Connected Estimator — your estimating, custom-configured into a platform.
We build your trades, rates, templates, and pricing logic into a dedicated estimating engine — configured once, then on demand whenever you tender. Send plans, scope documents, or Yembo scans; the engine drafts the take-off against your configured rates, your reviewer approves every line through the platform, and a tender-ready Word report in your brand plus full Excel trade take-off lands back in hours. One-off configuration, then a simple monthly platform fee.
What goes in. What comes out.
Generic estimating tools make you fit their model. Connected Estimator is a defined pipeline configured to yours: documented inputs, AI-drafted take-off, your review gates, and a consistent deliverable pack in your brand every time.
Plans & scope documents
Whatever you have at tender stage — we work from the documents, and flag what's missing rather than guessing.
- ✓ Architectural plans and drawings
- ✓ Scope of works or specification
- ✓ Tender addenda and schedules, if any
- ✓ Optional: Yembo AI scan data for existing buildings
Word estimate report + Excel workbook with full trade take-off
A branded estimate report — executive summary, trade-by-trade breakdown, assumptions and exclusions — plus an Excel workbook with the complete line-item take-off: quantities, rates, and trade sequencing you can interrogate cell by cell.
One record per tender.
Nothing in someone's inbox.
Every tender opens into a single record — drawings, supplier quotes, the priced take-off, and the review items that must close before it goes out. Illustrative views shown with example client branding.
How your rates stay current.
Generic estimating bureaus price from national rate books that lag the market. Connected Estimator prices from your rate bank — your trades, your margins, what you actually charge — with our logic engine bringing the sequencing, bundling, and callout intelligence together on every line. The same proven tech behind live insurance claim scopes and a government housing portfolio pilot, configured to your business. And it never prices generically: the engine calls on thousands of first-principles estimating practices — coverage checks, buildability rules, trade-specific logic — so every cost is accurate, reasonable, complete in coverage, and defensible, whatever the trade or the job.
Your rate bank
Pricing comes from your own rate bank — what your trades actually charge, not national averages or east-coast databases. We seed it with current Australian market data at configuration and keep it calibrated as the market moves.
Trade-specific logic banks
Each trade runs on our proprietary logic bank, configured to how you price: minimum-callout thresholds so small packages aren't under-priced, and same-trade bundling across rooms and areas so you're not paying four plumber callouts where one mobilisation covers the job.
Dependency sequencing
The engine understands build order — demolition before rough-in, rough-in before linings, linings before fitoff. The take-off reflects a buildable sequence rather than a flat list of quantities, so nothing is priced out of context.
Built for the work builders actually tender.
One estimating engine, calibrated per vertical. Residential, commercial, and light industrial work of all scales — each project type with its own logic bank.
Renovations & extensions
Residential renovation and extension tenders — kitchens, bathrooms, second storeys, whole-of-home. Trade bundling and minimum-callout logic keep small-works pricing honest.
Commercial fitouts
Office, retail, and hospitality fitout estimating — partitions, services, finishes, and joinery priced trade by trade with dependency sequencing across the programme.
Light commercial & industrial
New light commercial builds, warehouse fit-ups, and industrial upgrades — full trade take-off in Excel, executive summary in Word, ready for tender submission.
Insurance reinstatement
Reinstatement scopes and repair estimates for insurance work — the same engine that runs in production with one of Australia's largest insurance builders, delivering white-labelled claim scopes.
Insurance claim scoping →Government & SOR works
Schedule-of-rates pricing for government housing and maintenance contracts — including baseline-versus-inspection delta reporting running in live housing-sector pilots.
SOR vacancy scoping →Single-trade packages
Need one trade priced, not the whole job? Trade-specific logic banks mean we can price a plumbing, electrical, or painting package on its own — an independent check on your riskiest line.
Tender closing soon?
Send the documents through and we'll confirm scope, exclusions, price, and a delivery date before any work starts.
Price your next tenderAI does the take-off. An estimator owns the number.
