Our product is QBaticEPM3 — project management and business intelligence software for construction, engineering, utilities and infrastructure businesses. The reason we built it: companies in these sectors lose significant amounts of hard-earned practical knowledge every time a senior estimator or project engineer moves on. The methods, the rate cards, the supplier preferences, the productivity benchmarks, the lessons carried forward from the last difficult job — most of it sits in one person's head, or locked in a spreadsheet only they know how to read. QBaticEPM3 holds that knowledge as a company asset: captured during the work itself, governed by version control, and ready for the next project team to draw on from day one.
Built in southern Africa by two practitioners who understood the construction and infrastructure problem from the inside. The product reflects that perspective: it was not designed around how software is usually sold, but around how projects are actually delivered.
A focused software business. One product, one market, one conviction: that the knowledge built on a construction or infrastructure project belongs to the company that earned it — not to the individual who happens to be holding it. Everything we build follows from that.
Project management and business intelligence software covering the full project lifecycle — from the first estimate through construction delivery and into long-term asset maintenance — in a single governed environment. Twelve industry sectors. One data model.
Not the individual. The company. That is the test every product decision is measured against. If a feature makes knowledge more portable, more permanent, and more useful to the next project team, it belongs in QBaticEPM3. If it does not, it does not.
The know-how in your senior team's heads has real economic value. Capture it properly and the company keeps the asset, not just the person who built it.
Projects shouldn't lose momentum because a key person took another offer. The work needs to remain runnable when the team changes.
Estimate, budget and site costs sit in the same record. There's nothing to reconcile at month-end because there's nothing to reconcile to.
Profit shows up because problems were caught while there was still time to fix them. Not because the final account explained what went wrong.
It's not a feature checklist. It's a working environment that holds the estimating logic, the budget controls, the daily site data and the long-term asset history in one connected record, owned by the company that uses it.
The decisions, supplier preferences, productivity rates, risk mitigations and cost adjustments your team uses every week sit inside the system. When senior staff move on, the company keeps what they built up.
From tender through commissioning into long-term maintenance, a project lives as one financial record. When the team changes, the project doesn't restart from scratch.
Live cost data across crews, plant, materials, currencies and chainage, presented as decisions to make rather than reports to read. Margin is defended while the work is happening, not investigated after final account.
QBatic was founded because both of its founders had spent enough time working in construction and infrastructure projects across southern Africa to reach the same conclusion independently: the industry's knowledge problem is not a technology gap. It is a structural one. The tools that exist were never designed to carry knowledge from one project to the next. They were designed for the project they were being used on. When that project ended, the knowledge built on it had nowhere to go.
Across construction, transmission, water, rail, oil and gas, and renewables, the same pattern repeats itself. Very large, complex projects are delivered on tools built for one user, one spreadsheet, one snapshot in time. The estimate lives in one workbook. The budget in another. Site data in a tracker. Maintenance records somewhere else entirely. The logic that connects them lives in the head of one senior engineer.
When that engineer leaves, the company gets quietly poorer. Months of project knowledge walk out the door, margin assumptions revert to guesswork, audit trails fragment, and the next tender goes out with less certainty than it should carry. QBatic was started specifically to address that. Not by adding another tool to the stack, but by building QBaticEPM3 from the ground up around a single conviction: company knowledge is company infrastructure, and it deserves to be treated that way.
Companies that capture and keep what they collectively know will outperform companies that rely on individuals to remember it.
QBaticEPM3 was built around the conditions QBatic's clients actually work in: multiple regions, multiple currencies, multiple disciplines, and the kind of executive and lender scrutiny that comes with serious capital projects. It is not a generic ERP wrapped in industry skin. It was designed for this work from the ground up, by people who had delivered it.
Housing, power transmission, government, renewables, roads, rail, water, oil & gas pipelines.
Tender → estimate → budget → execution → maintenance, in one governed environment.
Cloud-native architecture with segregated tenancy. No data lives on local machines.
Each project draws on the rate library built by the last. The first tender is the slowest one your team will ever produce.
QBaticEPM3 adapts to your business model. Whether you finance projects, win them as a contractor, or maintain the assets after they are built, the same platform supports your end of the commercial cycle — without requiring separate systems for each phase.
For owner-operators and JV partners, the project is set up in QBaticEPM3 and shared with contractors and consultants. All parties work in the same live environment, so version conflicts don't happen. The client sees what's going on continuously, instead of waiting for a fortnightly report.
For contractors, EPCs and QS firms, QBaticEPM3 carries the whole commercial cycle: winning the contract, producing the bills of quantities, managing variations, controlling cost-to-complete, and settling the final account. The workflow is auditable end-to-end, which makes month-end faster and final account negotiations a lot harder to lose.
For asset owners and O&M organisations, every facility is kept as a live financial record. Inspection records, maintenance history and compliance documents sit on top of the original estimate and budget. When something fails, you can pull up the original BOM, the supplier, the labour rates and the productivity factors used in the build, immediately.
Your project data lives in segregated cloud tenancy. There's no local machine storage and no co-mingling across clients. You decide what's captured, what's exported and what's retired.
Full version history across estimating, budget, execution and maintenance phases. The records hold up for ISO certification, internal audit, lender due diligence and JV partner reviews without anyone having to scramble for them.
Dashboards show estimate-vs-budget-vs-actuals with variance explanations traced back to specific components. Margin erosion gets flagged while there's still time to correct it, rather than at final account stage.
Your data, your libraries and your IP all stay exportable and portable. We'd rather you renew because the product earns its keep than because leaving is too painful.
From a single maintenance contract to multi-billion-dollar capital programmes, the same platform handles both. You don't end up paying for separate systems as the portfolio grows.
QBatic prepares every briefing specifically for the challenge you are trying to solve — before we speak. No generic demonstration. A session built around your sector, your scale, and your operational reality.