Proposal & fee estimating

The one tool in the set that isn't a calculator — it's a scope-builder.

Where FlexiQ, RigidIQ, and HeliPlanIQ solve an engineering equation, Proposal Estimator solves a different problem: turning a project's design stages and drawing list into man-hours, a schedule, and a fee — configured per department, exported straight into Excel and Word.

Per-department configuration Auto-generated delivery timeline Rate-consistency checks Excel & Word export
Proposal Estimator with configured stages, delivery timeline, and summary totals
Proposal Estimator — full project, ready to exportConcept → Preliminary → Detailed Design
What Proposal Estimator actually does

Every number on the page rolls up into hours, sheets, and a schedule.

01

Design stages configured per department

Company Configuration defines the departments and the stage catalog once — Concept Design, Preliminary Design, Detailed Design and so on — and every proposal picks from that shared catalog instead of retyping it.

02

Drawings and tasks build the stage total

Each stage holds a table of sheet titles with size, scale, sheet count, and man-hours per sheet — plus stage tasks for effort that doesn't map to a drawing. Stage totals for sheets and hours update as line items are added.

03

Complementary tasks stay linked to their stage

A complementary task is tied to the stage it belongs to, so it is included automatically in that stage's exported scope of work — nothing has to be cross-referenced by hand.

04

A built-in rate-consistency check

A later stage should never cost the same or more hours per sheet than the stage before it — Proposal Estimator flags any stage that breaks that rule before the proposal goes out.

05

The delivery timeline builds itself

Project duration and each stage's own duration generate a week-by-week Gantt view automatically, down to the individual drawing group inside a stage.

06

Subconsultants and exclusions, ready for the document

Subconsultant scopes and stated exclusions are entered once and carried straight into the exported scope of work.

From line items to a document

Three exports, one source of truth.

Stages, tasks, subconsultants, and exclusions live in one project. Three buttons turn that project into the documents a proposal actually needs.

TimelineExcel — week-by-week delivery schedule per stage
Scope of WorkWord — stage descriptions, tasks, exclusions, subconsultants
Man-HoursExcel — full sheet-by-sheet hour breakdown and totals
252 hrsExample project above: 3 stages, 34 sheets, fully scoped
Tutorial

See a proposal scoped, scheduled, and exported end to end.

Next step

Configure your own departments and stage catalog.

Request a demonstration and we'll set up Company Configuration around how your teams actually scope work.

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