Construction Spend Benchmarking
Your estimating problem is not an estimating problem. An estimate is a prediction of your own cost base.
Why does the same item cost different amounts on different projects?
One aluminium windowsill, bought on ten different projects, described ten different ways. Classified, the pattern is visible in days: here is what each project actually paid, and why two of them differ.
Two purchases sit above the median: one fast-track site with no lead time to shop around, one specified a heavier gauge for a coastal project. Both explainable, both invisible until classified.
Why do two quotes for the same scope come in so differently?
A groundworks package, compared across 8 comparable projects, shows a 34% spread. Site access and a fast timeline explain most of it. Two quotes sit outside the band, each with a reason attached once classified. The other six show what the scope should really cost.
Why can’t you benchmark spend behind a ledger code?
A ledger item field like “6100-42-K” is a nominal accounting code standing in for the item itself. Common in ERPs built for finance, not procurement. Nobody can benchmark spend they can’t see behind a code like that.
Pearstop works from invoices, ERP exports, purchase orders, and Excel — whatever format the data already arrives in — for cost-code benchmarking, outlier detection, and supplier consolidation.
From invoices in any format to a table you can act on
2 · Classify
3 · Enrich
Your data doesn't need to be clean
Free-text descriptions and accounting codes are the starting point, not a blocker.
AI-first, human reviewed
Every label checked. Classification holds up as new invoices and projects arrive.
Usage-based pricing
You pay for the lines processed. No heavy annual subscription.
savings on addressable spend. The findings above are where it comes from.
“If you cannot defend your cost baseline, you are bidding on a feeling.”
Want to see this on your own spend?
Send a sample of your own procurement data and we'll show you the same kind of pattern in your own numbers.
