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Synclo for constructionBid on the right projects and protect your margins.
Track every tender from invitation to award, price with real cost data, and keep variations, approvals and payment applications moving, so the margin you won is the margin you keep.
Alci logged the villa compound ITT, extracted the BOQ and assigned estimators.
Hotel MEP clarifications answered. Client invited you to negotiate.
Retail podium awarded. Alci created the project, budget and subcontract packages.
Built for every kind of construction business.
Contractors and subcontractors winning bids and delivering projects on budget.
Synclo in one sentence. One subscription that runs sales, people, finance, projects, service, supply and learning, with Alci, an AI colleague that reads your data and handles the routine work.
See a working day with Synclo →Main contractors
Bids, packages, subcontractors and cash flow across every live project.
Specialist subcontractors
MEP, fit-out and civils firms tracking variations and getting paid on time.
Developers and owners
Budgets, progress and approvals across a portfolio of projects.
Engineering consultancies
Fees, hours and deliverables for every client and every stage.
Why growth stalls in construction.
The same pressures appear in almost every construction business we meet, in the boardroom and on the front line.
Estimators price from last year's spreadsheets while material and labour costs have moved.
Site instructions are agreed verbally and forgotten by the time the payment application goes out.
Interim payment applications wait weeks for supporting documents nobody can find.
“I rebuild the same rate build-ups for every tender.”
“I find out about cost overruns at the monthly review.”
“We lose money on every variation we forget to claim.”
The same week, told twice.
First the way it usually goes, then with Synclo on the team. Same work, same people — watch the number.
How Synclo drives growth in construction.
Five capabilities, each shown with an example of Alci at work.
Bid on the tenders you can win
Every ITT is logged with deadline, value, client and scope. Alci checks your win rate with that client, current workload and margin target before you commit estimators.
In practiceAlci recommends passing on a fast-track tower bid because your concrete crews are fully booked until Q3 and past win rate with that client is 15%.
Price with live costs
Estimates pull current material prices, supplier quotes and actual labour productivity from your past projects.
In practice"Price 4,200 m3 of concrete for the warehouse." Alci uses last month's supplier rates and your actual pour productivity on two similar jobs.
Claim every variation
Site instructions, photos and approvals are logged on site from a phone and linked to the contract, so nothing is forgotten at billing time.
In practiceA foreman logs an instruction to relocate drainage. Alci prices it from the rate schedule and adds it to next month's payment application.
Faster payment applications
Progress, measurements, variations and supporting documents assemble into the application automatically.
In practiceThe monthly payment application is ready on day 2 instead of day 12, with every photo and approval attached.
Repeat clients, not one-off jobs
Track every developer and consultant relationship, past performance and upcoming projects, so your BD team calls before the tender is out.
In practiceAlci reminds you that a developer you delivered for in 2024 has just bought a new plot.
Every project, every phase, on one screen
Phases, crews and risks across all your sites, updated as the work happens.
Cladding on the warehouse is at risk: panels delayed 9 days. Alci suggests resequencing the roof works.
A working day in construction, with Synclo.
Five moments from an ordinary day. On the left, how it usually goes. On the right, the same moment with Synclo.
- 07:00Site manager
Writes the daily report by hand at night.
Logs progress and labour on the phone; the daily report writes itself.
- 09:30Estimator
Rebuilds the bid from last year's spreadsheet.
Starts from the library of past bids and real costs, with margin shown live.
- 12:00Quantity surveyor
Chases variation approvals by email.
Sends variations for approval in one click and tracks each one to payment.
- 15:00Project director
Finds out about cost overruns at month end.
Gets Alci's alert the day a package goes above its budget.
- 17:45Finance manager
Matches subcontractor invoices by hand.
Approves invoices already matched to packages, progress and retention.
Alci at work in construction.
Pick a request, or type your own. This is what your team sees in Synclo.
Demo with sample company data.
Spend meetings on decisions, not status updates.
Alci prepares the numbers before anyone walks in, answers questions live, and turns decisions into tasks.
Before
- Alci prepares cost to complete, margin, cash position and variations for every project.
- Projects drifting from budget are ranked by risk.
During
- The team discusses only the projects that need decisions.
- Recovery actions and claims are approved and assigned live.
After
- Actions go to owners with dates.
- Forecasts update automatically for next month.
No more three-hour round-the-table updates. Each PM speaks only when there is a decision to make.
Also: Weekly site coordination
- Look-ahead programme for every site generated from live progress
- Material deliveries checked against the work planned
- RFIs and site instructions with owners and dates
- Subcontractor performance and manpower on one screen
- 07:00Pack ready
Alci prepares cost to complete, margin, cash position and variations for every project.
- 09:05Question in the room
“Which tenders are due this month?”
- 09:06Alci answers
6 tenders are due this month worth AED 94M. 2 are not yet priced and estimators are at full capacity.
- 09:20Decisions captured
Actions go to owners with dates.
One platform for the entire construction operation.
Sales is only the start. All eight modules and Alci share the same data, under one subscription.
- Planning and task coordination across every site
- Milestones, work orders and progress tracking
- Crews and equipment allocated by project stage
- Material procurement and vendor coordination
- Stock across sites and warehouses
- Deliveries aligned with the programme
- Cost to complete by project, material and labour
- Vendor payments and payment applications
- Budgets and margin alerts
- Hiring pipelines for skilled and field roles
- Onboarding documents and site readiness
- Workers ready for the right project stage
- Employee and subcontractor records by site
- Site attendance, shifts and overtime
- Payroll and allowances
- Site incidents, delays and RFIs tracked to closure
- Priority routing to the right engineer
- Coordination with contractors and consultants
- Answers questions from your live data
- Runs routine work by command
- Learns your patterns and handles repeat cases
Connects to the systems you already rely on.
Keep what works. Synclo connects to it, brings the data into one view, and lets Alci act on it.
Estimating and design
Planning
Site and collaboration
Finance
Connections run through Synclo integrations, file imports and our open API. Tell us what you use and we will confirm exactly how each one connects before you start.
From your files to a running company, in days.
How a construction business moves onto Synclo. No consultants, no long project, and nothing changes until you are ready.
- Day 1
Share what you have
Upload your existing spreadsheets or connect your current system: your bid history, BOQs, project budgets, subcontractor lists and payment applications.
- Within days
Synclo sets itself up
Modules are arranged around your bids, projects, packages, variations, payment applications and retention. There is no consultant and no implementation project.
- First week
Your team starts working
People work in plain language and ask Alci when they are unsure, so there are no training courses to sit through.
- From then on
Alci takes on the routine
Alci learns how your team handles daily reports, variation follow-ups and invoice matching, and offers to take it over one approval at a time.
- All eight modules and Alci
- Set-up from your own files
- Connect SAP, Oracle or Dynamics first
- Updates and support included
- One price, agreed in writing
- A 14-day free trial, or a guided pilot