The take-off lives in your spreadsheet
Nobody else can check it, and a change means doing it again.
For estimators & quantity surveyors
Prepare the estimate. The record keeps itself.
Work inside your client's project with the Estimator role: quantities with the working shown, prices with their source, your corrections and swaps on record, and every re-price a new version.
- Free consultant workspace
- Working on client projects costs you nothing
- Every version kept
Sound familiar?
Prices with no provenance
A rate from last year's job, a supplier's email, a guess: the figure is there but its basis is gone.
Which version did the client approve?
Five files with similar names and no record of who changed what.
How an estimator works on Modern GBQ.
- 1
Accept the invitation
Your client invites you by email with the Estimator role. Accept it through a free consultant workspace of your own; you never become a member of their organisation.
- 2
Check the inputs
The quantities are computed from the project as described. Correct the inputs, confirm what the AI read from the drawings, and enter the quantities that are measured by hand, at your own rate if you have one.
- 3
Price and swap
Each line takes the best source available and says which. Swap a product for a listed alternative with a reason, set the site condition, re-price.
- 4
Hand over for approval
An estimator prepares but does not approve. Your client, or their architect or project manager, approves the version that becomes the scope builders price.
The working, on every line.
Every quantity shows how it was arrived at and every price shows its source, so you know which figures to challenge.
Your rates where you want them.
Type a unit rate for any quantity you enter; it is recorded as yours, ex GST.
Versions, not files.
Compare any two versions side by side and re-price from any earlier one.
A printable report.
Totals, the breakdown by stage, exclusions, items by others and the terms, from any priced version.
Why estimate on Modern GBQ.
| Topic | The usual way | With Modern GBQ |
|---|---|---|
| The take-off | The usual wayIn your spreadsheet | With Modern GBQIn the client's project, working shown |
| Price basis | The usual wayLost after the email | With Modern GBQNamed on every line |
| Changes | The usual wayRedo and resend | With Modern GBQSwap, reason, re-price: a new version |
| Approval | The usual wayWhichever file was last | With Modern GBQA named version, approved by the client |
| Your cost | The usual wayAnother licence | With Modern GBQFree on client projects |
Consultant plans.
Working on a client's project is free: its limits belong to its owner. Gold and Platinum add uploads to clients' projects and projects of your own.
Estimator questions.
Does it cost me anything to work on a client's project?
No. A project's limits belong to its owner. Your own plan matters for projects of your own, uploads to clients' projects and reports in the Grace Quote app.
Can I approve the estimate I prepared?
No. The person who prepares an estimate does not approve it. Approval stays with the client, their architect or their project manager.
Can I upload my own documents to the client's project?
On the Consultant Gold or Platinum plan, yes: you upload and delete your own files, never change who sees them. On the free plan, email the report to the client and they upload it.
Can I challenge a computed quantity?
Yes. Correct the inputs the quantity was computed from, or enter the figure yourself; a figure you enter outranks the derived one until you clear it, and the change is on record.
Does it read drawings?
Yes. Upload the architectural set and the AI proposes the buildings, storeys and rooms, measuring room areas against the drawing's scale, for you to confirm before anything is calculated.
Where do the prices come from?
From published supplier offers first, then dated market prices, then indicative item rates and category averages, each ex GST and named on the line. Labour comes from trade rates for the site's locality.
Bring a live project.
We'll run it through Modern GBQ with you in 15 minutes.