Cost catalog

The job pressure

Pricing lives in personal spreadsheets — every estimate reinvents unit costs.

All packages — estimating foundation

On the job

Pricing should not restart in a personal workbook every estimate. EstiLumina keeps line items and assemblies — CSI divisions, cost types, favorites — in one org catalog the takeoff and estimate both read.

Search, favorite, import, or paste a web clip into a draft row. When takeoff pushes an assembly, the same catalog unit costs land on the estimate line.

Paste rates from a supplier page, confirm they are yours to use, and save them. The catalog does not pretend to be a live market of every SKU.

A new book does not have to start blank: add the starter cost book by category — some 700 residential lines from site prep and permits through concrete, framing, envelope, openings, finishes, mechanical and electrical, specialties and in-house labour — with every rate carrying its date, so the stale-rate flag asks you to confirm it before it prices a bid.

How it works

1. 1

   Maintain line items and assemblies with CSI divisions and cost types.

2. 2

   Favorite common items; search and filter when estimating.

3. 3

   Import or paste a web clip to draft catalog rows.

4. 4

   Use the same catalog when takeoff pushes assemblies into the estimate.

What you get

• Line items + assemblies in one catalog
• CSI divisions and cost-type badges
• Favorites and search for fast pricing
• Import a supplier price list or paste a supplier page — confirm the rate, save it, and the catalog remembers the file layout
• A starter cost book to begin from — 700 residential lines from site prep through landscaping, by category, every rate dated so you confirm it before an estimate relies on it

Why teams subscribe

• Unit costs stay org-wide instead of personal sheets
• Favorites and CSI filters speed estimate pricing
• Takeoff assemblies pull the same catalog rows

Honest boundaries

• Not a licensed national cost database we resell.
• Not live supplier catalogs unless you connect your own supplier account.