Notes from the estimator's desk.

Practical writing on preconstruction, EU compliance, and how AI is changing the shape of an electrical bid.

• Preconstruction

  7 min read

  Why electrical bids leak margin in 2026 (and what to do about it)

  Post-award change orders keep eating estimator margin. Three patterns cause most of them, and none of them are new — but all three are automatable now.

  6 Jul 2026 · The ScopeSense teamRead →
• Product

  5 min read

  How to import any employer's BOQ in under 5 minutes

  Every employer sends a different Excel. Every column is named differently. Every currency is different. Here's how ScopeSense reads them without you renaming a single header.

  5 Jul 2026 · The ScopeSense teamRead →
• Methodology

  8 min read

  Labour hours vs. productivity coefficient — the piece bids get wrong

  Estimators price cable pull time at 2 minutes per metre. But that number is a base rate. What changes it is the coefficient — and most bids treat it as a gut feel.

  3 Jul 2026 · The ScopeSense teamRead →