🎉 Founders Program — Pro free for 6 months
Built for Ethiopian Construction Professionals

Stop Losing Bids
to Guesswork. Professional cost estimation, finally.

Import your BOQ, match it against your rates, generate unit-rate analyses, and get a costed CPM schedule — in hours, not days.

Windows 10 / 11 · No account required · Your data never leaves your machine · Free tier is free forever
The Pipeline

From BOQ to Bid

Four steps, one dataset — no re-keying between spreadsheets, rate books, and the programme.

STEP 01
Import
Excel or Google Sheets: BOQ, rate tables, resource price books.
STEP 02
Match
AI pairs every BOQ line with your rate items; you review and approve.
STEP 03
Price
AI builds material/labor/equipment breakdowns from your price book.
STEP 04
Schedule
One click to a costed CPM programme with cash-flow S-curve, exported to MS Project or Excel.
Features & Benefits

Built on your data,
not a shipped database

Every feature below is shipped and verifiable in the product today. Conio drafts — you review and approve every match, rate, and sequence.

MATCH ALL: PRO

Match a 500-Item BOQ Before Lunch

Semantic BOQ↔rate matching with construction-aware synonym handling and spec extraction. Scored candidates, approve or override per item, one-click Match All across hundreds of lines. Days of line-by-line lookup become a review pass. Manual candidate matching is Free.

PRO

Defensible Rates, Not Guesses

Full material/labor/equipment breakdowns priced from your resource price book. Batch generation and coverage analysis show which work types you can already price. Every rate is traceable to a breakdown you can open, edit, and reuse.

SEEDING: PRO

Your Second Bid Is Faster Than Your First

Completed analyses become templates. Identical items are re-priced instantly from the current price book with no AI drift; near matches are AI-adjusted from your recipe. The tool compounds with use — free to use once built, AI seeding is Pro.

SEQUENCING: PRO

A Bid Programme in One Click

A real critical-path engine (FS/SS/FF/SF + lag), interactive Gantt, task splitting, working-day calendars with local holidays, progress and earned-value tracking, and a cash-flow S-curve — from the same priced BOQ. Core scheduling is Free; AI sequencing drafts the predecessor logic for you on Pro.

Fits the Submission You Already Have

MS Project XML, Excel, and Power BI exports, plus BOQ/URA exports formatted the way tender submissions expect. Free on every tier.

Your Bid Data Never Leaves Your Office

Runs on your machine via Docker, all data in a local file you control, works offline, no account. Choose your AI: Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, or Ollama for fully-offline local AI. Multi-provider configuration is Pro.

"A 400-item BOQ: ~4 days of manual matching and rate build-up → under a day with review."
Illustrative example — to be replaced with a named case study
Pricing

Free forever. Pro when you need it.

Prices are public from day one — the free period below is a promotion, not the price.

Free
$0 forever

Getting started; students.

  • Import BOQ & rate tables
  • Manual matching
  • Full CPM schedule + Gantt + S-curve
  • MS Project / Excel / Power BI export
  • Unlimited local projects
Solo
$20 /mo
billed annually ($240/yr) · ≈ 3,500 ETB/mo (42,000 ETB/yr)

Individual QS / freelance estimator.

  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Match All, AI URA generation & batch generation
  • Coverage analysis
  • AI schedule sequencing & description refinement
  • For projects up to 300 BOQ items (fair-use cap)

Solo licenses are for individual use. Use within a firm's bid workflow requires an Office license.

List prices in USD. Billed in ETB at the prevailing exchange rate on the invoice date — pay by bank transfer against invoice, or Telebirr/Chapa. ETB figures shown at 175 ETB/USD for reference.

Solo licenses are for individual use. Use within a firm's bid workflow requires an Office license — see license terms.

AI features use your own Gemini/Claude API key or a local Ollama model — you control the AI cost and the data path.

When a license expires, Conio downgrades gracefully to Free — your data is always yours and always exportable.

Founders Program — Limited Period

Pro. Free for 6 months.

Every new user gets full Pro access at no cost for six months, then 50% off their first paid year. Prices on this page are the standard list prices — this is the promotion, not a different price.

No card required — Pro is activated by a license token we email you.

A Fair Question

Why Not Just Excel?

vs Excel

Excel holds the numbers; Conio holds the logic — matching, rate build-up, and programme come from one dataset, so a BOQ revision doesn't mean starting over.

vs Generic / Free Construction ERPs

Built for local bid practice — BOQ formats, URA breakdown conventions, ETB, local working calendars — not adapted from foreign workflows.

vs Cloud Estimating Tools

Your bid data stays on your machine. No uploads, no accounts, works through internet outages.

Get Started

Download Conio or Request a License

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What you'll need

Windows 10/11, and Docker Desktop (one-time install — see the install guide). First-time setup takes about 10 minutes.

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