About Subino
Built by an estimator, for subbies
Subino is job management software for Australian facade and cladding subcontractors, covering estimating, job costing, purchase orders, variations, progress claims, panel drawings to CNC-ready DXF and factory stock, with AI built in.
It wasn’t designed in a boardroom. It came out of years of pricing and delivering trade packages — and the gap between what subcontractors need and what the big platforms sell.
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The story
Most construction software is built for the head contractor and then sold down the chain. You end up paying for modules you never open, while the things you actually live in — cost-coded estimates, committed cost, progress claims, forecast margin — are somebody else’s afterthought.
I’m Reza Heris. I price facade, cladding and carpentry packages in Australia. I’ve watched the same numbers get typed out three times: once into the quote, again into a budget tracker, again into a claim. By the end of the job nobody quite trusted any of them, and the one that mattered — what this job is actually going to make — was a guess dressed up in a spreadsheet.
The choice on offer was a spreadsheet held together with hope, or a platform built for the builder above me. Most of us ran both. The software for the job, and an Excel template beside it for the estimating, the claims and the forecast the software didn’t cover. Squaring those two up every week is where the hours went. It is also where the money quietly went missing.
So I built the thing I wanted on my own desk first, and kept building it until it could run a job end to end.
That’s Subino. It starts where your job starts — the estimate — and keeps the same cost-coded backbone all the way through orders, bills, claims and forecasting. Price it once and the whole job runs on that number.
It covers the tender, the money, the claims and the site rather than one clever screen, because a subbie’s week is not one job at one stage. And because it came out of a cladding business, it carries two things a cladding business needs every week: panel drawings from a site sketch, and factory stock costed to the job. It is deliberately narrow — built for subcontractors, not sold down to them.
From the tender email to the final claim, you enter the job once: forward the tender in, price it with your own templates and labour rates, send and follow it up from the job, and when you win, the budget, purchase orders, schedule and claim schedule are already there. If something’s missing, you talk to the person who builds it, not a ticket queue.
I built it for my own desk first, and it has priced real tenders since. That is not a customer list, and I am not going to pretend it is one. It does mean every screen in here has had to survive a real tender week.
How it’s built
Three rules the software actually keeps
One number, all the way down
The price you put on the estimate becomes the budget, the claim line and the labour target — per cost code, with nothing re-typed.
Permissions in the database, not the buttons
The crew, the office and management see what their role allows because the database says so — not because a button was hidden from the screen.
Nothing is saved until you confirm it
Where the software drafts something for you — a follow-up, a bill read off a PDF — it shows you first. You approve it; it doesn't approve itself.
Talk to the person who built it
Book a demo and you won't get a sales script — you'll get someone who has priced the same kind of work you do.
No obligation, no card — fifteen minutes on a job of your own.