Tally. The money, from the estimate to the last invoice.
Tally reads the drawings, walks you through the estimate step by step, and prices it with your market’s numbers. Win the job and the same numbers become the budget, the change orders and the pay apps. AI is your assistant; you stay in charge of every number.
Replaces: Spreadsheets, the estimating module you never use, and retyping the estimate into job cost.
An estimate in minutes? Not a real one.
Other apps promise a full estimate from a set of drawings at the press of a button. The drawings don’t show your permit and city fees, your general conditions, your market or your subs. Tally does the reading and the math so you spend your time on the calls that matter.
- Direct costs only, read off the drawings
- National averages for your prices
- General conditions guessed or left out
- Permits, city and local fees missing
- A total you have to take on faith
- The whole job, scope by scope, checked by you
- Local prices from your market and your own past bids
- General conditions built week by week, with you
- Permits and local fees asked for, not guessed
- Every number shows where it came from
Worth it if nothing else existed.
No Bluline? Tally reads the PDF set itself. Estimate made somewhere else? Import it as a spreadsheet and run job cost from it.
The sheet list, the project, the scope and the quantities, read from the PDF set. Every number says where it came from.
One task per screen. You check each one and make the calls; Tally does the reading and the math.
Your own prices first, then your market’s, each with its source and its age.
Upload a sub’s bid PDF: bidder, base bid, alternates and exclusions, next to a local ballpark.
Upload your code list. Every estimate is laid out in your divisions and codes.
The won estimate becomes the budget, carried bids become commitments. Change orders, pay apps and invoicing come next.
Step by step
How a job goes through Tally.
- 1Upload the drawingsThe set becomes a sheet list you can click through.
- 2Check the scopeTrade by trade, with what’s not in the job as your exclusions.
- 3Quantities and pricesTaken off, priced locally, every bid carried.
- 4Review and sendApproved, on your letterhead.
- 5Win it, run itThe estimate becomes the budget. Costs and changes land against it.
Snap it to the others.
Every connection adds. None is required.