Graftum
Built on site We run our own jobs on it, every day

Run the job. Pay the crew. Get paid on time.

Graftum is the one app for UK trade firms, maintenance contractors and labour agencies: tenders, the site, timesheets, CIS pay runs, valuations and invoices. And a free marketplace where firms find vetted workers and workers find their next job.

No card needed. Set up in about three minutes. The demo is a made-up firm with real-looking jobs — no sign-up, nothing to install. See what it saves you.

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One app to run the work. One marketplace to find it.

Most firms juggle a spreadsheet for quotes, WhatsApp for the crew, another app for timesheets and a recruiter for people. In Graftum it's one account, and each part feeds the next.

For trade firms and subcontractors

Follow one job from tender to pay day

Every screen below is the real app with an invented company, client and figures. The same job carries through: the bill becomes the quote, the quote becomes the job, the flats you tick become the valuation and the hours become Friday's pay.

Riverside Quarter, Block A48 flats, labour only
  1. 1

    Priced from the drawings

    £218,508 bid, 4,993 labour hours behind it

  2. 2

    Sent as a link, signed on her phone

    Opened 4 times, accepted with a signature

  3. 3

    Crew on site, flats ticked off

    7 people clocked in, 1st fix 36 of 48 flats

  4. 4

    Valuation 4 out on time

    £33,852 net, Payment Notice date worked out

  5. 5

    Friday pay run

    £5,982 to 7 people after £1,158 CIS

Win it

Price the job from the drawings, not from memory

Measure on the PDF, let labour norms for your trade fill in the hours, and see cost, rate and margin on every line before the price goes out.

  • Take-off on PDF drawings into a bill of quantities
  • Labour norms for electrical, plumbing, drylining and more, all editable
  • Revisions kept side by side; import the Excel quotes you already use
  • Company notes and exclusions that every new tender starts with

Also here: homeowner leads, the Marketplace for packages from main contractors, quick quotes for small jobs and your own price book. More on estimating

Tenders and BoQ: the Riverside Quarter bill with hours, cost, rate and margin on every line, and a Send as offer link button
£218,508 for 48 flats, built line by line. The green button sends it to the client.

Send it

A quote they can sign, not a file they can pass on

One button turns the tender into a private link for each person. They read every sheet and accept on their phone. You see who opened it, and nobody gets a clean copy to hand the next contractor.

  • Their name and email printed across every page
  • No spreadsheet to change; copying is off and the PDF only if you allow it
  • Every open logged, with a warning when it's been opened from several places
  • Accepted with name, role and signature against the exact revision they read
  • New revision replaces the old link; switch any link off in one tap
The client reviews the Riverside Quarter quotation on her phone and signs to accept it
The office view: Sarah Mitchell opened the quote four times and accepted it; a second recipient opened it twice
Left: what the client sees. Right: what your office sees.

Build it

The site runs from your crew's phones

Win the job and it's created with its contract lines, flats and budget. Your crew opens one simple app: start the day, see today's tasks, sign the RAMS, report what they did.

  • Clock in and out in English or Romanian; no live tracking
  • Flats ticked through 1st fix, 2nd fix, test, snagging and handover
  • RAMS, inductions and briefings signed on the phone; cards with expiry alerts
  • Extra work signed by the site manager on the spot, with a dated PDF
  • Electrical test sheets on the phone, printed on the official IET EIC, EICR and Minor Works forms

Also here: week board and calendar, material requests with photos, snags, a 17:30 email with tomorrow's plan, and a verified ID pass for each worker. More on the crew app

The worker app: on the clock since 07:02 on the Riverside job, with a RAMS to sign and two tasks for today
Flat progress: 48 flats by type moving through 1st fix, 2nd fix, test, snagging and handover
Tom's phone at 07:02, and the 48 flats moving through each stage.

Pay your people

Close the week and pay everyone on Friday

The clock-ins are already the timesheet. Check the odd days, approve, and the pay run works out days, overtime and CIS for each person.

  • Day rates, half days and overtime worked out the same way every week
  • CIS at 20%, 30% or gross; expenses paid back separately
  • Bank file for only what's still owed; payslips and CIS statements
  • Lock the week so nobody changes paid days by mistake

Also here: holidays, monthly CIS300 figures, and labour cost on each job as it happens. More on CIS pay runs

The pay run for 7 people: £7,140 gross, £1,158 CIS and £5,982 to pay, with Approve week and Bank payments buttons
Seven people, £5,982 to pay after CIS, one bank file.

