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ESTIMATING SOFTWARE THAT KNOWS THIS MARKET.

Most estimating software is priced and dated for somewhere else. Here is what changes when the rate table, the code and the soft costs are the ones that actually apply on a GTA job.

By the Marapone team · Updated 2026

Local numbers, with their provenance attached

Labour and material rates, development charges, permit fees and taxes ship as a dated Ontario data pack, with the source recorded next to each figure. A number you cannot source is a number you cannot defend in a bid meeting, so every one of them carries where it came from and when it was last checked.

The rate tables are plain JSON. When your own buying tells you a figure is wrong, you change it — the software does not get a vote, and there is nobody to ask.

The whole tender, not just the takeoff

Five tools covering the sequence a GTA GC actually works through: measure the drawing set, check the spec against the sheets, price the bid with the contingency justified, level the sub quotes onto one scope, then find what nobody carried at buyout. Bought together they hand each other their numbers with nothing retyped.

Ontario Building Code, checked automatically

Roughly 105 OBC checks per drawing set, each finding cited to the clause and the sheet. It is a first pass rather than an approval, and it is the first pass nobody has time to do by hand on a ten-day tender window.

Winter, congestion and the things that actually move a Toronto number

The risk rules are the local ones: roughly 110 days below freezing driving hoarding and heat, restricted downtown laydown and just-in-time delivery, street occupation permits, and trades competing for the same crane time. Each one is costed separately with its reasoning printed, rather than disappearing into a flat percentage.

Priced per firm, run in your browser

$99 a month for takeoff and estimating on one seat, $249 for all five programs across five seats. It opens in the browser your estimator already has — no server to buy, nothing to install. Your drawings are read on our own model in a workspace only your account reaches, never handed to a third-party AI vendor and never used for training. Setup call included.

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One real file off a live job. A written report and a video walkthrough back inside the seven free days, and an honest answer if one of the finished programs already covers it.

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