for it.

What we make

One product, built properly

Most construction software stops at the estimate, or starts after it. SmarteBuild carries one job from the first take-off to the final claim, so a number is entered once and everything downstream reads it.

Our product

SmarteBuild

Estimating and construction management for Australian residential and small commercial builders — measuring off the drawings, pricing the bill, raising the orders, programming the work, and claiming progress against the same contract the estimate created.

  • Take-off, bill of quantities, price lists and tenders
  • Purchase orders, expenses, variations and progress claims
  • Programme, call-ups, site diary, defects and timesheets
  • A client portal, and an app for the people on site

Built and supported from Brisbane, in Australian dollars, for Australian contracts — progress claims by stage, variations, GST and the way payment actually works here.

Used on the desktop in the office and on a phone on site, with a free 30-day trial and no lock-in contract.

What it looks like

Four screens, one job

The same house, from the drawings to the money. Nothing here is a mock-up — it is the software as our customers use it.

A floor plan open in SmarteBuild Take-Off, with slab areas shaded and wall runs traced, and the measured quantities listed beside the drawing.
Measure it. Straight off the architect's PDF.
The SmarteBuild bill of quantities, showing costed items grouped by cost centre with project, estimate and margin totals.
Price it. Against your own rates, not someone's averages.
The SmarteBuild schedule as a Gantt chart, with tasks, durations and dependency lines across the programme.
Run it. Move one task; the rest follow.
A progress claim in SmarteBuild, claimed by stage with variations included and the payment status recorded.
Get paid for it. By stage, variations included.

And the same job, in a pocket

The parts that never happen at a desk: the day's record, the defect you are standing in front of, what is on site this morning.

The app's home screen on a phone, showing tiles for messages, documents, purchase orders, defects, bookings and the site diary, each with its current state.
What is happening on this job, before you tap anything
Logging a defect on a phone: a photograph taken on site, the supplier responsible, and the description dictated rather than typed.
A defect logged where you are standing, photo and all
A site diary day on a phone, recording subcontractors on site, the project team and deliveries.
The day's record made on the day, not on Friday

There is a great deal more of it — every module is listed here, and the trial opens the lot for 30 days.

How it was built

Designed with builders, not just for them

SmarteBuild was developed in consultation with more than 100 builders across Australia, and in collaboration with teams from the Queensland University of Technology.

That is why the software follows the arc of a residential job rather than the shape of a database: price it, win it, buy it, build it, claim it. Every part hands off to the next, because that is how the builders we sat with described their week.

How we work

Small company, direct line

You are not dealing with a call centre. The people who answer the phone are the people who build the product, which is why a fault reported in the morning is often fixed the same week.

We are Australian owned, our customers are Australian builders, and the job data sits on Australian servers.

The legal bit

Company details

Legal name
BREINZ PTY LTD
ABN
29 630 324 006
Trading as
SmarteBuild
Registered office
Suite 86/42 Manilla St, East Brisbane QLD 4169, Australia

The privacy policy and terms that govern the software are published on the product site: privacy policy, software terms, website terms.

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Questions about the software, an account, a partnership or an invoice — same phone, same people, weekdays Brisbane time.

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