Estimate the whole job — every division — from one plan set.
Upload the full set and take off all 12 trades in minutes — electrical to concrete — priced in your numbers and rolled into one branded proposal. Bid the whole job yourself, or hand each division to your subs.
Chasing a dozen subs for numbers, stitching mismatched bids into one price, and eating the divisions nobody sent back in time — that's how a whole-house bid slips a week and a fat job goes to the GC who answered first.
Why general contractors run on EstimateBy
Every division of the job, one engine — bid faster, look sharper, and never let a missing sub bid hold up your number.
Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, framing, roofing, siding, windows, insulation, drywall, painting, flooring, concrete — all 12 trades come off the same plan set in one place. No juggling a different tool or spreadsheet per division.
A full-set takeoff across every trade is days of quantity survey by hand. Drop the PDF and get a division-by-division breakdown back in minutes, so you can turn a complete bid around while it still matters.
When a sub is slow, ghosting, or you're covering a scope yourself, get a defensible number for any division in minutes — so a missing bid never holds up your proposal or your schedule.
Roll the whole job into a single itemized proposal under your company name and logo — not a stack of mismatched sub bids the owner has to decode. Look like the buttoned-up GC you are.
Load a price book per division and every takeoff comes back in your own material and labor rates with your markup — never generic averages. Self-perform some trades and sub others? Price each one the way you actually run it.
Push every completed estimate into Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, QuickBooks, Buildertrend or 6,000+ apps via webhook the moment it's done — no re-keying a dozen divisions into another system.
See what a full-set takeoff looks like.
Pick any division to see the real line items. Run them all off the same drawings and roll them into one bid.
Actual line items from a real electrical takeoff — exact counts and measurements, done in about 90 seconds.
Need a trade you don't self-perform? Get it covered.
Post the project and hear back from local, subscribed subs in each trade — or invite your own crew and you both save $50 when they join. Get every division bid without leaving your dashboard.
General contractor estimating — questions
Yes — upload the full plan set and run each division (electrical, plumbing, framing, roofing, and the rest) off the same drawings. Each trade comes back as its own itemized takeoff in your prices, ready to roll into one proposal.
The Contractor and Team plans unlock all 12 trades (Starter and Pro are single-trade). Most GCs run Contractor; Team adds seats for a crew and priority support.
That's exactly the point. Use EstimateBy to get a fast, defensible number for any division so you can sanity-check a sub's bid, cover a scope when a sub falls through, or bid the whole job yourself and hand divisions off after you win it.
Yes. Post the project to the marketplace and hear back from local, subscribed contractors in each trade — or invite your own subs and you both save $50 when they join.
Yes — send the branded proposal in one click and EstimateBy follows up automatically until the owner views and accepts it online.
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