You're spending 20-30 hours a week on estimates, bidding on gut feel, and watching margins erode job after job. We build an estimating system and pricing strategy that uses real data, protects your margins, and lets you bid faster.
You price based on what "feels right" or what you think the client will accept. No real data. No historical cost analysis. Just hope that you don't lose money this time.
Cost: 5-15% margin erosion on every jobEvery estimate is a manual exercise. You're building takeoffs from scratch, calling vendors for pricing, and second-guessing every number. It takes forever and still feels uncertain.
Cost: Half your week gone before building startsRevenue goes up, profit goes down. You're winning more jobs but making less money because your pricing doesn't scale. What worked at $500K doesn't work at $2M.
Cost: Working harder for less profitYou finish a job, move on to the next one, and never compare actual costs to estimates. The same pricing mistakes repeat on every project because there's no system to learn from results.
Cost: Never improving your accuracyWe don't teach theory. We build a real estimating system that uses your historical job data, your vendor relationships, and your market position to create accurate bids that protect your margins.
Pull actual costs from your last 10-20 jobs. Compare to estimates. Find where you're consistently over or under.
Build markup tables by trade, job type, and complexity. Define your minimum margin targets.
Create master budgets, reusable assemblies, and vendor price books in JobTread or your platform.
Build a simple bid/no-bid checklist so you stop chasing jobs that don't meet your margin criteria.
Set up a post-job review process that compares actual costs to estimates and feeds improvements back into your system.
Book a free diagnostic. We'll analyze your current estimating process and show you exactly where margin is leaking—and how to fix it in 6 weeks.