Solutions & Use Cases

Construction Solutions Tailored to Your Role, Company & Project Phase

Geztio adapts to the distinct needs of every construction professional: whether you are an estimator calculating complex unit prices, a site engineer certifying jobsite progress, a general contractor managing multi-site teams, or a developer protecting investment baselines.

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Tailored capabilities for every team member, from cost estimators and site engineers to CFOs and procurement leaders.

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Solutions by Company Type

Whether you are a general contractor, specialized subcontractor, real estate developer, or independent consultant.

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Solutions by Project Phase

End-to-end financial control spanning pre-construction bidding, procurement planning, jobsite execution, and closeout.

Solutions by Company Role

Empowering each stakeholder with targeted tools: estimators, project managers, field engineers, CFOs, and procurement.

Estimators & Budgeters Senior Estimators, Quantity Surveyors, Chief Bidding Engineers, and Cost Analysts.

Cost Estimators & Budget Specialists

Build accurate, audit-proof bids in minutes without fragile spreadsheet formulas.

The Challenge: Spreadsheet budget templates frequently suffer from broken cell references, accidental overwrites, stale regional prices, and tedious manual updates when labor rates shift.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio provides an integrated tree-structured chapter hierarchy, a verified database of 1,000+ unit costs with configurable yields and waste factors, and automatic cascade updates across all items when supply costs change.

Key Capabilities

  • Nested chapters with automatic alphanumeric code numbering and roll-up subtotals that never break when rows are moved.
  • Pre-calculated Unit Price Analyses (APU) with transparent breakdowns of materials, equipment hourly rates, and crew yields.
  • One-click bulk updates for regional material prices across entire multi-million dollar projects.
  • Scenario creation and version freezing to compare margins before submitting tenders.
80%
Faster bid preparation time compared to manual spreadsheets
Features: Budgets & Estimating → Unit Costs (APU) → Resources & Materials →
"Before Geztio, modifying one concrete supplier quote meant checking twenty separate Excel sheets. Now it cascades across 140 line items in two seconds without formula errors."
— Carlos Restrepo, Lead Cost Engineer, Constructora Capital
Project Managers Project Directors, Operations Managers, Construction Superintendents, and Program Managers.

Project Directors & Operations Managers

Maintain real-time operational budget discipline and eliminate cost overruns before they happen.

The Challenge: Lack of real-time synchronization between the estimating department and site execution leads to unaccounted extras, delayed payment certifications, and surprise margin erosion.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio provides Location Breakdown Structure (LBS) tracking, milestone progress cutoffs, baseline version comparisons, and seamless handover from estimating to execution teams.

Key Capabilities

  • Location structure breakdown (towers, floors, zones) to track progress and assign specific budget chapters to field teams.
  • Direct comparison of approved baseline budgets against field progress and actual commitments.
  • Change order tracking and approved addendums with version history to prevent unauthorized scope creep.
  • Multi-project overview dashboards highlighting budget health, variance alerts, and pending payment approvals.
100%
Auditability on project version changes and budget adjustments
Features: Projects & Progress → Team & Governance → Budgets & Scenarios →
"Geztio gives our directors instant clarity on whether a project is deviating from its approved baseline, avoiding surprises at month-end closeout."
— Marcela Gomez, Operations Director, Urbana Desarrollos
Site & Field Engineers Resident Engineers, Field Supervisors, Quality Control Inspectors, and Site Coordinators.

Site Engineers & Residentes de Obra

Record physical progress on-site with clean digital logs and role-restricted views.

The Challenge: Field teams waste hours compiling paper logs or messaging fragmented photos, while managing sensitive cost data that should not be visible to subcontractors or junior personnel.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio delivers role-based permissions where field engineers log physical executed quantities by zone or chapter while sensitive margins and financial unit costs remain protected.

