Good budgeting software should help you build a proposal, understand its costs, and deliver it clearly. When the customer changes a finish or the supplier updates a price, you need to work with connected information and retain control of your decisions.
KOSAN brings together catalog, unit prices, resources, audit, construction schedule and reports in a single desktop application. Added to that flow is KOSAN IA, a plugin that works with the budget context to prepare proposals and help you review information.
This combination makes KOSAN a better choice for those looking to integrate technical analysis, review and delivery of their budgets. These are the advantages that turn its functions into useful tools for your daily work.
1. A connected flow from line item to deliverable
In KOSAN, the catalog organizes the works; APUs explain their resources; resources provide prices and units; and the reports present the result. Each part has a relationship with the budget you are preparing.
The benefit appears when you need to review a proposal: you can go from line item to its analysis and check what its amount is. Faced with a process based on independent captures and dispersed documents, working with these relationships allows you to maintain a common reference of the project.
The advantage for you: build and review the budget within the same work environment.
2. Unit prices that you can understand and defend
KOSAN allows you to integrate materials, labor, machinery, tools and auxiliaries. It also considers quantities, consumption factors and productivity rates, waste and unit conversions, because the cost depends on how you will execute the work.
The auxiliary labor crews and unit price analyses reuse compositions within different analyses. The system locks circular references to prevent a composition from ending up dependent on itself.
This gives you a basis to explain to the customer what the price includes and to review a change judiciously. The scope and data of the project remain yours; KOSAN helps you organize and calculate them.
The advantage for you: a proposal whose price you can trace back to its resources. Check the unit price analysis example to see how an APU is integrated.
3. Resources shared to update with control
Let's say a painting appears in several line items and you receive a new quote. In KOSAN you can update the resource and recalculate the linked unit price analyses, instead of maintaining independent copies of their price.
The resources base also allows you to work with global or exclusive information about a work, and register prices, suppliers and quotes. For massive adjustments there is a preview and automatic backups.
Your advantage: maintain relationships between prices and line items, and review the effect of an update on the budget.
4. AI applied to the budget, with your decisions at the forefront
KOSAN IA incorporates a Copilot with tools to consult information, prepare proposed unit price analyses and help review the budget. You can work with the available context of the project and bring an APU proposal to an editable resource table.
You can also propose a quote using unit price analyses existing on the job or in KOSAN's own catalogue. The amounts in this proposal come from the unit price analyses used; you review the scope and quantities.
In assisted mode, you review the lines before applying changes. The Copilot's operations have a change log that allows you to consult your activity.
Your advantage: support to prepare and review work within the context of your budget. KOSAN IA is a plugin that requires an internet connection; You can contract it separately or choose a package that includes it, depending on the available modalities.
5. Audit to detect problems before delivering
KOSAN includes audit tools to review line items, resources, units, unit price analyses, and dependencies. Its findings allow you to locate records that require attention and reanalyze them after correcting them.
For example, an empty or pending recalculation unit price analysis deserves a review before becoming part of a submitted proposal. Having these points identified within the work makes it easier to organize the review.
Your advantage: detect inconsistencies with review tools and focus your attention on the data that needs a decision.
6. Versions to negotiate changes with a clear reference
A quote can change several times before it is contracted. KOSAN allows you to preserve project versions and scenarios to compare alternatives and maintain work references.
Before adjusting prices or changing scope, save a version. This way you can review the original proposal against the alternative you are building and explain what changed.
The advantage for you: negotiate with identifiable references and preserve the context of your proposals.
7. From cost to schedule and resources of the project
KOSAN incorporates activity, relationship, and critical path scheduling. With schedule crashing tools you can analyze how much it costs to advance execution, relating a deadline decision to its economic effect.
The resource breakdown consolidates the resources required by the budget. The estimation and monitoring modules allow work to continue with executed quantities and progress periods.
The advantage for you: connecting the budget with concrete questions of execution, supply and progress. Also check how to calculate resource breakdown to take advantage of resource breakdown.
8. Information on your computer and documents to deliver
KOSAN is a desktop application for Windows 10 and 11, with the works saved on your computer. You can organize work by project, keep backups and prepare PDF or Excel reports.
Importing Excel and CSV helps incorporate existing information. It also has an importer for MDF files compatible with the recognized Neodata schema, which requires SQL Server LocalDB.
The advantage for you: take advantage of starting information and take the result to the formats that you will deliver to the client.
What you gain by choosing KOSAN
| What you need to solve | The KOSAN Advantage |
|---|---|
| Explain where a price comes from | APU with resources, consumption factors and productivity rates and linked auxiliaries |
| Review a new quote | Related resources update and unit price analyses recalculation |
| Prepare proposals with AI support | Copilot and editable tables in the context of the budget |
| Detect data that requires attention | Audit of line items, resources and unit price analyses |
| Negotiate alternatives | Versions and scenarios to preserve references |
| Relate cost, deadline and resources | Program, critical path, schedule crashing and resource breakdown |
| Present the work | PDF and Excel reports |
The reason for choosing KOSAN is how these tools are connected: you can prepare the analysis, review your data, maintain alternatives and produce your deliverables around the same work.
Frequently asked questions
Is KOSAN useful if I already prepare my budgets in Excel?
Yes. You can take advantage of its import options and later work with catalog, resources and related analysis. It's especially useful when you need to update shared resources and keep track of different proposals.
Does the license include KOSAN IA?
You can hire KOSAN IA as an add-on or choose a package that includes it. In the license page You will find the modalities and periods included to choose the one that suits your work.
Where can I see KOSAN tools?
In the product presentation You will find real captures and a tour of its tools. The help page gathers access to the user guide.
Choose KOSAN for your next quote
Your software should help you explain pricing, review changes, and deliver a professional proposal. KOSAN puts these tools in the same flow, with control of the project in your hands.
Meet KOSAN in action, check your tools and choose your license to start budgeting with KOSAN. If you want to add proposals and assisted review, add KOSAN IA.