UpScale.buildWho the vendor's own navigation names
- Spreadsheets
- Whoever built the template
- Mastt
- Project owners, real-estate developers, PM consultants, owners' reps
- UpScale
- The developer or client-side PM carrying the deal — priced per project, not per person
Comparison
UpScale.build vs Mastt: one program view, or one deal’s margin?
Mastt describes itself as AI-powered capital project and program management software, built to control cost, risk, schedule and reporting, and its own navigation names project owners, real estate developers, project management consultants and owners’ representatives as the people it serves.
That audience list overlaps with UpScale’s on paper, which is exactly why this page exists: a program view and a single deal’s margin are not the same question, even when the same word — developer — answers both. This page argues that the useful split is not who Mastt names, but whether you are tracking a program of work or defending one budget from feasibility through to the final certified claim.
A program dashboard and a defended budget solve different problems
A program tool earns its keep by rolling many projects into one view — cost, risk and schedule, comparable across sites, so a portfolio manager can see where attention is thin. That view is genuinely useful once an organisation is running several projects at once and needs one screen for all of them.
A single deal asks a narrower question: does the number the bank was shown at settlement still hold, claim by claim, variation by variation, eighteen months later? Rolling that question into a program view can flatten it — a five-thousand-dollar variation looks small next to a portfolio total, and stops looking small the moment twenty of them land on the one project you are accountable for.
UpScale.build answers the narrower question first. A feasibility, once approved, becomes a budget that cannot be quietly edited to match whatever happened, and every claim, variation and funder report is read back against that one fixed number.
Side-by-side comparison
What the vendor's own line claims
- Spreadsheets
- Whatever the tab says today
- Mastt
- AI-powered capital project and program software, controlling cost, risk, schedule and reporting
- UpScale
- A feasibility that freezes into the budget one deal is measured against
The scope of the thing being controlled
- Spreadsheets
- One deal, rebuilt badly each time
- Mastt
- A capital program — potentially many projects under one view
- UpScale
- One deal's margin, from committed budget to the last certified claim
How a price becomes visible to a stranger
- Spreadsheets
- Bundled into whatever else was already paid for
- Mastt
- Published rates, including a free starter tier, ahead of any call
- UpScale
- Published on our own pricing page, no call required either
People invited onto a live deal
- Spreadsheets
- Free until somebody needs locking out
- Mastt
- Seats scoped across owners, consultants and reps
- UpScale
- Free to invite — the module they touch is what's scoped
What a free tier is for
- Spreadsheets
- Free because nobody paid to license it
- Mastt
- A starter tier sits inside its published pricing
- UpScale
- Feasibility stays free indefinitely — not a ticking trial
Competitor column checked against the vendor’s own public pages: Mastt, accessed 17 September 2026. Products change; check theirs before you decide.
When Mastt is the right call
If your organisation is running several capital projects at once and the job in front of you is comparing cost, risk and schedule across that program, Mastt’s own description is built exactly for that view. We would not try to replicate a program dashboard, and a developer buying UpScale for that purpose would be disappointed.
Come here instead if there is one deal whose numbers you signed off on and you need those numbers to still mean something the day a claim lands on your desk.
What UpScale.build is
Property development software for the client side — Australian developers and client-side project managers. Feasibility is free; approving one freezes it into an Original Budget, and delivery is read back against that baseline: tenders, progress claims, variations, site diary, defects and funder reporting. Documents stay in your own Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. Consultants, builders and clients you invite do not cost a seat.
- Feasibility software overview
- What a feasibility study covers
- How progress claims work
- Variations, claims and margin
- Site diary
What it costs
Feasibility is $0 — 3 projects at a time, no card. Developer free until 1 January 2027, then $149 AUD a month includes 1 active project; Portfolio $299 includes 5. Extra active projects are $49 a month within each package, Portfolio X is $499 for 10, and archived projects are free and read-only. People you invite are free, up to 50 per project on Developer and 100 on Portfolio.
Frequently asked questions
Is UpScale.build a Mastt alternative for property developers?
Sometimes, and it depends what you were actually shopping for. Mastt's own site names project owners and developers among the people it serves, alongside consultants and owners' representatives, and it is built around cost, risk, schedule and reporting across a program. If the job in front of you is holding a feasibility together as one deal moves from a signed contract to a settled claim, that is a narrower problem than a program view, and it is the one UpScale.build was built to answer.
Can my project team keep using Mastt while I run UpScale?
Yes, and nothing about UpScale asks them to stop. Program-level reporting and a single deal's budget are not competing for the same screen: your consultants can carry on reporting cost and schedule wherever they already do it, while the certificate you sign for a claim comes from the frozen number you approved at feasibility. Invite whoever needs to see a given project; nobody is forced onto a tool they were not already using.
Does UpScale report across more than one live project?
To a degree, yes — visibility beyond a single active deal sits behind the higher plan, and what is included there is set out on the pricing section of this page rather than repeated here. What UpScale does not attempt is a program-wide cost-and-schedule console for a delivery team; it stays anchored to the budget a developer approved and the claims moving against it.
Who is this page not written for?
Head contractors running site teams, and anyone buying software purely for equity-side deal analysis. Both are real jobs, and neither is the one this page argues about. UpScale.build sits with the person who committed to a budget before the site settled and has to answer for it afterwards — usually the developer, sometimes the client-side PM standing in for them.
Coming from Mastt, where should I actually start?
At the feasibility, not at a migration. Create a free account, model the deal on its own numbers, and approve it only once you are ready to commit money. There is no sales call attached to that step and nothing to cancel if the numbers do not work — you have simply spent an afternoon rather than a deposit.
Related reading
- What development margin actually tracks
- Running a tender before the budget is set
- UpScale.build vs ARGUS EstateMaster
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