The Procore Alternative Built for Commercial
Builders in Australia and New Zealand
If Procore wasn't built for your business, here's the platform that is.
Procore is designed for US Tier 1 contractors and priced against your revenue. Deep Space is built here for mid-sized commercial builders like you, on a flat fee that does not penalise growth. KAI is the intelligence layer across every workflow.
5 Reasons ANZ Commercial Builders Choose Deep Space Over Procore
Not a feature checklist. The five things mid-sized commercial builders tell us, on every call, when they're comparing Procore to Deep Space.
Pricing model
Revenue-based subscription. Bill
goes up when your turnover does,
even if margin doesn't.
Flat annual fee. Unlimited projects,
users, subbies, and consultants
Built for
US Tier 1 general contractors. Change
orders, observations, US accounting and document conventions.
ANZ mid-sized commercial builders. Native ASNZS, CCA-compliant claims, GST, Xero, Sydney data centre.
Stack shape
Procore plus a financials system (JobPac, CHEOPS, CAT Projects), an HSEQ system (HammerTech, OneBreadcrumb), estimating (Qubit, CostX), procurement (ProcurePro), and middleware to keep it all in sync.
One platform across documents, commercial, programme, delivery, HSEQ, procurement, and preconstruction. Native Xero. No middleware.
AI
Acquired and rebadged tools (Esticom became Procore Estimating). Marketplace partners for the rest.
KAI is native, embedded across every module. Reads drawings, drafts RFIs, reconciles invoices, watches for risk.
How it runs
A place to file documents and generate reports after the work has happened. The program is a static viewer.
A live, connected platform. Program is collaborative. Schedule shifts flag commercial impact automatically
Procore Charges by Revenue. Deep Space Charges a Flat Fee No Matter How Much You Grow.
Procore is a strong product for the contractor it was designed to serve. That contractor is in Texas, runs $500M+ programmes, has a dedicated IT function, and prices software in dollars and basis points of project value. Mid-sized commercial builders in Australia and New Zealand are not that buyer.
Deep Space is built here, with builders here. Native AS/NZS handling, CCA-compliant claims, GST, native Xero, AU/NZ data residency, local support, local roadmap. The product uses the language your team uses.
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- Change order. Sales tax. US zip code. Generic notification email.
- Connector to Xero.
- Standard claim flow. CCA compliance handled by add-on.
- Variation. GST. AU/NZ postcode. Email comes from your actual address.
- Native Xero sync. Contacts, invoices, POs, bills. No middleware. Built across ANZ.
- CCA-compliant claims native. Sliding retention. Milestone caps. Local conditions, local data residency.
The Typical Procore Stack Costs More and Breaks More One Platform Replaces All of It
Most Procore builders run a stack: Procore, plus a financial system, plus HSEQ, plus a CRM, plus middleware to make Xero work. Every join is a point of failure, an extra subscription, and a place where data falls out of sync.
Eight or more subscriptions across categories. Multiple middleware tools to keep them in sync. Data spreads across systems that don't talk to each other.
What's actually native in Deep Space:
- Native Xero sync for contacts, invoices, POs, bills, and payments. No Smoothlink, no SmoothX, no ScanPro.
- Built-in light CRM with auto-generated job numbers, opportunity-to-project lifecycle, and pipeline view. No Zoho needed.
- Native programme module that ingests MS Project files and turns them into a live, collaborative working schedule. Subbies see only what concerns them.
- HSEQ from DS Site covers inductions, incidents, observations, SWMS, and daily site sign-on. Replaces HammerTech and OneBreadcrumb.
Native AI Construction Management vs Acquired Add-Ons: Why It Matters
Procore's AI capability is largely the result of acquisitions and rebadged marketplace apps. As an example, procore estimating is the former Esticom product, rebranded after acquisition. The marketplace contains dozens of third-party tools that builders pay for individually.
KAI is different. It's native to Deep Space and built into every module from the ground up. It reads drawings on upload, drafts RFIs from plain language, compares revisions, reconciles invoices against POs, and surfaces commercial risk when the programme shifts. It isn't a feature you turn on. It's the layer the platform runs through.
What KAI does, embedded in workflow
Drawings
Marketplace bolt-ons. Procore Copilot rolling out module by module.
KAI reviews every upload. Flags scope gaps, coordination issues, drafts RFIs, compares revisions.
RFIs
Manual draft, manual link.
Plain-language input becomes a drafted RFI, linked to the relevant drawing, contract clause, and trade.
Invoices
Connector reconciliation, manual approval.
AI invoice reconciliation. Reads the accounts inbox, matches to POs, three-way match at line and total. (Coming soon)
Risks
Module-by-module reporting.
Cross-module surveillance. Programme delay surfaces commercial impact. Insurance expiry blocks payment approval automatically.
Three weeks. Hands-on.
Built around your project.
Most platforms are places teams go to file documents and generate reports after the work has already happened. Deep Space is where the work runs, with intelligence built into every workflow.
Programme module side by side
MS Project file
Uploaded, view only
Ingested, live lookahead,
collaborative
Schedule slip on
Level 4 structure
Manual update
KAI flagged automatically
Variation impact
Tracked separately
Auto-linked to affected variations
Cost forecast
Updated next month
Live cost-to-complete
Commercial risk
Surfaced after the fact
Surfaced before the fact
doesn't try to do.
We're not pretending to win in every dimension. There are areas where Procore has a head start, and there are areas where the right answer is a specialist tool. Here's what we tell you straight.
chasing Qubit or CostX.
Deep Space estimating handles BOQ-level work and pushes cleanly to the budget register. If your business runs $40M+ of estimating a year on highly visual 2D takeoffs, keep your specialist and bring everything else into Deep Space. Roadmap: KAI 2D AI takeoff is in development.
have hundreds of marketplace apps.
Procore's marketplace is broad. The honest truth is that most builders use three of those apps. The ones you actually need (Xero, MS Project, BIM viewers) are native in Deep Space. If you rely on a niche marketplace app, tell us. We'll be honest about whether it's a fit.
for $1B contractors.
If you're Hutchies running 50+ concurrent megaprojects with a dedicated Procore administration team, Procore is probably the right choice. Deep Space is built for ANZ commercial builders running $100k to $100M+ projects. If that's you, we'll tell you on the first call.
What builders actually say
(...some very real conversations)
From real evaluation calls with mid-sized commercial builders
comparing Procore to Deep Space across Australia and New Zealand.
Coming off Procore is
simpler than you think
No 18-month rollout. No dedicated IT project. No year-long contract before you see value. Builders are running real projects on Deep Space within weeks of signing.
See your Procore stack
mapped to Deep Space.
30 minutes with the team. Bring your current setup. We'll show you exactly how the workflows you run today translate into Deep Space, what you replace, and what stays. No generic demo.
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