Material prices moved. Your open bids didn’t.
Contractor OS watches material-cost movement against every open bid and quote, and flags the jobs that stopped making money before you sign them.
- ✓ We watch published material-cost indexes against your open bids.
- ✓ You see which jobs lost margin since you bid them.
- ✓ Every alert ends with one suggested action.
Built by Vorantis Capital for general contractors, subs, and remodelers who price their own bids — the ones who feel every material move in their margins, and can’t afford to find out after they’ve signed.
You bid the job in March. You’ll build it in June. Material didn’t hold still.
Lumber, steel, copper, and concrete drift between the day you bid and the day the client signs. Your open bids don’t reprice themselves — so a job you priced at a healthy margin can quietly turn thin, or into a loss, before you ever swing a hammer.
Prices drift after you bid.
The index moves for weeks while your quote sits in the client’s inbox.
Open bids don’t reprice.
Nothing flags the gap between what you priced and what material now costs.
You sign at a margin that’s gone.
Acceptance locks the number — and any drift since bid day comes straight out of profit.
How the watch works.
Five steps, running on every index release. The math is deterministic; the alert is in plain English.
We track published material-cost indexes for the categories in your price book.
When an index moves, we find the open bids and quotes exposed to it.
We recompute each job’s margin against the new material cost — deterministic math.
You get an alert ranked by how much margin each job lost.
Each alert ends with one recommended action — requote, adjust the bid, or add an escalation clause.
What you actually see.
An alert feed ranked by margin at stake, and the open-bid exposure view underneath every alert — the jobs, the deltas, the numbers you can act on.
Under every alert is a deterministic margin engine recomputing each job against the new material cost. The AI writes the sentence; it never touches the number.
| Job | Bid margin | Now | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job #214 | 14.0% | 7.8% | -6.2 |
| Job #198 | 22.0% | 18.0% | -4.0 |
| Job #231 | 31.0% | 29.4% | -1.6 |
| Job #240 | 9.0% | 2.1% | -6.9 |
Index-based drift protection — not a real-time commodity ticker. Material data uses official monthly index granularity (published producer-price indexes). We flag drift against your bids; we don’t quote live spot prices.
The monitor is the subscription.
Two plans. Included seats, no per-seat traps. Annual billing is two months free.
- 15 open bids monitored
- Monthly index alerts
- 1 seat + 1 free office seat
- 30 quotes/mo
- Unlimited bids monitored
- Index alerts + exposure re-checks on every bid edit
- 3 seats included
- Unlimited quotes + change orders
Card-required 14-day trial. Cancel anytime. No credit card tricks. No discounts, no founding-member program.
Frequently asked questions
Is this live yet?
Not yet. Contractor Quote & Cashflow OS is in build phase and early-access interest is being collected now.
What does it cost?
Starter is $49/mo ($490/yr) and Growth is $99/mo ($990/yr). Annual billing is two months free.
Is this a real-time commodity ticker?
No. It's index-based drift protection using official monthly index granularity. We flag when material cost has drifted against your open bids — we don't quote live spot prices.
Where does material data come from?
Official published material-cost indexes for the categories in your price book, updated as they release.
How is my data handled?
Your data stays yours and is exportable at any time. Storage is governed by a published privacy policy and terms before launch.
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