Estimating · Drafting · PM Support · Procurement

Estimates and drawings, engineered offsite.

Preconly is the preconstruction department US contractors plug in when bids pile up: detailed cost estimates and production-grade drawings, backed by PM support and vendor alignment — delivered overnight, at a fraction of in-house cost.

  PLANS IN BY 5 PM ET — WORK STARTS THE SAME NIGHT

SOFTWARE WE WORK IN — YOUR STACK, NOT OURS
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Core Services

Two engines drive everything we do: numbers and drawings.

Half our production floor estimates. The other half drafts. Most clients use both — a takeoff and a coordinated drawing set from the same team, speaking the same plans.

CORE / 01 — COST ESTIMATION

Bid-ready estimates, every trade

Quantity takeoffs and full estimates with material, labor, and equipment breakdowns — priced to your zip code, structured the way your bids are built.

  • Single-trade takeoffs to full project estimates
  • Residential, commercial, industrial & civil
  • Clear inclusions, exclusions & assumptions
  • Delivered in Excel — your template or ours
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CORE / 02 — DRAWINGS & DRAFTING

Drawings that pass review the first time

Shop drawings, permit sets, as-builts, and CAD conversions — drafted to your title block, your layers, and US code conventions, with a two-stage QA check on every sheet.

  • Shop & fabrication drawings, all trades
  • Architectural, structural & MEP sets
  • PDF / scan to CAD & Revit modeling
  • Redline incorporation & fast revisions
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SUPPORT / 03

Project Management Support

Submittals, RFIs, schedules, and document control handled by a dedicated remote coordinator — inside Procore, Buildertrend, or your own system.

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SUPPORT / 04

Vendor Alignment & Procurement

We source, chase, and level vendor quotes into a clean comparison tab — so every buyout is apples-to-apples and every scope gap is caught early.

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24–48h
Typical Turnaround
50/50
Estimating · Drafting Split
60%+
Savings vs In-House
100%
US Market Focused
Why Preconly

Built for contractors tired of missed bid dates.

  • Overnight advantageSend plans at the end of your day — wake up to work in progress. Our production hours run while US offices sleep.
  • One team, plans to bidThe estimator and the drafter sit on the same floor and read the same set. Discrepancies get caught in-house, not in your inbox.
  • A fraction of in-house costSenior estimating and drafting capacity with no salaries, software licenses, or benefits on your books.
  • Scale up or down freelyTen projects in bid season, zero in a quiet month. Per-project or dedicated monthly — your call, no lock-in.

What a deliverable looks like

ESTExcel workbook — quantities, unit costs, labor hours, markups, bid summary, assumptions log
DWGDWG / RVT + stamped-ready PDF set — your title block, your layer standards, revision clouded
PMSUpdated logs in your Procore / Buildertrend, weekly status digest in plain English
VNDLeveled bid tab — quotes normalized, scope gaps flagged, recommendation noted

EVERY FILE PASSES TWO-STAGE QA BEFORE IT REACHES YOU

How It Works

From plans to deliverable in four steps.

STEP 01

Send your plans

Email, Dropbox, or Drive — PDF, CAD, or anything in between.

STEP 02

Get a fixed quote

Scope, price, and delivery date within hours. No hourly creep.

STEP 03

We build it

Takeoffs or drawings produced to your standards, with updates as we go.

STEP 04

Review & revise

We revise until it's bid-ready. In-scope revisions included.

Test us on a real project.

Send one set of plans. We'll return a sample takeoff or drawing so you can judge our accuracy, format, and speed before committing to anything.

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