The name gives it away. Preconly exists for the work that happens before the first shovel hits the ground — and honestly, nothing else.
Talk to any contractor during bid season and you'll hear the same story. There's a good project on the table, the plans are sitting in the inbox, and the bid is due Friday. The estimator is buried in two other bids. The drafter quit last month. So the contractor does the math, sighs, and lets the bid go.
That bid was money left on the table — not because the company couldn't do the work, but because nobody had the hours to price it or draw it. We watched this happen over and over, and it bothered us. Hiring an estimator costs north of $80k a year, and a good drafter isn't far behind. Most small and mid-size contractors simply can't carry that payroll between bid cycles. So they pass on work. Constantly.
Preconly is our answer to that. We assembled a team of estimators and drafters who live and breathe US construction — CSI formats, imperial units, local pricing, the way American GCs actually build a bid — and made them available on demand. Send us plans when you're swamped. Send us nothing when you're not. Pay for exactly the capacity you use.
And here's the part our clients end up loving most: because our production hours run while US offices are closed, the plans you send at 5 PM are being measured and drawn while you sleep. You're not paying extra for that. It's just how our clock works.
We deliberately stayed narrow. No marketing add-ons, no bookkeeping, no "we also do websites." Estimating, drawings, PM support, and vendor alignment. Precon, only. We'd rather be excellent at four things than mediocre at fourteen.
| 01 | Per project — fixed quote per takeoff, drawing set, or bid package. Most clients start here. |
| 02 | Dedicated resource — a full-time estimator, drafter, or coordinator working only for you. Monthly, no lock-in. |
| 03 | Hybrid — retained base hours plus overflow capacity when bid season hits. |
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| → | We will never tell you a deliverable is "done" before we'd be comfortable bidding with it ourselves. If it's not right, we fix it — that's in the price, not an upsell. |
These aren't poster-on-the-wall values. They're the working rules our team is actually held to, project by project.
Fast is only valuable if it's right. Every estimate and drawing passes a documented two-stage QA review before delivery. No exceptions, even on rush jobs.
Plans, pricing, and project information are handled under NDA, stored on access-controlled systems, and never shared, reused, or shown as "portfolio."
Clear quotes, committed dates, and a heads-up the moment anything changes. If you ever have to email us asking "any update?", we've already failed.
CSI MasterFormat, imperial units, zip-code pricing, and the unwritten conventions of American plan rooms and review desks.
The job isn't finished when we hit send. It's finished when you'd put your company's name on it. In-scope revisions are part of the price.
Our best clients started with a single sample. We earn the next project with the quality of the last one — that's the whole business model.
The fastest way to evaluate us isn't this page — it's a sample on your own plans. Judge the work, not the website.
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