Enterprise DNA

Instead of UniPhi

Stop renting UniPhi for cost benchmarking. Own your cost evidence desk.

We build your version around how your surveyors estimate, compare and review. We bring your UniPhi budget records across and run the system for your practice.

UniPhi bills user subscriptions monthly. Ask for a current quote, then compare it with the cost benchmarking work your practice needs.

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The subscription you are comparing

Start with the cost desk your practice uses

UniPhi covers a broad project lifecycle. If you are comparing the cost benchmarking part, separate that work from the other functions your business needs before switching.

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Monthly licensed users

UniPhi describes subscriptions billed monthly for licensed users who logged in during the month. Compare your own user schedule and contract.

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Project cost comparisons

UniPhi offers benchmarking against similar projects. Your historical cost evidence is the starting point for an owned comparison library.

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Quality controls around cost data

Its benchmarking offering includes quality-controlled capture. The free version records sources, scope and review decisions beside each cost plan.

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Cost plan reporting

UniPhi describes cost reporting and document functions. Your version produces branded elemental estimates, tender reconciliations and review checklists.

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A wider project platform

Contract, time and project functions sit alongside benchmarking in UniPhi. We agree which of those your custom version needs before you change systems.

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Your practice classifications

UniPhi supports user-defined benchmark information. Your version starts with your sectors, locations and work types, then adds the fields your surveyors use.

Your cost desk, owned

Keep the evidence behind every estimate

Cost plans

Every revision has its own basis

See what was estimated, the information used and who reviewed it.

  • check Elemental quantities, units, rates and budget amounts
  • check Source references, assumptions and excluded scope
  • check Explicit contingency and uncertainty percentages
  • check Issued plans stay intact when you add a new revision

Comparisons

Compare costs on a stated basis

Choose comparable evidence before discussing whether a new estimate looks high.

  • check Match sector, location, work type and currency
  • check Use the latest approved revision from each comparable project
  • check Rebase with the price index values you supply
  • check Trace the adjusted rate to its original plan and evidence

Tender review

See missing scope before comparing price

An offer with missing elements does not receive a price variance.

  • check Record each offered element and its source
  • check Show how much of the cost plan each tender covers
  • check Compare complete offers against the base estimate
  • check Follow an incomplete offer back to the missing cost codes

The weekly desk

Make review work visible

Turn the cost records into a clear list of the work awaiting a surveyor.

  • check Overdue reviews grouped by owner
  • check Old observations and missing source evidence
  • check Branded cost reports and tender review documents
  • check Questions across revisions, review gaps and supplier offers

Make it yours

Design your own UniPhi replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from UniPhi. Try it here, and we build the real one.

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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your UniPhi data across and run it for you.

What it looks like

Ask it like you would ask a colleague

Real answers from the demo data that ships with Cost Benchmarking for Claude Code. It runs in Claude Code inside the Claude app, so it feels like any chat you already use.

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Cost Benchmarking for Claude Code

Connected to your own database

Which cost plans need attention before our next review?

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Benchmark older than 365 days
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2026-08-02

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Review overdue
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2026-10-22

Ask it anything

Ten questions your owned cost desk answers

These are working questions on the fictional demo records. UniPhi also provides configurable reporting. Your version puts the comparison rules and evidence under your control.

chat_bubble Which reviews are overdue?
chat_bubble Which benchmark plans are older than a year?
chat_bubble Which cost plans lack source evidence?
chat_bubble Which cost plans have missing assumptions?
chat_bubble Which tenders omit cost elements?
chat_bubble Which complete tenders exceed the base estimate?
chat_bubble Which owners carry overdue reviews?
chat_bubble Which cost plans are awaiting independent review?
chat_bubble Which projects have multiple cost plan revisions?
chat_bubble Which comparison groups have fewer than two current approved projects?

Switching

How to switch from UniPhi

A move like this involves exporting your budget, mapping it to your project context, checking the imported records and running both systems side by side before you switch.

  1. 1

    Export your budget

    In UniPhi, export your budget from Costs > Budget. The documented workbook includes hierarchical cost codes and descriptions, quantities, units, rates and budget amounts. Save the budget worksheet as a spreadsheet text export, usually CSV. If your export is customised or you cannot find this option, check with UniPhi about what your account allows before you start mapping the records.

