BCISM · Caprix AI Cost Estimating & SMM2 BOQ Software for Malaysia

What BCISM offers

Cost data, tools and training for Malaysian construction

BCISM is Malaysia’s centralised source of building cost information. Pick up the Costbook, put Caprix AI to work, design in CYPE, or upskill your team.

AI platform

Caprix AI

Twelve AI agents for unit rates, estimates, price tracking and SMM2 Bills of Quantities, built on BCISM’s live cost data.

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Reference

BCISM Costbook

The trusted annual reference of unit rates and prices for the Malaysian construction industry.

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Software

CYPE Solutions

Architecture, structures and BOQ software, available in Malaysia through BCISM with local support.

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Two families of AI agents

A team of AI agents for construction cost

Twelve specialist skills in two families. The Construction Intelligence Agents analyse, estimate, track and research prices, and advise on contracts; the BOQ Agents build, check and export your bills. After sign-in, choose the Chat Workspace or the BOQ Workspace.

Family one · Chat Workspace7 skills

Construction Intelligence Agents

One chat for every question. Describe your task in plain language and Caprix selects the right skill and prepares the form for you to review and run.

Analyse

All plans · 2 cr

Ask for any unit rate in plain English and get the figure for your state, with its full price history, 12 month movement, high and low.

Compare rates

Pro · 5 cr

Compare one item across states, or two to four rates side by side over time.

Estimate

Pro · 5 cr

Turn a building brief into an elemental budget that blends comparable projects from every state, rebased to yours.

Trends

Pro · 5 cr

See how Malaysian tender-price and material indices have moved, and forecast where a unit rate is heading.

Track

Pro · 5 cr / item

Pin up to 10 rates to a watchlist that updates itself when a newer period lands, with alerts and full history.

Research

Pro · 4 cr

Official DOSM, Bank Negara and MOF statistics, read alongside Caprix indices and rates, with every source cited.

Advise

Pro · 5 cr

Contract guidance on payment, delay, LAD and CIPAA, drawn from Malaysian case law and the PDFs you attach.

Meet the Construction Intelligence Agents

Family two · BOQ Workspace5 skills

BOQ Agents

Build, price, check and export tender-ready Bills of Quantities to SMM2 (SMM3 coming soon). These skills live inside the BOQ Builder.

Draft

All plans · 20 cr

Describe the project and get a full SMM2 bill structure, correctly worded items and units, ready for you to measure and price.

Import

Excel free · PDF 1 cr / 5 pp

Drop in an Excel or PDF bill and let AI read, structure and tidy it into a clean, editable BOQ.

Review

All plans · 5 cr

Have your finished bill checked for missing trades, wrong units and rates that look off.

Compare

All plans · from 10 cr

Benchmark 2 to 5 projects side by side, location-adjusted, and see where you sit high, low or on the money.

Items

All plans · 5 cr

Draft the missing items for a bill or trade, review them, then add them to your bill.

Building and editing a bill is free on every plan. The AI skills are open to every plan too and spend credits each time they run.

Meet the BOQ Agents

A closer look

See the AI agents at work

Each skill is grounded in real Malaysian Material, Labour and Machinery data — from a one-line rate check to a full, tender-ready Bill of Quantities. Here is what they produce.

AI BOQ Drafting

Describe a project in one sentence (“2,000 m² warehouse in Senai”) and Caprix drafts the full SMM2 bill structure: trades, correctly worded items and units. You measure; then price each line from live rate lookups or your own rate library. PDF export is free with a watermark, clean on Pro & Max.

All plans · 20 cr full draft · 5 cr per trade

BOQ Builder · Bill No. 2 · SubstructureDrafting from “warehouse, Senai”

AExcavate to reduce levels, not exceeding 1.5 m deepm³

BMass concrete grade 15 in blinding, 75 mm thickm²

CReinforced concrete grade 30 in pile capsm³

DHigh-tensile deformed bar reinforcementkg

6 bills · 84 items draftedReady to measure

SMM2 wording & unitsQty & rate are yours

Analyse

Ask for any unit rate in plain English and get the right figure for your state, with its full price history. No rate book required.

All plans · 2 cr / query

Rate for RC grade 30 in Selangor, 2026?

Ready-mix concrete G30 · m³RM 305

High-tensile steel · tRM 4,180

Composite · per m³ placedRM 612

Estimate

Enter a building type and size and get an elemental estimate, from substructure to preliminaries, rebased to your state and target year.

Pro & Max · 5 cr

Substructure18%

Superstructure30%

Finishes14%

Services20%

Trends

See how Malaysian tender-price and cost indices have moved by state, category and period, and forecast where a unit rate is heading.

