Flexible estimate structure
Use bid items, work packages, cost codes, CSI, activities, areas, or a contractor-specific hierarchy.
Construction estimating built around company knowledge
Your estimating experience should compound.
Estimate the way your company actually works. Build your own historical cost intelligence. Turn completed projects into better information for the next estimate.
Pilot-stage product for contractors. Pricing remains private while pilot development continues.
COSTCOREHarbor Connector ImprovementsEstimate v7 · Draft
Drainage & UtilitiesSaved 2 min ago
Estimate ItemQtyUOMLaborEquip.Total U.C.
Clearing & Grubbing8.4AC$4,880$6,920$18,650
12" Drainage Pipe1,840LF$65.79$26.41$164.20
Drainage Structures18EA$2,840$1,220$8,940
Earthwork22,600CY$11.25$9.80$31.40
HISTORICAL COST CONTEXT12" Drainage Pipe
6Comparable jobs
$151–$178Historical U.C.
186 LF/dayMedian production
CURRENT BUILD-UPCrew + production driven
10.2MH / 100 LF
2.1 daysPlanned duration
Institutional knowledge
Your best estimator shouldn't have to be your cost database.
Excel can calculate an estimate. It does not automatically preserve why the price was built that way, which crew was assumed, what production was expected, or how the completed job actually performed.
“What did we carry last time?” should have a better answer than “ask the person who remembers.”
CostCore is designed to turn individual estimating experience into searchable, reusable company knowledge.
What CostCore brings together
A practical estimating system without forcing an enterprise workflow.
Resource-level build-ups
Understand labor, burden, equipment, materials, subcontractors, production and crews.
Company cost intelligence
Search prior estimates and comparable work with the context behind the number.
Centralized estimates
Keep estimate versions and project information in one place instead of relying on individual folders.
Field-ready budgets
Translate estimate detail into quantity, labor-hour, equipment and production targets.
Estimate-to-actual feedback
Compare estimated cost and production with completed-job performance.
The missing middle
Keep the flexibility contractors like. Add the cost history spreadsheets struggle to provide.
Flexible, familiar
Low friction, but estimate history is disconnected and institutional knowledge is difficult to reuse.
Simple + structured
Flexible estimating, centralized history, resource build-ups, field budgets and estimate-to-actual feedback.
Powerful, extensive
Deep capability, but often higher cost and heavier implementation than smaller firms need.
Pilot program
Start with real estimates. Prove the value before replacing anything.
Load a few recent estimates, build one active estimate, generate a field budget, and begin capturing actual performance.
A strong pilot fit
- Small or mid-sized contractor
- Estimating relies heavily on spreadsheets
- Pricing knowledge is concentrated in one or two people
- Historical estimates are difficult to search and reuse
- Interested in estimate-to-actual feedback
Built from the estimating side of the table
Designed around how construction estimates are actually built and managed.
CostCore is built by a construction estimating and project-controls team with experience in heavy civil, transportation, infrastructure, change management, claims, cost estimating, and schedule/risk work.
The objective is not to replace estimator judgment. It is to give that judgment better information and make valuable company experience reusable by more than one person.
Interested in CostCore?
See whether it fits the way your company estimates.
Request a demo, discuss the pilot, or tell us what your estimating process looks like today.