Who it's for
For colleges and universities
New buildings, renovations and deferred maintenance: facilities and capital planning teams use Kipso to track budgets, check contractor bills, route approvals and report to trustees.
What it does for you
- Approvals that follow your policy. Dollar limits set once; each change order goes to the right people in order, and only the person it's waiting on can approve.
- Every contractor bill checked. Each pay-app line is checked against the contract, approved change orders and progress on site before anyone signs.
- Funding sources kept apart. Bond proceeds, state funding and other sources tracked separately, each with rules for what it can pay for.
- Budget and contingency you can see. What's committed, what's pending and a forecast of when contingency runs out, project by project.
- Reports for trustees and leadership. A monthly report built from live cost data, with a drafted summary your team reviews.
- Payments ready for accounting. Certified pay apps go out as a CSV mapped to your system's import format, imported by your finance team.
An illustration
For example
A campus renovates a residence hall over the summer with bond funds and a donor gift. Kipso keeps the gift and the bond apart, checks each pay app against the contract and progress on site, and the report for the facilities committee and trustees shows where the project stands before students move in.
This page describes public owner mode. How the two owner modes differ.
Common questions
Is there a demo for a college or university?
The demo is a fictional school district, Cedar Ridge Unified. Budgets, contractor bills, approvals and reports work the same way for a campus, so it's a good way to see how it works.
Can it report to our trustees?
Yes. The monthly report covers budget, commitments, forecast and contingency, with a drafted summary your team reviews first.
How is it priced?
It's free during the early preview. We expect to price it by annual construction spend, with unlimited users, the same for any owner.
Keep campus projects on budget
It's an early preview: free to try with sample data, no sign-up. If you want to use it on your project, tell us.