Pro & Max · 5 cr

Track

Pin the rates your budget depends on to a watchlist. Each card refreshes itself when a newer period lands, so you learn that steel moved before your tender does.

Pro & Max · 5 cr / item

High-tensile steel bar · tRM 4,180 +3.4%

Ready-mix concrete G30 · m³RM 305 0.0%

Cement, OPC 50 kg · bagRM 21.50 −1.8%

Auto-updated · Jun → Jul 2026

Import

Drop in an Excel or PDF bill and AI reads, structures and tidies it into a clean, editable BOQ.

Excel free · PDF 1 cr / 5 pp

tender-boq.xlsx

A Excavation & earthworks

B Concrete works, G30

C Reinforcement, high-tensile

Review

Have your finished bill checked for missing trades, wrong units and rates that look off.

All plans · 5 cr

Waterproofing not measured

Item C unit m² — should be m³

Rates within Johor 2026 range

Compare

Benchmark 2 to 5 priced projects side by side, adjusted for location; AI explains the gap in plain language.

All plans · 10 cr + 5 per extra project

WarehouseRM 2.15m

FactoryRM 2.61m

Substructure 18% lower on the warehouse

Items

Draft the missing items for any bill or trade, review them, then add them. A live rate lookup for a line is 2 credits.

All plans · 5 cr

Add: brickwork, 115 mm, common

Brickwork 115 mm · m²RM 78

Wall ties & DPC · m²RM 12

✓ Added to Bill No. 3

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What's new

Recently shipped in Caprix

Caprix keeps growing with the way estimating teams actually work. Here is what has landed most recently.

Chat Workspace

One chat for every skill

Describe your task in plain language. Caprix selects the right skill and prepares the form, and you see the credit cost before you run it.

New skill

Research

Official DOSM, Bank Negara and MOF statistics read alongside Caprix indices and rates, with charts and every source cited.

New skill

Advise

Contract guidance on payment, delay, LAD and CIPAA, drawn from a library of Malaysian judgments and the PDFs you attach.

New skill

Compare rates

Compare one item across states, or two to four rates side by side, over any year range.

Analyse

Full price history on every rate

Every rate now comes with its full history, 12 month movement, high and low, and prices in other states.

Plans

More credits on Pro and Max

Pro now includes 2,000 credits every month and Max includes 4,000, at the same price.

For teams

Live co-editing

Work on the same bill at the same time. See who is in the project, rows a teammate is editing lock softly, and every cell shows who last changed it.

BOQ Workspace

Addenda & Variation Orders

Edit an issued bill and Caprix records the difference as a numbered Addendum or VO, with a reason and its own printable PDF.

The AI BOQ Builder

From a question to a tender-ready Bill of Quantities

Stop rebuilding spreadsheets for every project. Let AI draft the structure, price each line from live Malaysian rates or your own library, apply your markup, and export the clean documents your client expects.

SMM2 structure with multiple bills per project

Measured, sum, PC, provisional & contingency item types

Custom columns and per-bill markup calculations

Import — Excel or PDF to kick-start from existing bills

Addenda & Variation Orders — issue a numbered, priced change set instead of overwriting an issued bill

Your own rate library — save build-ups once and reuse them on every project, free on all plans

Live co-editing on shared projects, with presence and soft row locks

Clean, tender-ready PDF export — page setup, layout & page numbering

Password-protected, encrypted PDFs for confidential tenders

Bill No. 2 · SubstructureProject: Warehouse, Senai · SMM2 · 2026 rates

JLAR2 editing

Item	Description	Amount
A	Excavate to reduce levels	RM 48,200
B	Mass concrete in foundations	RM 96,750
C	Reinforced concrete bases, G30	RM 184,400
D	Provisional sum, ground stabilisation	RM 50,000
	Carried to Summary	RM 379,350

4 items · priced against 2026 Johor ratesExport PDF

The AI pipeline

From a one-line brief to a tender-ready bill

Four AI-assisted moves. No blank spreadsheets, no rate books, no copy-paste.

Describe or import

Type a one-line brief, or drop in an existing Excel or PDF bill and let Import structure it.

AI drafts it

Draft lays out the SMM2 bills with correctly worded items and units, trade by trade.

Measure & price

Enter quantities, pull live rates or your library build-ups, set markup, and co-edit with your team.

Check & issue

Run Review, export an encrypted tender-ready PDF, and track later changes as Addenda or VOs.

Market intelligence, visualised

See the cost story behind every number

Caprix doesn't just return a figure — it shows the index trend behind it and the elemental breakdown inside it.

