Contractors do it every week. That is the whole imbalance, and it is the reason so many renovations start badly.
We kept hearing the same three stories. A deposit paid, then silence. Weeks lost hopping between interior designers and contractors, collecting quotations that could not be compared because no two of them described the same work the same way. And homeowners at the kitchen table at midnight with four documents spread out, trying to do the comparison by hand.
None of these people were careless. They were ordinary people handed a document written by someone who does this every day, and asked to sign it.
We think software can close that gap. Not by giving advice, and not by telling anyone who to hire — but by reading the paperwork properly, in minutes, before any money moves. Five checks, one report, one gate between you and your signature.
Every quotation goes through all five, in this order. Anything we find nothing on says so and gets out of your way.
Every firm on your quotations is looked up against HDB’s Directory of Renovation Contractors. Anyone doing HDB work should be on that register — and it takes ten seconds to check, once you know where to look.
Line against line, measurement against measurement. We match the same work across every quotation even when each firm has named it differently, so you can finally see where the difference actually sits — and what one firm left out that another priced.
The arithmetic nobody double-checks. Totals that do not match the line items above them, quantities that look wrong for the flat, work described so loosely it could mean anything. Each one comes with the question to ask, ready to copy and send.
Staged payment is normal here — no contractor floats the cost of your carpentry. What matters is how far ahead of the work the money runs. We show you the widest point, and hand you the same amounts re-tied to finished work, in wording you can send straight back.
Branded fittings quoted by name — the hob, the dish rack, the sanitary ware. These have a public price you can look up. Knowing what a named item actually costs tells you a great deal about the rest of the quotation.
Five checks, about two minutes, before any money moves.
One person in Singapore, working under Kydos Pte Ltd. Not an agency, not a renovation portal, not a lead-generation business with a scanner bolted on the front.
They are read, compared, and turned into your report. That is all.
Your name, unit number, phone number and email are stripped from the documents before anything is stored, and the original files are deleted as soon as the report is built.
If you send your quotations over WhatsApp, note that the documents also stay in your own chat history, on your phone and on Meta’s servers, until you delete them there.
Full detail is on the data page and in the privacy policy.
Because a tool like this is only worth anything if the person holding the quotation can actually get to it. Charging twenty dollars at the door would stop exactly the people who need it most, on the night they need it.
There is a limit on how much one account can scan in a week. That exists to keep the tool available and to stop it being scraped, not to sell you anything. Ordinary use never reaches it.
A contractor cannot pay to change what your report says. No firm has ever been offered that and none ever will be — the findings come from the arithmetic in the documents you sent, and nothing else.
It reads the numbers written in your quotations. It does not assess workmanship, materials quality, or a contractor's track record, and it is not a recommendation to choose anyone.
A licence number shown in a report was read off the contractor's own letterhead. We check the firm against HDB's registers, but we cannot verify a licence number itself — always check the current position on HDB's own directory before you sign.
Nothing here is legal advice. If a quotation troubles you enough to need one, the answer is a lawyer, not a scanner.
Which means it will occasionally read something wrong. That is why every scan stops and asks you to check what we read before the comparison is built — you have the original quotes in front of you and we do not.
We are new and we are learning, and we get things wrong. If you find something broken, we pay for it. See get paid to test.