Everything Needed to Produce Governed, Explainable Building Estimates
The platform is designed for reliable pricing, explicit uncertainty and role-aware collaboration across the entire estimate lifecycle.
Feature Set
What teams can inspect inside every estimate.
- Immutable estimate versions with auditable revisions
- Versioned rate tables with supersession, not in-place edits
- Transparent adjustments, overrides and approvals
- Explicit confidence scoring and accuracy bands
- Role-aware access for homeowners, builders, QS and lenders
Complete Estimation Capabilities
From initial consultation to ongoing governance, RateForge handles every aspect of your building cost estimation workflow.
Version-First Estimates
Every change creates a new estimate version instead of rewriting history. Full audit trails remain intact and reproducible without any extra effort.
Rate Table Governance
Rate tables are superseded, not edited in place. Historical estimates always reference their original rate snapshot, preserving reproducibility indefinitely.
Transparent Adjustments
Regional multipliers, complexity adjustments and manual interventions are layered visibly so reviewers can inspect the path to every line item total.
Audit-Safe Overrides
Every override logs old value, new value, reason, user and timestamp. Override history reduces confidence score and stays visible for dispute and compliance workflows.
Confidence Scoring
Every estimate carries an explicit confidence score and accuracy band driven by input completeness, rate variance and data quality — never just a guess.
Stakeholder-Specific Access
Homeowners, builders, QS teams and lenders can all work from the same estimate context with role-appropriate visibility and controlled interactions.
Every monetary value should survive inspection.
No hidden numbers, no mutable history and no separation between result and reasoning.
How RateForge Works
A streamlined four-step process that gets your governed estimate produced, versioned and ready for review.
Capture Inputs
Store project scope, region, finish level and specifications exactly as provided — no derived values mixed in at the entry stage.
Apply Rate Tables
Calculation engine applies region-aware rate tables and rules. Tables are versioned so recalculations always match their original source context.
Layer Adjustments
Regional multipliers, complexity factors and overrides layer visibly on top of base calculations without obscuring the original path.
Publish & Review
Publish an immutable version with accuracy band, confidence score and full audit trail — ready for homeowner, QS and lender scrutiny.
Ready to Explore the Feature Set?
Open a workspace and see how version-first estimates, governed rates and role-aware access work together in practice.