One year ago, a customer asked if we could fix the Excel template they used for estimating. They’d paid a consultant for it ten years ago and hung on as various estimators broke references and hard-coded over outputs until the thing was pretty near dead. We took a few hours and handed them a new template. It was faster and simpler. A few months later, half our customers were using it.
It was a bit of a distraction, but it made JP, who can’t code, feel like he was contributing on the product front, and we learned a lot about estimators’ workflows and priorities as they used it.
But teams kept hitting the same wall. Our spreadsheet worked great for individual estimators, but it was tough to scale up to the full team. It was easy to break. And estimators had to go through old jobs one by one in our field management tool to reference similar scopes.
So we built something new.
Introducing CloudRig Estimating
CloudRig Estimating threads the needle. It’s as simple as a spreadsheet, as powerful as an enterprise platform, and smarter than both.
It’s built for the lifelong estimator, the PM/estimator, and the overworked ops leader cranking out bids at night.
We took observed estimators in action at dozens of customers and put out a product that operates like you do. You’ll learn it in hours. You’ll bid faster with smart templates, crews, and calculators. You’ll bid a smarter, thanks to AI insights pulled from all your past jobs. You’ll bid more confidently using built-in checks and safeguards.
You may even have fun doing it. As David, our most recent customer, put it: "This software is badass. It makes me excited to estimate again."
Bid faster, win more
We built CloudRig Estimating for guys like Tim at Alabama Grading & Excavation—he’s hitting job sites starting at 5 or 6am, getting back to the office by 2 to get through his admin, and firing up his bids by about 4.
Speed matters—in his old system, he put out a bid every couple days and won a new job every week or two. In CloudRig, he can get through one a night and win one or two a week.
The difference? Templates, assemblies, and custom calculators that let him stamp out bids quickly, while increasing his confidence in his math and the numbers. CloudRig handles the math; he just worries about his assumptions.
Don’t take our word for it. Here’s what Tim and others who’ve been using CloudRig Estimating for the past six months have to say—
"I can pretty much put a bid together in a couple hours… It used to take like a day or day and a half."
"It took me 45 minutes to do something that would have taken me 3 or 4 hours in my old Excel."
"It easily doubled my capacity for estimating projects."
"Our estimating capacity has definitely increased. I can't tell you exactly by how much because I haven't found the limit yet."
Get your first bid out in days, not months
We built CloudRig Estimating for guys like Eric at Watson Excavating. He’s a few years into a prepaid contract for B2W Estimate, which, like a lot of tools from the 90s, takes months of configuration, onboarding, training, tuning, and validation to use and trust.
That goes for all the legacy tools—you trade power for complexity, and the time to value is months to years. CloudRig Estimating is built so that teams can go from onboarding to building and sending their first real bids in hours, not months.
That’s possible because the app is intuitive, fast, and works the way you already think. If you know how to [x], you know how to use CloudRig—so you can go faster, and so can any new estimators you bring onboard.
From our customers—
"It was something like six hours from the time I first logged in until I was ready to send out my first bid in the system, which is unheard of in the construction estimating space."
"I was able to take a new estimator that had never used CloudRig beyond entering time cards, to entering a bid within a matter of about 15 minutes."
"It's dead simple to use."
"One of the best onboarding experiences I've had in a long time."
Bid smarter over time
We built it for Tyler at Ammons & Blackmon. He’s just getting into the estimating game, and he’s learning from guys who bid off experience and gut feel. They’ve been at it for decades, and they can put a competitive number on a foot of pipe just by looking at the plans. Tyler isn’t there yet.
Historically, the only way to get real visibility into your true costs and rates was to throw people at the problem—review production logs, daily reports, and reports from your ERP, try to find a job that’s similar, and piece the picture together. Only full-time estimators at big contractors could afford it.
CloudRig Estimating uses AI to do that work for you. It reads through your field data and shows you rates your crews have actually achieved, on relevant jobs, in real conditions. It works even when cost codes don't match perfectly, or if you don't use cost codes at all.
That’s been the promise of integrated estimating & field management tools from the start, but legacy tools, which hand you a mountain of bad data and zero real intelligence, haven’t delivered. CloudRig does.
CloudRig is easier than a spreadsheet, faster and more powerful than a legacy tool, and smarter than both.
Try it now
Book a demo with our team and send your first bid from the system tomorrow.
