Core values
Estimator /ˈes·tə·ˌmā·tər/ n.
The risk manager behind every bid.
The best general contractors aren’t just builders. They’re risk managers.
We believe bid leveling is the final opportunity to catch risk before it enters contracts and becomes expensive to fix.
We’re building technology that gives construction estimators superpowers.
The people behind every winning bid.
The construction industry has heroes. Most of them never make the ribbon-cutting photo.
At midnight, when the office is empty, estimators are still comparing subcontractor bids, reviewing exclusions, and trying to find the one missing scope item that could turn a winning project into a losing one.
Then comes bid day.
Hundreds of proposals can arrive within hours. Different formats. Conflicting scopes. Last-minute revisions. Millions of dollars at stake.
The phones are ringing. The war room is full. The deadline doesn’t move.
And sometimes, the only support an estimator has is Excel.
Estimators are the engine room of every general contractor. They keep the pipeline alive, protect profitability, and make construction possible before the first shovel hits the ground.
Yet their work happens largely outside the spotlight.
The entire company depends on their decisions. We believe they deserve better tools.
We don’t want to replace estimators. We want to give them superpowers.
Estimators shouldn’t spend their careers copying numbers into spreadsheets, chasing subcontractors, organizing documents, and manually reconciling hundreds of inconsistent bids.
Your value isn’t in managing paperwork.
It’s in understanding projects, identifying risks, making informed decisions, and putting together winning proposals.
Consight multiplies that expertise by connecting and streamlining the entire preconstruction workflow, with AI to accelerate the work:
Project document intelligence.
Get instant answers from plans, specifications, addenda, and other project documents.
Generate bid packages and scopes of work.
Use AI to identify detailed scope items across project documents and generate bid packages and scopes of work in minutes. Review, refine, and customize the results to match your estimating approach.
Subcontractor bidding and management.
Invite bidders, manage proposals, and automatically file bids received through Outlook into the correct bid packages, without manual downloads or uploads.
Fast, accurate bid leveling.
Compare subcontractor bids side by side against project documents, review scope compliance, identify missing costs, and level bids in one organized workspace.
Risk and scope gap detection.
Identify potential exclusions, omissions, overlaps, and inconsistencies before they become costly problems.
Transparent, verifiable AI.
Trace results directly to the original bids and project documents for easy verification.
Connected preconstruction workflows.
Manage everything from document review through bid evaluation, subcontractor selection, and award in one organized, standardized platform.
Our goal isn’t to take the estimator out of preconstruction. It’s to take the repetitive work out of estimating, so professionals can focus on the decisions that win projects.
Battle-tested on real projects. Built with the people who know preconstruction best.
Consight wasn’t developed in isolation.
During our design-partnership phase, we worked alongside Senior Directors of Estimating at Clayco, Alston Construction, and Gray Construction to pioneer a new generation of preconstruction technology.
We built alongside live projects, real bid packages, and real estimating teams. From smaller commercial projects to major, highly complex developments, Consight has been shaped by the exclusions, qualifications, scope gaps, overlaps, revisions, and trade-specific challenges estimators encounter every day.
We’ve encountered an extraordinary range of scope gaps and subcontractor exclusions. Each real-world use case helps us build more capable technology.
Our objective is simple: help estimators work faster, review bids more thoroughly, and identify potential risk before it enters contracts.
Four values. One mission.
Estimators first.
Build with the people doing the work, not around them.
We build Consight alongside the estimating professionals who use it on real projects. Their experience, feedback, and expertise shape everything we create. We believe technology should empower construction professionals, strengthen their judgment, and make their work more effective.
Our principle: Give estimators superpowers. Keep them in control.
Respect the fundamentals.
Master the principles before reinventing the process.
Great construction estimating is built on accuracy, discipline, and sound judgment. We respect the established principles of estimating while applying first-principles thinking to discover better ways of working. Innovation should strengthen the fundamentals, never compromise them.
Our principle: Understand what works. Challenge what doesn’t.
Challenge the status quo.
The way things have always been done isn’t necessarily the best way.
Construction deserves technology that moves the industry forward. We challenge outdated workflows, question unnecessary complexity, and continuously look for opportunities to improve. We believe meaningful innovation isn’t just about doing things faster, but doing them better.
Our principle: Question assumptions. Build better solutions.
Own the outcome.
Take responsibility for results, not just the work.
We hold ourselves accountable to the same standards of quality, reliability, and integrity that construction professionals bring to their projects. We take ownership of challenges, follow through on commitments, and measure success by the real value we deliver to our customers.
Our principle: Take ownership. Deliver results.
The demands on estimators are increasing. Their tools should be getting better.
Construction teams face growing documentation requirements, increasingly competitive bidding, compressed timelines, and the retirement of experienced professionals.
The industry cannot expect estimating teams to keep doing more with the same disconnected tools.
We believe the future of preconstruction is a connected, intelligent workflow where estimators move from project documents to scopes, bid invitations, bid comparisons, risk reviews, and award decisions with less manual work.
The goal isn’t to remove the estimator.
It’s to make one estimator capable of what previously took an entire team—while keeping professional judgment at the center of every decision.
The future of construction won’t be built by AI alone. It will be built by construction professionals equipped with better technology.
To the estimators working long after everyone else has gone home.
To the people who keep the pipeline alive.
To the professionals responsible for protecting margins before a single contract is signed.
To those who catch the mistakes nobody else sees.
We see you. We’re building for you.
Consight has your back.