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Real-time Cost Management and Smart Budgets for More Profitable Projects

CynQ revolutionizes financial management for construction projects with a suite of AI-powered intelligent tools. Track your costs in real time, create accurate budgets, monitor your margins, and prevent overruns before they occur—all within a single tool designed for residential contractors and builders.

Accurate budgets

Create structured, margin-focused budgets

CynQ enables you not only to build your budgets from templates or previous projects, but also to set profit margin targets by vendor, expense type, or line item category.

  • Budgets generated from templates or existing projects
  • Structure by labor, materials, and subcontractors
  • Margin targets by vendor or line item (materials, resources, packages)
  • More consistent, accurate, and profitable budgets

Budget creation becomes simple, fast, and above all, much more strategic.

CynQ interface enabling invoice upload for AI analysis and association with project budget in CynQ
Real-time tracking

Track costs in real time with automated time capture

Every hour recorded on site is automatically associated with the correct budget line item. CynQ immediately calculates the variance between work completed, remaining time, and your budget—giving you a clear, proactive view of the financial situation.

  • Automatic association of hours to the correct budget line item
  • Continuous calculation of work completed vs. remaining budget
  • Instant burn-down accessible to managers and executives
  • Early warnings in case of potential overruns

CynQ analyzes in real time the variance between work progress, time, and budget. You maintain a clear view to anticipate financial overruns.

Time entries automatically associated with budget line items in CynQ
AI-automated expenses

Manage all your expenses with precision

Expenses are captured in seconds: a photo, an upload, or quick entry. The AI then extracts all relevant data and automatically links each expense to the correct line item, continuously building the actual project cost.

  • Mobile invoice scanning + automatic AI extraction
  • Simplified upload or manual entry for small expenses
  • Automatic categorization and linking to budget
  • Ultra-precise view of actual cost, continuously updated

With AI, every invoice is automatically analyzed and linked to the correct line item for accurate, up-to-date tracking of actual project cost.

Uploading an expense in CynQ with automatic categorization
AI that protects your margins

Continuous financial monitoring

CynQ's artificial intelligence continuously analyzes variances between your forecasts, target margin, and actual expenses. It detects overrun risks, issues intelligent alerts, and calculates an overall project health score to help you act quickly.

  • Continuous analysis of budget variances and actual margins
  • Early detection of overruns before they occur
  • Alerts automatically sent to managers
  • Health score based on costs, effort, timelines, and trends

CynQ’s AI continuously monitors your budget variances, margins, and actual expenses. It detects overrun risks, sends alerts, and generates a project health score to enable you to act quickly.

CynQ AI detecting a cost overrun risk on a project
One Budget, Multiple Currencies

Multi-currency Budget & Real-time Exchange Rates

CynQ now supports managing budgets and expenses in multiple currencies, with automatic conversion based on current exchange rates. This new feature addresses the needs of companies that work with suppliers, subcontractors, or clients using different currencies within the same project.

  • Create Budgets in Multiple Currencies
  • Record Expenses in Different Currencies
  • Automatic Conversion of Amounts Based on Current Exchange Rates
  • Ability to Track Project Financial Performance in the Reference Currency

Whether your budget is planned in US dollars, some expenses are incurred in another currency, or your project is managed in a different local currency, CynQ automatically centralizes and converts amounts to provide you with consistent and accurate financial tracking.

You get a real-time view of your project’s financial performance, without manual calculations or the risk of errors caused by currency conversions.

Intelligent financial management

Discover the benefits
of cost and budget management with CynQ

CynQ offers smarter, faster, and much more profitable financial management. With AI, margin targets, real-time tracking, and complete automation, contractors gain clear visibility into their actual costs, prevent overruns, and significantly improve project profitability.

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Overview of a CynQ construction project on iPad
The benefits of CynQ

CynQ your ally to build better!

Rethink job site management to help contractors save time, reduce errors, and improve profitability. Plan, collaborate, track, and control your projects in real time.

With the built-in calendar, plan your job sites, assign tasks, track progress, and keep a clear, up-to-date overview.

Everyone knows what to do, shares the right documents, and works with the most up-to-date information—both in the office and on site.

Access all features whether you are in the office, on site, or on the go—from your phone, tablet, or computer.

Each user only accesses the features and information that match their role.

Track changes, actions, and important updates as soon as they happen with notifications and reminders.

Plans, estimates, and photos are centralized so everyone works with the correct version. No more isolated Excel files, duplicates, and scattered data.

Keep a clear record of the actions, decisions, and changes made to each project.

Stay in control of your costs, schedules, and decisions—simply.