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Why I built CSR Foundry
I spent two decades watching cost estimators fight their tools. CSR Foundry is what happens when you stop waiting for the tools to improve and build new ones.
April 20, 20263 min readAdam Beck
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Spreadsheets treat an estimate as a grid. Cost folders treat it as a structured tree. The difference isn't cosmetic — it changes what breaks, what's possible, and how fast you can work.
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