Built by a subby,
for subbys.
SubbyWise came out of a real subcontracting business — and out of the Sunday nights spent rebuilding a payment spreadsheet that should never have existed.
If you subcontract in UK construction, you already know the shape of the month. You do the work. You put an application together — usually in Excel, usually on a Sunday. You send it. Then you wait, and you chase, and somewhere between the QS certifying a number you don't agree with and a remittance landing that doesn't match anything, you lose an afternoon working out where the money went.
Then there's everything around it. The retention on the job you finished eighteen months ago that nobody has released. The variation you never formally priced. The main contractor asking for your insurance and every lad's CSCS card by Friday morning.
None of this is complicated. It's just relentless. And the software that exists is either built for main contractors — priced and shaped for them — or it's generic accounting software that has never heard of a payment matrix, a stage claim, or retention release.
SubbyWise is the tool we wanted: one place where the applications, the payments, the retention, the extras and the paperwork all live, that understands how a housebuilder actually pays a subcontractor, and that tells you what needs doing before it becomes a problem.
It's a small operation. The person who answers your email is the person who built the thing, which cuts both ways — you won't get a support script, and you might occasionally wait a day. What you will get is somebody who knows what a first fix claim is.
Four things we won't compromise on.
Built from the site, not a boardroom
Every screen exists because of a real job that went wrong — a retention nobody flagged, a remittance that didn't add up, a certificate that expired the week of a start. If a feature doesn't solve something that has actually cost money, it doesn't go in.
Plain English, not finance jargon
You shouldn't need a QS qualification to work out what a field means. Options are explained where you use them, in the words the trade actually uses.
One honest price
No tiers designed to make you upgrade, no per-user charge that punishes you for putting your foreman on it, no feature held back for an enterprise plan that doesn't exist.
Your numbers are yours
Everything exports. Nothing is sold on. You can take a full copy of your figures out whenever you like — which is the only real guarantee that we have to keep earning it.
Early access is opening now.
The first 50 subcontractors get three months free. In return, tell us what's wrong with it — that's what shapes what gets built next.