For residential remodelers — built by one

Nobody Got Into Remodeling
To Do Paperwork On Sunday Night

From walkthrough to final payment, every job runs off one estimate that learns what you charge. See the whole job in 4 minutes.

14 days free, then $97 a month for one person. Running a crew? See Team and Scale. Cancel before the trial ends and you're not charged.

Sunday, 9:40 PM. Kitchen table.
Thursday, 10:14 AM. Still in the driveway.
Kitchen remodelHartley residence · ready to send
Demo
Demo and haul-off, cabinets and flooring1 ls$2,850
Plumbing
Relocate sink, new supply and drainsub$3,400
Electrical
Four new circuits, under-cabinet lightingsub$2,600
Cabinets
Cabinets supplied and installed32 lf$14,200
Quartz countertops, templatedsub$5,900
Tile
Floor tile setting labor180 sf × $8.25$1,485
Floor tile and setting materials180 sf$990
Finish
Drywall patch, prime and paint1 ls$2,300
Subtotal$33,725
Overhead 10% · Profit 15%$8,937
Contract total$42,662

Same kitchen. One of these took the evening.

6.3%

What the average remodeler kept as net profit in 2024 — and that was the best year since 1996.

NAHB Remodelers' Cost of Doing Business Study, 2026 ed. [1]
51%

of U.S. residential builders were losing money once their books were corrected. Only 17% knew it.

State of Residential Construction Industry Report, 2026 [3]
37%

of homeowners went over budget on their 2025 renovation. Picking pricier finishes is one of the top reasons.

Houzz & Home Study, 2026 [5]

One place for the whole job.

Hit record, walk the job and talk it through. That's the whole input. From there it's one job, from the first walkthrough to the final signature, without retyping it into four different tools.

  1. 1
    Walk itTalk the job through on site
  2. 2
    Price itEstimate, renders, options, signed with the deposit
  3. 3
    Pick itClient selections against allowances
  4. 4
    Build itPlan, schedule, daily log, punch list
  5. 5
    Get paidInvoices paid online, and what every job made
Rate Capture brings what you learned back to the next estimate

Win the job, and own the numbers you won it at.

Rate Capture keeps every correction you make — rates, unit costs, how long the work actually takes your crew. The estimates come back closer to your prices the more jobs you run, and the numbers are yours to export whenever you want them.

  • AI estimates from a walkthrough or photos. Proposals your client opens and signs on their phone.
  • Measured, not guessed. Scan the room with an iPhone Pro's LiDAR, or drop in the plans, and the quantities come from real dimensions — which you check before anything is priced.
  • You see when they read it and how many times — so you know whether to follow up or let it sit.
  • Save any estimate as a template. The eighth kitchen this year starts with the forty line items already there.
  • Your first one in about five minutes. No job handy? Start from an example — a bathroom, a kitchen, a deck — and see it priced at your numbers.
  • Phone on the job site, browser at the desk. Windows, Mac, iPhone or Android — voice walkthrough included.
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Kitchen remodelHartley residence · 1962 ranch
Walkthrough 1:12
Room scan Kitchen 12 × 15 ft Plans A-101 · read
Demo
Demo and haul-off, cabinets and flooring1 ls$2,850
Plumbing
Relocate sink, new supply and drainsub$3,400
Electrical
Four new circuits, under-cabinet lightingsub$2,600
Cabinets
Cabinets supplied and installed32 lf$14,200
Quartz countertops, templatedsub$5,900
Tile
Floor tile setting labor180 sf × $6.50$8.25$1,485
Floor tile and setting materials180 sf$990
Finish
Drywall patch, prime and paint1 ls$2,300
Subtotal$33,725
Overhead 10%$3,372
Profit 15%$5,565
Contract total$42,662
Saved to Your NumbersTile setting labor, $8.25 / sq ft. The next kitchen starts there.
Walkthrough to estimate1:12

And everything around the jobs.

The part of the week that isn't one job: how the business is doing, whether you're still inside the days you priced, what's late, what's on Thursday, what you forgot to order, and who to call.

The whole business on one screen.

