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Estimating and quoting is all we do. We enhance and power-up the Excel workbook you already price in and if your team needs more we extend it with web app and cloud database solutions. We can also integrate AI to clear those time consuming estimating bottlenecks.
Or start with the free guide: The 10 Pillars of Better Costing & Quoting →One estimating system — three ways we can make it better!
Spreadsheets
Keep the workbook your team already trusts. We rebuild the structure, rates and outputs so it is faster, safer and quotes in one click.
Web apps & cloud database
When one file is not enough: a custom web app on a cloud database, so estimators, managers and site crews all work from the same quote.
AI automation
AI handles the slow parts — takeoffs from drawings, specs and supplier price lists — and hands each line to a person to check.
All connected to the software you already run — accounting, job management, CAD and supplier pricing.
Every business has its own way of estimating, pricing and quoting work. From material takeoffs and labour calculations to complex pricing rules, multiple quote options and profitability tracking, there's a lot more involved than simply putting a price on a job.
We understand how these processes work across engineering, manufacturing and construction businesses — and how easily disconnected spreadsheets, manual calculations and inconsistent data can lead to costly mistakes.
At Estim8 Labs, we build systems around your business processes, connecting the three key stages of your commercial workflow.
Accurate estimates start with understanding the true cost of the job.
We build estimating systems that bring together quantities, materials, labour, equipment and other cost components, applying your business-specific calculation rules to produce consistent, reliable estimates.
Turn accurate estimates into competitive, profitable quotations.
Once the costs are established, our systems apply your pricing rules, margins and commercial considerations to produce professional quotations. Compare multiple options, explore alternative specifications and manage revisions without rebuilding your estimate.
Understand how every job performs — and what it's telling you about your business.
Winning the job is only the beginning. Our systems can connect estimated costs with actual performance, helping you identify overruns, unusual results and potential errors while revealing opportunities to improve profitability across individual jobs and the wider business.
From the first takeoff to the final profitability report, we build Excel and web-based solutions that make your commercial processes more accurate, efficient and easier to manage.
We fix the estimating and quoting problems that cost you time and margin, whether that means rebuilding your Excel workbook or moving it to a custom web app. If any of these sound familiar, we can help.
Excel is not obsolete. For many businesses it is the right platform. Our job is choosing — and building — the simplest option that works.
Keep Excel. Lose the errors. Your workbook rebuilt as a structured, automated application with app like features coded in VBA and integrated to your business software.
Cloud based, multi-user estimating with central price lists and all the features of a custom built any device, anywhere interface.
Excel where your estimators work best, connected to a central database and/or web app branches of your estimating/quoting process.
AI automates the time-consuming bottlenecks — takeoffs, schedules and supplier price lists. We integrate AI agents and human sanity checks as required.
Your estimate doesn't live on its own. We import/export it as required in the format your job management or accounting system expects — so nothing gets re-keyed.
Import and export data according to your job workflows.
Quote and invoice data exported ready for billing.
If it imports CSV or Excel, we can match its format.
Need a live connection rather than a file? We can scope it.
Takeoff is where estimators lose the most time and make the most errors. We build AI-assisted takeoff into your estimating system: Word documents and PDFs — schedules, specifications, bills of materials, supplier documents — are processed into structured line items and measurements, ready for costing.
Every AI extraction is checked. An estimator reviews the output and we run a joint review for outliers and anomalies before anything is priced.
Quantities, lengths, areas and items captured once, in a structured form.
Materials, labour, plant and subcontract priced from central rate libraries.
Overheads, contingency and markup applied with minimum-margin controls.
Branded quotes and proposals generated in one step, with revisions tracked.
We have spent years inside estimating workbooks across fabrication, construction and manufacturing. We speak takeoff, labour units and waste allowances.
Your spreadsheet is valuable IP. It holds years of pricing decisions. We keep what works and build around it.
We recommend the simplest option that works for your team, your volume and your sites — not the most expensive one.
Fixed-price quotes after scoping, staged delivery against clear milestones, then training and handover.
A practical guide for owners and estimators: the ten foundations of a costing and quoting system that is accurate, controlled and protects margin, whether it runs in Excel or as a connected web app.
Book a discovery call or just get in touch. Attach your current spreadsheet if you like, and we'll tell you what we'd keep, fix and automate.
Spreadsheet projects from NZ$1,000 · Web apps from NZ$5,000 · Fixed price after scoping
We typically reply the same business day. Fixed-price quotes after scoping. Your files stay confidential.