Every estimate runs the same pipeline — which is why the deliverables look the same on job one and job one hundred.
Brief us
Send plans and scope documents. We confirm what's in, what's out, the price, and the delivery date — in writing, before we start.
AI engine drafts
Your configured engine parses the documents, builds the trade take-off, applies your rates, and sequences the trades by dependency.
Your review gate
Every line goes to your nominated reviewer inside the platform before delivery — quantities against plans, rates against your bank, assumptions made explicit.
Delivery & revisions
Branded Word report and Excel workbook delivered on the agreed date. Revision rounds are included, with every change formally tracked.
Configured once. Priced simply.
Connected Estimator is delivered as a platform, not a per-job service. A one-off configuration project builds your engine — your trades, rates, templates, and margins. From there, a simple monthly platform fee keeps it running, supported, and calibrated to current market rates. No surprises, and commercial terms agreed before anything begins.
Most clients start with a scoped pilot: one real tender priced end-to-end on our engine, so you can judge the deliverables against your own benchmark before committing to configuration.
If you're comparing estimating platforms, ask each one the same two questions: whose rates are the prices built on, and who signs off the take-off before it ships? With Connected Estimator the answers are yours and yours — your configured rate bank, your reviewer, your brand on every deliverable.
Scoped pilot
One real project, fixed price agreed up front. Judge the output on your own tender before committing to configuration.
Configuration — one-off
We build your engine: trades, rates, templates, margins, and pricing logic configured to how you estimate. A single up-front project cost.
Platform — monthly
Your engine, always on. Unlimited access for your team, built-in review gates on every estimate, continuous rate calibration — for a simple monthly platform fee.
Construction estimating questions, answered.
What builders ask before sending us their first tender.
How accurate are AI-generated construction estimates?
The AI engine produces the first draft — quantities, trade line items, and pricing from your own configured rate bank, seeded with current Australian market data. The platform's review workflow then puts every line in front of your nominated reviewer before anything ships: quantities against plans, rates against your bank, assumptions made explicit. Nothing goes out on AI output alone. Where scope is ambiguous, we flag it as a stated assumption or a provisional sum rather than guessing, so you can see exactly what the number is built on.
What's excluded from an estimate?
Every estimate ships with an explicit assumptions and exclusions schedule. Typical exclusions are latent conditions, design and engineering fees, authority and headworks charges, and anything not visible in the plans or scope documents supplied — unless you ask us to allow for them. Because exclusions are itemised rather than buried, you can take the estimate straight into a tender submission with a clear qualifications list.
How do you handle provisional sums?
Where the design isn't resolved — an unselected finishes package, an unconfirmed services route, a demolition unknown — we carry a provisional sum rather than a hard price. Each provisional sum is itemised in the Excel workbook with the basis of the allowance stated, so it's auditable and easy to replace with a firm price once the information lands. We'd rather show you an honest provisional sum than hide risk inside a padded rate.
Are revision rounds included?
Yes. Revision rounds are included in every engagement, and our delivery platform tracks them formally — you review the estimate, request changes, and a revised issue comes back with every change logged. Scope additions that materially change the job, such as a second storey appearing mid-tender, are re-scoped and re-priced under the terms agreed up front.
How fast is the turnaround on a tender estimate?
Days, not weeks. Exact turnaround depends on project size and the quality of the documents supplied, and we agree a delivery date up front on every project. Because the AI engine produces the draft take-off and pricing, your estimator's time goes into review and judgement rather than data entry — which is where the speed comes from.
Do you price single trades?
Yes. The engine is built on trade-specific logic banks, so we can price a single trade package — plumbing only, electrical only, painting only — as readily as a whole project. Single-trade pricing suits builders who estimate in-house but want an independent check on one risky package, and subcontractors who want a tender prepared on their behalf. Per-project pricing scales down accordingly.
Price your next tender.
Send through the plans and scope documents for a live tender — or one you've already priced, if you'd rather benchmark us first. We'll come back with a fixed price and a delivery date before any work starts.
Price your next tender