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.
R 1.83M
Typical annual licence spend
Across 8 common construction tools
R 1.65M
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The construction stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical construction firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Construction stack
8 tools · R 1.83M/yr in licences
Replace
Revit
CAD / Engineering · R 648K per year
With
FreeCAD + BIMserver
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 583K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 1.83M
Estimated OSS hosting
R 183K
Annual savings
R 1.65M
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where the construction bleed starts
Three things we hear on every construction discovery call.
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.
How we handle the construction edges