[ Built for U.S. excavation & earthwork contractors ]
Earthwork estimating software
for U.S. contractors.
Price the job on your own machines, crews and haul rates. Then carry those same numbers from the bid to the final cost — into the field, onto the invoice, and into the next bid.
14 days, no card. Plans from $79 a month.
Excavation summary
A–A
- Cut
- 4,779cu yd
- Fill
- 1,585cu yd
- Export
- 3,194cu yd
- Truck loads (12 CY)
- 333loads
From the section below · loads assume 25% swell, 12 CY trucks
[ Bid ]
Build the estimate from how the job will actually be done
[ Pricing ]
Markup is
not margin.
Markup is what you add. Margin is what you keep. Same percentage, two very different numbers — and the gap compounds on every job you win.
Markup
on costBid price
$48,000- Gross profit
- $8,000
- Gross margin
- 16.7%
Target margin
of the bidBid price
$50,000- Gross profit
- $10,000
- Gross margin
- 20.0%
The difference
Real profit left on the table by calling one the other — on this one job.
[ How bids really work ]
A bid is a stack, not a hunch.
Every layer is a real cost you can point at. Margin sits on top — separate, visible, and the first thing a discount eats.
- 01Add your costs
- 02Build the stack
- 03Set your margin
- 04Arrive at the bid
Layer depth is drawn to cost. Illustrative figures — your rates replace every one of them.
Cost ledger
Example job
- Equipment
- $13,400.00
- Labor
- $9,200.00
- Hauling
- $8,900.00
- Disposal
- $4,100.00
- Materials
- $2,400.00
- Mobilization
- $1,800.00
- Total direct cost
- $39,800
- Margin @ 20%
- $9,950
- Bid price
- $49,750
At your own hourly rates
Operators and laborers, burdened
By the load or by the hour
Dump fees and tickets
Base rock, pipe, fabric
Iron on and off the site
Of the bid — not added to cost
[ Bid → Build ]
Take the winning numbers into the field
[ Built for excavation contractors ]
Your numbers.
Your rates.
Your advantage.
Your rates, saved once
Equipment, crews, trucks, dump fees — entered once, reused on every bid.
Versions, never overwrites
V1, V2, FINAL. The estimate you sent on Tuesday still exists on Friday.
Actuals against the estimate
Book what really happened and find the category you always under-price.
Riverbend Industrial Pad
EST-0407 · V2 · example estimate
Sections
- 1Earthwork$22,600.00
- 2Hauling$8,900.00
- 3Disposal$4,100.00
- 4Materials$2,400.00
- 5Mobilization$1,800.00
- + Add section
Summary
Total cost
$39,800
Margin @ 20%
$9,950
Bid price
$49,750
The margin never leaves the screen — change it and the bid moves with it.
The numbers come from here
[ Build ]
See production against the plan
[ After the job ]
The bid was a promise. This is the receipt.
Book actual hours, loads and tickets against the estimate, and twenty jobs from now you will know the category you always under-price — worth more than any single bid.
- Equipment+$1,450$13,400$14,850
- Labor−$250$9,200$8,950
- Materialson target$2,400$2,400
- Hauling+$1,800$8,900$10,700
- Disposal+$200$4,100$4,300
- Mobilizationon target$1,800$1,800
Example job, illustrative bookings — the arithmetic is the product’s own.
Expected margin
20.0%
$9,950 on $49,750
Actual margin
13.6%
$6,750 after $3,200 of overrun
6.4 points of margin gone — and now you know exactly which layer took it.
[ Manage ]
Manage what the job commits before the money is spent
[ Control ]
Know where the job is financially heading
[ Learn ]
Let completed jobs improve the next estimate
[ The difference ]
One job. One chain of numbers.
Most contractors run an estimating tool, a field app and an accountant, and nothing carries a number from one to the next. Every link below is the same figure moving forward — which is why the job cost can be trusted and why the next bid is better than the last one.
- 01
Takeoff
a quantity, linked to the shape it was measured from
- 02
Estimate
that quantity, priced on your rates and production
- 03
Bid
cost plus overhead plus margin, as a number you send
- 04
Field
crew hours, machine hours, production, loads
- 05
Actual
posted when a day is approved. Not before
- 06
Committed
ordered and not yet delivered
- 07
Billing
progress against the schedule of values, retention held
- 08
Forecast
actual plus committed plus what is left of the budget
- 09
Intelligence
the finished job, in front of the next estimate
[ Who it is for ]
Built for earthwork contractors
Cubic yards, swell and shrink, haul cycles, tipping fees, production per hour and cost codes a dirt contractor recognises. EARTHVOQ is not a general construction package with an earthwork module bolted on — it was built for this trade first, and it shows in every unit on every screen.
excavation, earthwork, dirt, sitework, grading and grading contractors in the United States.
Earthwork estimating
Cut and fill quantities, your production rates, and a cost you can defend.
Excavation estimating
Price the dig on your own machines, crews and haul rates.
Excavation bidding
Overhead, margin and the proposal that goes out the door.
Earthwork takeoff
Measure cut, fill and excavation straight off the PDF plan.
Sitework estimating
Every scope on the site, priced on one estimate.
Field operations
The field day recorded once, and costed when it is approved.
Job costing
The estimate becomes the budget, and the field fills in the actual.
Cost tracking
Budget, committed and actual, while the job is still running.
Forecasting
Where the job lands, by one method printed on the page.
Financial control
Progress billing, retention, payables, WIP and cash position.
Intelligence
Your own completed jobs, in front of the next estimate.
Excavation contractors
One system from bid to final cost, for an excavation company.
Contractor management
Customers, vendors, purchase orders, change orders and the week.
[ Free tools ]
Start with a number you need today.
Free, no account for the result, and nothing filled in on your behalf. When a number is worth keeping, it carries straight into an estimate.
[ Start free ]
Stop guessing.
Bid your real numbers.
The calculators are open now, free, with no account. The estimating product is live — 14 days, no card required, on your own rates from the first estimate.