Why this exists
Construction software has gotten complicated. There are over 200 tools competing for the wallets of trade businesses in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland alone. Most reviews on the internet are written by affiliate marketers who have never been on a building site.
Buildery exists to fix that.
What we do, in plain English
- We buy every tool we review. No free seats, no comped accounts, no "vendor partnerships" that quietly shape the score.
- We use the tool on real jobs for at least 30 days before publishing the review.
- We score every tool against a published 10-dimension rubric. The rubric is public. The weights are public. If we change the weights, we publish the diff.
- We retest every tool at least once a year. Software changes. So do our scores.
- We publish the date a review was last updated at the top of every page.
How we make money
Three ways, all disclosed:
- Affiliate commissions — if you click a link to a tool and sign up, the vendor pays us a referral fee. Doesn't change your price. Marked with a small "Affiliate" tag.
- Featured listings — vendors can pay for a "Featured" placement in their category. It gets a clear "Sponsored" label. It does not change the editorial score or review content.
- Newsletter sponsorships — one sponsor slot per newsletter, top of the issue, clearly labelled "Today's issue sponsored by..."
That's it. We don't take payment for positive reviews. We don't bury negative ones. If a vendor pulls their affiliate program because we said something they didn't like, we link to their signup page anyway.
Who runs Buildery
Buildery is run by an independent editorial team operating from Australasia. We're not affiliated with any software vendor, integrator, or industry body. Editorial decisions are made by the editorial team — not by sponsors.
If you want to know who tested a given tool, every review has a contributor section at the bottom with names, roles, and what they were responsible for.
What we don't do
- We don't publish AI-generated reviews under our masthead. AI helps with research and drafting; every published word is edited by a human.
- We don't sell your email address. We don't share your email with vendors when you click an affiliate link — only an anonymous referral code.
- We don't pretend we have product opinions we don't. If we haven't tested a tool, the listing says so.
- We don't write "as featured in" with logos we haven't earned.
Get in touch
- General: hello@buildery.org
- Editorial: editorial@buildery.org
- Sponsorships: sponsor@buildery.org
- Vendor relations / submit a tool: vendor@buildery.org
The legal bit
Buildery is operated as a trading name. The legal entity behind it is a New Zealand registered company. We comply with the NZ Fair Trading Act, the Australian Consumer Law, UK Consumer Protection regulations, and the US FTC endorsement guidelines. If you think we've messed up, tell us: editorial@buildery.org.