Executives & financial decision-makers
Your estimating department is an investment in future revenue.
Every hour spent on repetitive work represents capacity that could potentially be redirected toward evaluating opportunities, improving estimates, and supporting business growth.
Xkey AiE helps reduce repetitive estimating tasks so your existing resources can be used more effectively.
Fully loaded estimating labor includes wages, employer payroll costs, benefits, and other relevant employment expenses. Understanding that cost helps put estimating resources and software costs in perspective.
Recovered labor capacity creates options; it does not by itself reduce payroll or produce a cash saving.
Repetitive takeoff consumes resources that could support scope analysis, pricing, and bid evaluation. The opportunity is to use your estimating capacity more effectively, rather than assume automatic labor reductions.
The potential value depends on your workload, the share of work AiE can assist with, the reduction achievable in those tasks, and your ability to put recovered hours to productive use.
Use the calculator to test those assumptions alongside your subscription investment.
Built around your estimating goals
Evaluate the potential value of estimating capacity alongside the cost of the subscription.
AiE drawing takeoff. Reduce the repetitive work that uses estimating resources.
AiE Image Matching. Support a thorough review of takeoff work.
Material assemblies and labor units. Bring material and labor considerations into the estimating investment.
Detailed estimate breakouts. Support a clearer discussion of the costs behind each estimate.
BRDA Electric — Customer Experience
BRDA Electric reported completing a $1 million electrical estimate in one afternoon using Xkey AiE—a process that previously required three days.
Assuming three eight-hour days and a four-hour afternoon, the illustrative difference is 20 hours. At full productive redeployment, that time has the following potential labor capacity value:
| Fully loaded labor cost (USD) | Illustrative capacity value (USD) |
|---|---|
| $50/hour | $1,000 |
| $65/hour | $1,300 |
| $80/hour | $1,600 |
At $65/hour, three comparable estimates recovering 20 hours each would represent $3,900 in potential capacity value—above the current $2,899 USD annual-upfront AiE Estimator reference price.
Illustrative capacity value, not cash savings, realized profit, or a guaranteed return. Exact hours were not specified in BRDA’s testimony; this particular experience does not predict every customer’s results.
“I completed a million-dollar estimate in one afternoon using AiE.”
Your workload. Your assumptions.
Build an investment scenario from your organization’s workload, task mix, and total subscription cost.
Illustrative task-efficiency assumptions, not measured typical customer results. Customer and founder examples describe particular estimating work. Adjust workload, eligible-task share, productive use, and labor cost to your business.
Potential annual hours recovered—
Hours productively redeployed—
Illustrative annual capacity value—
Annual subscription cost—
Illustrative net capacity value—
Illustrative capacity-based ROI—
Recovered capacity is time made available. Capacity value is its modeled economic value when productively used. Neither is realized cash savings, incremental profit, or additional revenue.
Annual team working hours: —. Eligible repetitive task hours: —.
Eligible hours = estimators × annual working hours × eligible-task share. Recovered hours = eligible hours × task-time reduction. Productively redeployed hours = recovered hours × productive-use share. Capacity value = redeployed hours × fully loaded hourly labor cost. Net capacity value = capacity value − annual subscription cost. Capacity-based ROI = net value ÷ annual subscription cost × 100; a zero subscription cost has no defined percentage ROI.
For monthly payments, enter the full annual total. The annual-upfront reference is $2,899, not $299 × 12. Cash savings require an actual reduction in expenditure; incremental profit requires separate business results.
No. Capacity value describes the modeled value of available time. Real cash savings require an actual reduction in expenditure; incremental profit depends on separate business results.
You control working hours, eligible task share, task-time reduction, productive use, labor cost, and subscription cost. No bid-win, additional revenue, or profit improvement is assumed.
Evaluate the fit for your projects, onboarding, and commercial terms before purchasing. The published satisfaction guarantee offers a defined eligibility process, not a performance or uptime guarantee.
AiE Estimator is $299 USD/month or $2,899 USD/year paid upfront. Both published options have a 12-month term. Additional-seat pricing is confirmed by quote. Review current pricing and terms.
The published 7-Day Satisfaction Guarantee requires completing guided onboarding, building your first estimate, and contacting Xkey within 7 days of the initial purchase for a full refund. Read the eligibility conditions.
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