BRCKS vs Procore: The Right-Sized Alternative for UK Builders

Procore is the best enterprise construction platform in the world. That's not a setup for a punchline — it genuinely is. It's also the reason most UK...

By BRCKS Team · Sat Jul 11 2026

Procore is the best enterprise construction platform in the world. That's not a setup for a punchline — it genuinely is. It's also the reason most UK residential builders who trial it end up back in WhatsApp groups within a month.

This post is for builders running residential and small commercial work — extensions, refurbs, new-builds, small developments — who've looked at Procore, seen the demo, and wondered whether they really need all of it. Short answer: you probably don't, and paying for it hurts more than you'd expect. Longer answer below, including the situations where Procore is exactly what you should buy.

If you want the side-by-side table version, it's on our comparison page: BRCKS vs Procore.

What Procore actually costs

Procore doesn't publish prices, and — a correction worth making because plenty of comparison content gets this wrong — it doesn't charge per user either. You get a custom annual quote based on your Annual Construction Volume: the value of work you put through the platform. Unlimited users are included, which is genuinely generous and one of Procore's real strengths.

The catch is what that model means for a smaller firm. Third-party pricing analyses and user reports put small general contractors at roughly $10,000–30,000 per year for core project management modules, with implementation on top — and because pricing tracks your construction volume, your bill grows when your turnover does, whether or not you're using the software any harder. Renewal increases are a recurring theme in Procore's G2 reviews, alongside the two words that appear more than any others: learning curve.

None of those dollar figures are published by Procore itself (procore.com/pricing confirms the volume-based model but no numbers), so treat them as reported, not gospel. The structure, though, is confirmed: annual contract, custom quote, priced to your volume.

BRCKS is £40 per seat per month on an annual plan (£50 monthly), subcontractors and clients free, cancel anytime, 14-day trial. The price is on the website. That's the whole pricing section.

What a 10-house development actually needs

Here's the practical question: list what your team does in a week that software could help with. For most UK residential builders it looks something like:

Site updates and photos coming in from trades
Tasks and snagging
A daily record of what happened (the thing that saves you in a dispute)
RFIs and variations, with someone actually signing off the variation
Drawings, with everyone building off the current revision
RAMS and incident reporting
Keeping the client informed without a weekly phone call

BRCKS does all of that. Procore also does all of that — plus bidding, submittals chains, enterprise financials, workforce management, analytics dashboards and 400+ integrations. On a £50M commercial job with hundreds of collaborators, those extras are the point. On a 10-house development, they're navigation clutter you pay for and never open. G2's most-mentioned negative tags for Procore are "Learning Curve" and "Difficult Learning"; more than one reviewer describes administering it as a full-time job. If nobody in your firm has "administer the software" in their job description, that matters.

Where Procore genuinely wins

Being honest about this is the whole point of this post, so plainly:

Enterprise scale. £20M+ commercial projects, complex submittal chains, hundreds of collaborators across firms. This is Procore's home turf and nothing at £40 a seat competes there.
Unlimited users, unlimited storage, 24/7 support in every contract. If you have a huge cast of collaborators, the per-seat model of most alternatives (ours included, for staff) works against you.
Integrations and API. 400+ marketplace apps and a proper public API. BRCKS has no public API today. If your business runs on connecting systems together, Procore wins this outright.
Full construction financials — budgets, payment applications, invoicing, bid management. BRCKS doesn't do financials; we sit alongside Xero or QuickBooks rather than replacing them.

Where BRCKS wins for a UK residential team

A price you can see and plan around. £40 a seat versus a quote that scales with your turnover. You can work out your annual cost from this paragraph.
Adoption. This is the one that decides whether any of it works. Plasterers don't log into portals. With BRCKS, trades send updates, photos and time on/off site through WhatsApp — the app already on their phone. The morning check-in goes out at 7:30am, the AI digest summarises the day at 9pm, and the site diary writes itself.
The right amount of software. RFIs and variations with an external sign-off portal, a drawing register with revision stacking, snagging, RAMS and incident reporting, 360° site tours — the residential-scale version of the Procore modules you'd actually use, without the enterprise overhead. There's even an AI receptionist answering your phone while you're on the tools, which is not a sentence anyone has written about Procore.
UK-native. GBP pricing, CIS and VAT-aware workflows, UK trade language. Procore has a real UK operation, but it's aimed at mid-size and large commercial contractors; UK-specific compliance is handled through configurable tax codes and guidance content rather than purpose-built features.

So which should you choose?

Sub-£10M UK residential or small commercial builder: BRCKS. You'll be running projects the first afternoon, and your subs never pay for a seat.
£20M+ commercial main contractor with a dedicated systems admin: Procore, and it's excellent. We'd rather tell you that now than have you find out after a year of paying for us.
Somewhere in between, or a client contract specifies Procore: run both. Trial BRCKS on one project — there's no conflict, and no annual contract on our side to think about.

Start with the 14-day free trial — no card required — or see the full feature-by-feature comparison.

FAQ

How much does Procore cost? Procore doesn't publish prices. You get a custom annual quote based on your construction volume, with unlimited users included. Third-party reports put small firms at roughly $10,000–30,000 per year plus implementation, and the price typically rises as your turnover does. Treat those figures as reported — Procore hasn't confirmed them.

Does Procore charge per user? No — unlimited users is one of Procore's genuine strengths, and comparison pages that claim it charges per seat are wrong. The cost is the platform fee itself, which is sized for enterprises.

Is BRCKS suitable for commercial projects? Small commercial, yes. A £50M tower with 200 subcontractors and full submittal chains, no — that's Procore's territory and we'll say so.

Can BRCKS handle RFIs and variations? Yes — creation, tracking and an external portal where clients and consultants respond and sign off, with a full audit trail. Procore's RFI tooling goes deeper for enterprise workflows; ours covers what a residential job actually needs.

Can I run BRCKS and Procore at the same time? Yes, with no conflict. Plenty of builders trial BRCKS on one job while a Procore contract runs down, or keep Procore for the one client who mandates it.

Does BRCKS integrate with other software? Not via a public API today — that's an honest gap against Procore's 400+ integrations. BRCKS is designed to be the site layer alongside your accounting package rather than a hub for other systems.

How BRCKS can help

BRCKS is a UK-built construction platform that captures site activity through the tools your trades already use. Photos, updates and time on site flow in from WhatsApp, the site diary writes itself, and the office side — RFIs, variations, snagging, drawings and a free client portal — sits in one place. See what's inside on the BRCKS home page, or read the full breakdown of how it helps across your week.

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