One question, always answered
You enter how much money you have. Gradim adds up what is paid, what is committed and what is not ordered yet, and says at the top whether you'll make it. When it goes red, it also shows by how much.
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Side project · finishing it up
Gradim
Your renovation's money, in one place.
A phone app for people renovating or building a home. You record the deals, the changes and the payments, and Gradim always shows whether the money you have will get you to the end. I'm finishing it now, and already taking first users. It is in Slovenian, because the cost structure it starts you with only works if it knows the local rules.
What it does
A renovation is usually run out of a spreadsheet, a folder of paper and somebody's memory. It breaks in the same place every time: the final bill comes in higher than the deal, and by then nobody can reconstruct which extras were actually agreed to.
A plan built for a Slovenian renovation
Answer three questions and you get the work laid out in chunks, including the items nobody warns you about: the municipal contribution, the surveyor, the utility connections, site supervision.
The deal, and every change to it
A deal with a contractor has an amount and a date. Every change is written down with its own reason, amount and date, and after that it cannot be edited, not by the contractor and not by me.
The final bill, and the paperwork
When the last invoice arrives, the app subtracts the deal and the approved changes and shows the difference. Quotes, invoices and photos stay with the chunk of work they belong to.
Screens
Straight out of the app. The renovation on them is made up, a house in Domžale with 140.000 € to spend, and the figures add up across all three screens.
Home
The answer and three numbers at the top, the deadlines coming up below. This is the screen you open every day of a build.
Chunks of work
The renovation split into pieces. What is running, what is planned and what each piece is worth, without hunting through spreadsheet tabs.
One chunk
The deal with the contractor, and under it every change with its date and status. This is the record you point at when the last invoice arrives.
Where it is
Everything the first version needs is built and tested. What's left is the last stretch, the part that separates an app that works from an app I can hand to somebody else.
Done
- The project, the budget and the reserve, with the answer kept up to date at the top.
- A seeded plan for renovating a flat, a house, or building new.
- Deals, changes, payments and deadlines on every chunk of work.
- A folder of documents and photos, and an export of the whole project.
- Sign-in without a password, by emailed link. A project is visible only to its owner.
- Runs in the browser and installs on a phone as an icon.
Before it goes out
- The last two database migrations on the production project.
- Its own mail sender for the sign-in links, so they don't land in spam.
- Publishing it at a proper address.
- The first real renovations, and whatever they tell me about it.
There is no AI in it, no bank connection and no marketplace of contractors. It adds up what you enter and shows it honestly. At this stage it's free to use.
Get in touch
If you are in the middle of a renovation, or only planning one, and you'd like to use Gradim, write to me. I'll let you know when it's ready for you, and tell you honestly what it does and doesn't do yet.
I'd also like to hear from contractors, architects and site supervisors about where a build actually goes sideways.