One rate. $10 an hour. Every trade.

Pricing questions, answered

How is the $10/hour rate actually billed?

You get a fixed quote before any work starts — we scope the drawings, estimate the hours a takeoff or estimate will take, and quote you a total dollar amount at $10/hour. Nothing starts until you approve that quote in writing, so there's no surprise invoice at the end.

Is $10/hour the same for every trade?

Yes. There's no tiered pricing by trade, no surcharge for MEP or structural scope, and no minimum project size or retainer. The rate is flat whether the package is a single-trade takeoff or a full multi-trade bid.

Why is this cheaper than a typical in-house or outsourced estimator?

The delivery team works from India, where the same hour of skilled estimating labor costs a fraction of US or Canadian rates — and because the team works while it's daytime there and nighttime in the US, a package sent at the end of your day is often already in progress before your next morning starts. That time-zone overlap is also what makes the 24–72 hour turnaround realistic rather than a marketing number.

Do you charge more for urgent or same-day turnaround?

No rush surcharge. If a bid date requires a 24-hour turnaround, that's quoted at the same $10/hour rate — the hours are just scheduled to hit your deadline rather than priced differently for it.

What's included in the quoted price?

The quote covers the full deliverable for the scope you send: the takeoff or estimate itself, the Excel workbook, a summary PDF, and a marked-up plan set showing exactly what was measured. There's no separate charge for the deliverable formats.

I don't win every bid I chase — is paying for a takeoff still worth it?

You're billed the same small, known amount whether or not the bid is awarded — it's not a percentage of the contract, and there's no minimum project size or retainer eating into you between jobs. Compared to carrying a salaried in-house estimator through a slow bid season, paying $10/hour only for the bids you actually chase is the lower-risk way to bid more work without paying for idle capacity.

I already have two or three bids due this week — can you actually take on another?

Yes — this is the exact problem most GCs come to us with: bid volume capped by estimator headcount, not by which jobs are worth chasing. Multiple packages due the same week are worked in parallel, not queued behind each other, so a bid doesn't get turned down just because your own team is already committed elsewhere that week.

What happens if a number turns out to be wrong after I've already submitted the bid?

Every takeoff is produced by one estimator and re-checked against the drawings by a second before it ships — that review exists specifically to catch a missed deduction before it costs you the job, not after. If something still looks off once you have it, revisions during your active bid window are included at no extra cost.

Will an offshore team actually get US and Canadian drawing conventions right?

The team works exclusively in the software US and Canadian estimators already use — PlanSwift, On-Screen Takeoff and RFMS Measure — against US and Canadian drawing sets, for US and Canadian clients only. Every deliverable ships with marked-up plans showing exactly what was measured, so you can audit any quantity back to the sheet it came from rather than taking a number on faith.

I'm bidding against other GCs on the same project — is my drawing set kept confidential?

Yes. Your drawings and project information are used solely to produce your takeoff or estimate and aren't shared outside the estimating team working on your package.