PRELIM
Tasks & Productivity

Prelim

Construction Task & Productivity Management

Run your whole QS team from one place. Create and assign work, track time and attendance, chat with your team where the work lives, and benchmark planned against actual productivity in real time.

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PLAN · EXECUTE · BENCHMARK

Every task, tracked from brief to sign-off

Prelim turns scattered spreadsheets and chat threads into one structured workflow. Every task carries an owner, a deadline, a live timer and a clear status, so nothing slips and everyone knows what is next.

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With Prelim — one workflow for the whole team
  • Every task assigned, timed and tracked in one place
  • Self-service check-in and out: office, site or remote
  • Colour-coded deadlines flag risk before it is late
  • Planned versus actual benchmarking on every task
One place for work and talk

Manage your whole practice with Prelim

From task creation to delivery sign-off, Prelim keeps the work, the people and the conversation together. Discuss a task without leaving it, route every submission through a formal review gate, and keep a full activity trail on everything that happens.

Built-in chat

The In-Platform Messenger gives every project its own thread, so your team talks where the work lives instead of losing decisions in WhatsApp and email.

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Task Activity
TASK-042
Status Change10:32 AM

Sent to Review — awaiting QS lead approval

Query3 replies in chat

Ravi K.: Column C3 dimensions don't match site measure — can we confirm?

Logged TimeActual: 3.2h

+12% efficient vs planned

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Task Lifecycle

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Productivity benchmarking engine

See planned versus actual on every task, person and project, live.

Measurement L3 slab91%
Cost plan Tower B78%
Tender review Villa 964%
+12% team efficiency vs last quarter
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Capabilities

Everything your practice needs

Task Creation

Structured task IDs, scope breakdown, designation-based assignment across every QS role, and projects grouped by client.

Task Execution

Live timer or manual time entry, measurement logging, a five-stage status workflow, risk and query flags, and colour-coded deadlines.

Attendance

Self-service check-in and out with work location, present, absent, half-day and leave statuses, leave approvals and a full audit trail.

Productivity Benchmarking

Planned versus actual rates, efficiency scores, and variance analytics across every task, person and project.

In-Platform MessengerHighlight

Project-based messaging built into Prelim, so discussion stays attached to the task instead of scattering across WhatsApp and email.

Calendar & Events

Deadlines, milestones, meetings, submissions and hearing dates in one shared view, with deadline-approaching alerts.

Monitoring Layer

Dashboards for Heads of Country and Department to track workload, progress and performance across the practice.

Notifications

In-app and email notifications fire as task deadlines approach, so nothing is missed.

Add-on

Need BOQ export or auto-proposals? Proposal support and BOQ export sit outside the base platform and can be added later through a written variation.

Deployment

Pricing & Availability

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Platform Build

USD 3,900 one-off

Baseline platform (four core modules) plus the V2 feature set, delivered and signed off.

Hosting & Maintenance

USD 20/mo

Server hosting, 100 GB storage, support and bug fixes, uptime monitoring, and roadmap improvements.

Additional Scope

USD 10/hr

Features beyond the agreed set, scoped and quoted in writing before any work begins.

Quick Facts

Project StageDelivery & Operations
Ideal TargetQS Consultancies & Teams
Target RegionsSri Lanka, Middle East, Australia
DeploymentCloud web app (~1 week)
Pricing ModelBuild + USD 20/month hosting
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Comparative Advantage

Why choose Prelim

Spreadsheets & chat apps

Fragmented
  • Tasks in Excel, time on paper
  • Decisions lost across WhatsApp and email
  • No attendance or work-location record
  • Productivity never benchmarked
FRAGMENTED

Prelim

Unified
  • One workflow from brief to sign-off
  • Built-in project chat on every task
  • Attendance, leave and work location
  • Planned vs actual benchmarking
UNIFIED
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Generic PM tools

Not built for QS
  • Generic boards, no QS context
  • No measurement or rate logic
  • No attendance or leave handling
  • No productivity norms or variance
NOT QS BUILT FOR
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Can the team chat about tasks inside Prelim?
Yes. The In-Platform Messenger gives every project its own chat thread, so conversation stays attached to the work. Discuss a task, flag a query or agree a change without leaving the platform, and keep the discussion in the same place as the activity trail instead of scattering it across WhatsApp and email.
How does attendance and leave work?
Staff check in and out from the platform and pick their work location: office, site or remote. Statuses cover present, absent, half-day and leave. Leave requests route to the Finance & Admin Executive for approval, and every event is logged with a timestamp for a complete audit trail.
What does productivity benchmarking measure?
It compares the rate you planned for a task against the rate actually achieved, then rolls that into efficiency scores and variance analytics per task, per person and per project.
Can we manage several clients and projects at once?
Yes. Projects are grouped and categorised under their respective clients, and every task carries a structured ID for traceability and audit across the whole practice.
Are BOQ export and proposal generation included?
Not in the base platform. BOQ export, Proposal Support and Auto Proposal sit outside the core scope and can be reinstated later through a written variation. Additional scope is charged at USD 10 per hour, scoped and agreed in writing first.

Run your practice on Prelim

Bring tasks, time, attendance, productivity and team chat into one platform built for quantity surveyors.