See Where Builder Profit Actually Comes From.
Profit on a residential project is the end of a chain, not a single line item. Land, hard costs, soft costs, financing, timing and the sale each move it, and any one of them can quietly consume the margin the others earned.
Bivvit measures that chain the same way on every project so you can see which part of your business is producing profit and which part is spending it.
Free. Send one project to start.
Seven inputs decide one number
Against revenue.
Actual project profit.
- Land
Your basis sets the ceiling. A strong build on an expensive lot and a weak build on a cheap one can produce the same profit for entirely different reasons.
- Hard costs
Construction cost by category against budget. The place most builders look first, and the place patterns are easiest to find.
- Soft costs
Design, permits, fees, consultants, insurance and closing costs. Small individually, meaningful together, and often untracked by category.
- Financing
Interest and fees over the life of the project. A function of both rate and duration, which makes schedule a financial decision.
- Timing
How long the money stayed out. Two projects with identical profit are not equal if one took eleven months and the other took nineteen.
- Sales
What the market paid, how long it took, and what concessions or price adjustments it required.
One Project Shows the Result. Your History Shows the Pattern.
A single job report can tell you what happened. It cannot tell you what keeps happening. When the same measurements are applied across every project, patterns become visible: a cost category that runs over consistently, a product type that carries better margin, a neighborhood where your duration is always longer than planned.
Profit per project
Dollars produced by the deal, with land, hard, soft and financing all accounted for.
Profit per dollar invested
Return on the cash you actually put in, rather than on total project cost.
Profit per month
Margin measured against duration, so slow projects stop looking as good as fast ones.
By product type
Whether townhomes, SFR or accessory-unit projects are carrying your company.
By neighborhood
Where your cost, duration and pricing outcomes are consistently better.
Over time
Whether recent projects are performing better than older ones, and where the improvement came from.
Not scheduling. Not field management.
Bivvit does not manage subcontractor schedules, daily logs, RFIs, plan sets or punch lists. Those tools live at the task level. Bivvit sits above them and answers the owner's question — where did we make money, and where did we lose it — across your completed projects.
Related Guides
- Construction Cost Per Square Foot
How to compare cost/SF correctly.
- Budget vs Actual
How to see where the project missed and why.
- Infill Development
What makes small-site projects different.
Put It Against Your Own Projects.
Send us the records from a completed project. Bivvit organizes the numbers, shows what happened, and helps you understand what to carry into the next one.
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