How it works

One clear path from bid through closeout.

A locked baseline protects your history. Everything after it — revisions, field budgets, actual performance — stays traceable back to the estimate that started it.

Estimate

Build the estimate the way your company actually prices work — bid items, work packages, cost codes or a contractor-specific structure. Price it with real resource build-ups: labor with burden, equipment, materials, subcontractor quotes, crews and production.

Flexible structureNo forced hierarchy — use the breakdown that matches how your estimators already think.

Historical contextSee comparable prior jobs and unit costs while you're pricing, not after.

Finalize

Finalizing an estimate locks it as a permanent historical record. Need to change something after that? Revise into a new version — the original submission stays intact for comparison and audit.

Locked baselinesA finalized estimate can't be silently edited — it becomes the record you and your client both trust.

Clean revisionsLater versions build on the locked baseline without erasing what came before.

Convert to a job

Turn the accepted estimate into an active job with a field budget: quantities, labor hours, equipment hours and production targets — the numbers your field team needs, without customer pricing or profit mixed in.

Field-safe numbersForemen see production targets and manageable cost, not the customer price.

Change ordersScope changes flow through proposal, acceptance and a revised contract and cost budget — tied back to the original estimate.

Track actuals

Record installed quantity and actual hours as the job runs. Merezan compares planned versus actual — cost, production, schedule — so the next estimate starts from what really happened, not just what was assumed.

ESTIMATED$164.20

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ACTUAL$158.90

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NEXT ESTIMATEInformed