Industries / Home builders & residential developers
One plan, forty houses, four hundred options.
Production residential inverts the usual estimating problem. You aren’t pricing a novel building — you’re pricing the same plans repeatedly, across elevations, options, and lots, with vendor pricing that shifts underneath you. The work is in structure and maintenance, not in the individual estimate.
What’s different here
What makes estimating different here.
Plans repeat, costs don’t
The same plan built in March and again in September comes out at two different numbers. You need the plan structure to stay fixed while pricing moves under it.
Options multiply fast
Elevations, structural options, and finish upgrades combine into hundreds of permutations. Pricing each as a separate estimate is unmanageable; they have to be modeled as variants.
Vendor pricing at scale
You buy from a stable vendor set on periodic pricing. Updating that pricing should be a routine data operation, not an estimator retyping numbers into every plan.
Per-square-foot is the language
Your team, your lenders, and your sales side all think in dollars per square foot by plan. Reporting has to speak that language natively.
How we set it up
What the implementation includes.
Kickoff to live in weeks, not months, using the internal tools we’ve built for implementation.
- Plan-level templates so each model is a reusable structure rather than a fresh estimate
- Option and upgrade pricing modeled as assemblies, so a permutation is a selection and not a rebuild
- Vendor pricing structured for scheduled bulk updates across every plan at once
- Reporting built around cost per square foot and cost per plan, the way your team already reviews it
- Lot and community structure carried through so estimates reconcile with how you build and sell
What you’ll likely run
The tools that carry the most weight here.
Starting databases
Database marketplace →Tell us how your team estimates.
We’ll tell you whether your setup needs configuring, rebuilding, or something written from scratch.
- Response time
- One business day, usually the same day.