Build a bid by talking. Charlie holds your cost library, guards your margin, drafts the clauses, and hands you a branded proposal — then tells you whether the job's even worth chasing.
The bid's due at 2, and you're still in a spreadsheet at midnight. Estimating software makes you learn the software. Charlie doesn't. You talk through the job the way you'd tell a foreman, and the estimate builds itself — priced from your own library, checked against your own margin floor, with the exclusions and assumptions already written in.
A full estimating suite that happens to run by voice. Nothing to learn, nothing left off the proposal.
Material, labor, equipment and sub costs — your numbers, priced per unit, snapshotted onto every line so a library edit never moves an old bid.
Set your minimum margin once. Charlie warns — or blocks the submit — when a bid drops under it. You never accidentally give one away.
Roll alternates as a flat number or from grouped line items. The proposal shows each one, priced, ready for the owner to pick.
Inclusions, exclusions, clarifications and assumptions — Charlie drafts them from the job so nothing you meant to exclude ends up in your scope.
Point Charlie at the bid docs and he screens the job against your qualifications — bond limits, insurance, scope fit — and gives a GO / CAUTION / NO-GO with citations.
Upload the drawings and specs. Charlie answers questions from them — with the section and page — so you bid what's actually in the documents.
Clean, professional, on your letterhead — price, scope, alternates and clauses, ready to send. Your internal costs, markups and margin never appear on it. Charlie builds this from the bid you just talked through.
Every other estimator starts you pricing. Charlie starts you qualifying. Feed him the invitation, the specs, the bond and insurance requirements, and he tells you whether you should even chase it — before you burn a day on a job you can't win or shouldn't want. Bid the right work, win more of it.
You just walked the site. Instead of carrying it back to the office in your head, you tell Charlie right there — and the estimate's already started before you turn the key.
Charlie isn't a slide deck. He runs on the same voice and speech AI behind the biggest names in the business — and Ground Up AI was selected into their startup programs to build him.
The natural voice you hear is ElevenLabs' AI speech — awarded to Ground Up AI through their grant program.
Real-time speech recognition so Charlie hears you clearly over a running jobsite.
Bank-grade, US-based cloud built to scale from one shop to thousands.
Not enterprise software squeezed down to fit you. Charlie was built on real jobsites, for the contractors who are estimating at night because they were building all day.
$149/mo, no setup fee, no contract. You're in within minutes.
By talking to you. Your cost library, your markups, your margin floor — set once, his forever.
Talk through the job, get a branded proposal. Win it, and it rolls into the rest of Charlie.
Start with Estimator on its own, or run your whole shop on Full Charlie. Month-to-month, cancel anytime, your data comes with you when you upgrade.
No — and that's on purpose. Your unit costs, markups and margins are yours. Charlie never ships prices or sets your numbers; he holds the library you build and does the math on it. Your pricing is your edge, and it stays private.
Yes. Upload the drawings and specs and Charlie answers questions from them — with the section and page cited — and screens the job against your qualifications before you bid.
No. You talk through the job the way you'd explain it to a foreman. Everything also works by tapping if you'd rather — voice and touch, your choice, on any device.
On Full Charlie, a won estimate becomes the job budget automatically — your bid total is the contract value and your hard costs split into job-cost categories, so your planned margin carries straight into the field.
Yes. Estimator is $149/mo on its own. When you're ready for payroll, billing and the rest, upgrade to Full Charlie — no migration, your estimates and library come with you.
Neither. Month-to-month, $0 setup, cancel anytime, and every plan is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee.