What is the best Sitemate alternative in the UK?

There is no single best one, because 'alternative' covers two different jobs. For a broad field system across quality, safety and diaries, Novade is strong. For catching missed compensation events on NEC4 contracts, Gather. Match the tool to your actual problem rather than looking for a like-for-like Sitemate clone.

Is there a Sitemate alternative built for NEC4?

Sitemate and its Dashpivot product are contract-agnostic, with no native NEC4 workflows and no NEC content at all. Gather is built natively for NEC and uses AI to detect compensation events from site diaries and track the clause 61.3 eight-week time bar. Novade, Fieldwire, Raken, BuildPass and Ed Controls are field or QA tools without NEC awareness.

Why do UK contractors switch away from Sitemate?

The three most common reasons are that it has zero NEC4 awareness, that it captures site activity but does not surface commercial entitlement like unnotified compensation events, and that it is built for field and operations teams rather than the commercial managers and QSs who carry the recovery risk.

How much does Sitemate cost?

Sitemate prices Dashpivot per user per month, in the region of £20 to £66 per user depending on plan, with a free tier and free trial available. UK contractors often find the value question is not the headline price but whether a data-capture tool that does not find missed claims justifies the spend at all.

Is Gather a full Sitemate replacement?

No. Gather is the commercial and site-record layer built for NEC recovery, not a broad generic forms platform. It does not aim to replace a 100-template field system. Many contractors run a field tool for the paperwork and Gather for the commercial recovery.

Can a Sitemate alternative find missed compensation events?

Only if it reads your site diaries with AI against your contract terms. Sitemate does not do this, and neither do Novade, Fieldwire, Raken, BuildPass or Ed Controls. Gather does: it identifies around 40% more compensation events than a manual review and tracks the eight-week clause 61.3 time bar.

Sitemate Alternatives for UK Contractors (2026)

Sitemate, whose core product is Dashpivot, is a genuinely capable platform. It came out of Sydney in 2015, raised a $27.5 million Series A in December 2024, and now has offices in London, Vancouver and Toronto. Its no-code forms, 100+ templates and mobile app capture a lot of site activity. If you want to digitise paper forms and daily logs without any specific contract requirements, Sitemate earns its place on the shortlist.

But most UK contractors are not just digitising paper. They are trying to get paid in full and on time under a contract that punishes late notices. And the thing Sitemate does not do, because it was built for generic field documentation rather than UK contracts, is NEC4 commercial recovery: catching compensation events before the clause 61.3 eight-week time bar closes.

This page is an honest comparison. Not every tool below competes with Sitemate on the same ground. Some cover the same field-documentation job. One, ours, solves a different problem entirely. We have said which is which, including where Sitemate beats us. The goal is that you leave knowing which tool fits your actual problem, even if that tool is not Gather.

Why UK contractors look for a Sitemate alternative

Three reasons come up again and again. None of them mean Sitemate is a bad product. They mean it is often the wrong shape for a UK commercial team.

Zero NEC4 awareness. Sitemate does not have a single feature, template or article built around NEC contracts. Its content library covers safety, daily reports and generic variations, never compensation events, early warnings, time bars or clause 61.3. It uses generic terms like "variation" and "change order", never NEC language. If your commercial risk lives in NEC clauses, a contract-agnostic tool leaves you doing the contract work manually.
Captures activity, not entitlement. Dashpivot is a data-capture platform. It records what happened on site into forms and reports. It does not read those records and tell you where the money is. There is no AI layer that flags a compensation event you have not yet notified. You get a tidy record, not a commercial position.
Its buyer is not your buyer. Sitemate sells to field and operations teams who want to replace paperwork. That is a real job. But the person losing sleep over expired time bars and under-recovered final accounts is the commercial manager or QS, and Sitemate was not built for them. Different buyer, different value.

If any of those three describe your frustration, the tools below are worth twenty minutes of your time.

