GDL

About

A small studio, focused on the trade.

What GDL does

GDL Consultancy builds software for the construction industry. We’re a small, focused studio. Our products are designed for the people who’ll use them on a Tuesday morning with a deadline at midday — not for procurement departments running a tender.

How we work

We pick problems where the software hasn’t caught up with the trade. We build tools small enough to ship, focused enough to actually use, and credible enough to defend. Then we put them in front of real users — surveyors, estimators, technical teams — and watch what they do.

Why we built this

Most construction software is built by people who’ve never done the work it’s meant to support. It shows — the tools are shaped around how the job looks from a desk, not how it runs on site, thick with steps nobody needs and thin on the ones that matter. We built GDL to close that gap, because the people who understood it weren’t the ones building the software.

The team’s experience spans waterproofing surveying, specialist contracting, and the trades. Years of taking off drawings and defending estimates.

We’re not a SaaS company that found construction. We’re construction people who learned to ship software.