Historical Rate Library
Prior estimates, quotes, and job costs are normalized into a searchable rate library with source links and confidence notes.
Estimating database. Takeoff strategy. Custom AI.
Qedem
We help turn takeoffs, cost codes, quotes, spreadsheets, and job history into an estimating database your team can trust, then connect it to custom AI workflows for faster, more accurate pricing.
Built by estimators who understand takeoffs, pricing, procurement, and project handoffs.
The wedge
Fast estimates start with a clean rate database.
Most contractors do not need a one-size-fits-all AI tool first. They need their takeoff logic, cost codes, vendor pricing, historical estimates, quote files, and unit-rate assumptions mapped into a system that supports repeatable estimating.
Model-flexible by design
Do not bet the business on one AI model.
The work starts by mapping your estimating and operating data so it can connect to the AI tools that matter for each job: fast search, careful reasoning, document drafting, private/local workflows, and future models as they improve.
The durable asset is not a single AI subscription. It is the cleaned, mapped, source-backed data layer that lets your business switch, compare, and route work across the best available models.
We work with your team to map how your systems already run, then set up AI around your estimating process, source files, pricing rules, and handoff needs.
What gets built
An estimating database that converts messy inputs into usable rates.
Cost Code Matching
Line items are mapped to the right cost codes so estimates, budgets, scopes, vendor quotes, and reports speak the same language.
Unit Rate Conversion
Takeoff quantities are converted into useful rates such as cost per square foot, opening, elevation, assembly, item, hour, or package.
Takeoff Strategy Training
Teams get a simple takeoff strategy: what to count, what to ignore, where waste belongs, and how each quantity drives the estimate.
Choose the starting point
Three service paths
Build My Estimating Database
We organize quotes, takeoffs, historical estimates, vendor files, and job costs into a clean rate database with source traceability.
Start with the databaseSet Up Custom AI
We set up custom AI around your real systems for quote lookup, scope drafting, cost-code checks, estimate review, and reporting.
Start with custom AIDo Both and Train the Workflow
Structure the data, connect the AI, and train the team on simple takeoff strategy for fast, highly accurate estimating.
Build the full systemHow it works
A simple plan from scattered files to faster estimates.
Qedem is practical and estimator-led. We work through the data layer first, prove the unit-rate logic, train the takeoff workflow, then set up custom AI around the way your team already estimates and hands off work.
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Audit Sources
Map estimates, quotes, takeoffs, cost codes, templates, and job history.
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Build Database
Normalize line items, vendors, units, assemblies, and source references.
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Match Cost Codes
Connect takeoff categories and estimate lines to the right cost-code structure.
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Convert Unit Rates
Turn quantities into comparable rates that support quick pricing decisions.
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Train and Activate
Teach the takeoff strategy and launch custom AI for daily estimating work.
Built for operators
Useful wherever pricing depends on repeatable field knowledge.
Contractors
Trades
Estimators
Preconstruction teams
Renovation teams
Specialty installers
Maintenance teams
Consultants
Why Qedem
Built around real estimating work.
Detailed Estimating
Takeoffs, cost planning, bid review, and budget forecasting are built into the workflow.
Construction Context
The system understands real scopes, trade pricing, jobsite sequence, and constructability.
Procurement Handoff
Quote comparisons, assumptions, cost breakdowns, and handoff notes stay organized.
Systems Builder
Clean databases, templates, dashboards, and automation reduce manual work.
Work experience
Practical field and office experience.
Qedem is shaped by hands-on construction, estimating, procurement, client work, team training, and project delivery. The goal is simple: help teams build systems around how work is priced, handed off, and delivered.
First step
Start with an estimating data audit.
We review the real file base, identify what can become a rate database, and give you a clear plan for database buildout, takeoff workflow training, custom AI setup, or all three.