Tally. Estimates in hours, not weeks.
Upload the drawings and Tally reads them. It walks you through the estimate one step at a time, prices it with your market’s numbers, and builds the proposal on your letterhead. AI is your assistant; you stay in charge of every number.
Replaces: Spreadsheets, and the estimating module you never use.
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
What Tally does
The sheet list, the project, the scope and the quantities, read from the PDF set. Every number says where it came from.
Eight steps, one task per screen. You check each one and make the calls; Tally does the reading and the math.
Multi-tenant drawings? Say which space is yours, or outline it, and Tally reads only that area.
Material, labor and general conditions for your market, commercial or residential. Your own prices always win.
Upload a sub’s bid PDF: bidder, base bid, alternates and exclusions, next to a local ballpark for that trade.
Upload your code list. Every estimate is laid out in your divisions and codes, the way you run jobs.
Staff by the week at their share of time, services by the month, dumpsters by the haul.
Estimators submit; executives approve or send it back with notes. The approved proposal goes out as a PDF.
Step by step
How a job goes through Tally.
- 1Upload the drawingsThe set becomes a sheet list you can click through.
- 2Confirm the projectName, address, market and size, read from the title block.
- 3Check the scopeTrade by trade, with what’s not in the job as your exclusions.
- 4QuantitiesTaken off the drawings, or measured in Vellum.
- 5Prices, bids and general conditionsEach line priced, each bid carried, each week of staff counted.
- 6Review and sendThe total by division, approved, on your letterhead.
Works with the other three
Tally works on its own. With the others, nothing gets retyped.