Turn your plans into a bid-ready estimate from $99.
Senior estimators take your drawings and return a defensible, bid-ready cost estimate — classified to AACE 18R-97, with every quantity traced to a drawing sheet. Your written quote confirms scope, fee and delivery date before any work begins.
3 quick questions — about 60 seconds. No card, no commitment.
- Quantity takeoff with plan markups
- CSI-organised cost breakdown, Excel or PDF
- Materials, labour, equipment and allowances
- Assumptions, exclusions and drawing references
- Free revisions within scope, plus bid-day support
PlanSwift · Bluebeam Revu · Sage Estimating · Trimble Accubid · Procore · Revit / BIM · Excel · PDF
Cost data from RSMeans with regional city cost modifiers, cross-checked against current supplier quotes on volatile materials.
1 · Send the plans
Drawings, spec PDFs and your target bid date. Encrypted upload, NDA on request.
2 · Get a fixed quote in 4 business hours
A senior estimator reviews the scope and replies with a firm fee, a delivery date and any clarifications. You approve it, or you don’t.
3 · Receive a bid-ready estimate
CSI-organised and checkable. Most trades come back as fast as 24 business hours; complex industrial scopes take longer, and your quote states the date.
“Vortex Estimating transformed our project management with accurate, timely deliverables. We’ve added three more bids to our weekly cadence.”
“Their pre-bid takeoff caught two scope gaps that the design team hadn’t even flagged. We won the bid and avoided $640K of change orders.”
“Our construction bids are more competitive and stress-free than they’ve ever been. Margin expanded 4% in two quarters.”
What does $99 actually get me?
Who produces my estimate?
What if the takeoff is wrong?
Do you sign NDAs?
How do I pay?
You approve the fee before we start.
Your written quote states the scope, the fixed fee and the delivery date. Nothing runs on a meter. If a measurable takeoff error reaches your deliverable we fix it for $0, and in-scope revisions and re-reviews are free. NDA signed on request before we open the plans.
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What do you need estimated?
This tells us which estimator picks up your project, so the fee we quote is the real one — not a placeholder.
Just tap your answer — takes 2 seconds
What kind of company are you?
Subcontractors, GCs and developers each get a different deliverable format. This saves a round of back-and-forth.
When is the bid due?
Deadline decides the queue. If it’s this week we say so honestly rather than quietly missing it.
Before you send the plans.
Three things that are true of every Vortex estimate, so you know what you’re getting before you hand anything over.
A fixed fee before any work starts
A senior estimator reviews your scope and sends a written fee and delivery date within four business hours. You approve it, or you don’t. Nothing runs on the meter.
Classified to AACE 18R-97
Every deliverable states its estimate class, its assumptions and its exclusions, with quantities traced back to the drawing sheet they came from. Checkable, editable, defensible on bid day.
Current pricing, not last year’s
RSMeans with regional city cost modifiers, cross-checked against supplier quotes on volatile materials.
“Vortex Estimating transformed our project management with accurate, timely deliverables. We’ve added three more bids to our weekly cadence.”
“Their pre-bid takeoff caught two scope gaps that the design team hadn’t even flagged. We won the bid and avoided $640K of change orders.”
- Quantity takeoff with plan markups
- CSI-organised cost breakdown, Excel or PDF
- Assumptions, exclusions and clarifications in writing
- Free revisions within the agreed scope
- Bid-day support for clarifications
No card, no commitment, NDA on request.
Where should we send your quote?
A senior estimator replies with a fixed fee and a delivery date within four business hours. No card, no commitment.
- A senior estimator reviews your scope and plans
- You get a written fixed fee and delivery date within 4 business hours
- You approve it before any work begins