Chief estimators & estimating managers
Your estimating team's capacity shouldn't be determined by how many hours they can spend counting symbols.
Xkey AiE helps reduce repetitive takeoff work, supports consistent estimating practices, and gives your team more time for scope analysis, pricing, and bid strategy.
Bid deadlines, limited resources, and competing opportunities put pressure on the department. Reducing repetitive takeoff effort can create room for more of the estimating work already waiting.
Additional capacity gives you options; it does not automatically turn another bid into a win.
Built-in material assemblies and labor units provide a shared starting point for estimating. Your team still evaluates project conditions, scope, and pricing assumptions.
Experienced estimators contribute more than counts. Put more of their attention toward scope, pricing, and bid evaluation while AiE supports repetitive tasks.
Built around your estimating goals
Support estimating capacity and a more consistent starting point for your team.
AiE drawing takeoff. Help your team reduce repetitive takeoff effort.
AiE Image Matching. Support estimator review across the team’s takeoff work.
Material assemblies and labor units. Provide a consistent starting point for material and labor estimating.
Detailed estimate breakouts. Give estimating leaders visibility into the numbers behind a bid.
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.
Using illustrative eight-hour workdays and a four-hour afternoon, that represents approximately 20 hours of recovered estimating capacity.
Recovered time creates an opportunity to redirect experienced estimators toward additional bids, scope analysis, pricing reviews, and deadline-sensitive work. Its potential value depends on how effectively that capacity can be redeployed.
“I completed a million-dollar estimate in one afternoon using AiE.”
The customer described three days and one afternoon, not exact hours. Assuming 3 × 8 hours and a 4-hour afternoon gives 24 − 4 = 20 hours, approximately 83.3% less time and a 6× comparison. These are illustrative interpretations, not independently measured customer percentages.
Your workload. Your assumptions.
Separate total working time, eligible repetitive tasks, and productive use before assigning a capacity value.
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 estimating 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.
Start by assessing a representative estimating need in a private team demo. Agree on the training and adoption approach for the people who will use AiE.
Guided onboarding and training are available. Requirements depend on the team’s experience and process; confirm the onboarding plan before committing.
Material assemblies and labor units give estimators a common starting point. Project-specific judgment and review remain essential.
Estimators review quantities, scope, assemblies, labor, and pricing before submission. AiE Image Matching provides additional support to takeoff review.
Discuss timing, representative projects, compatibility, and required handoffs in the team demo. No fixed migration timeline or compatibility with every system is assumed.
Request a quote for the seats you need and confirm account configuration and pricing before expanding. The calculator uses your total team cost rather than assuming identical seat prices.
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.
Evaluate the fit for your department, workload, and estimating team.