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

Two families of AI agents

A team of AI agents for construction cost

Nine specialist agents in two families. The Cost Data Agents answer, estimate and track prices; the BOQ Agents build, check and export your bills. After sign-in, the Agents hub puts every one of them a click away.

Cost Data Agents 4 BOQ Agents 5

Family one

Cost Data Agents

Ask, estimate and track prices across Material, Labour and Machinery — every answer grounded in real Malaysian cost data. These agents live in the Chat workspace.

AI Ask

Ask any unit rate in plain English; get a traceable figure for your state, year and month.

Free · 2 cr

AI Track

Pin up to 10 rates to a price watchlist that updates itself when a newer period lands, then ask about any card.

Pro

AI Estimate

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

Pro

AI Trends

See how Malaysian tender-price and material indices have moved, and price with the trend in mind.

Pro

Family two

BOQ Agents

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

AI Draft

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

20 cr · trade 5 cr

AI Import

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

Excel free · PDF 1 cr / 5 pp

AI Review

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

Free · 5 cr

AI Compare

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

Free · from 10 cr

AI Items

Generate individual priced line items on demand and drop them straight into your bill.

Free · 2 cr

A closer look

See the AI agents at work

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

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.

Free to build · 20 cr full draft · 5 cr per trade

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 yoursPDF export on Pro & Max

AI Ask

Ask any unit rate in plain English and get the right figure for your state, year and month. No rate book required.

Free · 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

AI Estimate

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

Pro & Max · 5 cr

Substructure18%

Superstructure30%

Finishes14%

Services20%

AI Trends

See how Malaysian tender-price and material cost indices have moved — by state, category and period.

Pro & Max · 5 cr

AI 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%

AI 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

AI Review

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

Free · 5 cr

Waterproofing not measured

Item C unit m² — should be m³

Rates within Johor 2026 range

AI Compare

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

Free · 10 cr + 5 per extra project

WarehouseRM 2.15m

FactoryRM 2.61m

Substructure 18% lower on the warehouse

AI Items

Look up a live rate for any line and drop priced items straight into your bill.

Free · 2 cr

Add: brickwork, 115 mm, common

Brickwork 115 mm · m²RM 78

Wall ties & DPC · m²RM 12

✓ Added to Bill No. 3

Meet the agents in Caprix

What's new

Recently shipped in Caprix

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

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.

Rate library

Personal & Company Library

Save a build-up once and reuse it on every project. Corporate teams also get a shared Company Library in the same panel.

BOQ Builder

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.

For teams

Share with exactly who you choose

Share a project with the whole company or with named teammates. If someone leaves, their shared work stays with the company.

AI Estimate

Location index across 14 states

Estimates blend comparable projects from every state and rebase them to yours, so thin local data no longer means a thin budget.

Workspace

One hub for every agent

Sign in and pick any of the nine agents from the Agents hub. Sidebars collapse to a slim rail when you want the room.

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

AI 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 · SubstructureWarehouse, 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 AI Import structure it.

AI drafts it

AI 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 AI 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

AI 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

AI 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. Ask uses 2 credits; Estimate, Trends and each tracked rate use 5; a full AI Draft uses 20. Cancel anytime.

Free

RM 0 forever

50 credits, auto-reset every month

~25 Ask queries a month
Price data: 8 categories per type, 5 locations
Full BOQ Builder + all five BOQ Agents
Personal rate library
Chat history not saved
Estimate, Trends, Track & PDF export locked

Sign up free

Pro

RM 99 / month

1,000 credits, renewed monthly

~500 Ask or ~200 Estimate / Trends queries
AI Estimate & AI Trends unlocked
Full price data: every category & location
Track price watchlist — up to 10 rates
Tender-ready, encrypted PDF export
Chat history saved · priority speed

Start with Pro

Best value

Max

RM 149 / month

2,500 credits, renewed monthly

~1,250 Ask or ~500 Estimate / Trends queries
Everything in Pro
Highest-priority queue
Best for busy estimating teams
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
Shared BOQ workspace with live co-editing
Company rate library the whole team can build on
Share each project with everyone or named teammates
Billed annually; credits still renew monthly

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Products & Services

The full BCISM ecosystem

Beyond Caprix, BCISM provides the cost data, standards, software and references the Malaysian construction industry relies on.

01

Reference

BCISM Costbook 2025

The trusted annual reference of unit rates and prices for the Malaysian construction industry. 2025 edition now available for pre-order.

Pre-order now

02

Software

CYPE Solutions

World-class software for architecture, structures and project management — now available in Malaysia through BCISM, with local support.

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Questions & answers

Construction cost estimating & BOQ, answered

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

Caprix AI is BCISM's cost intelligence platform for Malaysian construction. Nine specialist AI agents — four for cost data, five for Bills of Quantities — answer unit-rate questions, generate elemental estimates, track market indices and draft, review and export SMM2 bills, all grounded in real Malaysian Material, Labour and Machinery data.

The BOQ Builder produces SMM2-compliant bills today, with JKR-style collection and summary pages, multiple bills per project and measured, sum, PC, provisional and contingency item types. SMM3 support is coming soon.

Rates come from BCISM's own cost databases — more than 30,000 live Material, Labour and Machinery rates, location-indexed across 14 Malaysian states, with 2026 pricing and historical periods behind every trend.

Yes. The Free plan gives you 50 credits that auto-reset every month — roughly 25 AI Ask queries — plus the full BOQ Builder with all five BOQ Agents and a personal rate library. Estimate, Trends, Track and PDF export unlock on Pro and Max. No credit card required.

AI Track lets you pin up to 10 rates to a price watchlist on Pro and Max. Each tracked rate updates itself when a newer period lands, so you know steel or cement has moved before your tender does.

The Corporate plan puts several estimators under one company account with a shared credit pool or a fixed allowance per seat, a shared BOQ workspace and Company rate library, annual billing to the company and monthly credit renewal. Talk to us for a tailored quote.

Yes. Shared projects support live co-editing: you see who is in the project, rows a teammate is editing lock softly, and every cell shows who last changed it. Share a project with the whole company or with named teammates, and issued bills can be revised as numbered Addenda or Variation Orders.

All of it is in Caprix AI. The Cost Data Agents hold the unit rates, elemental benchmarks and price indices for Malaysian construction; the BOQ Agents handle measurement and produce SMM2-compliant Bills of Quantities, with SMM3 coming soon. BCISM also still publishes free benchmarking reports and price indices on the Resources page.

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