Five things, from a £75 a month guide you run yourself to a named Project Manager running the build for you. For each one: what it is, how it actually runs, and why you would choose it. Real prices on this page, no quotes hidden behind a form.
You own the project. You are not on site. So you are relying on a builder who mostly tells you it is fine, a WhatsApp thread, and a spreadsheet you stopped updating in week five.
Then something goes wrong and the question comes. Who signed off on that? Three months later it is buried in an email chain nobody can find, and now it is your name attached to the question.
You are not going to hire a full-time Project Manager for one project, and you should not. That gap is the whole business. Everything below is a different amount of help for a different amount of money.
The difference between us and a good builder who keeps you posted is not effort. It is where the information lives. This is what running your project looks like on a retainer, and it is the same on all three: Lite, Pro and Elite.
Every instruction, variation, decision and open question goes into the Hex360 Dashboard the moment it happens, with a named owner and a date against it. Nothing is reconstructed from an email chain later. Log in on a Tuesday evening and you see the project as it stands, not as somebody remembers it.
Open questions run as RFIs (a Request for Information, the formal way a query is raised, owned and answered on a construction project). Each one has an owner and a date, and gets chased daily until it is closed. A question nobody owns is how a site stands still for a fortnight.
A variation (any change to the agreed scope, and so to the price or the programme) gets a cost and a time impact attached before you are asked to say yes. You approve a number and a date, not a promise.
Payment certificates (the written confirmation of what has been done and what the builder is owed) go out on the dates the contract sets, not when somebody gets round to it. The builder is paid on time for work that has been checked, and you never pay for work that has not been done.
Weekly on Pro and Elite, fortnightly on Lite. The same format every time: cost against budget, programme against plan, open variations, open RFIs, and the decisions we need from you. If you read nothing else all week, read that. Messages get an answer within one working day.
All five of those come with a retainer, on every tier: Lite at £450, Pro at £1,100 and Elite at £1,750 a month, per project. The only difference between the tiers here is the reporting cadence, which is fortnightly on Lite and weekly on Pro and Elite, and the hours you have to draw on. Access to the Hex360 Dashboard comes with a live Virtual PM package. It is not part of a Blueprints subscription, and it is not part of the one-off £500 Site Visit and Appraisal.
You can take one, or move up as the project needs it. Most people start at 02.
£75 to £300 a month you run the project, we hand you the process
The 9 guides we work from on live jobs, 258 steps in order, with the templates and the references attached. Not a watered-down version. The same process.
You subscribe and work through the steps on your own projects, ticking them off as you go. Starter gives you one guide, Professional gives you all nine, and each comes single-project or multi-project up to ten projects per guide. The first five steps of any guide are open to read before you pay. Annual is ten months for twelve.
The constraint here is knowledge, not time. If you have the hours to run your own build and just want to stop guessing at the order, this is the cheaper answer by a long way, and we would rather tell you that than sell you a retainer you do not need.
£500 flat a straight read on one property
Two to three hours on site with Craig, then a written appraisal in your hands within five working days. What the building actually needs, where the risk sits, and what it should cost to put right.
You apply, we agree a date, Craig visits. The appraisal that follows is a document, not a phone call: findings, a cost view, and a plain recommendation. If we think the deal does not stack up, that is what it will say.
This is the cheapest way to find out what you are dealing with before you commit money you cannot get back. It works just as well mid-build, when you have started to wonder whether you are being taken for a ride and you want somebody independent to look.
£3,000 flat twelve weeks, idea to a builder on site
We take the project from an idea to a signed contract, a dated programme and a builder on site. Concept, scope, tender, contract, programme, in that order.
Twelve weeks, paid across four stages at 30, 30, 20 and 20 per cent. You finish with a written scope, a tender package that lets builders price like for like, a contract that has been read properly, and a programme with dates in it. This is the one thing on this page you cannot join late: it ends the day the builder starts.
A vague scope produces quotes you cannot compare, a contract that does not cover changes, and a programme with no dates to hold anyone to. Every one of those comes back later as a variation, priced by the builder, on the builder's terms. The cheapest place to fix a build is before it starts.
£450, £1,100 or £1,750 a month per project. We run the build
A named Project Manager and Coordinator running your project day to day, remotely, through the Hex360 Dashboard. You stay the decision maker. You stop being the Project Manager.
