Cost Library

Completed and historical projects live here, separate from your active portfolio. Enter a project's basic facts, attach its pay applications, and the real line-item costs feed your private cost intelligence: timing, location, and building type ride with every dollar so the data is applied in context, never blindly.

Add a historical project
Six fields the cost data cannot work without, and three that sharpen it. No wizard; this takes a few minutes.
Prefill from the drawings or the project manual (optional)
Upload the title sheet and code data sheet of the drawings, or the specifications manual, and the reader proposes intake values with the printed text each one came from. Nothing fills in until you review. Text-layer PDFs only; scanned film-era sets have no readable text yet.
Resolves state and region for cost tagging.
A $90/SF tenant build-out and a $400/SF ground-up must never blend in one benchmark.
Residential prices on conditioned SF; a garage or porch is real cost but a different kind of square foot. Enter each printed area line and the software totals both bases without ever blending them. Without areas, no $/sqft; the dollars still count for division shares.
Comma-separated, outcomes actually achieved (not just pursued). These ride with every cost line so a certified project never blends into code-minimum benchmarks unlabeled.
Your historical projects
Attach each project's pay applications here. The reader transcribes the prime contract lines exactly as printed, keeps bundled subcontractor documents separate, and nothing saves until you review and apply.
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Historical projects stay out of the active portfolio on purpose; their job is data. Costs are tagged with year, state, region, building type, work type, construction type, GFA, and delivery method so the intelligence layer applies them in context. Where dollars are brought forward, the software uses the public BLS Producer Price Index for Final Demand Construction (FRED series PPIDCS) and always shows the as-printed figure alongside; the index begins November 2009, so older projects display as printed with their year. The signed contract governs everything shown here.