Looking for a Construction Estimate Template? Send Us Yours Instead
Upload the spreadsheet you estimate with today. We build it into a working estimating app for your business, email it to you, and walk you through it on a call. Free.
We build your estimating app from the spreadsheet you already trust
A template gives you someone else's format. Your estimating does not fit someone else's format. Upload the workbook you price with today, and our AI agent builds it into a working web app shaped to your logic.
How it works
- 1 Upload your estimating spreadsheet. Excel, macros and all. A messy sheet is fine. That is the point.
- 2 We build a first working cut. Your line items, your rates, your markup logic, as a multi-user app.
- 3 We email it to you and walk you through it. A short call, your numbers on screen, and a straight answer on whether this fits your business.
Your sheet stays private
Your rates and margins are your edge. We use your file only to build your app. We do not share it, sell it, or train public models on it.
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We reply within one business day with your build underway.
The template is not the problem. The spreadsheet hitting its ceiling is.
Estimators run serious work in Excel because Excel bends to how each company prices. Your buildup logic, your rates, your markup rules. No off-the-shelf estimating package matches that without months of setup, so the workbook wins. Then the workbook grows, and the problems start.
The macros break and only one person knows why. Two estimators cannot price in the file at the same time on bid day. Historical costs live in old copies nobody can find. The whole thing, margins included, sits in a file anyone can email out the door.
A downloaded template fixes none of that. It just swaps your format for a stranger's.
The fix is software with your pricing logic written into it. That used to take a custom development budget. Our AI agent now builds the first working cut from your existing workbook in days, which is why we can do it free.
Multi-user, no collisions
Two estimators price the same bid at once. Nobody waits for the file.
Historical data on tap
Past bids and unit costs sit in a database you can query, instead of in old file copies.
Rates stay protected
Estimators price with your rates without reading or exporting the logic behind them.
Two contractors who started with a spreadsheet like yours
Lohman Contracting
Lohman's estimating lived in a macro-heavy workbook. We rebuilt it as secure software: quantity-based productivity, regional rate sets, materials, equipment, pricing schedules and bid versions. The proprietary rate logic stayed protected instead of exposed to every user.
Read the Lohman build"I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you. Keep on doing what you did with me."
RSB Contracts
RSB fabricates and erects structural steel. Their estimating spreadsheet became a system that runs tendering, revisions, production tracking and purchase orders. Commercial, production and finance now share one view of every job.
Read the RSB build"I spent 100+ hours trying to improve our estimating spreadsheet with ChatGPT before I found LlamaPress. This new software reflects the way we actually think and has made everything so much more streamlined and practical."
Fair questions before you hand anyone your spreadsheet
Why is the build free? What is the catch?
Our AI agent does the heavy lifting, so a first cut costs us hours instead of weeks. Some businesses then pay us to extend their app. Many just keep the free version. Either outcome works for us.
What happens to my spreadsheet and my rates?
We use your file to build your app and for nothing else. We do not share it or sell it. Your margins and rate logic stay yours, and inside the app you control who can see them.
My sheet is a mess and half the macros are broken. Does that matter?
No. We read the intent of the sheet, including what the broken parts were trying to do. Messy workbooks are the normal case, and they are the reason this service exists.
Do we have to stop using Excel?
No. Keep Excel where Excel works. The app imports and exports spreadsheets whenever a client or a general contractor asks for one.
How long does it take?
A first working cut usually takes days. We email you when it is ready and book a short call to walk through it together.
Who owns the app?
You do. It runs on your own instance, and paid plans can include access to the source code.
We are commercial, not residential. Is this for us?
Yes. The builds we are proudest of are commercial: civil estimating and structural steel tendering. If your division has its own quirks, that is an argument for custom software, not against it.
Your spreadsheet already knows how you estimate. Let it graduate.
Upload the workbook, and in a few days you are clicking through your own estimating app instead of downloading someone else's template.
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