Lite at £450 is up to 8 hours a month with a fortnightly written report and a named Coordinator. Pro at £1,100 is up to 20 hours, a weekly report, and a named PM alongside the Coordinator, with twelve places. Elite at £1,750 is up to 32 hours, yours to use where you prefer them including on director time, with weekly reporting plus a monthly director-level review, and adds a pre-construction risk register, a weekly cost report against budget, multi-site coordination and refinance support, with six places. Thirty-day rolling notice after the first three months. You can start mid-build: most people do.
Two things sink a project: a change nobody priced, and a question nobody owned. The first arrives as a bigger final account. The second arrives as a fortnight of trades standing down. Both leave you arguing from memory. This is what you are buying: the answer to "who signed off on that?" in seconds, and the end of being the bottleneck in your own investment.
Priced openly nothing hidden, nothing assumed
The things that sit outside a package, with the price written down rather than discovered later.
Work beyond your included hours is £75 an hour. Site visits happen when you ask for one and cost £250 each. Outside Plymouth, travel is a further £250 plus £100 to £150 a night where a stay is needed, agreed with you before it is spent. Where a project needs planning input we can bring in our professional planner, priced per project.
Most disputes about money are really disputes about something nobody mentioned. Everything here is on the page so you can budget for it, and nothing gets spent without you agreeing to it first.
Start with Blueprints. You will run it yourself, in the right order, for £75 a month.
Start with the £500 Site Visit and Appraisal. It works before you buy and it works mid-build.
Start with the Coordination Service. Twelve weeks to a signed contract and a start date.
Start with a retainer. You can join mid-build, and most people do.
Go ahead within thirty days of the visit and the £500 is credited: in full against the Coordination Service, or against a Pro or Elite retainer taken for its first three months. £250 against a Lite retainer taken for its first three months.
Travel and accommodation are never part of the £500. Outside Plymouth that is £250 travel plus £100 to £150 a night, agreed with you before it is spent.
Already on Blueprints? One month's fee, whether that is £75, £150 or £300, comes off your first month on any retainer.
We are not VAT registered, so the price you see is the price you pay. Retainers are per project, per month, on thirty-day rolling notice after the first three months. Architect, structural engineer, planning and Building Control fees are not included on any tier.
See the full pricingBy doing it right now. Craig is the remote Project Manager on live projects in Manchester and Carlisle, £6 to £7 million of development value between them. This is not a model we are proposing, it is what happens on a Tuesday. Underneath that: the report lands on a fixed day in writing, variations are priced before anyone approves them, and everything is in the dashboard the day it happens rather than in somebody's memory. Site visits happen when you ask for one, at £250 a visit, and that cost is printed above rather than discovered later.
Pro is £1,100 a month for up to 20 hours from a named Project Manager and a named Coordinator. That works out at £55 an hour, but that is the effective rate inside the package: we do not sell hours on their own. It is per project rather than per client, and it is thirty-day rolling after the first three months, so it is not a year you cannot get out of. Set it against what one unpriced variation or a fortnight's delay costs on your project. You know those numbers better than we do.
You should, if you have got the hours. Blueprints is £75 a month and it is the same process we run on live jobs, not a watered-down version. A retainer is for when the constraint is your time, not your knowledge. If you are honestly not sure which you need, the £500 visit tells you, and it comes off the price if you move up.
Craig Lewis, Founder and Director. Fifteen years and more in construction and project management, a BSc in Construction Management and The Environment, CSCS, SMSTS and first aid. Over 40 completed projects as main contractor, project manager and developer, over £6 million in total. Separately, he is currently involved in live projects in Manchester and Carlisle, worth £6 to £7 million of development value between them, working remotely. He has also acted as project manager to a contractor on a multi-million pound London project for a national institution.
On Pro and Elite, Craig is your named Project Manager and you also get a named Coordinator, who sits behind the project and supports the day-to-day running within the hours allowed and wherever the project needs it. On Lite you get the named Coordinator. Either way you know who to ring.
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More about CraigA short form: who you are, where the project is, which tier you think fits, and what has gone wrong before. Three minutes.
A call invite, a place on the waitlist, or a straight no. Places are capped at twelve on Pro and six on Elite, so sometimes the answer is not yet.
Where the project is, which of the five above actually fits, and how we would run it. Where we are not the right people, we will say so.
The visit gets booked, or the retainer starts and the dashboard is set up. From that day, everything is logged.