Key Capabilities

  • Granular role permissions: field users log physical quantities without seeing company profit margins or confidential markups.
  • Fast progress cutoffs: record cumulative percentages and physical units installed per zone or floor.
  • Instant payment certificate generation for subcontractors and owner supervision approvals.
  • Zero software installation required; access directly through any mobile browser on the jobsite.
-65%
Reduction in dispute resolution time for subcontractor payment certificates
Features: Projects & Site Progress → Team & Collaboration → Data & Quality →
"Our site engineers log weekly progress in Geztio in minutes. We eliminated endless WhatsApp messages and conflicting paper reports."
— Andres Velez, Chief Resident Engineer, Ingeniería & Concretos
Executives & CFOs Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Managing Partners, and Construction Board Members.

Executive Leadership & CFOs

Protect company margins with total financial predictability, approved baselines, and audit controls.

The Challenge: Executives lack visibility into the true consolidated risk across multiple active projects when each team maintains isolated spreadsheets with unverified cost formulas.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio unifies enterprise-wide cost databases, enforces strict baseline approval gates, standardizes AIU overhead and profit calculation formulas, and secures financial IP.

Key Capabilities

  • Centralized cost intelligence: standard supply catalogs and unit prices shared across the entire enterprise.
  • Approved baseline locks: prevent unauthorized budget alterations after contract signing without explicit sign-off.
  • Consistent AIU (Administration, Contingencies, Profit) governance applied automatically across all proposals.
  • Predictable cash-flow requirements derived from resource explosion curves and milestone schedules.
3.8%
Average gross margin recovery through eliminated formula errors and uncaptured waste
Features: Team & Governance → Budgets & Scenarios → Data & Quality →
"With Geztio, I know every bid leaving our office follows our company's approved markup rules. It has transformed our risk management."
— Fernando Morales, CFO & Managing Partner, Inversiones Civiles
Procurement & Supply Procurement Directors, Supply Chain Managers, Purchasing Agents, and Warehouse Logistics Coordinators.

Procurement & Supply Chain Officers

Explode total project materials with precision and negotiate bulk purchases with verified quantities.

The Challenge: Calculating total material quantities manually across hundreds of APUs is slow and error-prone, resulting in costly last-minute spot buys or excess storage waste on site.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio automatically explodes the entire budget into consolidated resource lists (materials, equipment, labor, subcontractors) with net quantities, waste margins, and current price indices.

Key Capabilities

  • Instant bill of materials (BOM) explosion: total cubic meters of concrete, tons of steel, and machinery hours in one click.
  • Supplier catalog updates: maintain current quote lists by city and supplier, updating project costs effortlessly.
  • Export clean procurement schedules directly to Excel and ERP purchasing systems.
  • Elimination of double-counting and missing components across composite unit prices.
100%
Transparency on material quantities and yield waste factors prior to procurement
Features: Resources & Materials → Unit Costs (APU) → Data & Quality →
"Generating a full material explosion used to take two days of manual cross-referencing. In Geztio, our purchasing team has the complete list the second the budget is approved."
— Lorena Ospina, Procurement Manager, Constructora Andina

Solutions by Company Type

Whether you are an enterprise general contractor, specialized trade subcontractor, real estate developer, or consulting studio.

General Contractors Mid-market and Enterprise General Contractors executing infrastructure, commercial, and high-rise projects.

General Contractors & Commercial Builders

Manage multi-million dollar bidding pipelines and multi-site execution with enterprise rigor.

The Challenge: Coordinating dozens of estimators, project managers, and site supervisors across multiple active tenders leads to version collisions, inconsistent cost benchmarks, and expensive tender discrepancies.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio equips general contractors with unlimited chapter nesting depth, multi-user simultaneous editing, project-specific permission access, and high-performance Excel import/export engines.

Operational Advantages

  • Multi-level chapter structuring supporting hundreds of sub-items, direct and indirect costs, and custom markups.
  • Collaborative real-time editing: multiple cost engineers work on the same tender simultaneously without lockups.
  • Custom document formats: generate client-ready tender submissions and SECOP II compliant schedules.
  • Scalable pricing tiers that include team members rather than charging expensive single-device licenses.
4x
Increase in annual bidding capacity without expanding the estimating headcount
Features: Budgets & Estimating → Team & Governance → Projects & Site Progress →
"We manage 12 active construction sites simultaneously. Geztio gave our company a single source of truth for all unit costs and budget versions."
— Eduardo Samper, VP of Construction, Samper Construcciones
Subcontractors Earthwork, Concrete, Structural Steel, MEP (Electrical/Hydraulic), Facades, Drywall, and Finishes Subcontractors.

