HemingwayPreconstruction Services

Built to keep your preconstruction moving.

Hemingway gives contractors estimating capacity, clear scope, and organized pricing from early budgets through final bids. We support individual trade packages and full project pursuits, with deliverables built around the way your team works. Based in Tampa, Florida, serving projects nationwide.

Plans laid out on a table with a scale and markup

Contractors and GCs

Add estimating capacity for conceptual budgets, detailed estimates, bid leveling and GMP support.

Subcontractors

Takeoffs, complete estimates and managed support for the trades you bid.

Homebuilders and developers

Whole-home estimates, trade packages and early budgets from plans or a program.

What you receive

Organized deliverables, built around your team.

  • Quantity takeoffsMeasured quantities with plan references on every line.
  • Detailed estimatesPricing by trade or CSI division, with assumptions, allowances and exclusions listed.
  • Conceptual budgetsEarly numbers from narratives, programs and schematic sets.
  • Bid levelingSubcontractor proposals compared scope by scope.
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Real documents in, organized numbers out.
Local pricing

Priced for your project's market.

Material and labor pricing tailored to your project's ZIP code and current local market.

Contractor-provided costs, labor rates and production assumptions can be used where agreed, and every estimate states its pricing basis.

Pricing questions
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Senior oversight

Experienced review on every estimate.

Our estimators perform the work, and every estimate is checked by the founder and chief estimator.

Meet Michael
Technology

Smarter tools. Experienced judgment.

Technology helps us organize, measure, and review the work. Experienced estimators make the decisions and oversee the final deliverable.

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  1. Organized by CSI division so scope is easy to review.
  2. Cost per square foot and per unit show the budget in context.
  3. Markups and totals are broken out, not buried.

Measure and Price

  • Bluebeam
  • PlanSwift
  • eTakeoff
  • Sage Estimating
  • RSMeans

Coordinate and Compare

  • Excel / Microsoft 365
  • Procore
  • RedTeam

Review and Refine

  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Estimator AI

Document review is supported by Hemingway Intelligence, our proprietary system. Estimators make every decision.

Have a bid coming up? Let’s talk.

Reach out directly and work with the person responsible for your estimate.

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