Born in Belgium, the ECV application analyses construction quotes with artificial intelligence. A tool designed for private individuals, now coveted by insurers and institutions.
From private clients to a two-trillion market
Redoing a roof, extending a house, installing a heat pump. Behind every project lies a quote, most often signed on the strength of trust and a few lines of pricing. Wolfgang Sievert has been scrutinising that moment for thirty years. At the head of a firm that advises companies on their strategic decisions, he has followed a multitude of property projects and identified a persistent flaw. Sums sometimes equivalent to a lifetime's savings are signed away with very little information about the company involved. Its financial strength, its insurance, its track record or the technical coherence of the proposed materials remain out of the private client's reach. "The real questions lie elsewhere than the price. Is a company financially sound, in good standing with the authorities, genuinely insured?" asks Wolfgang Sievert. From that imbalance came the idea for ECV — Euro Construct Verify — an application that X-rays a quote within moments. A consumer reads countless reviews before buying a simple household appliance. Faced with the most expensive project of their life, private individuals were left empty-handed.
A machinery of authentic sources
Officially launched in May 2026 after two and a half years of development, ECV first saw the light of day in Belgium before spreading to Europe, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The mechanism rests on a photograph of the quote, from which an artificial intelligence extracts every piece of data. A proprietary algorithm developed in-house by Christian Vicente and his team then checks them against hundreds of sources through programming interfaces, some of them reserved for institutional players. Four AI models take turns to weed out errors, before a report is produced together with a reliability indicator graded from red to green. The analysis compares prices with the rates charged in the region, spots forgotten items, double billing and unbalanced clauses, and verifies the presence of a ten-year guarantee, the compatibility of materials and the site's exposure to flood risk. Every piece of information used comes from authentic databases, a requirement that governs the entire architecture of the service and is designed to rule out approximations. This technical rigour outlines a platform whose ambitions reach well beyond the general public.
Professionals and institutions in its sights
While private individuals make up the bulk of users, ECV is aiming higher. Architects, surveyors and estate agents already number among the professionals adopting it. In a European construction and renovation market that ECV values at two trillion euros a year, a fraction of which ends up every year in disputes settled before the courts, the company intends to address the players who finance and insure building projects. Its executives are in talks with insurance companies looking for a dedicated version, with banks keen to secure their renovation loans, and with European institutions around construction subsidies. For these partners, access to public databases closed to private individuals becomes possible, widening the scope of the analysis. The ambition then goes beyond the one-off verification of a quote, to run through the entire construction industry. "We want to become the trust label of the sector's companies," confides Wolfgang Sievert, who sees such certification as the platform's natural extension.
Soon also available on the App Store and Google Play.
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