Sage Estimating wasn't built for your trade. Excel works until the new hire opens it. We turn the spreadsheets you already trust into a system your whole team can price from — and connect it straight to the bid, the budget, and the books.
| Code | Item | Qty | Unit | $/U | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 30 00 | Slab on Grade | 2,484TAKEOFF | SF | 7.20 | 17,885 |
| 03 20 00 | Reinforcing | 840 | LBS | 0.85 | 714 |
| 04 22 00 | CMU Walls | 1,242TAKEOFF | SF | 18.50 | 22,977 |
| 09 91 23 | Paint & Coatings | 612 | SF | 3.40 | 2,081 |
Every formula is a hand-grenade. One mistyped row, one stale rate, one assumption carried over from last year's job — and the margin you thought you had walks out the door. The new hire can't price work without your spreadsheet. The senior estimator can't review work without opening it. The cycle never ends.
We took the estimate out of Excel and put it in a system that knows your scopes, your formulas, and your unit costs — so the math is right by default.
Build your scopes once. Bid every job from them. Standardize how your team prices work so the answer doesn't depend on which estimator opened the file.
Sage built generic templates for any contractor. Your Excel was built by one estimator at 2 a.m. We rebuild your sheets into scope templates — and every estimator on your team starts pricing the same way.
Any quantity column can pull from a measurement on the marked-up plan. Update the takeoff, the estimate updates. No copy-paste between systems.
Spreadsheets multiply hours by rate. Sage estimates from production units. We do both — and the production rate updates from last quarter's actual field hours. Your bid stops being a guess about Mike's pace.
Standard cost-code taxonomy out of the box. Roll up by code, by scope, or by phase for the proposal — and for job costing once you win.
Square-foot pricing that updates the labor with it. Complex unit math that doesn't blow up the proposal PDF. Contingency add-ons set once, applied everywhere. Formulas your bookkeeper can decode without opening a cell-reference jungle.
Full revision history. Compare bid versions side-by-side. Generate the proposal PDF on-demand when it's ready to go out.
Every other module branches off the estimate. Win the bid and those line items become your project budget. Run the job and your actuals — labor, materials, change orders — meet the estimate in accounting. The estimate isn't a static document. It's the live baseline for everything that follows.
Measurements arrive as live quantities. Markup, labor rate, and material cost compute against them. The takeoff and the estimate are never out of sync.
The won estimate becomes the scope baseline. PMs see what was promised in the bid vs. what's been billed and installed in real time.
Bid line items become budget targets in WIP and job costing. Every actual cost lands against an estimate line for variance analysis.
Spend less time fighting spreadsheet quirks and more time refining margin. The system handles the math; you make the calls.
Roll up multi-scope bids, compare revisions, manage your team's bid pipeline from one screen. Reviews don't require a printer anymore.
Track win rate by scope, by GC, by estimator. Know which work is worth chasing — and which isn't.
Yes. We rebuild your estimating spreadsheets as Leviathan scope templates during onboarding — your formulas, your rates, your materials, your markups. You don't lose your work; you just stop having to baby-sit it.
Yes. Templates are per-scope. A masonry scope and a concrete scope have their own materials, units, and labor formulas — and a single bid can combine multiple scopes.
Yes. Add-alternates can be priced as side templates. Unit prices roll up alongside lump-sum totals so the proposal shows both clearly.
PDF proposals are native. Excel export is available for handoff to GCs or accountants who need the data outside the platform.
The estimate is the budget. Once a bid is awarded, the line items flow into job costing and budget tracking inside the platform automatically — no separate hand-off step.
Book a 30-minute consultation and we'll walk through a real estimate on a real job — your scopes, your rates, your numbers. You'll see exactly how it lands in the field.