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Is this budget realistic?

A quick sanity check before you commit to anything - no signup, no project required. Estimate how much space you actually need, check a budget against indicative Indian commercial fit-out ranges, and see if a quoted professional fee is normal.

Don't know your target sqft yet?

Estimate it from headcount instead of guessing - the most common office-relocation mistake is planning space around the old floor plan instead of real attendance patterns.

150 employees, assuming full daily in-office attendance. Set a typical daily attendance % below if your organization is hybrid - that alone can meaningfully shrink the space you actually need.

Suggested target: 12,000–18,000 sqft

Indicative only, based on typical modern hybrid density (80-120 sqft/person) - not a precise architectural program.

Total project budget - construction and fit-out combined, not the consultant's professional fee.

What this implies

₹1.5Cr–₹4Cr across 15,000 sqft implies roughly ₹1,000–₹2,667/sqft - spanning "Basic / functional" through "Standard corporate", against indicative Indian commercial fit-out reference ranges (not live market data - see below).

Basic / functional₹1,200–₹1,800/sqft
Standard corporate₹1,800–₹3,000/sqft
Premium / Grade-A₹3,000–₹5,000/sqft
Luxury / flagship₹5,000+/sqft

100 sqft per target headcount - "Typical modern hybrid" territory (the common band for a contemporary indian corporate office with some hybrid flexibility.)

Tight / hot-desk-heavy40–80 sqft/head
Typical modern hybrid80–120 sqft/head
Generous / traditional120–180 sqft/head
Very generous / leadership-heavy180+ sqft/head

Indicative, furniture-inclusive reference ranges for a competitively-sourced RFP (not the cheapest self-sourced quote you could find) - not live market data. Cubely doesn't yet have enough real project volume to offer genuine anonymized peer benchmarking (see /faq). Treat these as a sanity check, not a quote.

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Is a quoted professional fee normal?

Consulting fees are usually a small enough line item that nobody sanity-checks them separately from the construction cost. Enter what you were quoted and see how it stacks up.

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