Evalation Lab builds a live 3D pergola model on your iPad while the homeowner watches, then turns the same design into a blueprint and a priced estimate on the first visit.
A pergola is a visual sale. The homeowner isn't buying posts and beams; they're buying what the patio feels like underneath it. A sketch and a promise can't carry that, and a rendering that shows up a week later arrives after the excitement has cooled.
With Lab, the pergola takes shape over their own patio while they watch. Post placement, beam style, the shadow it throws. Changes happen in the same conversation, and the price follows the design instead of arriving three days behind it.
The same session produces the blueprint, so the sale and the paperwork stop being two separate weeks of your life. One visit, three deliverables: the design they fell for, the blueprint the county wants, and the number that closes it.
Evalation Lab builds a live 3D pergola model in front of the homeowner and prices it in the same visit.
Evalation is built on CORR. CORR (Company, Operations, Relations, and Revenue) is a category of business platform that runs a contractor's entire company in one system, replacing the separate CRM, estimating, project management, and accounting tools contractors traditionally stitch together. For pergola work, it starts with the Lab, carries your margin on every line of the estimate, and runs the follow-up, the schedule, and the invoice after the yes.
Draw the pergola on the iPad in the homeowner's yard. The model builds while they watch, which is the moment that sells the job.
The design becomes permit-ready blueprints in minutes. No separate CAD software, no drafting service on the critical path.
The same design is also a priced estimate, from your own numbers, handed over on the first visit.
Pergolas share the Lab with decks, concrete, and fencing, so an outdoor-living company runs its whole design-led sales motion in one place. See /for/deck-builders.
Posts, beams, dimensions, style, all live on the iPad while the homeowner watches the pergola take shape.
The permit-ready sheets come off the design automatically, in minutes, with real structural engineering behind them.
The same design is the priced estimate. The homeowner decides while the excitement is still standing in the yard with you.
Included. Evalation Lab covers decks, pergolas, concrete pads, and fencing at every pricing tier.
Yes. Adjust post placement, dimensions, or style in the same session and the model and the estimate rebuild in real time.
Yes. The blueprint generates automatically from the design, permit-ready, in minutes rather than weeks.
Evalation Lab runs on iPadOS 17 or later and works on nearly any iPad released in the last seven years for design and estimating work.
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/buildertrend.
Design the pergola where it will stand, and hand over the blueprint and the number on the first visit.
Free 14-day trial, then the Founding Member rate.