Everything else the business runs on

The job above is one path through Graftum. This is the rest of the app. Switch on the parts you use; the menu, the crew app and the client's view follow. Every feature, what it replaces and what it saves →

Win work

  • Leads, including homeowner enquiries from Graftum Jobs
  • Quick quotes with voice dictation, and your own price book
  • Tenders & BoQ with take-off on PDF drawings
  • Room-by-room pricing and assemblies
  • Quotes sent as a private link the client signs
  • Clients, and packages from the Marketplace

Run the site

  • Jobs with contract lines, budget and profit
  • Calendar, week board and daily tasks
  • Crew app: clock-in, photos, snags, extra work
  • RAMS, inductions and daily briefings, signed on the phone
  • Materials requests, suppliers and stock
  • Weekly report and a client portal

Pay your people

  • Team, roles and what each person can see
  • Timesheets straight from the clock-ins
  • Pay runs with CIS, payslips and a bank file
  • Holidays and day rates
  • Subcontractors and their packages
  • Cards and qualifications with expiry alerts

Get paid

Look after buildings

  • Certificates with renewal reminders
  • Test sheets on the phone, on the IET forms; EICR reminders to the client
  • Fire alarm, emergency lighting and CCTV systems
  • Maintenance contracts with live costs
  • A QR poster per building for callouts
  • Maintenance checklist
  • Asset register per site

Grow the company

  • Public profile and the Verified badge
  • Job ads that collect applicants
  • The crew list when you need people
  • Modules switched on per trade
  • Export everything, any time
  • English and Romanian in the app

The office works on a computer or tablet.

The crew use the Graftum app on their phone, and see only their part.

The client gets a private link: the quote, progress, variations and who's coming to site.

Set up for the way your company works

Tell us what you do when you sign up. Graftum switches on the right menu and the right starting steps, so an agency doesn't wade through take-off and a sole trader doesn't see pay runs.

Labour agencies

Your workers on your clients' sites, without the spreadsheet. Set the charge and the pay rate once, fill the week, and the client invoice, the worker pay list and your margin come out of the same numbers.

  • Placements by client and site, with charge and pay rates by the hour or day
  • Weekly timesheets, approved per worker
  • One invoice per client for the week, with VAT, saved in Graftum
  • What you owe each worker this week, ready to pay
  • Margin per worker and for the last four weeks
  • Job ads with a QR poster that collect applicants, and the crew list

We set up the agency account with you. Start as an agency

Agency margin for the week of 5 October: £7,151 charged, £5,311 paid out, £1,840 margin, with each worker's charge, pay and margin
Seven placements across three clients: £1,840 margin this week.

Building maintenance and FM

Every building and every contract on one screen. Each building gets a QR poster in the lobby for callouts; each callout becomes a cost against its contract as the engineer works, so you see which contracts make money before the year ends.

See Graftum for maintenance

Supervisors and sole traders

On your own? Quick quotes, certificates and invoices from your phone. Running a crew on someone else's site? Choose ‘Just me’ for your own daily tasks, timesheets, inductions and weekly report, and keep your records when you move on.

Start on your own

Free for everyone

Where work and people find each other

Two free parts of Graftum sit on the same platform firms run their real jobs on. A Verified badge means a person has checked the firm's insurance. No CVs, no call floods, no agency mark-up.

Looking for work

Hiring

Homeowners and landlords

The Graftum job board on a phone: electricians wanted in London E14 at £24 an hour, and labourers in Reading at £150 a day, each with an Apply button
The job board, in seven languages.

Priced per company, not per person

Three months free for every company. Founding companies then pay less than a coffee a month for the rest of the first year, and keep a permanent discount after that. Looking for work, hiring through Graftum Jobs and getting quotes are free. Full pricing and the savings calculator →

Solo

Just you and the van

£0for 3 months

then £3 a month to the end of year one £19

  • Unlimited leads, quotes and invoices
  • Voice dictation and quick quotes
  • Certificates with expiry alerts
  • Phone and desktop
Start free
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Crew

You and your team

£0for 3 months

then £6 a month to the end of year one £59

  • Everything in Solo
  • Up to 15 team members
  • Crew app: clock-in, photos, requests
  • Scheduling and pay runs
  • Help moving your data in
Start free

Site Pro

Subcontract and big sites

£0for 3 months

then £9 a month to the end of year one £119

  • Everything in Crew
  • Unlimited team members
  • Tenders, offers by link, valuations
  • Flats and zones, client portal
  • Priority support
Start free

Prices exclude VAT. Struck-through prices are the standard monthly prices. The founding offer applies to companies joining during early access: 3 months free, then £3, £6 or £9 a month to the end of your first year, and a permanent founders' discount after that. No card needed to start; we remind you well before the free months end. Labour agencies and maintenance firms use the same plans.