Specialty Trade Subcontractors

Quote specialty jobs with speed, protect trade margins, and submit clean payment acts.

The Challenge: Subcontractors face tight quotation deadlines with thin profit margins. Overlooking minor yield variations or material price hikes can turn a profitable subcontract into a major loss.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio allows trade contractors to build reusable specialized APU libraries, simulate crew production rates under various site conditions, and produce transparent itemized invoices.

Operational Advantages

  • Specialized trade APU templates tailored for specific materials, crew compositions, and equipment productivity.
  • Fast turnaround on contractor quotation requests with professional PDF and Excel breakdowns.
  • Clear progress cutoff certificates that match general contractor requirements, speeding up invoice approvals.
  • Affordable web-based access accessible from both the office desk and the jobsite container.
48h
Average turnaround to deliver comprehensive, itemized specialty bids to general contractors
Features: Unit Costs (APU) → Resources & Materials → Projects & Site Progress →
"As an electrical and MEP subcontractor, our profit lies in accurate labor crew yields. Geztio makes sure our bids reflect real site productivity every time."
— Julian Ramos, General Manager, ElectroRedes S.A.S.
Developers & Inmobiliarias Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Real Estate Developers, Housing Promoters, and Real Estate Investment Funds.

Real Estate Developers & Promoters

Control project feasibility, validate contractor bids, and protect investment returns.

The Challenge: Developers must evaluate preliminary cost feasibility before architectural drawings are finalized and need audit tools to review contractor payment requests without technical discrepancies.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio provides historical cost benchmarking, square-meter parametric budgeting, baseline freezing for general contractor contracts, and third-party supervision reviewer access.

Operational Advantages

  • Early-stage feasibility analysis using pre-calculated building unit costs and regional market averages.
  • Approved baseline budgets locked against contractor modifications for airtight audit compliance.
  • Guest access for external inspection (interventoría) and financial audit teams to verify progress cuts.
  • Cost-per-square-meter and location breakdown tracking across multiple towers, stages, and project phases.
0%
Unapproved contract baseline changes throughout construction execution
Features: Budgets & Estimating → Projects & Progress → Team & Governance →
"Geztio bridges our financial modeling with actual construction numbers. We can audit contractor payment acts with complete confidence."
— Sofia Delgado, Chief Development Officer, Valle Real Inmobiliaria
Independent Professionals Freelance Cost Consultants, Architectural Studios, Structural Designers, and Independent Technical Inspectors.

Independent Architects, Engineers & Consultants

Deliver professional, branded cost studies without paying thousands in legacy desktop licenses.

The Challenge: Individual consultants cannot afford rigid, expensive multi-thousand dollar desktop licenses with annual maintenance contracts just to generate client estimates and APUs.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio offers lightweight, browser-based cloud access with comprehensive regional unit-cost databases, flexible subscription plans, and high-impact branded export reports.

Operational Advantages

  • No software installation or hardware locks; work on your laptop, desktop, or tablet anywhere.
  • Instant access to 1,000+ preloaded unit costs and 1,200+ supplies with regular market price updates.
  • Professional PDF and Excel exports ready to present directly to clients with your studio branding.
  • Fair, flexible monthly or annual pricing designed for independent practitioners.
75%
Lower software licensing cost compared to traditional desktop construction suites
Features: Unit Costs Database → Free Engineering Tools → Pricing Plans →
"As an independent architect, Geztio allows me to provide complete, detailed construction budgets that match the sophistication of major contracting firms."
— Diego Quintana, Principal Architect, DQ Arquitectura

Solutions by Project Phase

Full lifecycle continuity from early bidding and supply planning to field execution and final contract closeout.

Phase: Bidding & Pre-con Bidding Committees, Estimating Teams, Commercial Directors, and Tender Coordinators.

Bidding, Pre-construction & Estimating

Fast, rigorous cost modeling to win profitable tenders while eliminating bidding errors.

