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What is the commercial work you never priced actually worth?
A bid you lose at least shows up as a loss. Commercial work that came in and never got a number on it leaves no trace at all. Put in four of your own figures and see what a year of it comes to. Thirty seconds, and nothing is stored unless you ask for a copy.
Thirty seconds
What a year of unbid commercial work is worth
Rough is fine. You're looking for the order of magnitude rather than the cent.
The ones that came to you and never went out, for whatever reason. Count back over the last few months and use the average.
Contract value, not your margin on it. If they range widely, use the middle of the range rather than your biggest one.
Gross margin, the way you figure it. Whatever number you'd defend to your own accountant is the right one here.
Bidding them all wouldn't win them all. If you're not sure, use your win rate on the commercial work you do bid, which is the closest thing to an answer either of us has.
Each bar sits on the same scale. The last one is the honest size of it, after your own win rate and your own margin.
Change anything on the left and these move. Nothing is sent anywhere while you do it.
Your four figures and the arithmetic behind them, written out. No mailing list. Or and skip it entirely.
Before you take that number anywhere
What that number is, and what it isn't
It's gross profit, not revenue
The big figure is contract value times your own margin, so it's the money that would have stayed with you rather than the size of the jobs.
Your win rate is already in it
Nothing here assumes you'd have taken every job you priced. The headline figure is the discounted one, which is why it's smaller than the contract value under it.
Producing those bids costs something
This number doesn't net that off. If you want the other side of it, the companion calculator prices a year of bid production from four different figures.
The questions behind the arithmetic
What people ask about unbid work
Why doesn't unbid work show up anywhere in my numbers?
A job you lose shows up as a job you lost, because a number went out and came back. A job that came in and never got priced leaves nothing behind at all. Nothing was ever quoted, so there is nothing for a report to count. That gap is what this figure fills.
It's the one cost in a roofing company that has to be reconstructed from memory rather than pulled from a system.
Is the number gross profit or revenue?
Gross profit, at the margin you entered. The contract value is shown separately above it and it is a much bigger number. Gross profit is the more useful of the two, because it's what would have been left after the cost of doing the work.
Neither figure nets off what producing those bids would have cost you. The other calculator works that part out.
What win rate should I use?
Your own, on work like this. If you don't track it, use the share of commercial bids you send that turn into jobs, and round down rather than up. The whole figure is meant to be an order of magnitude rather than a number to the cent.
Rounding down is the safer error here. A figure you'd defend is worth more than a flattering one.
Does the calculator store what I put in?
No. The arithmetic runs in your browser and nothing leaves the page. If you want the figures back as one page you can keep, there's a form under the calculator that asks for an email address. That is the only point at which anything is sent anywhere.
What does CleverIntel do about any of this?
CleverIntel is commercial roofing software for flat and low slope work. It prices the roof off a negotiated national account, publishes the bid under your logo, and takes the signature. The point of it is that a job you were asked to price stops being a job you never got to.
It starts one step earlier too, with the commercial properties near you worth calling in the first place. The eight steps are set out here.
How the unbid work gets bid
Price more of it, without another estimator
That is gross profit sitting in work that never got a number on it. Here is what changes that.
Find it
The properties worth a call
Scan a ZIP, upload a property list, or look up one address. Commercial roofs come back ranked by condition, each measured from the air and sent under your logo.
Inspect it
Eyes on the roof
Order a drone scan, standard or thermal, when you want to see a roof before you commit a number to it. It lands on that property with the rest of the job.
Bid it
Priced and signed
The engine prices the roof line by line, publishes it under your logo, and takes a signature on a tablet or through a private link.
Buy it
Like a national account
Material on the job prices off an account we negotiate with the manufacturers. No volume tier to reach first and no rebate to wait on at the end of the year.
Order it
Instant takeoff
Approve the bid and the quantities become a material order. You name who it goes to in the portal, and our supply side can take it if you want us to.
Win it
Insurance review
Start one from inside the bid, and a claims specialist we work with picks it up with the bid and your documents already attached.
The fuller version
See it on one of your own roofs
Twenty minutes, and you watch your own market get scanned, a real commercial property get priced line by line, and the bid go out signed. Your four figures come over written out, and a time comes back with them.
Built by people who price commercial roofs.
CleverIntel™ came out of pricing real low slope work, which is why the questions it asks you are the ones you would ask standing on the roof.
Got it.
Your one page comes back from a person's inbox, usually inside one business day. If you'd rather just talk, say so in the reply and we'll sort a time.