Estimating process review for commercial estimators

Commercial estimators and their teams who want a second read on where their process is bleeding margin.

Every estimating team has a version of the same problem: small errors accumulating across manual handoffs from takeoff to pricing to proposal, invisible until a bid comes in wrong. A process read across real sample bids finds the pattern before it costs the next job.

The part that always got me wasn't even the time. It was the accumulation of small errors across all those manual handoffs. By the time you get to proposal, you're two or three steps removed from the drawings and something's always off.

a commercial estimator on r/estimators

We had 2 estimators handling everything and received 200+ bids just 4 days before deadline. We kept revising after submission and we found around 0.4% in gaps that were super avoidable if we had more time.

a commercial estimator on r/estimators

How it works

01

Send us three sample bids from your recent work

Real bids, not a hypothetical description of your process.

02

We read your estimating process across them

Scope-gap exposure and common error patterns, traced through the actual handoffs your team uses.

03

Get a written review of where the process leaks margin

And what to fix first, delivered in 5 business days.

Next step

A written audit — here's what it costs and what it recovers.

Estimate Review$12,000 one-time

Your estimating process, scope-gap exposure, and common error patterns, read across three sample bids. Pays back on a single $7K scope miss.

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