Built on a job site. Not in an office.
Callide Construction has been quoting and building for years. The app came out of that work — one late night and one lost receipt at a time.
The quoting problem
Every estimate meant an evening or a weekend. Sometimes the kitchen table, sometimes a spreadsheet, always trying to catch everything while pricing a job you'd walked hours earlier. Some are easy. Most are a moving target — linear feet, square feet, cubic feet, and room logic that has to hold together.
Show me someone who nails that every time and I'll show you a guy who has never picked up a hammer.
Selling it isn't the hard part
We can sell the project and we can do the project. Then we lose money on a small tear-out. A customer hangs over your shoulder asking questions, taking up time and space. If you're a pro, you know these people. If you're a real pro, you price the job higher to stay clear of them — sometimes high enough that they run toward somebody else.
That's judgment, and no software should take it from you. It should just make it one tap instead of an argument with a spreadsheet.
And this is Canada
The record keeping is a kick in the pants. The government wants records. Your accountant tells you there's seventy-odd cents a kilometre sitting there and to “just track it every day.” Meanwhile your quoting software was built for Americans, by Americans. So you, me and everyone else runs old technology and bad software to keep things moving. Some of us are losing money. Almost all of us are losing time.
That is exactly why this app exists. There is nothing like it for Canadian skilled pros. This one is ours. It's for the skilled — and it's extremely clever.
Real projects by Callide Construction — the work the app was built to run.