Scale your projects,
not your admin.

No — and it’s not meant to. Your monitoring surveyor’s job is to independently certify each drawdown for the lender, and that independence is the whole point of the role. What BankBuild does is get them what they need, faster: the application, the invoices, the certificates and the photos, organised the way they expect, so the report writes itself instead of being dug out of email. Your QS still certifies. They just spend less time chasing paper to do it.

It’s built to give lenders exactly what they ask for. A lender’s main worry is whether the numbers they’re given are reliable; a broker’s job is easier when a developer turns up organised. Because every cost, invoice and variation on BankBuild is logged and traceable, what your funder receives is a clean, consistent pack rather than a patchwork of emails. We don’t sit between you and your lender or replace their process — we just make sure what reaches them holds up to scrutiny.

Excel is fine for one project. The trouble starts around your third: the cost plan becomes a version-control guess, variations vanish into WhatsApp threads, and the drawdown record won’t survive a lender’s questions. BankBuild holds the same numbers — on one live record that updates as invoices and variations land, chases the missing documents itself, and builds the drawdown pack for you. (It’s not site-management software like Procore — that’s built for contractors running the build; BankBuild is the developer’s finance and admin side.) Same figures you’d track anyway, none of the manual upkeep.

BankBuild is admin as a service, priced per project and sized to your facility — so the right comparison isn’t another piece of software, it’s what you’d pay someone to do this work. A project coordinator runs £3,500–£5,000 a month once you load on the real costs; BankBuild does the same admin for less, with no hiring, no holiday cover and no key-person risk. Tell us about your project and we’ll give you the exact figure for your situation.

You do. Your project data, documents and financials are yours — we hold them on your behalf, we don’t sell them, and your records are always yours. We use what’s on your own projects to give you better numbers over time — your real costs, your contractor history — but it’s your record, full stop.

In the UK, under UK law — hosted on UK-resident infrastructure in London, not shipped offshore. Every financial change writes to a log that can’t be edited or erased, so the whole history of a project is auditable for your funder or a JV partner. Personal data — subcontractors, buyers — is handled in line with UK GDPR. It’s built to pass the kind of diligence a lender’s lawyers run.

A development facility isn’t paid out in one lump — you draw it down in stages as the build progresses. Each drawdown, the lender’s monitoring surveyor inspects what’s been done, checks it against the costs claimed, and certifies how much can be released. The developer’s job is to put together the evidence for that certification: the application, supporting invoices, certificates and progress proof. Get that pack right and funds release quickly; get it wrong and every query adds days — and interest. BankBuild assembles that pack so it clears first time.

It varies by lender and facility, but most drawdowns need: a valuation or application for payment showing work done this period, supporting invoices and contractor applications, evidence of payment for the previous drawdown, current insurance (Contractors All Risks, and PI/PL where required), any variation instructions, and progress photos tied to what’s being claimed. Off-site materials usually need vesting certificates too. BankBuild tracks the full checklist per drawdown and chases whatever’s missing before it holds you up.