Your data stays yours

You're trusting us with your prices, your people's bank details and your clients. Here's how we look after them.

Security in detail Our data guarantee Why we built Graftum

Where
Hosted in London. Each company's records are locked to that company on the database server itself.
Backups
Every night, kept for 14 days.
Leaving
Export everything any time. If you go, we hand it over in standard formats.
Checked
Security tests run on every update, covering sign-up, roles and access between companies.

Questions builders actually ask

How much does it cost?

Every company gets the first 3 months free, with no card needed. During early access, founding companies then pay £3, £6 or £9 a month (Solo, Crew or Site Pro) until the end of their first year, and keep a permanent discount off the standard prices after that. Prices are per company, not per person, and exclude VAT. Graftum Jobs, the crew list, Graftum Pocket and getting quotes are free.

What can I run in Graftum?

The whole business: leads, quotes and tenders, jobs and budgets, the crew's day on site, RAMS and inductions, materials, timesheets, valuations and invoices, CIS pay runs, cash, certificates and maintenance contracts. You switch on the parts you use, and the menu follows the way your company works.

I run a labour agency. Does Graftum work for placements?

Yes. Choose labour agency when you sign up and you get the agency menu: placements with a charge rate and a pay rate, weekly timesheets per worker, a weekly invoice per client with VAT, what you owe each worker, your margin per worker and per week, and job ads with a QR poster that collect applicants.

I'm looking for work. What does it cost me?

Nothing. Apply to jobs in 30 seconds with your name and phone, no account and no CV, or put yourself on the crew list once and firms looking for your trade text you. Graftum Pocket keeps your days, pay and cards in one place, also free.

Can my client forward the quote I send to another contractor?

Each link is made for one person and prints their name and email across every page, so any screenshot shows where it came from. There's no Excel file to edit, copying is switched off, a PDF is only available if you allow it, and you can switch the link off at any time. You also see every time it's opened.

Can you help me move from spreadsheets or another system?

Yes. During early access we help you bring in your clients, price book and open jobs ourselves. You can also import your existing Excel quotations into Tenders & BoQ. Email hello@graftum.com.

Does it work on iPhone, Android and a computer?

Yes. Install Graftum from the App Store or Google Play, or use it in the browser on any phone or computer. Nothing to install on a PC.

My lads aren't good with technology. Will they use it?

That's who it's built for. The worker app opens on today's job with big buttons for starting and ending the day, photos, extra work and materials. The app is in English and Romanian, and sign-up and help guides are in seven languages, including Polish, Bulgarian and Ukrainian.

What happens with bad signal on site?

The app opens without signal. Clock-ins and photos wait on the phone and send themselves when signal comes back, basements included.

Is my data safe, and can I take it with me?

Each company's data is locked to that company by rules on the database server, hosted in London, and backed up every night. It's yours: export clients, quotes, jobs and photos any time, and if you leave we hand everything over in standard formats.

I'm a supervisor and my company won't buy software. Can I use it on my own?

Yes. Choose ‘Just me’ when you sign up and you get your own workspace for daily tasks, timesheets, inductions, briefings and the weekly report. Your records stay yours if you change site or company.

A main contractor disputed our extras at final account. How does Graftum help?

Record day works on site in under a minute, get the site manager to sign on your phone, and both sides receive a dated PDF the same day. Signed sheets can't be edited and each PDF has a public verification link, so at final account you have signed evidence, not memories.

Run your next job in Graftum.

Set up your company in three minutes, price the next tender and send it as a link. The first three months are on us.

Talk to us

Questions, feedback, or want a hand setting up? We answer personally, usually the same day, Monday to Friday 8am–6pm, in English or Romanian.

hello@graftum.com

On the tools? Graftum Pocket is free: your hours, pay and cards in one place.

Need a tradesperson? Get quotes from local firms.

Looking for work or crews? join the Graftum Crew list (workers) or the Marketplace (firms).