What you've sold this month, what you've collected, what's owed to you, and every job you're running with the days it has left. The numbers you used to piece together on Sunday night, already added up.

  • Running jobs apart from the ones not started yet, so you know what's on the crew's plate and what's coming.
  • Owed means invoices you've sent. Ones you haven't sent yet are flagged on their own.
  • On the iPhone and the web, the same numbers on both.
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Your numbersOctober
This month
Sold$86,240
Collected$51,310
Owed to you$12,7991 invoice sent
Running · 3
Hartley kitchenDay 8 of 1810 days left
Morris hall bathDay 9 of 9Last day
Patel basementStarted today22 days left
Approved, not started · 0
Patel basementStarts MondayApproved

Every stop on that loop, fourteen days free.

Running a crew? Team covers five people, Scale twenty.

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Text thread. Josh: I know you asked about keeping track of job costs against your budget. I just added that inside each estimate today. The contractor replies: Awesome man! That's going to be huge for tracking and to keep from double entry on a spread sheet or something else. I got the chance today to create my first estimate. I can already tell it's going to be great for me.
"Keep from double entry on a spreadsheet."He asked for a way to track job costs against his budget. It went into every estimate, and this is what he sent back the same night, after making his first one.

It's 9:40 on a Sunday night and you're still at the kitchen table.

Everybody else is in bed. You've got a legal pad, last year's spreadsheet, and a kitchen you walked on Thursday that you still haven't priced. Tomorrow starts at six.

You got into this because you're good at building things. But the building is maybe half the week now, and the other half is this.

None of that is a you problem. It's what happens when the tools are a legal pad, a spreadsheet and a phone that won't stop. But underneath all three of those is one thing, and nobody has ever named it for you.

You've never had your own numbers. It was never your fault.

Every remodeler gets told he should have his own costs written down — his real rates, his real production times, what a bathroom actually takes his crew. Almost nobody has them. That isn't a discipline problem, and the reason matters more than it sounds.

Doing it properly means a month of evenings you don't have, and it's stale six months after you finish. So you do what everyone does: you open last year's kitchen, you adjust, and you hope. Your prices live in a spreadsheet, a folder, and your head — and they reset to zero every time you start a new one.

That's the real reason an estimate takes all evening, and the real reason a job comes in light. Not that you're slow or careless. That you're rebuilding from scratch something you already knew, every single time, and nothing you learn on a job ever comes back to you on the next one.

Same trade. Same economy. Nearly twenty points apart.

Net profit, the most and least profitable quarters of remodelers against the average, in NAHB's 2011 study.

Top quarter
15.9%
Average
3.0%
Bottom quarter
−3.7%

The line marks zero. NAHB Remodelers' Cost of Doing Business Study, 2011 figures [2]. Across 2,240 builders, the ones who went back over every finished job had a median net margin of 7%, against 5% for the ones who didn't [4].

Same tools, same material prices, same homeowners. The difference between those two quarters isn't who swings a hammer better. It's who knows what their work actually costs — and most don't. In the industry's biggest survey of builders, only 12% could correctly work out all four of the basic numbers that say whether a job made money [3].

Why every AI estimator you've tried came back wrong.

And why it stayed wrong

If you've already tried one and the numbers were nowhere near what you charge, you know this. You read the first estimate, saw a tile rate from somewhere that isn't your county, and closed the tab. Fair enough. An estimate that's thirty percent off isn't a starting point — it's a liability with your name on it.

Here's why, and it isn't the AI being stupid. Most of them price from someone else's numbers — a national cost database, a supplier catalog — built from jobs that aren't yours, in markets that aren't yours. And the ones that let you fix it make you keep a price book up to date by hand. Miss an update and it's wrong the same way next month.

So that wasn't you picking the wrong tool. They were built to hand you a document, and to leave keeping it right to you.

Rate Capture: the corrections stay.

How Your Numbers get built

Start with the part that isn't negotiable: every single line is yours to change. Description, quantity, hours, hourly rate, unit cost, markup — all of it, on every line, before anything goes anywhere. Add lines it missed. Delete lines you don't do. Nothing is locked, nothing is a black box, and nothing reaches a client you haven't read and approved.

