Price the job right.
Send the proposal in minutes.
Foundation is a simple estimating app for any business that prices work on margin: contractors, consultants, fabricators, service firms. Import your item catalog, price with real markup and margin, and hand the customer a clean lump-sum proposal. No spreadsheets, no CRM plugins.
Free while in early access. No credit card required.
Everything the quote needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Your catalog, your prices
Import your QuickBooks item list or any price list in minutes. Items, costs, and default markups live in the app, so your team picks from a searchable catalog instead of retyping prices.
Markup & margin, side by side
Enter markup or margin and Foundation shows both, plus profit dollars, live at the line, category, and total level. Per-category defaults, overridable on any estimate.
Clean, branded proposals
Customers see scope of work and a lump-sum total, never your costs or markups. Your logo, your colors, print-ready PDF with attachments included.
Templates that stack
Save scope language, contract terms, and line sets as reusable templates. Stack them onto a new estimate and edit from there instead of starting blank.
Pipeline at a glance
Draft, Sent, Hot, Later, Sold, Lost, Ghosted — with bid-due and follow-up dates that flag what's overdue. Filter by estimator or project type.
Built for teams
Invite your whole team with admin and member roles. Sent estimates lock automatically so numbers can't drift after the customer has the proposal.
Built for how you price, not what you sell.
Specialty trades
Foundation repair, HVAC, electrical, roofing. Anywhere crews, materials, and subs meet a bid.
General contractors & remodelers
Roll materials, labor, and subcontractors into one lump-sum price.
Fabricators & machine shops
Quote parts, materials, and shop time from a reusable catalog.
Consultants & agencies
Mark up internal cost rates to bill rates without exposing either.
IT services & MSPs
Hardware at one markup, engineering hours at another.
Event production & AV
Gear, crew, and freight priced fast for every show.
Landscaping & design-build
Plants, hardscape, and crew labor, priced by category.
Sign & print shops
Materials, production time, and installation in one clean quote.
Don't see yours? If you price work as cost plus margin, Foundation fits.
From item list to signed-ready proposal
Import your items
Upload your QuickBooks export or any price-list spreadsheet. Foundation maps costs, prices, and categories automatically.
Build the estimate
Pick items, set quantities, adjust markup or margin. Scope of work and pricing side by side.
Send the proposal
One click turns the estimate into a branded, lump-sum proposal PDF with your attachments.
Pricing
while we onboard early teams
- Unlimited estimates & proposals
- Catalog import from QuickBooks
- Templates, documents & attachments
- Your whole team, admin & member roles
Questions? team@gofoundation.io
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