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The Site Book wins for principal contractors needing the full CDM 2015 suite; RAMs App is the right choice for contractors who only need template-based RAMS and nothing else.
The Site Book is an AI-driven CDM suite that generates RAMS, CPPs, COSHH, inductions and toolbox talks from a plain-English job brief, flat-rate from £30/month. RAMs App is a template library focused narrowly on RAMS and method statements, from about £24/month. Pick The Site Book if you need the full CDM 2015 stack in one subscription; pick RAMs App if you only need RAMS templates and nothing else.
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Based on publicly available vendor documentation and published pricing as of 2026-04-15.
Pricing, fit, and feature coverage side by side.
| Feature | The Site Book | RAMs App |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | from £30/mo | from £24/mo |
| Team size | 1–50 | All contractors |
| Best for | Small-to-mid UK builders (1–50 users) who need a full CDM pack -RAMS, CPP, COSHH, site inductions, toolbox talks -without paying enterprise per-seat prices. | General contractors who need template-based RAMS with a familiar library-picker workflow and don't require a full CDM suite. |
| Not ideal for | New product (launched 2025) -smaller customer base and shorter track record than established tools like HandsHQ. | Template-based only -no AI that generates site-specific RAMS from a plain-English job description. |
| RAMS | AI-generated, site-specific, edit in-browser. | Template-based library. |
| CPP | Full Construction Phase Plans -not just RAMS. | |
| COSHH | ||
| Method statements | Template-based. | |
| Site inductions | Workers sign from their phone. | |
| Worker cert tracking | ||
| Incident log | ||
| Permits to work | ||
| Site diary | ||
| Subcontractor tracking | ||
| Toolbox talks | ||
| PCPP import | Upload an existing PCPP and reuse the structure. | |
| Document checking | ||
| Data export | ||
| AI chat |
Both The Site Book and RAMs App are legitimate tools used by UK builders for health and safety documentation - they solve the same problem of getting a professional RAMS without starting from a blank page, but they do it very differently. RAMs App gives you a large library of pre-written templates: pick one, customise it, and export. It is a proven approach for contractors who prefer a known good template. The Site Book takes the opposite approach - describe your job in plain English, or talk into your phone, and AI creates a site-specific RAMS from scratch, plus your CPP, site induction, emergency plan, and COSHH records from the same brief. It is designed for sole traders and small builders who want everything in one place.
At-a-glance fit per product - pulled from the same data that drives the snapshot table.
Pick the option that matches how your team actually works.
The Site Book wins for principal contractors needing the full CDM 2015 suite; RAMs App is the right choice for contractors who only need template-based RAMS and nothing else.
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Short, straight answers - the same questions real builders ask.
RAMs App uses a traditional template library - you pick a template and fill in the blanks. The Site Book generates site-specific documents from a plain-English job description, so you get a RAMS written for your actual project in minutes rather than selecting and manually customising a generic template every time. The output is closer to bespoke and the time per document is much lower.
No. RAMs App is focused narrowly on RAMS and method statements. It does not cover Construction Phase Plans, COSHH assessments, site inductions, worker tracking, or the wider site management tools needed on CDM 2015 projects. The Site Book covers all of these in a single subscription, so you do not need to buy separate tools for separate parts of the same legal duty.
Everything. Full access to every feature - RAMS, CPPs, COSHH, site management, and the in-app AI chat - without entering a credit card. Create a real project and generate real documents to see if it works for your business. You can keep the trial output and decide later whether to upgrade to a paid plan, with no automatic charge at the end of the trial period.
RAMs App publishes pricing from around twenty-four pounds a month for RAMS only. The Site Book starts from thirty pounds a month and includes RAMS, CPPs, COSHH, site inductions, toolbox talks, and the audit-ready pack. For most builders the small price difference is more than covered by not buying a separate CPP tool, a separate induction tool, and a separate COSHH tool.
Yes. The Site Book accepts PCPP uploads and reuses the structure, so existing RAMs App exports give you a head start on each new project. Day-to-day authoring then moves into the natural-language brief, which cuts a typical RAMS from about two hours to under five minutes. Most teams switch over project by project rather than all at once, which keeps live work safe.
Based on publicly available vendor documentation and published pricing as of 2026-04-15.
Every pricing, feature, and fit claim in this comparison is pulled from public vendor documentation and cross-checked against independent sources. The “source basis” footer on each product card lists the exact URLs and the date we fetched them. We revisit this page at least every 90 days - last reviewed on .