Why VeryFi exists
Construction pricing has become one of the biggest financial blind spots in Australian life. We built VeryFi to put real market data in the hands of the people signing the quote — and behind the tradies who price fairly.
The problem we set out to fix
The cost of building, renovating and repairing in Australia has risen sharply over recent years — materials, labour and compliance have all moved, and they haven't moved evenly. The result is a market where two quotes for the same job can be tens of thousands of dollars apart, and the person receiving them has almost no way to tell which one reflects the real market.
That information gap lands hardest on ordinary households. A quote for a roof, a bathroom or a retaining wall is one of the largest purchasing decisions most families ever make, and it's routinely made with less independent information than buying a $30 appliance. Most of the time the price in front of them is honest. Sometimes it isn't — and the mums and dads who can least afford it are the ones a small minority of operators count on not knowing the difference.
VeryFi closes that gap. Every reviewed quote is broken into its individual rates and benchmarked, line by line, against real local pricing for the same work — so the verdict is grounded in data, not opinion.
We're not the opposition. We back good tradies.
Let's be clear about something: the overwhelming majority of Australian tradespeople quote fairly, work hard and stand behind their workmanship. This platform is not about tarnishing every tradie with the brush of a small minority — it's about the opposite.
Fair operators lose work every week in ways that have nothing to do with their quality: undercut by corner-cutters they can't compete with on price, or knocked back by customers who've been burned before and now distrust every number they see. When an independent review confirms a quote is fair, that quote stops being "just another number" — it becomes the one the customer can sign with confidence. Fair pricing and quality work should win the job. VeryFi exists to make sure it does.
For tradies: know the market without asking the competition
Tradespeople wonder where the market sits too. Pricing knowledge in the trades has always travelled informally — picked up from mates, former employers, or guesswork about what the operator down the road is charging. There's never been a clean way to check your own rates against the current local market without begging, borrowing or reverse-engineering it from competitors.
Now there is. Run your own quote through VeryFi before it goes out and see exactly where each rate sits against recent local pricing — priced too low to be sustainable, in the fair band, or high enough to need justifying. It's the same independent benchmark your customers see, which means no surprises on either side of the table.
For organisations that live in quotes
The same review that protects a household scales to anyone who receives quotations in volume — for their own assets or on behalf of the people they answer to. When you're spending members', owners' or public money, "we got three quotes" is a process; an independent line-by-line benchmark is evidence.
Strata managers & executive committees
Owners-corporation funds deserve probity. Benchmark repair and maintenance quotes before they go to a vote, and minute an independent report alongside the decision.
Facilities & property managers
When quotes arrive every week, even a small percentage of over-pricing compounds. Per-line benchmarking turns gut feel into evidence you can take to a contractor conversation.
Schools, universities & not-for-profits
Procurement rules ask for value-for-money, but comparing three quotes only tells you they differ — not whether any of them is fair. An independent benchmark closes that gap.
Buyers' agents & professional advisers
Advising clients on works they can't price themselves? Attach an independent review to your recommendation instead of a hunch.
Reviewing at volume? The monthly plan covers up to ten reviews a month, or talk to us about tailored volume arrangements for your organisation or clients.
Where we stand
- Independent by design.We're paid by the people who request reviews — never by contractors seeking a verdict, and never in commissions or referral fees that could colour one.
- Data over opinion. Verdicts come from real, recent Australian pricing for the same work in your area, benchmarked rate by rate — not from a rule of thumb.
- Guidance, honestly labelled. A VeryFi report is independent pricing guidance — not a valuation, and never a substitute for professional advice on the works or the contract.
- Better for both sides.Households sign with confidence; fair tradies win the work they deserve. That's the whole point.
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