For trade contractors
You build well. We handle the office.
The work has never been the problem. The office side is: bidding by instinct, missing licensing and insurance, no prequalification packet, and ninety-day payment terms that quietly eat the job you just won. That is fixable, and it is what we do.
Services and fees
Six things that get you priced, qualified, and in front of the right GC.
Bid review
We review your number before it is submitted — scope gaps, missed conditions, and the margin you are actually carrying.
Your estimating department
Takeoffs, pricing, scope narratives and proposals, handled for you every month. No payroll, no software seat.
Company build-out
Entity registration, licensing, insurance, bonding introduction, and a prequalification packet a large GC will accept.
Permitting
Permit applications and coordination handled on your behalf, so the schedule does not wait on the office.
Cash flow introductions
Introductions to factoring companies and construction lenders when slow pay is the real constraint.
GC introduction
When your documents are current and your pricing is right, we put you in front of a GC and vouch for you.
And then the part nobody else does
We put you in front of them, and we vouch.
When your documents are current and your pricing is right, we introduce you to general contractors we already work with — personally, with fifteen years of reputation behind it. A bid list is not a favour anyone does twice for a company that cannot perform, which is why we fix the company first.
That introduction costs you nothing. The general contractor pays for that side.
How it starts
Three steps, and the first one is free.
- 1 · Send us your last bidWe show you what that number should have been — scope gaps, missed conditions, and the margin you were actually carrying. No charge for the first one.
- 2 · We fix what is blocking youEntity, license, insurance, bonding and a prequalification packet a large GC will accept. Priced up front, no retainer games.
- 3 · We open the doorDocuments current, pricing right — we make the introduction and we stand behind it.
Founded by Julio Afre — architect-trained in California, fifteen years on both sides of the contract.
Straight answers
What contractors actually ask us.
Because a senior estimator costs $165,000 to $230,000 a year once you add burden, benefits, vehicle and software — and you pay it in the slow months as well as the busy ones. Most contractors do not need one every week. They need one in bid season and on the pursuit that matters. Here is the arithmetic.
Then keep them. This is about the bids you are not being invited to, and the ones you are losing money on. One GC is a single point of failure — if their pipeline goes quiet, so does yours.
No. You pay for the estimating and compliance work we do for you, at the prices published on this page. The general contractor pays us separately for the sourcing and assurance we render to them. Both sides see it in writing, and there is no commission buried in anybody's contract.
Which is why the first bid review costs nothing and the engagements are priced per job, not per retainer. Send one bid. If the number we hand back is not better than yours, you have lost an afternoon.
Send us your last bid.
We will show you what that number should have been. No charge for the first one.