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ScopeTakeoff

Built by a Subcontractor.

For Subcontractors.

ScopeTakeoff didn’t come from a software company. It came from a concrete and masonry subcontractor who spent years estimating in Excel, watching hours disappear into manual CY calculations and SOV reformatting — and decided to build something better.

The estimating problem no one was solving for subs

Every construction estimating software company was building for the same customer: the general contractor. Big platforms, complex workflows, enterprise pricing. The subcontractor was an afterthought — a user who could technically log into the GC’s platform and submit a bid, but who had no tool built around how they actually work.

A concrete subcontractor doesn’t need project scheduling, client portals, or change order workflows. They need to measure a slab, calculate cubic yards, price rebar, add forming and finishing labor, apply markup, and produce a Schedule of Values their GC will actually accept — without spending three hours in Excel.

“I was signing $1.5M in contracts a year and still estimating in a spreadsheet I built in 2019. Every bid was three hours of manual math. There had to be a better way.”

— Keaton, Founder · Foundation Construction Group
Keaton started his career at Atlanta Concrete Company — a concrete and masonry subcontractor that was later acquired and folded into a larger general contracting operation. That acquisition put him inside a full GC estimating department, where he spent years learning how big construction companies estimate work: dedicated estimating software, assembly libraries, bid management workflows, the whole system.

The problem was obvious from day one. All of it was built for the GC. The subcontractors submitting bids into that system were still working in Excel — pricing concrete by CY with manual formulas, tracking rebar in separate spreadsheets, reformatting their estimates into SOVs by hand every single time. The GC had a $500/month estimating platform. The sub had a spreadsheet from 2019.

When Keaton left to start Foundation Construction Group — his own concrete and masonry subcontracting company — he brought that institutional knowledge with him. He knew exactly what the estimating process should look like. He also knew there was no software on the market that actually served the sub. So he built it.

ScopeTakeoff is the result — the only construction estimating software built trade-by-trade, for subcontractors, at a price that makes sense for a sub operation.