Your company already knows how to price this.

Construction companies price the same work again and again. That knowledge often lives in copied spreadsheets and in a few people's heads. Darwin keeps it inside the company, even when people leave and prices change.

1. Give the company a memory

A new project can begin with what the team already knows. Darwin helps the company:

  • Capture how it builds as reusable modules.
  • Keep Price Lists separate and current.
  • Carry context and decisions with each estimate.

2. Modules capture how your company builds

Each module keeps the knowledge behind a unit of work:

  • Materials and waste assumptions
  • Crews, hours, and yields
  • Direct expenses and practical judgment

Validated modules become the company's Cost DNA. They can be reused across projects and improved as the team learns.

3. The Reprice shows what the market changed

Apply a different Price List to a finished estimate and see the entire result recalculated in seconds, side by side with the untouched original.

  • Price Lists hold material, labor, and logistics values for a defined market.
  • Modules keep the same crews, yields, and assumptions while prices move.

Your logic didn't change. The market did. Darwin knows the difference.

4. Quantities keep their source visible

Darwin shows where every quantity came from and who accepted it. Optional IFC models, 2D PDF takeoff, and manual entry can all accelerate the work; the estimator reviews the scope, adjusts the result, and owns the final quantity.

5. The approved estimate becomes the baseline

Modules, accepted quantities, the selected Price List, overhead, and margin come together for formal review. Darwin records who approved what and under which prices, then carries that approved baseline into Cost Control.

6. People remain responsible for the decision

Darwin gives every expert a clear role:

  • Estimators interpret scope and own accepted quantities.
  • Reviewers validate assumptions and current prices.
  • Approvers establish the baseline with their decision recorded.

We love Excel. We just stopped asking it to be our memory.

7. Cost Control brings reality back

The approved baseline gives the team a clear reference throughout execution:

  • Track actual and committed costs against the baseline
  • See meaningful variance by cost group
  • Turn variance into a proposed module improvement
  • Have a person review and accept every improvement

The lessons from execution return to the people who maintain the company's modules.

Keep what your company learns

BIM is welcome and always optional. Estimator judgment remains central from quantities through approval and learning. Every project teaches the next one. That's why it's called Darwin.