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ProdRates
Production Rate Intelligence.
Quantities and crews into manhours and fleet, from an owned rate corpus that grows every project. 15,515 rates across 35 disciplines, with the regional and site-condition context attached to each.
The inherited spreadsheet
Every estimator inherits a spreadsheet. Nobody knows which projects the rates came from, what conditions they assume, or who adjusted them last. That is fine until you must price a 500-line bill of quantities across a dozen trades, justify a manhour estimate to a client who wants an audit trail, or apply location factors for a site you have never worked.
The rate is the estimate. Everything else is arithmetic.
What it delivers
A defensible rate for every activity
Provenance, structure, explicit adjustments and versioned history on every rate. Defend your numbers with evidence, not assumptions.
AI rate recommendation
Describe the activity and get the most appropriate rates for context, geography and conditions.
Benchmarking
Compare contractor-submitted rates against the corpus. Identify outliers and negotiate from evidence.
Regional context
Altitude, climate, labour market and logistics factors for African and remote sites.
Continuous growth
The corpus is calibrated from delivered projects, not copied from publications, and grows with every engagement.
Feeds EstimatingIQ
The same corpus powers first-principles tender pricing through EstimatingIQ (Anvil), engagement-scoped.
Who it is for
Estimators and quantity surveyors
Benchmark estimates against real production data with a defensible range for every activity.
Planners and schedulers
Resource-load schedules with realistic rates. Produce schedules that survive contact with reality.
Project directors
Validate contractor claims, challenge optimistic assumptions, allocate capital with confidence.
Ready to start?
Annual company licence. 15,515 rates across 35 disciplines. Cancel anytime.
Named-human accountability
Every deliverable carries a named signatory. The platform drafts, tests and cross-checks. The person above the signature line owns the outcome.
Data sovereignty
Your project data stays on Faolan-controlled infrastructure and never trains shared models. Audit trail under NDA.