Features
Everything you need to estimate faster.
CSR Foundry brings cost folders, production-rate pricing, and AI-assisted scope interpretation into one modern platform — designed by a practicing cost engineer, built for the way construction estimating actually works.
Estimate Creation
Cost folders with auto-rollups
Organize estimates in a folder tree that mirrors the work breakdown structure. Edit any leaf and the parent totals recalculate instantly — no manual rollup passes, no stale subtotals.
Production-rate driven pricing
Build line items from crew, equipment, and material productivity instead of historical unit prices. Change the crew size and watch every downstream cost update.
AI-assisted scope interpretation
Paste a spec section or drag in a drawing and the AI sidebar suggests bid items, quantities, and production rates. You approve or edit; the assistant never writes to the estimate without you.
Reusable reference libraries
Draw from shared libraries of crews, equipment, materials, and master specs. Keep your company's cost intelligence in one place instead of buried in last year's spreadsheets.
Review & Quality Control
Structured review workflows
Route estimates through defined review stages with assigned reviewers, comment threads, and change logs. Nothing gets signed off without traceability.
Full change history
Every edit to every line item is versioned. Compare revisions side-by-side or roll back to any prior state without losing work.
Built-in quality checks
Automated flags for missing production rates, crew imbalances, unit mismatches, and duplicate entries. Catch estimating errors before your reviewer does.
Collaboration & Export
Real-time multi-user editing
Multiple estimators can work in the same project simultaneously. Changes sync live; no more emailing spreadsheet copies and merging by hand.
Export to the formats you need
Generate Excel workbooks, PDF summaries, and structured data exports. Your deliverable format shouldn't dictate your estimating tool.
Integrated document management
Attach specs, drawings, RFIs, and correspondence directly to estimates and line items. The context lives with the numbers, not in a separate folder somewhere.
Why CSR Foundry
A different kind of estimating tool.
Built by a practicing cost engineer
Designed from the estimator's chair, not a product manager's whiteboard. Every workflow reflects how the work actually gets done.
Modern tech stack
A real web app, not a Windows desktop tool from 2005. Runs in any browser, updates continuously, no IT install required.
AI where it helps, not where it gets in the way
The AI sidebar suggests, summarizes, and searches your documents. It never auto-writes to your estimate. You stay in control.
Ready to see it in action?
CSR Foundry is rolling out to early access users now. Request access and we'll reach out with next steps.