Turn your estimating experience into a reusable library

Save the items, assemblies, and budget templates you use most. Start the next estimate with your own costs and structure, then adjust the quantities and pricing for the project in front of you.

Foreman’s cost database with reusable cost items, units, and pricing.

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Reusable Cost Items

Price familiar work without starting over

Keep a library of your common materials, labor, and subcontractor costs. Store units, pricing, and cost codes together so estimators can bring consistent starting points into a budget.

Reusable cost items in the Foreman cost database, with units and pricing columns.
Assemblies

Build a complete scope from a saved assembly

Group the items and nested groups for a repeatable scope into one assembly. Keep its quantities and formulas together, then copy it into a project budget and adjust it for the work you are estimating.

A saved assembly open in the shared budget-style editor with grouped cost items.
Budget Templates

Give the next project a head start

Save a whole budget as a template and reuse its groups, items, and parameters. Each project gets its own copy, so changes to a new estimate leave your library and other projects intact.

A reusable budget template open in Foreman with project groups, quantities, and pricing.

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