Open Book. Fixed Price. Nothing Hidden.
Most Builders Keep Their Numbers Hidden - We Do Not
When you build with GuildHeart, you see how your price is put together. Our charge-out rates by role, our markup on labour, materials and subcontractors, and where every allowance sits. It is the same information we use to run your job, shared with you from the start.
What Open Book Means
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Every line in your estimate traces back to an actual cost. Materials, labour, subcontractors and site costs are shown as what they are, not folded into a single lump you cannot question.
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On top of cost, we apply a clear, agreed markup that covers running the business and delivering your job well. We show you what that markup is on each type of work, before you sign.
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Nothing sits in a hidden contingency. If something changes, you see why, what it costs, and what it does to your price. No surprises dressed up as necessity.
Our Markup In The Open
Different work carries a different markup, and we think you should know why. Our own labour carries the highest markup because it comes with the most responsibility, supervision, warranty and risk. Materials and subcontractors carry a lower markup, because we are coordinating them rather than carrying the full labour risk ourselves. Provisional allowances carry a small handling margin only. And when a variation is caused by our error, not yours, it carries no markup at all. You should never pay extra for our mistakes. Across a typical job, this blends to a single, honest margin that keeps us sustainable and keeps your price fair. We will walk you through the exact figures for your project in your proposal.
See It For Yourself
Fixed Price - Not A Moving Target
Why We Do It This Way
Construction has a trust problem, and most of it comes down to hidden numbers. We built GuildHeart to be the opposite. When you can see how your price is built, you can make good decisions, you can hold us to account, and you can get on with the exciting part, which is watching your project come to life. That is what we mean when we say we do not just build projects. We build confidence.
Once we have agreed your scope and your open-book estimate, we commit to a fixed price. You are not exposed to cost creep on work we have already quoted. If you choose to change something, we price that change transparently and you decide before we proceed. The number you agree is the number you can plan around.
The best way to understand open-book building is to see one of our proposals. Tell us about your project and we will show you exactly how we would price it.