Building back home from the diaspora, or on site yourself? Find a service provider you can check, then everyone works from one shared record of the house: progress, site photos and every payment, from estimate to handover.
What the video says: Are you currently building? Or planning to build? Sound familiar? How far are they now? Send me a picture. Was the cement bought? Where did the money go? You send money. You wait. You hope. A home shouldn't be built on hope. Trace My Build: your whole build, in one place. See where the build stands, today. Dated photos of every phase, straight from site. Every payment, with its receipt. A clear cost breakdown, by category, by item, by phase. Before you start, know what your home should cost before the first brick. When you need people, find a service provider and compare quotes. When you have a question, ask Muvaki, your AI assistant, on call for your build. Made for families building from abroad, owners on the ground, and the people building for them. Build with clarity, from abroad or on the ground. On the App Store and Google Play, and at tracemybuild.com.
Tell it the bedrooms, bathrooms and floors, the ground you're building on, whether a contractor or your own builders will do the work, and the finish you want — or upload your plan and let it read the rooms. It prices the house the way a quantity surveyor would: phase by phase, with a likely figure and a range.
The rates are published, dated and sourced. One tap turns the estimate into your phase budgets, and Muvaki answers “what should the roof cost?” from it.
A three-bedroom house, standard finishes, built by a contractor
All in, land extra. Rates checked September 2026 — see what's in each.
From abroad, the biggest decision of the build is usually made on someone's word: a person you've never met, a quote you can't judge, and work you can't go and see.
Trace My Build shows you service providers where you're building: builders and project managers, each with a phone number we've checked and the builds they're already on. Ask a few for quotes from your estimate, so every quote prices the same house, phase by phase, and see each one against local rates.
Choose one and they join your build: each payment they make comes with its receipt for you to approve, and every site photo is dated. No money goes through the app.
Quotes for a three-bedroom house in Harare
ExampleFoundation to handover · local rates $77,300 to $103,900
Within the local range
Rudo is 14% over the local range. Worth asking why.
Farai is 24% under the local range. Ask what's left out before you choose.
Owners abroad want someone they can trust on the ground, and too often settle for whoever the family knows. A profile with a checked number puts you in front of owners building near you and brings you their requests for quotes, and every payment you log with its receipt adds to the record that wins you the next one.
Give the person on site a link that can log payments. They add what they paid and a photo of the receipt, the day it happens — no account needed. It waits for you in one list: approve it, fix it and approve it, or decline it with a word of why, which they see.
Nothing counts in your totals, budgets or exports until you approve it, and a payment that looks like one already in the ledger is flagged before it's counted twice.
An example conversation with Muvaki:
Describe a transaction in plain English — “paid $450 for cement yesterday” — and Muvaki logs it: categorized, dated, ready to review before it saves.
Ask it anything about the fund and get a real answer, grounded in your actual numbers — not a guess.
Where is the money going? What was it spent on? Which stage cost the most? One card on your dashboard answers all three: by category, by item, or by phase of the build.
Then watch Muvaki take a photographed receipt, read it and file it with the payment, and say whether the roof is still within budget, from the build's own records.
Price the house before you start, phase by phase, from published local rates, and make it your budget.
Find a checked service provider where you're building, and compare their quotes with your estimate.
They log each payment with its receipt from site. Nothing counts until you approve it.
Dated site photos and progress for every phase, from your phone, wherever you are.
Family follow the same record with a code. No account, and no more "how's it going?"
Whoever's on the ground keeps working the way they already do; you get the record without the phone calls. The person managing your build signs in and has full control. Everyone else gets their own invite code — no account, no passcode to read out — and sees the ledger, receipts and photos live, but can never change a number or delete a photo. A builder you allow can log payments with their receipts, and each one waits for your approval before it counts. That's enforced by the server itself, the same way a bank enforces who can move money and who can only view a statement.
Trace My Build never holds or moves your money — transfers happen directly through your own method. We only record what happened, and if something's logged wrong, the owner can always edit or delete it.
Building or pooling money for a home back home while you live and earn abroad, with everyone seeing the same numbers.
Self-builders and owners who live near the site, keeping every payment, receipt and phase budget in one place instead of a notebook.
Helping on site or chipping in, and keeping everyone who's paying informed without the extra messages — in the browser or the app, no account needed.
For builders and project managers: get found by owners building near you, at home and abroad, quote from their estimate, and log payments with receipts for them to approve.
Price your house, find a checked service provider, and every quote, payment, receipt and photo from here on is somewhere you can actually check.
