Estimator Risk: Tribal Pricing Logic
Critical bid logic lives in personal files and memory. When one estimator is overloaded or out, turnaround time and consistency drop immediately.
Precise Bids in Minutes,Not Days.
Steeleye replaces spreadsheet-based estimating with a structured assemblies engine that separates cost from markup, auto-calculates labor, and produces bid-ready outputs connected to your financials.
The Problem
Why Steel Estimating Breaks Down at Scale
Estimator Risk: Rebuilding Every Bid
Without reusable assemblies, each project is rebuilt from scratch. Repetitive manual setup increases errors and slows bid throughput.
PM Risk: Labor Drift Starts Early
Crew-hour assumptions are often disconnected from actual production performance, so overrun signals appear after margin is already under pressure.
Owner Risk: Margin Is Hard To Defend
When cost and markup are mixed together, pricing updates become risky. Leadership cannot adjust profit targets cleanly by category.
PM + Finance Risk: No Closed Feedback Loop
Field and job-cost outcomes do not consistently flow back into estimating assumptions, so the same misses repeat across future bids.
Owner Risk: Growth Depends On One Person
As pipeline grows, output stays tied to a few individuals instead of a repeatable system. Hiring does not automatically increase bid capacity.
The Steeleye Approach
Everything an Estimator Needs, Systematized
Standardized Assemblies Database
Convert tribal logic into reusable assemblies for structural steel, misc steel, deck, and fabrication so every estimator starts from the same pricing foundation.
Digital Takeoff Workflow
Measure quantities directly from plans and push them into the estimate automatically, reducing revision friction and manual recount cycles.
Cost Buildup By True Components
Break estimates into labor, equipment, and material components so PMs and owners can see cost structure before submitting a bid.
Independent Markup & Pricing Control
Apply overhead and profit independently from base costs, allowing leadership to adjust margin strategy by category without distorting cost inputs.
Category-Based Estimate Structure
Organize every estimate by structural steel, deck, miscellaneous, and fabrication so downstream job costing, SOV, and reporting stay aligned.
Proposal-Ready Output Generation
Generate proposal-ready outputs from the same data model, including total cost, sell price, labor hours, equipment usage, and category totals.
Control every estimate.From takeoff to client-ready proposal.
Steeleye gives estimators one connected workflow to measure quantities, build true costs, apply markup by category, and generate proposal outputs from the same source of truth.
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