Tender price indexPeninsular Malaysia · 2018 → 2024

Trends

2018202020222024

6.4%Steel, latest YoY

3.1%Concrete, latest YoY

22%Change since 2018

Grounded in real index data · live figures on Pro & Max

Elemental breakdownWarehouse, 2,000 m²

Estimate

RM 2.15mEstimated total

Substructure18%

Superstructure30%

Finishes14%

Fittings & furnishings6%

Services20%

Preliminaries12%

Who it's for

Built for the people who price the build

Whether you're tendering, budgeting or value-engineering, Caprix removes the spreadsheet grind.

Quantity Surveyors

Draft SMM2 bills with AI and price them against live rates instead of hunting through old rate books and PDFs.

Estimators

Turn a brief into a defensible cost estimate in minutes, with an AI elemental breakdown you can stand behind.

Contractors & Builders

Check unit rates on the fly and sanity-check quotes before you commit to a tender price.

Architects

Test the cost impact of design decisions early, while changes are still cheap to make.

Project Managers

Build budgets backed by real indices and watch cost trends so there are no surprises mid-project.

Students & Trainees

Learn how Malaysian rates and BOQs really fit together, with a free plan and an AI tutor that explains every number.

Plans & pricing

Start free. Upgrade when you're pricing for real.

Every plan runs on one simple credit system. Analyse uses 2 credits; Research uses 4; Estimate, Trends, Compare rates, Advise and each tracked rate use 5; a full Draft uses 20. Cancel anytime.

Free

RM 0 forever

50 credits, auto-reset every month

~25 Analyse queries a month
Price data: 8 categories per type, 5 locations
Full BOQ Builder; the five BOQ Agents run on your credits
Personal rate library
Chat history not saved
Compare rates, Estimate, Trends, Track, Research & Advise locked; PDF export carries a watermark

Sign up free

Pro

RM 99 / month

2,000 credits, renewed monthly

~1,000 Analyse or ~400 Estimate, Trends or Advise queries
Compare rates, Estimate & Trends unlocked
Research (official statistics) & Advise (contract guidance)
Full price data: every category & location
Track price watchlist — up to 10 rates
Clean, tender-ready, encrypted PDF export
Chat history saved

Start with Pro

Best value

Max

RM 149 / month

4,000 credits, renewed monthly

~2,000 Analyse or ~800 Estimate, Trends or Advise queries
Everything in Pro
Twice the credits of Pro, at the lowest cost per credit
Chat history saved

Go Max

Corporate

Custom for teams

One company account, several estimators

Multiple seats under one company account
Shared credit pool, or a fixed allowance per seat
Every member inherits the company plan — no separate cards
Billed annually to the company; credits still renew monthly
Shared BOQ workspace with live co-editing
Company rate library the whole team can build on
Share each project with everyone or named teammates
Add or remove team members yourself, any time

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Questions & answers

Construction cost estimating & BOQ software, answered

Everything quantity surveyors, estimators and contractors ask before switching to Caprix AI.

Caprix AI is an AI cost intelligence platform for the Malaysian construction industry, built by BCISM. Twelve specialist skills work in two families: the Construction Intelligence Agents analyse unit rates, produce elemental budgets, track and forecast cost trends, read official statistics and give contract guidance; the BOQ Agents draft, import, check, compare and export tender-ready SMM2 Bills of Quantities. Everything runs in two workspaces, Chat and BOQ.

Caprix drafts, prices, checks and exports Bills of Quantities in SMM2 format from a short brief, so you get a tender-ready BOQ without formatting it line by line. SMM3 support is in development and is not available yet.

Caprix works with Malaysian construction intelligence across material, labour and machinery. Analyse answers rate questions in plain language grounded in that data and returns each rate with its full price history, Trends tracks how construction costs and tender prices have moved over time, and Research reads official DOSM, Bank Negara and MOF statistics alongside it.

Caprix is built for quantity surveyors, estimators, contractors and builders, architects, project managers, and students working on construction projects in Malaysia — anyone who prices the build.

Yes. The Track skill lets you pin up to 10 rates — steel, cement, ready-mix concrete, labour or machinery — to a price watchlist. Each card shows the current price, the change in value and percent, and a six-period trendline, and updates itself when a newer period of data is published. Track is available on the Pro and Max plans.

Yes. A Corporate account puts several estimators under one company account with either a shared credit pool or a fixed allowance per seat. Every member inherits the company plan, billing is annual to the company while credits still renew monthly, and you can add or remove team members at any time. Teams also get a shared BOQ workspace with live co-editing and a Company rate library.

Yes, on a Corporate account. Share a project with the whole company or with named teammates, and everyone can edit it live: you see who is in the project, a row a teammate is editing is softly locked, and each cell shows who last changed it. Once a bill is issued, later changes can be recorded as numbered Addenda or Variation Orders.

Yes. You can start for free with 50 credits that reset every month — no credit card needed — and upgrade to Pro or Max when you are pricing real projects.

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