Caprix AI, answered

Caprix AI is an AI cost intelligence platform for the Malaysian construction industry. It brings two families of AI agents into two workspaces, Chat and BOQ: Construction Intelligence Agents, which analyse, estimate, track and research prices across Material, Labour and Machinery and advise on contracts; and BOQ Agents, which build, price, check and export tender-ready Bills of Quantities.

Caprix is built for quantity surveyors, estimators, contractors and builders, architects, project managers, and construction students working in Malaysia.

No. Caprix runs entirely in your web browser — nothing to install. Sign up free and start working in minutes. Get started free →

Yes. Games in the sidebar opens Caprix Break: Cost Climb, a higher or lower price game, and Price Pin, where you guess the real price of items from the Caprix rate database. Both are free on every plan, never spend credits, and have leaderboards for today, this week and all time.

Construction Intelligence Agents (Analyse, Compare rates, Estimate, Trends, Track, Research and Advise) share one chat: describe your task and Caprix selects the right skill. They cover unit rates, budgets, price trends, official statistics and contract guidance. BOQ Agents — Import, Draft, Compare, Review and Items — build, price, check and export tender-ready Bills of Quantities.

Analyse (formerly Ask) lets you ask any rate question in plain language. Each rate comes back with its full price history, 12 month movement, high and low. It uses 2 credits per query.

Research reads official DOSM, Bank Negara and MOF statistics alongside Caprix indices and rates, with charts and every source cited. It uses 4 credits per question and is a Pro and Max skill.

Advise gives contract guidance on payment, delay, LAD, termination and CIPAA, drawn from a library of Malaysian construction judgments and the PDFs you attach, with key dates calculated. It uses 5 credits per question and is a Pro and Max skill. It is guidance, not legal advice.

Estimate turns a building type, location and target year into a defensible ballpark budget in seconds, presented as an elemental breakdown of the project cost. It is a Pro and Max feature and uses 5 credits.

Trends tracks how construction costs, tender prices and market indices have moved over time, and forecasts where a unit rate is heading, so you can price your work with the trend in mind. It is a Pro and Max feature and uses 5 credits.

Compare rates charts one item across states, or two to four unit rates side by side, over any year range, and explains the main reasons for the difference. It uses 5 credits and is a Pro and Max skill.

Track is a price watchlist. Pin up to 10 material, labour or machinery rates and each one updates itself when a newer price is published, with its full history and optional alerts. It costs 5 credits per item to add and 5 again each time that item updates. Turn on Email updates and Price Watch emails you whenever a tracked rate has a new price, at no extra cost. Track is a Pro and Max skill.

Draft lets you describe the works in plain words and get the full SMM2 bill structure, with correctly worded items and units, ready for you to measure and price. A full draft uses 20 credits.

Import lets you drop in an Excel or PDF bill and have AI read, structure and tidy it into a clean, editable BOQ. Excel import is free; PDF import uses 1 credit per 5 pages.

Review checks your finished BOQ for missing trades, wrong units, and quantities or rates that look off. It uses 5 credits.

Compare benchmarks your rates against comparable projects so you can see where you sit — high, low or on the money. It starts from 10 credits.

Items drafts the missing items for one bill or trade and shows them for review before they are added. It uses 5 credits.

Caprix works with Malaysian construction intelligence across three categories: Material, Labour and Machinery.

Yes. Trends tracks how construction costs, tender prices and market indices have moved over time, so your pricing can reflect the market. It is available on Pro and Max.

Caprix builds, prices, checks and exports Bills of Quantities in SMM2 format. SMM3 support is in development and is not available yet.

The BOQ Builder is Caprix's workspace for building a Bill of Quantities — organised into bills and priced line items, with collections and carried-forward totals. You can draft with AI, import an existing bill, edit line by line, and export it.

Yes. Caprix lets you record changes to a bill as addenda and variation orders (VOs).

Yes. Save any rate build-up, or a rate you looked up in chat, to your own Rate Library and pull it into later projects. The library is free on every plan. On a company account there is also a shared Company Library the whole team can use and edit.

Yes. With Import you can drop in an Excel or PDF bill and have it read, structured and tidied into a clean, editable BOQ. Excel import is free and PDF import uses 1 credit per 5 pages.

Yes, on every plan. On Free the PDF costs no credits and carries a FREE watermark. Pro and Max export clean PDFs with password protection. Building and saving a bill is free on every plan.

Yes. Every account gets 30 credits that reset every month, with no credit card needed. Analyse and the full BOQ Builder are available on the free plan; Compare rates, Estimate, Trends, Track, Research, Advise and clean PDF export are Pro and Max features. The free plan covers 8 categories in each price type and 5 locations — the rest of the dataset stays visible in the pickers, marked Pro. See full plan details →

Yes. On the Free plan every Pro and Max skill stays in the Chat Workspace with a lock on it. Opening one shows its form greyed out, so you can see what it asks for and what it costs. It cannot be run until you upgrade, and nothing is charged for looking.

Every AI action spends credits. Analyse and rate lookups use 2 credits, Research uses 4, Estimate, Trends, Compare rates and Advise use 5 credits each, Review and adding items to a section use 5 credits, Compare starts from 10 credits, and a full Draft uses 20 credits. PDF import and export use 1 credit per 5 pages. Pro includes 2,000 credits every month and Max includes 4,000.

No. Caprix does not sell credit top-ups. Your allowance renews every month, and if you need more you can move up a plan: Pro has 2,000 credits a month and Max has 4,000. Unused credits do not roll over. Building and editing a BOQ by hand never needs credits.

Yes. Pro and Max can be paid yearly for an extra 15% off the new prices: RM499.80 a year for Pro (RM41.65 a month, saving RM88.20) and RM1,009.80 a year for Max (RM84.15 a month, saving RM178.20), against RM49 and RM99 a month. You pay once a year and your credits still renew every month. See yearly prices →

Yes: Caprix Edu. University students get the full Pro plan, with 2,000 credits a month, for RM25 a month. Sign up with your university email on a .edu domain (such as .edu.my), confirm it from the verification email, then choose Get Caprix Edu. You confirm the address again once a year from a link we email you; if you do not, the plan stops renewing at the end of that paid month. See the student price →

Yes. Monthly and yearly plans can be cancelled anytime from Account → Billing. You keep your plan and its credits until the end of the period you have paid for, then move to Free, and we email you the date. You can reactivate before then.

Your plan is paused and your account runs on Free while the card is retried. Select Update payment method in Account → Billing to fix it. As soon as a payment goes through, your plan and its credits come back.

Nothing is deleted. Your BOQ projects and rate library stay open and editable on Free. Saved chat history is kept but locked until you upgrade again, and PDF exports carry a FREE watermark.

Yes. A Corporate account puts your whole team under one company plan with a single annual invoice, credits that renew monthly (a shared pool or per seat), shared BOQ projects with live co-editing, and a Company Library. Corporate accounts are set up with us directly: email info@bcism.org.my.

The complete Caprix AI user guide is public — sixteen chapters covering every skill, the BOQ Builder, credits and Corporate accounts, with no sign-in needed. Read the user guide →

Two pages go deeper than this FAQ: BOQ software for Malaysian construction covers drafting, importing, pricing, checking and exporting SMM2 Bills of Quantities, and construction cost estimating in Malaysia covers unit rates, the per-state location index and tender price index trends.