Features · estimating & takeoff

The estimating desk, in four parts.

Measure off the drawings. Price from your own book. Build the bill whichever way the job arrives. Then see exactly where the money is before you send it.

Every page below describes what is in the software today — the actual tools, the actual columns, the actual reports. Not a roadmap.

What you get

Four surfaces, one chain.

They are four parts of one package, not four products. A quantity measured on a drawing meets a template that knows what one unit of that system takes, priced from the resources in your book, marked up where you can see every line it touches, and printed by a report that says where each figure came from.

01 · Drawings

Takeoff, markup and reporting

Open the drawing set, tell it the scale, and trace. Areas, lengths, counts and angles come off the sheet as real quantities with the working shown, become bill lines you confirm one by one, and land on the estimate in the section you choose.

  • 6 measure tools — Area · polyline · line · cut-out · count · angle
  • 9 markup tools — Cloud · callout · arrow · pen · highlighter
  • Every quantity tagged — Where the number came from
  • PDF + spreadsheet — Marked-up sheets and the schedule
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02 · Your price book

Resource, assembly and template library

Two ideas do all the work. Resources are the things you buy or use — a membrane, a fastener, an hour of labour, a crane for the day — each with a code, a unit and a rate. Templates are the recipes: what one square foot of a roof system actually consumes.

  • 5 resource types — Material · labour · plant · subcontract · other
  • Recipes, not rates — Templates used as assemblies
  • Readable factors — Coverage, layers and laps stay visible
  • Snapshot versions — A sent quote never moves
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03 · The bill

Four ways to build the estimate

Jobs do not arrive in one shape. Sometimes the client sends a bill of quantities as a spreadsheet and wants it back priced. Sometimes there is nothing but a drawing set. Sometimes you know the job well enough to type it. All three, and your own templates, land in the same editor.

  • 01 — Import the client's bill
  • 02 — Type it yourself
  • 03 — Push it from a takeoff
  • 04 — Drop in a template
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04 · The money

Resource and markup viewer

A bill tells you what you are building. The resource viewer tells you what you are buying: every material, hour, machine and subcontract across the whole estimate, collapsed into one row each, with what it costs and what share of the job it is.

  • One row per resource — Across every section
  • 3 levels of markup — Estimate · section · item
  • 4 reports — PDF or spreadsheet
  • Filed in the vault — Every export kept
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The rule everything follows Your database never moves under a live bid. An estimate snapshots the rates it was built with, so publishing new prices tomorrow does not change a quote you sent last month. Where a figure cannot be found it is shown as a GAP with its reason — never filled in with something plausible.
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