The Honest Comparison

"Sitemate alternative" hides two very different jobs: field documentation, and commercial and contract recovery. The table below groups each tool by the job it actually does.

Tool	Origin	Best for	NEC4 / UK contract aware	AI compensation-event detection
Gather	UK	UK contractors who want to catch missed compensation events	Native NEC4	Yes. AI reads diaries for CEs
Novade	Singapore (UK office)	Enterprise field management across quality, safety and diaries	No	No
Fieldwire (Hilti)	US	Site teams needing plans, tasks and snags on mobile	No	No
Raken	US	Fast daily reporting and time tracking for field crews	No	No
BuildPass	Australia	Smaller builders wanting an all-in-one with AI admin help	No	No
Ed Controls	Netherlands	Snagging, QA and handover on building projects	No	No

A note on that last column, because it is the one that matters most for UK commercial teams. Compensation-event detection is the wedge. Sitemate does not do it, and neither does anything else on this list except Gather. Read the profiles below to see why.

The Alternatives, In Detail

1Gather: the commercial recovery specialist

Let us be straight about what Gather is and is not, because credibility is the whole point of a page like this.

Gather is not a generic forms platform. If all you want is to digitise paper checklists and safety forms across a large field team, Sitemate or Novade will serve you better on breadth of templates and form flexibility.

What Gather is: the AI site-diary and commercial-record layer built specifically for UK contractors on NEC. Its AI reads every site diary entry against your contract terms and flags the compensation events a manual review misses. In practice, manual diary review catches about 60% of legitimate change events. The other 40% is revenue that quietly leaks away because nobody spotted it before the notice period expired.

Gather was built by people who lived this. Will, our founder, nearly lost £20 million on the North West Electrification Programme because the records existed but were scattered across emails, spreadsheets, site vehicles and a supervisor's notebook nobody could find. Ben Walker, who helped draft NEC4 and founded CEMAR, is on the team.

Where Gather beats Sitemate: native NEC4 alignment, AI compensation-event detection (around 40% more CEs than manual review), eight-week time-bar tracking, a QS-first rather than field-first design, and a founding team that has drafted NEC4 and lost money to the exact problem it solves.

Where Sitemate beats Gather: breadth of generic form templates (100+), a longer-established no-code form builder, and a broad field-documentation feature set for teams whose priority is digitising paperwork rather than recovering claims.

Many contractors run both. A field tool for the paperwork, Gather for the commercial recovery. They are not mutually exclusive.

2Novade: the enterprise field-management all-rounder

Novade is the closest thing on this list to a like-for-like Sitemate replacement for a UK audience. It has a proper UK operation and covers quality inspections, safety, permits to work, toolbox talks, site diaries, progress tracking, document control and handover. Its site diary captures activities by trade, photos, weather, manpower and observations, and it works offline on site.

What it does not do is read your diaries and find compensation events. It is a field-management and reporting platform, not a commercial-recovery AI. If your problem is "I want one broad field system across quality, safety and diaries," Novade is a strong shortlist entry. If your problem is "I keep missing CEs," it will not solve that on its own.

3Fieldwire by Hilti: the field-first option

Fieldwire does one job and does it well. Plans, tasks, snag lists tied to plan locations, and mobile performance that holds up on sites with poor signal. It does not try to be an all-in-one suite, which is exactly why field teams like it. It is now owned by Hilti, which gives it real staying power.

It is not NEC4 aware and it does not touch commercial recovery. Think of it as the site-execution layer, not the commercial layer.

Sitemate Alternatives for UK Contractors (2026)

Why UK contractors look for a Sitemate alternative

The Honest Comparison

The Alternatives, In Detail

1Gather: the commercial recovery specialist

2Novade: the enterprise field-management all-rounder

3Fieldwire by Hilti: the field-first option

4Raken: fast daily reporting

5BuildPass: the all-in-one for smaller builders

6Ed Controls: snagging and handover

How to Choose

Sitemate Alternatives: Frequently Asked Questions

See what Gather catches that the others miss