Did this project make money, or not?

BIMPulse is ONYX’s own product for architecture and engineering practices. Fee stages, man-hour plans, timesheets, rates, invoicing and project profit in one system. The subject is not tasks. It is the money on the project.

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Project budgetDetailed design
Contract value
AZN 96,000
Hours logged
900 / 1,392
Margin
20.2%

The figures are read off the product’s budget screen, in a sample account.

The same questions on every job. The answer arrives once the month closes.

These answers should not wait for month end. They should be visible while the work is happening, and that is what BIMPulse is for.

  1. 01

    Hours in a spreadsheet, and collected late

    Engineers write their hours down from memory. You learn who worked on what only once the month closes, which is too late to correct anything.

  2. 02

    A stage’s percent is known, its progress is not

    The contract fixes what percent of the fee each stage carries. Nobody can say how much of it is actually done, and therefore how much revenue is earned.

  3. 03

    The job was delivered, the profit was never worked out

    The project closed, but nobody put cost and revenue side by side and read the profit off them. The next contract is priced by feel again.

An hour is written down once, and everything else comes out of it

The hour an engineer enters on the timesheet moves on its own from the stage to the invoice to the project profit. No step is copied by hand.

  1. Contract value

    The contract amount, its reference and its signing date go on the project.

  2. Fee stage

    Each stage carries a percentage share of the contract value.

  3. Man-hour plan

    It states how many hours the tasks under the stage need.

  4. Weekly timesheet

    An engineer enters hours on the grid, a manager approves, and the cell locks.

  5. Two rates

    Cost rate and bill rate resolve separately, at the entry’s own work date.

  6. Invoice

    The stage’s fee goes out to the client as an invoice, and revenue is recognised.

  7. Project profit

    Labour and other cost come off recognised revenue, and the margin is left.

The whole work of a practice, in one system

From the project structure to the document register and the invoice. No pile of separate tools and Excel sheets.

Fee stages

The AEC fee-stage template is applied to a project in one click: concept design 10%, preliminary design 20%, detailed design 45%, expert review and approvals 10%, site supervision 15%.

Timesheet with an approval lock

A weekly grid. An approved cell is locked at the model level and cannot be edited afterwards. You set how far back an ordinary user may still write.

Two rates: cost and bill

Every hour is priced twice, at a cost rate and at a bill rate. Each rate is bounded by its own effective dates, so a raise granted in June does not change what March cost. The cost rate sits behind its own permission.

Project structure (WBS)

A tree of projects, phases, tasks and subtasks, with a depth cap and a refusal to create a cycle. Views: board, list, calendar, Gantt, roadmap and a personal task list.

Work calendar

Working days, daily hours, public holidays and moved working days, per account. The Azerbaijani holiday preset loads in one click, and a holiday week shrinks capacity by itself.

Resource planning

A weekly or monthly matrix of who is assigned to what: capacity, allocated hours, free hours and an over-allocation list.

Document register and revisions

Every sheet has its own code (A-101), title, discipline and phase, with revisions stacked under it. The history is append only: an old revision is never deleted, only marked as superseded by a newer one. Each revision stores a SHA-256 fingerprint.

Contracts and invoices

Contract value, reference and signing date on the project. Tax handling, statuses, recurring invoices, bank accounts and PDF output. Contract templates, a counterparty portal opened without a login, signature capture and revisions.

Project profit and loss

Recognised revenue, labour cost recomputed at the rate in force on each entry’s own work date, and non-labour cost. Margin is taken against both. Unpriced hours are reported rather than hidden, and a negative margin is shown as negative.

A new project does not open empty

The moment a project opens, the AEC fee-stage template is applied and the contract value splits across five stages.

10%
20%
45%
10%
15%
  • Concept design10%
  • Preliminary design20%
  • Detailed design45%
  • Expert review and approvals10%
  • Site supervision15%

A project manager can state a stage’s percent complete. Left blank, it is derived from that stage’s tasks, and recognised revenue follows from it.

A spreadsheet remembers. BIMPulse calculates.

A sheet only knows what you typed into it. BIMPulse recalculates itself after every change.

Excel and BIMPulse compared across six areas
What you needExcelBIMPulse
Locking an approved hourmanual
Revenue recognised by stageby formula
Cost rate and bill rate kept aparttwo columns
Capacity that follows the work calendar
Project profit and marginmanual
Who is allowed to see whata separate file

From the trial to the contract

15 days, the complete product, no card

Sign up with no card: you verify your e-mail, which takes two minutes. No feature is withheld, and the limits are enforced exactly as they are for a paying account.

Length
15 days
Seats
5
Storage
2 GB
Features
The complete product
Card
Not required
When it ends
Read only
Data kept for
90 days

When the trial ends the account is neither deleted nor closed, it becomes read-only. Sign-in, reading and export keep working.

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Two measures: seats and storage

There is no module system, so no feature is withheld by plan. Every account gets the complete product.

There is no online checkout and no card: we agree the price with you directly and put it in the contract.

An account can see the packages and request a move, and the request alone changes nothing.

Invoicing happens outside the product, under a contract with ONYX.

The questions we hear most

Who is BIMPulse for?

Architecture, design and engineering practices of roughly 5 to 50 people. The person who runs it is usually the owner or the chief engineer, not an IT manager. The subject is not task management, it is the money on a project: contract value, fee stages, man-hours, rates, invoices and project profit.

How is it different from Excel?

A spreadsheet only knows what you typed into it. BIMPulse recalculates after every change: an approved hour locks, revenue is recognised per stage, labour cost is computed at the rate in force on each entry’s work date, and seeing the cost rate needs its own permission.

Is there a Revit, AutoCAD or IFC integration?

No, there is none, and we say so plainly. The document register does not read inside a model. There are two storage modes: the file sits on our object storage and counts against the account quota, or only a link and a SHA-256 fingerprint are kept. In the second mode the file is never copied to us and takes no space against your limit. That is how heavy RVT, DWG and IFC files are handled.

What language is the interface in?

Azerbaijani and English. Currency and timezone are set per account, and the product carries in-app help with an Azerbaijani glossary.

What happens to my data when the trial ends?

Nobody is locked out. The account is never deleted and never closed, it becomes read-only. Everyone can still sign in, read every project and export it, only nothing new is created and nothing existing is edited. Data is kept for 90 days.

How is the price arrived at?

On two measures only: how many seats you need and how much storage. There is no module system, so no feature is withheld by plan and every account gets the complete product. There is no online checkout and no card. A person agrees the price and it goes into the contract, and invoicing happens outside the product. An account can see the packages and request a move, but the request alone changes nothing.

Who is behind it?

BIMPulse is ONYX’s own product, in the same lineup as Onyx Firewall, Bircore BMS and ONYX Helpdesk. The platform, the setup and the support all come from one company.

See the numbers on your next project while it is running, not after it

Ask for a demo and we will walk it through on one real project of yours. Or start the free trial today.

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15 days, the complete product · 5 seats, 2 GB · No card required