The Audit Bundle
The Audit Bundle is a $19,999 engagement that combines the Estimate Review and the Change Order Audit into one written PDF: where bids leak margin and where change orders leak the rest. Same scope as ordering both ($21,999 separately), priced as one.
$19,999 one-time · 5 business days
Bids undercount scope; change orders absorb the cost the bid never priced in. The two leaks compound, and only get visible when you look at both processes together.
Why these two together
Margin in a small construction firm bleeds out in two places that look unrelated and are not. Bids leak margin at the front of the job by undercounting scope. Change orders leak margin at the back of the job by failing to capture approvals on the record. The two leaks compound: every undocumented change order has a corresponding scope gap that should have caught it during estimating.
Looking at both processes in one engagement makes patterns visible that neither audit surfaces alone: recurring scope categories where verbal change orders are absorbing the cost the bid never accounted for.
What this can recover
The two leaks compound. Bids undercount scope; change orders absorb the cost the bid never accounted for. Subs on public construction threads have reported losing $4,000 a month to unbilled T&M work alone: $48,000 a year on one crew. Estimators on the same threads have described missing $7K-scale scope items routinely on individual bids.
Looking at both processes in one engagement names the recurring scope categories where verbal change orders are absorbing what the bid should have priced in, a pattern neither audit surfaces alone.
What you send
Three recent bids and recent change order documentation in whatever formats you currently use: emails, PDFs, handwritten logs, software exports. A short description of your estimating process and your change order approval workflow. No client names, contract amounts, or financial statements required.
What you get back
A combined written PDF covering scope-gap exposure across the three sample bids, change order documentation gaps in your current workflow, and the specific intersections where the two leaks reinforce each other. Delivered within 5 business days of intake.
Who this is for
Small to mid-size GCs and specialty subs running active bidding and change-order activity who want both processes looked at by the same set of eyes in one pass. Most useful when margin has been eroding and you cannot tell whether the cause is the bidding, the change orders, or both.
Credited toward a Build
If you act on what these audits find, the full fee is credited toward a Datumel Build, where we install the fix (automations, a tuned assistant, or a configured workbook) directly into your own tools. The audits are the map; the Build is the work.
$19,999 one-time
Combined recoverable range typically exceeds $50,000/year on a $5M operation.
This audit is currently under construction and we are gauging demand. Join the waitlist to be first to know when it becomes bookable.
Builds: we install the fix in your own tools
An audit names where margin leaks; a Build installs the fix and the partnership keeps it running. Any audit fee you've paid credits toward a Build.
Change-Order System Install
From $8,000A working change-order system in your own tools: a documentation workflow, memo templates, and a tuned assistant that turns field directives into billable change orders.
Anchored to the T&M leakage it recovers.
Job-Costing Workbook Install
From $6,000A configured job-costing workbook in your own Sheets or Airtable: cost codes, estimate-versus-actual, WIP, and over/under billing, with training to run it.
One job caught going over usually covers the build.
Estimating & Scope-Gap System
From $8,000An estimating and buyout system in your own tools: a scope-gap check, a bid-leveling workbook, and tuned assistants that catch missed scope before it costs you.
A single caught scope gap usually covers the build.
Operations Partner
From $2,000/moAn ongoing retainer that rolls your systems out and keeps them running: monthly tuning of your automations, assistants, and workbooks, with a working call when you need one.
The systems only pay off if they keep running.