The job should produce the price.
Not the quoter.
Two surveyors look at the same house and quote two different numbers. One's having a good day; one's guessing. The customer can't tell which. That's the problem Cerrax was built to end.
Cerrax started with a house move and two quotes that should have been the same job — and weren't. Not because the firms were dishonest, but because moving pricing leans on one person's judgment on one particular day. The price walks out the door with the quoter.
For a small firm, that's a quiet risk hiding in plain sight. The business depends on a pricing instinct that lives in someone's head — and walks out when they're off, or busy, or gone. Underprice and the day costs you money. Overprice and you lose the job to someone who guessed lower.
So we built the opposite. A pricing engine where the job produces the price — volume, distance, access, the real drivers of a day's work — calibrated to your costs, applied the same way every time. The quoter stops being the variable.
Why I built it.
I built Cerrax. In the summer of 2026 I moved house and asked two good local firms to quote the same job. They came back 18% apart on the move and 74% apart on the packing.
Neither was wrong. They'd worked it out two different ways. That is why Cerrax prices from the job: the same job gets the same price, whoever quotes it.
I am building it alongside the firms who use it, and I answer replies myself. If something is not right, write to josh@cerrax.io.
Josh Fenwick, founder
Built like infrastructure, not a calculator.
Consistent
The same job gets the same price every time, from anyone, on any day — and any quote replays exactly on the engine version that priced it. No drift, no mood, no Friday-afternoon discount.
Explainable to the cent
Every price breaks down into named drivers that sum exactly to the total. You can always answer "why this number?" — to a customer, or to yourself.
Nothing changes behind your back
Amend a quote and the original still stands in the record. Every version is kept, and every price replays exactly on the engine version that priced it. When a newer engine would price a job differently, that change is published, dated, on the proof page.
It learns from your reality
Tell it how the job actually went — the hours, the surprises — and the engine calibrates to your costs, getting sharper for your business with every job.
And one thing it will never do: push you to charge more. Your prices are yours — Cerrax computes them consistently, it doesn't inflate them.
The pricing layer for moving companies in New Zealand.
One firm at a time, Cerrax is becoming the engine the industry prices on — the layer that quoting tools and CRMs can license rather than reinvent. As more firms calibrate it, the picture of what a real job costs gets clearer for everyone, while each firm's own numbers stay their own.
Cerrax is open to moving companies in New Zealand today. If you quote jobs here, we'd like to price one of yours in it and show you the working.
See your jobs priced from the job.
Twenty minutes: one of your real jobs, priced in Cerrax line by line, so you can set it beside what you quoted.
See your jobs pricedCerrax in New Zealand
- Currency
- NZD
- Distance quoted in
- kilometres
A weatherboard villa in an Auckland suburb going down State Highway 1 to Hamilton: a moving truck with a tail-lift, a sloping section at one end, and a long carry from the road to the front door at the other. Cerrax prices it from the villa's volume, the open-road kilometres, and the time the slope and the carry add to the crew's day.
The vehicles it plans with here:
- Small moving truck (18–20 m³, class 1)
- Large rental truck with tail-lift (24–28 m³, class 1)
- Moving truck (40–45 m³, class 2)