Project software shouldn't cost more than the project.
Construction firms pay heavily for CAD, project management, document control, and time tracking. FreeCAD, BRL-CAD, OpenProject, and Paperless-ngx handle real construction workflows. Self-hosted means the site office keeps working when your connection doesn't.
Three pains specific to construction.
CAD licences per-engineer per-year
AutoCAD, Revit, and SolidWorks seats hit R30k to R60k per engineer annually. Hard to justify for a team that drafts 20% of the time.
Project management SaaS locked to headcount
Per-seat project tools priced for office work don't scale when you bring in 50 subcontractors for three months.
Drawings and site documents on consumer cloud
Critical revision-controlled drawings living in Dropbox or Google Drive folders. One wrong link and a subcontractor builds from an old revision.
Your typical stack
About R1 831 800 a year.
Construction firms typically run this stack. Click any tool to see the open source replacement and the migration plan.
What we do for construction
Savings is just the start.
Constructionfirms also come to us for the security, compliance, and build work that goes with the stack swap. Here's what that usually looks like.
The things your sector cares about.
Drawing version control and liability
Self-hosted document management with immutable revision history protects you in contractual disputes. Git-backed systems give cryptographic proof of change history.
Site connectivity resilience
Self-hosted tools work when site internet drops. Sync when connectivity returns. No dead tools on a rainy Tuesday.
Subcontractor access without per-seat penalty
Bring in 30 subs for a month, turn off access when they leave. No SaaS licence juggling.
Free audit. No pitch.
A 30-minute call. We look at your current stack, your headcount, your compliance posture. You get a written assessment with exact Rand numbers. You decide from there.