Darwin
Darwin gives your company a cost memory.
The logic your company uses to price work (yields, crews, waste, assumptions) is captured once, as reusable modules. Prices live apart and stay current without touching that logic. Every estimate is reviewed and approved formally, and the approved estimate becomes the baseline you track real costs against.
Every project teaches the next one. That's why it's called Darwin.
We love Excel. We just stopped asking it to be our memory.
In a spreadsheet, logic and prices live in the same cell. Updating the market means editing the knowledge by hand, carefully, hoping nothing breaks. And when your most experienced estimator leaves, he leaves with the file.
In Darwin the cost logic is captured once and prices live apart. The market changes without touching how your company builds.
No.
Darwin works with quantities entered by hand, measured on PDF drawings, or imported from an IFC model. If you have a model, Darwin reads it and speeds up quantity take-off. If you don't, you lose nothing.
In all three cases, interpretation, scope and quantity acceptance stay with the estimator.
The project is different. How your company builds a cubic meter of concrete is not.
Yields, crews, waste factors and assumptions repeat from job to job. That is what Darwin keeps. Quantities, the client, the schedule and the conditions change every time, and that is where your judgment comes in. A module adapts to the project without losing what the company already learned.
Yes, and you decide how much is visible.
Each proposal sets its own level of detail: total only, by section, by line item, or the full backup with unit prices broken down. What the client received stays on record exactly as it was delivered, even if the internal estimate keeps changing afterwards.
Darwin is built for teams that estimate commercial and industrial work regularly. You don't need a large department. You need a company that prices similar work more than once.
If every job you take is one of a kind and nothing repeats, Darwin won't do much for you. We'll say so up front.
No. You start with one project.
Loading the full catalogue before seeing value is the surest way never to start. The usual path is to take an estimate you already produced, turn the line items you repeat most into modules, and build the next estimate from there. The company's memory is built one project at a time.
Yes. Estimate, material and labor reports come out to Excel and PDF.
What leaves Darwin is usable for delivery, comparison, and working with whoever still prefers the spreadsheet.
Nothing, until you decide otherwise.
A delivered estimate stays exactly as it was the day it went out. When you want to see that same work at today's prices, you apply a different price list and Darwin re-costs it in seconds, side by side with the original, which stays untouched.
Your logic didn't change. The market did. Darwin knows the difference.
No. The numbers are calculated by Darwin using the logic your company defined, and you can always see where each one came from.
AI in Darwin proposes and explains: it suggests how a module might be composed, drafts the scope language in a proposal, points out where reality diverged from the estimate. A person reviews and accepts. No financial figure comes out of a language model.
You do.
Each company works in its own instance, with its own catalogue, prices and history. Your prices and your yields are not shared with other companies and are not used to train models.
We work with a small number of teams at a time, closely, with the founder in the room.
Write to us and we'll talk about how your company estimates today, before we show you anything.