Evalation builds an itemized, margin-protected estimate in about five minutes, for any residential trade, priced from your numbers. The kitchen-table estimating shift ends here.
It's nine o'clock. The house is finally quiet. You open the laptop and start rebuilding the job from memory: the measurements from Saturday, the material run you priced last month and hope still holds, the labor number you'll round up because something always comes up.
Every estimate you build this way costs you twice. Once in the hours, and again in the jobs that go cold while the homeowner waits three days for a PDF that looks like everyone else's PDF.
The math was never the hard part. The hard part is that the math lives in your head, your spreadsheet, and your supplier's last invoice, and none of them talk to each other.
Evalation turns a contractor's estimate into a five-minute job instead of a nine-o'clock-at-night job.
Evalation's estimating runs from the prices you load in, not a national database that's wrong for your market. Draft, adjust, send, all in the same system that runs the job afterward.
The AI drafts the itemized estimate from your own material costs and service rates. Adjust the scope and the totals rebuild. You review and send; nothing goes out without your eyes on it.
Overhead and margin ride on every line item, so you bid higher and protect every dollar instead of discovering the miss at tax time. See how margin carries through the job at /software/job-costing.
The homeowner sees a clean, easy-to-read summary. Your crew sees the same job laid out for building it. Nobody sees your internal math.
Decks, pergolas, concrete, and fencing get Evalation Lab: a live 3D design in front of the homeowner that becomes the blueprint and the estimate. See it at /for/deck-builders.
Walk the job and enter the scope on your phone or iPad while you're standing in it. For decks, pergolas, concrete, and fencing, draw it live in 3D instead.
The AI drafts the itemized estimate from your prices with margin on every line. Adjust anything; the totals rebuild as you go.
The homeowner gets a clean, professional estimate the same day they met you, and the follow-up sequence starts on its own if they go quiet.
From your inputs: the material prices and per-service rates you load into Evalation. It drafts the itemized estimate, rebuilds totals when you adjust scope, and waits for your review before anything is sent.
Any residential trade gets the five-minute AI estimating workflow. Decks, pergolas, concrete, and fencing additionally get live 3D design through Evalation Lab.
No. The homeowner sees a clean summary. The internal math stays internal.
Yes, and it costs nothing extra. Unlimited users are included at every tier, so your estimator, your office, and your crew leads all work from the same job records.
Evalation is built for residential contractors doing $700K to $3.5M a year who have outgrown entry-level tools but refuse enterprise pricing and enterprise implementation.
Evalation costs $297 per month for the first 50 founding members, locked for life, with no per-user fees. Every membership starts with a free 14-day trial. Full breakdown at /pricing.
Switching takes four clicks, and the Moving Truck Guarantee backs it: "If it doesn't win you more jobs in 90 days, you get every dollar back and we'll move you anywhere you want to go. Free." See the side-by-side against your current tool at /compare/joist.
Price the job from your numbers, on the first visit or from the truck, and get your evenings back.
Free 14-day trial, then the Founding Member rate.