Send us your plans. Get back a number you can stand behind.
BuildScope delivers finished, reviewed, bid-ready construction estimates on a deadline — takeoff through senior sign-off — and takes responsibility for the numbers. Not staffing. Not hours to manage. A deliverable.
Bid day doesn't wait for your backlog.
Bids you never submitted
Good invitations pass because there's no one to run the takeoff. Every one is revenue you never had a shot at.
An estimator you can't hire
A good one runs $65k–$100k plus load, takes months to find, and walks when a GC offers more.
Overhead you can't justify
A full-time seat costs the same in a slow quarter as in a busy one. Estimating demand doesn't work that way.
What lands in your inbox
Every estimate ships as a complete package in Excel and PDF, structured by CSI MasterFormat division, with every quantity traceable to a drawing sheet.
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Six steps. No quantity ships unverified.
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The cost of an estimating seat
Estimating capacity without the overhead of a full-time hire. The numbers below are the whole argument.
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| Annual cost | $85,000 – $130,000 loaded | $36,000 – $45,000 dedicated, or per project |
Residential
Single-family and multi-family. Finish schedules, labor productivity, pricing built for competitive margins.
Commercial
Retail, office, warehouse, mixed-use. MEP coordination, phasing, and trade interfaces handled in the scope.
Government / Federal
Schools, public facilities, state and federal. Spec compliance, Davis-Bacon wage separation, audit-ready files.
How quality is enforced
The production team is degreed architects and engineers in Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico working to U.S. construction standards. Nothing they produce goes to a client until a senior U.S.-side reviewer signs off on it. That review is not a spot check — it's a gate.
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Before we quote your first project, we look at how you work.
Every engagement starts with a first visit and an assessment — included, not an upsell. We look at how estimates get out the door today, how jobs get costed once they're won, and where bids are being lost. It's how we make the first estimate right, and it's what turns a one-off takeoff into a relationship.
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- 01How your estimates get produced now — tools, people, turnaround
- 02Which bids you're losing, and whether it's price, speed, or scope
- 03Where the owner wants the company to be in two years
- 04A written summary of what we saw — yours to keep either way
What we find is usually bigger than the estimate.
Anyone can hand you a number. We work inside your drawings, your quantities, and your costs — so when something is holding the company back, we see it. And we can help you fix it.
"Estimates take too long and we're passing on work."
Preconstruction & estimating
The front door. Takeoff, estimates, bid leveling — everything on this site.
"We won the job but I can't tell if it made money."
Finance & operations
Job costing, cash flow, billing cadence, back-office process.
"The drawings don't coordinate and RFIs are eating the schedule."
Design & engineering
Architectural, structural, and MEP support; constructability review.
"We're bidding constantly and winning rarely."
Sales & marketing
Bid pipeline strategy, proposal presentation, positioning.
Your next bid is the deadline.
We'll meet it.
Upload plans or send a link. You'll get a scope confirmation and a fixed turnaround before any work starts.
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