An estimator on your roster, pricing jobs overnight.
Quoting is where the hours go and where the margin leaks. The Estimator turns a checked drawing set into a costed estimate with your margins by trade group — and anything unresolved becomes a provisional sum or an exclusion, never a guess.
What the Estimator actually does
- Reads the drawing set and spec, then costs the scope out by trade group using your rates — not generic industry averages.
- Applies your margins per trade group, so the number that comes out is priced the way you price.
- Turns anything unresolved into a provisional sum or a written exclusion, never a guess buried in a line item.
- Produces a quote document in your format, ready for you to review, adjust and send.
- Flags the scope it could not price and tells you why, so nothing goes out silently underdone.
And what it never does
- It never sends a quote. You approve every number before it leaves the office.
- It never invents a rate. If your rate file doesn't cover it, it asks.
- It never replaces your estimator. It clears the grunt work so they can price the hard parts.
Recruited, inducted, on the roster.
Recruited
We pick the estimating role for your business and write its position description — what it prices, what it flags, and when it checks with you.
Inducted
It learns your rate file, your trade groups, your margins, your exclusions and your quote format. That induction is written down and owned by you.
On the roster
It prices the jobs coming in, week in and week out, on wages like anyone else on your books.
Bad quoting doesn't just cost hours. It costs rework.
Missed scope and "builder to confirm on site" traps are paid for later, on site, at full price. Australian research puts total rework on construction projects in the order of several per cent of contract value once direct and indirect costs are counted.
Our ROI calculator uses that research to estimate what a share of your rework and your admin hours is worth back to you each year — using your turnover and your hourly rate, not ours.
Where estimating sits
The Estimator works best behind The Plans Checker, which reads every page of the drawings and spec overnight and flags the clashes and missing scope first. Priced from a checked set, the estimate holds up.
Which roles you recruit, and in what order, comes out of the audit — not off a shelf.
See pricingStart with the audit. Recruit the estimator second.
The AI Readiness Audit gives you a staffing plan for your back office: which roles to recruit, in what order, and what each one pays for itself with. From $1,500 + GST for Master Builders members.