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Phase 2 — Estimating & Takeoff
Steel estimating is inconsistent, experience-based, and impossible to scale. Steeleye replaces spreadsheets and memory with a structured assemblies engine that separates cost from markup, calculates labor automatically, and produces bid-ready proposals connected to your financials.
The Problem
Your best estimator carries the company's pricing logic in their head. If they leave, your competitive edge walks out the door with them.
Without a structured assemblies database, every estimate starts from scratch. No reusable components, no consistency between bids.
Labor hours are guessed based on experience, not calculated from verified production rates. This leads to underpriced bids and eroded margins.
When cost and markup live in the same cell, it becomes impossible to protect margins or adjust pricing strategy without breaking your estimates.
Actual job performance never feeds back into future estimates. You keep repeating the same pricing mistakes project after project.
Training a new estimator takes months because the process lives in someone's head, not in a system. Growth is bottlenecked by a single person.
The Steeleye Approach
Build estimates from pre-configured assemblies for structural steel, miscellaneous, metal deck, and fabrication. Reuse, adjust, and bid faster on every project.
Measure quantities directly from blueprints inside Steeleye. No more printing plans and counting pieces by hand.
Break every estimate into its true cost components: labor cost, equipment cost, and material cost. Know exactly where your money goes before you bid.
Apply overhead and profit on top of your real costs—separately. Adjust margins by category without touching your cost data.
Every estimate is broken into Structural Steel, Metal Deck, Miscellaneous Steel, and Fabrication. This structure flows directly into job costing, SOV, and financials.
The system automatically produces: total cost, selling price, labor hours, equipment usage, cost by category—and data ready for proposals, SOV, and project budgets.
