02 — Estimating service · Electrical · Automation · Both

Price the job. Keep your evenings.

Send us the tender package — straight electrical, home automation, or both on the one job — and get back a complete, priced estimate: takeoff, SKU-level bill of materials, labour and a client-ready quote.

From $750 typical residential estimate
Days, not weeks from drawings to numbers
SKU-level BOM real products, live pricing
Half price on your first estimate
What we price

Electrical. Automation. Or the whole package.

Most estimators can't price the automation side. Most integrators can't price the electrical side. We price both — separately or on the same job.

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Electrical

Straight electrical tenders — power, lighting, switchboards, data. Counted systematically, priced from live materials, built up with your rates and margin.

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Home automation

Lighting control, AV, networking, security — priced by people who've actually commissioned these systems. No guessing at what the control gear really costs to install.

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Both, on one job

The estimate most firms can't produce: electrical and automation priced together, coherently, by one company. If you're tendering the whole package, so are we.

The engine

Software counts. Engineers judge.

Manual takeoffs miss things — it's late, the plans are dense, and the highlighter runs dry. Every estimate we produce runs through Cindra, the takeoff-to-quote platform we wrote ourselves, then gets reviewed line-by-line by an engineer who has built this work. Consistency from the software. Judgement from the human.

  • Takeoff — every point, fitting and outlet counted systematically from your drawings
  • Materials — symbols resolved to real SKUs from a live materials library, switchboard schedules included
  • Labour & margin — assembled with your rates and margin, not generic allowances
  • Quote — a client-ready document plus the full breakdown, yours to edit
The journey
From tender drawings to a winning proposal.
CINDRA · AN ESTIMATE, START TO FINISH
01 — IMAGE FOR
The tender drawings
The package, as the builder issued it
01 · It starts with what you were sent.
02 — IMAGE FOR
The Cindra take-off page
Every symbol counted & resolved
02 · Counted systematically in our own software.
03 — IMAGE FOR
Panel layouts & schedules
Switchboards · circuits · materials
03 · The cost build-up takes shape.
04 — IMAGE FOR
The finished proposal
Priced · polished · under your letterhead
04 · A proposal that wins the job.
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How does it work?

From tender package to defensible number.

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Send us what you've got

The tender package as the builder gave it to you — PDF plans, the spec if there is one, and anything that affects price. No special format needed.

You → us · 10 minutes of your time
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Quick scope call

A short call to lock in the inclusions: your labour rates, your margin, preferred brands, site conditions, and whether we're pricing electrical, automation or both. Five minutes now saves a rework later.

Together · rates, margin, inclusions
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Fee confirmed upfront

A typical residential estimate is $750. A bigger job — or electrical and automation together — is more, and you'll know the exact figure before we start. Once agreed, it's fixed.

Us → you · within 1 business day
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Takeoff, priced and reviewed

Your drawings go through the Cindra engine — counted, resolved to SKUs, built up with labour — then an engineer checks every line the way someone who's built the job would.

Us · engine + expert review
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Quote back in days

A client-ready quote plus the full editable breakdown. Win the job and the same takeoff prices your variations and backs you up when the builder queries a number.

Delivered · days, not weeks
The exchange

What you send. What you get back.

You send
The tender package, as-is.

PDF plans and electrical drawings, the specification if there is one, and anything that affects price — preferred brands, your labour rates and margin, site conditions. We work from what the builder gave you.

You get
A complete, defensible estimate.

Symbol counts by area, a bill of materials resolved to real SKUs, switchboard schedules, labour build-up, and a client-ready quote — plus the full editable breakdown so the numbers are yours, not a black box.

The business case

More than a time saver.

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Quote more. Win more.

Most contractors cherry-pick tenders because estimating time is scarce — and every tender you skip is a job you've already lost. When estimating is off your desk, you can price everything worth pricing, and when three tenders land in the same week, we scale with you.

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A fraction of an estimator's salary.

A good in-house estimator costs six figures a year, whether the work is flowing or not. From $750 per estimate, you pay only when you're tendering — full-time capability without the full-time overhead.

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Your name on everything.

The quote goes out under your letterhead — your client never knows we exist. And your rates and margins stay confidential: they go into the build-up, not into circulation.

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The takeoff keeps paying.

Win the job and the same takeoff prices your variations, orders your materials and backs you up when the builder queries a number. It's not a one-off document — it's the job's cost backbone.

🔥 First estimate half price.  See the quality of the output before you build us into your workflow.

Tender on the clock?

Send the drawings today — we'll confirm scope, fee and turnaround within one business day.