The Challenge: Tender deadlines are aggressive. When last-minute supplier discount updates or client item adjustments arrive, estimators risk introducing broken formulas into final tender submissions.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio's relational data model ensures that changing a resource price or yield immediately updates all affected APUs and chapter subtotals, allowing instant scenario evaluations before final export.

Phase Deliverables

  • Fast chapter structuring with automatic alphanumeric hierarchy and instant subtotal roll-ups.
  • Comprehensive Unit Price Analysis (APU) breakdown with labor yields, material consumption, and equipment rates.
  • AIU (Administration, Contingencies, Profit) configuration and tax modeling tailored per bidding requirements.
  • Scenario duplication to evaluate aggressive vs conservative bidding strategies without corrupting files.
0
Formula errors or broken reference cells in submitted tender documents
Features: Budgets & Estimating → Unit Costs (APU) → Resources & Materials →
"In tender preparation, being fast is useless if the total is wrong. Geztio gives us unmatched speed with 100% mathematical certainty."
— Guillermo Parra, Bidding Director, Concesiones Viales
Phase: Planning & Sourcing Procurement Teams, Planning Engineers, Supply Chain Directors, and Site Administrators.

Resource Planning & Procurement Explosion

Translate approved budgets into precise purchasing schedules and supplier quote requests.

The Challenge: Disconnection between what was estimated in individual APUs and what purchasing orders in bulk causes site shortages, surplus waste, or unexpected price variance against the tender.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio generates a consolidated explosion of all resources required across the entire budget, grouping identical supplies and highlighting volume purchasing requirements.

Phase Deliverables

  • Consolidated bill of materials (BOM) explosion with exact net quantities and planned waste percentages.
  • Regional price catalogs by city to match supplier quotations directly with budget items.
  • Clear segregation of direct costs: materials, labor, machinery rental, and subcontracted packages.
  • Clean data export formatted for enterprise ERPs and accounting systems.
-90%
Time required to generate consolidated material purchase explosions
Features: Resources & Supplies → Unit Costs (APU) → Data & Quality →
"We can negotiate volume steel and cement pricing before the project starts because Geztio consolidates every line item into clean procurement totals."
— Camila Hernandez, Head of Sourcing, Construcciones Metropolitanas
Phase: Construction Execution Site Engineers, Resident Inspectors, Subcontractors, and Project Controllers.

Jobsite Execution & Progress Certifications

Log periodic physical progress by location, certify completed units, and eliminate billing disputes.

The Challenge: Billing disputes between general contractors and subcontractors frequently delay payments when work progress is recorded through disconnected spreadsheets or conflicting paper forms.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio enables physical location-based progress tracking (towers, floors, sectors), recording cumulative percentages and generating agreed payment certificates directly from the budget baseline.

Phase Deliverables

  • Location Breakdown Structure (LBS) to track quantities and percentage completion by specific building zone.
  • Periodic progress cutoffs (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly) with historical logs and cumulative tracking.
  • Automated payment certificates (actas de avance) ready for signature and accounting processing.
  • Instant comparison of physical execution against approved budget allocations.
100%
Alignment between certified field quantities and processed contractor payments
Features: Projects & Site Progress → Team & Governance → Budgets & Scenarios →
"Monthly contractor billing used to be a week-long battle of reconciling spreadsheets. With Geztio's progress cuts, certification takes under an hour."
— Alejandro Toro, Project Controller, Edificaciones Modernas
Phase: Closeout & Audit Auditors, Financial Controllers, Estimating Directors, and General Management.

Financial Closeout & Historical Benchmarks

Reconcile actual project costs, close contractor accounts, and capture real yields for future bids.

The Challenge: When a project ends, valuable lessons on actual labor productivity and real material yields are lost in discarded files, causing future bids to repeat past estimation mistakes.
Geztio's Solution: Geztio preserves full version histories, final quantity liquidations, and allows estimators to update reference APU yields with real-world project telemetry for future tenders.

