Side-by-Side Comparison

Sqwizflow AI vs
Manual Excel / Spreadsheet Estimating

The vast majority of South African SME contractors still price tenders manually using Excel spreadsheets. They download BOQ PDFs from eTender, manually type line items into spreadsheets, call suppliers for rates, and draft method statements from old templates. This approach costs 12-16 hours per tender and is prone to errors, outdated rates, and missed compliance requirements.

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See It In Action

Watch Sqwizflow AI price a live tender

The dashboard below shows exactly how Manual Excel / Spreadsheet Estimating users can switch from manual processes to AI-powered BOQ pricing. No setup. No training. Just upload and go.

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AI BOQ Extraction
99.8% accuracy on PDF & Excel
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Live Market Pricing
Real-time SA supplier rates
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Compliance Checks
CIDB, COIDA, Tax auto-verified
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Submission Docs
Method statements auto-generated

How We Compare

Feature
Sqwizflow AIAI reads BOQ in seconds — 99.8% extraction accuracy
Manual Excel / Spreadsheet EstimatingManual typing of every line item into Excel
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Sqwizflow AILive market rates from SA suppliers automatically
Manual Excel / Spreadsheet EstimatingPhone calls to suppliers for each item
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Sqwizflow AIMethod statements, HIRA generated automatically
Manual Excel / Spreadsheet EstimatingCopy-paste from old tender documents
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Sqwizflow AICIDB compliance verified automatically
Manual Excel / Spreadsheet EstimatingManual check — often missed
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Sqwizflow AIComplete tender pricing in under 22 minutes
Manual Excel / Spreadsheet Estimating12-16 hours per tender
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Sqwizflow AIR399/month for unlimited tenders
Manual Excel / Spreadsheet EstimatingR8,000-15,000/month in estimator salaries per tender
Why South African Contractors Choose Sqwizflow

Built for SA. Powered by AI. Priced for everyone.

Your estimators are spending 80% of their time on data entry and rate-finding that Sqwizflow's AI does in seconds. That's not estimating — that's admin.

The rates in your Excel sheets are only as good as the last time you called a supplier. Sqwizflow checks live market data for every tender, so you never price against stale numbers.

Every tender you don't bid because you don't have the capacity is lost revenue. Sqwizflow frees your team to bid on 3x more tenders without hiring anyone.

Where Manual Excel / Spreadsheet Estimating Falls Short

The gaps that cost you tenders

12-16 hours per BOQ — the single biggest bottleneck in your tendering capacity
Supplier rates called in manually — every tender, every line item
Method statements copy-pasted from old projects — rarely match the scope
Compliance gaps discovered late — sometimes after submission
No audit trail — hard to know why you won or lost
Knowledge walks out the door when estimators leave

See It Work On Your Tender Documents

The same AI that powers this demo reads your actual PDF and Excel BOQs with 99.8% precision.

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From 14 hours to 22 minutes

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Your spreadsheet has a ceiling

Excel works for one tender. Beyond that, the manual work costs you capacity, accuracy, and sanity. Sqwizflow breaks that ceiling.

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