The $4,000 mistake is already in your spreadsheet.
Amberdesk is estimating software for small contractors who bid in Excel at 11pm — and can't afford the one cell that didn't copy down.
Free during beta No credit card Nothing to install
Amberdesk is estimating software for small contractors who bid in Excel at 11pm — and can't afford the one cell that didn't copy down.
Free during beta No credit card Nothing to install
For everyone who builds
The numbers below are illustrative. The pattern is the one you already know. A $28,000 deck job:
That's $4,100 gone from a job you won — against a planned margin of $5,600. Three weeks of building for almost nothing.
You didn't lose that money on the job site. You lost it the night you wrote the bid.
Your spreadsheet doesn't know lumber went up since March. It doesn't know row 47 never got the formula. It doesn't know you meant 15% waste on tile, not 5%. It adds up whatever you typed — at 11pm, after ten hours on site.
Excel doesn't make mistakes. It just makes your mistakes silent, invisible, and signed.
You already know your numbers. The problem is that your knowledge lives in your head and dies in your spreadsheet. Amberdesk gives it a permanent home.
Your questions, answered.
Resource library
Every material, labor rate, equipment charge, sub, and fee lives in your library once — with its rate, unit, waste factor, and markup attached. Change one number — every estimate carries the new price.
March prices don't bid June jobs.
Assemblies
You can't. Bundle what you build repeatedly — a 12ft deck section, a base cabinet box, a bathroom rough-in — and drop it into any estimate. Every line computes qty × rate × waste × markup automatically. The math you used to lie awake re-checking simply happens.
Build it once, drop it into any project.
Scenarios
No. Scenarios price option A against option B side by side without rebuilding anything. Show the client the trade-off before you promise a price.
Cedar $18,650. Composite $23,400. One estimate.
Cost tracking
Lock the estimate when you win. Log actual costs as they land. See variance by category, phase, and change order — so “I think decks are profitable” becomes “decks run 9 points over on labor, and now I bid accordingly.”
Where did that job go over?
Free during beta Leave anytime Take your data with you
Run the skeptic's math. When pricing launches later this year, Pro will be $39/month — $468 a year. The blown deck job above cost $4,100. One caught mistake pays for the tool for the next eight years.
And right now the price is $0 — full product, free during beta, and we'll email you before pricing starts. The most expensive software in your business is the free spreadsheet you bid with.
Amberdesk is for the owner of a 1–10 person shop — cabinet makers, deck builders, remodelers, custom-home builders — who swings a hammer all day and prices jobs at night.
It is not for you if you're a GC running subdivisions or you employ a full-time estimator. Buildertrend and STACK will happily take your money. And honestly: if you bid twice a year, keep the spreadsheet.
If you'd rather be in the shop than in a spreadsheet, this was built for you.
Edgaras, Amberdesk's co-founder, built his own house and watched every estimate fall apart in a spreadsheet. Now he's building a shed, a grill zone, and a sauna — and pricing every one of them in Amberdesk, every week.
When the software annoys the builder, the builder fixes the software.
The team ships updates weekly.
No demo call, no sales follow-up. These free tools are live right now — no signup.
Amberdesk is free while we build it with you. Pricing launches later this year.
Join the free betaNo credit card. Free while we build it with you.