Phase Deliverables

  • Final contract liquidation reports comparing initial budget baseline vs approved addendums vs executed totals.
  • Audit-proof historical trail: every version, change order, and progress cutoff remains accessible forever.
  • Feedback loop for estimating: calibrate company APU yields with actual project performance data.
  • Complete data sovereignty: export full project histories and archives to Excel at any time.
100%
Historical budget data retention and instant audit accessibility
Features: Data & Quality → Budgets & Estimating → Team & Governance →
"Geztio transformed our closeouts from a painful paperwork archive into a dynamic benchmark library that sharpens our bidding accuracy every month."
— Patricia Navarro, Audit & Compliance Director, Grupo Constructor Bolívar
Workflow Evolution

How Geztio Replaces Fragile Manual Workflows

Direct comparison between legacy desktop/spreadsheet procedures and Geztio's integrated cloud methodology.

Dimension / WorkflowOperational AspectTraditional Spreadsheets / Legacy ERPGeztio PlatformBusiness Impact
Cost EstimatingHierarchy & NumberingManual numbering in Excel; moving a chapter breaks subsequent formulas and subtotal ranges.Structured chapter tree with automatic hierarchical numbering (1.1, 1.1.1) and indestructible subtotals.Zero broken totals upon reordering
Unit Price AnalysisYields & Price CascadingHardcoded cell values inside separate sheets; updating cement price requires manual find-and-replace.Centralized supply and APU database; changing a supply price cascades across all composite items instantly.Instant recalculation across entire budget
Team CollaborationAccess & Version ControlSending 'Presupuesto_v3_FINAL_rev2.xlsx' via email; high risk of overwriting colleagues' work.Simultaneous cloud multi-user editing, role permissions, and immutable frozen baseline versions.Single source of truth with audit trail
Field & Progress TrackingPayment CertificationsPaper field notes transcribed into Excel; frequent disputes over installed percentages and quantities.Digital progress cuts logged directly against budget items by location, generating instant payment acts.65% faster payment approval cycle
Procurement & SupplyMaterial ExplosionManual calculation multiplying quantities across dozens of sheets, often missing waste factors.One-click automated resource explosion showing total materials, equipment hours, and labor needed.Precise bulk purchase volume orders
Deployment & ITLicensing & MobilityExpensive single-computer desktop licenses requiring USB hardware keys and annual maintenance.Modern web-based platform with team seats included, accessible on any modern browser or device.Zero install, immediate onboarding
Frequently Asked Questions

Questions About Geztio Solutions & Implementation

Everything you need to know about rolling out Geztio across your team, projects, and organization.

How do different roles in my company collaborate inside Geztio?

Geztio allows you to invite team members with specific roles and project-level permissions. For example, Cost Estimators can edit unit prices and create budget scenarios, Site Engineers can log physical progress cuts without seeing confidential company markups, and Clients or External Auditors can be granted read-only guest access to review payment certificates.

Can Geztio adapt to both small contractors and large construction firms?

Yes. Independent architects and specialty trade subcontractors use Geztio to rapidly produce professional, itemized bids and APU catalogs without heavy IT overhead. General contractors and large developers use Geztio's multi-level chapter trees, multi-project dashboards, and baseline version locking to govern multi-million dollar portfolios with enterprise rigor.

How does Geztio support the project lifecycle from bidding to closeout?

During pre-construction bidding, Geztio accelerates APU composition, yield modeling, and scenario evaluation. In the procurement phase, it automatically explodes total material and equipment quantities. During site execution, field teams log location-based progress cuts and generate payment certificates. Finally, at closeout, actual yields and cost variances are reconciled and captured into your company's intelligence library.

Can we import our existing Excel spreadsheets and APU databases into Geztio?

Yes. Geztio includes an intelligent spreadsheet import tool that allows you to upload flat item lists, supplies, and unit costs. The values are imported cleanly, while Geztio rebuilds the dynamic chapter tree and calculation engine to ensure your totals never break. You can also export your budgets to Excel at any time.

Does Geztio work for international projects or different regional currencies?

Yes. Geztio supports custom regional supply databases and pricing lists per city and country (with pre-calculated reference databases available for multiple Latin American markets). You can configure local tax structures, social security labor percentages, and custom AIU markups according to local regulations.

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