  2. 2

    Test the import

    Set the real project comparison context before loading the budget. Start with a dry run to see how the exported columns map to the new records. The importer brings in leaf cost elements, not parent subtotals, and preserves a supplied budget amount. Review the mapping before importing for real. If your export differs from the documented layout, the fields may need to be mapped for your version.

  3. 3

    Reconcile the results

    Check the import report and compare the imported leaf elements and totals with the UniPhi workbook. Resolve invalid rows before trying again, since an import with invalid rows rolls back as a whole. Then review the records for missing source evidence, scope, assumptions or reviews. Exported approvals do not carry over, so do not treat an imported plan as approved without a new review.

  4. 4

    Run both in parallel

    Keep UniPhi available for a short period while you use the new database for the cost benchmarking desk. Compare the relevant cost plans, source evidence and review records in both systems, and check that the new comparisons use the right project context. Keep source workbooks and attachments separately, since evidence references do not copy the files into the database.

  5. 5

    Retire UniPhi

    Switch off UniPhi only after you have checked the imported records and completed the parallel review. Confirm that you have kept the source workbooks and attachments you need, along with any records or functions outside the cost benchmarking desk that your practice still uses. This replacement does not cover every part of UniPhi, and it does not write back to UniPhi.

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Where the real effort goes

The main work is usually mapping your own fields and rules, then deciding how much history to bring and checking that the imported totals and scope match. The documented budget export gives you a starting point, but customised exports and comparison context may need extra attention. If you have Enterprise DNA install and run it, they handle the mapping and reconciliation for your version.

Not ready for a call?

Get your UniPhi switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off UniPhi, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

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Three ways to own it

Do it yourself, customise it, or have us run it

Open source

Do it yourself

Free, MIT licence

  1. 1 Clone the repo and install the dependencies
  2. 2 Run npm run demo and open it in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor
  3. 3 Export a UniPhi budget worksheet to CSV and run the import with your project context
  4. 4 Reconcile the figures, review the records and connect your own database
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Built around your business

We customise it

One setup fee, then a retainer

  • check Your measurement fields, classifications and review rules
  • check Your UniPhi budgets mapped and reconciled
  • check A web front end or a different technology stack when you need one
  • check Cost reports built around the way your clients read them
Get your version built

Omni by Enterprise DNA

We run it for you

One setup fee, then a retainer

  • check Installed and operated through Omni by Enterprise DNA
  • check Your records brought across with a documented reconciliation
  • check Connections to the document and business systems you use
  • check Ongoing changes and support as the practice grows
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Questions

Instead of UniPhi, answered

Does this replace every part of UniPhi? expand_more

The free version covers the cost benchmarking desk: cost plans, comparisons, tender evidence and reviews. UniPhi also offers a wider project platform. Enterprise DNA scopes and builds the other functions your practice needs as part of your custom version.

Can we bring our UniPhi budgets across? expand_more

Yes. UniPhi documents a budget workbook export with cost codes, descriptions, quantities, units, rates and budget amounts. Save the budget worksheet as a spreadsheet text export. The free version imports its leaf cost elements after you supply the project context. We map customised exports and reconcile totals for your version.

Does it include a market cost database? expand_more

It uses your own historical cost plans. You supply the price index values and retain their source. Comparisons keep currencies and locations separate and use reviewed evidence. We build the licensed data connections and additional comparison rules your practice chooses.

Will the reports satisfy our professional obligations? expand_more

The records support review by a qualified surveyor. Checks flag missing sources, scope, assumptions and reviews. They do not certify an estimate or replace professional judgement. Your version can add the classifications and review process your practice requires.

What does Enterprise DNA charge? expand_more

One setup fee, then a retainer. We agree the scope around your records, reports, connections and operating needs. The free version has no software licence fee; running it yourself still requires your own hosting, tools and administration.

Make your cost history work for your practice

Spend 30 minutes with Sam. Bring your UniPhi bill and a cost report your team produces. We will look at the evidence you need to keep, the work your surveyors repeat and what your own version should do.

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Cost Benchmarking for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.

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