You were going to correct those numbers anyway. Every time you look at a rate and think no, that's not what I pay, that's the most valuable pricing data there is — you, telling the truth about your own business. It has never had anywhere to go.

Rate Capture is where it goes. Remodelr records what you changed and what you changed it to — on what kind of work, at what scale, in your zip code. It knows the difference between you correcting a rate and you leaving it alone, which is the strongest pricing signal there is and the one a database can't see. It also watches whether the client accepted the number, because a rate you won the job at is worth more than a rate you didn't.

Tile setting labor, one contractor
Rate
Generic regional cost data
$6.50 / sq ft
What you corrected it to on your first job
$8.25 / sq ft
What Remodelr proposes a few jobs later
Your number, not the database's

Estimate number one is a well-built draft, not a finished price. It knows the work, the sequence and the quantities, and it's priced for your area — but it hasn't met your subs yet. You'll correct things. That's not a disclaimer, that's day one: the first entries in Your Numbers.

By the time you've run a few real jobs through it, you're reading the estimate instead of rebuilding it. Every other tool you've paid for is the same on day four hundred as it was on day one. This one is building you something — and it's yours, on your way out as much as on your way in.

Who built this, and why.

Josh Shelton in a Shelton Solutions cap and shirt, standing in a kitchen mid-remodel with a tablet, and a trowel and tape measure on the counter.
Josh Shelton — founder of Remodelr

My dad has been a remodeling contractor for 50 years. I've been at it 20 years myself, and I grew up on his job sites before that. Seventy years between us — pricing this work, selling it, building it, and eating the ones we got wrong.

So I've done the Sunday night at the kitchen table. I've lost a kitchen because I took four days to get a number back. I've finished a bathroom and found out the allowance overage came out of my pocket because nobody wrote it down.

What changed how I thought about it was finding an old estimate in the truck. Same kind of kitchen I'd just spent a Sunday pricing from nothing. The numbers on that legal pad were closer than the ones I'd built that night — because two years earlier I'd corrected them against a job I actually finished. I'd had the answer the whole time. It was in a truck.

I looked at what was out there. Most of it is built for production builders — big, expensive, weeks of setup, and priced like you've got an office manager to run it. Nothing was built for the guy walking into a 1962 kitchen on a Tuesday morning with a tape measure.

So I built this one. Every part of it exists because it solved something that actually cost us money or cost us an evening. Rate Capture is there because generic cost data was never close to what our subs really charge. The selection sheet is there because allowance overages are where remodelers quietly bleed. The client progress page is there because I got tired of the texts.

It's not built by a software company that surveyed some contractors. It's built by a contractor's kid who still can't get the smell of joint compound out of his memory.

Josh Shelton Founder, Remodelr · Suffolk, Virginia

Where your margin actually goes.

It's rarely the big obvious things. It's a $6-a-foot upgrade nobody wrote down and a rate that was three years out of date.

The allowance the client blew through — and nobody billed for.

You allowed $8 a square foot for tile. She walks into the showroom and falls in love with something at $14. You say yes, because you're a decent person and it's her house. Four months later the job closes out and you're $3,200 light.

It isn't just your clients. When Houzz asked homeowners who went over budget why, about a third said they'd picked more expensive products or materials partway through [6]. Somebody pays for that upgrade. The only question is whether it's written down.

Remodelr sends her a selection sheet — her own link, in her own browser, no app and no login. She records what she picked and what it cost. You see the overage against every allowance the moment she enters it, and turn it into a change order she signs. Before the tile is on the wall, not after.

One tile allowance, 400 square feet
Amount
Allowed on the estimate — $8/sq ft
$3,200
What she actually picked — $14/sq ft
$5,600
The difference, if nobody writes it down
− $2,400 out of your margin
The difference, as a signed change order
+ $2,400 billed

That one change order pays for two years of Remodelr. There are usually four or five allowances on a kitchen.

Is this actually for you?

Straight answer, so you don't waste a week finding out.

Yes, if you're —

  • A residential remodeler — kitchens, baths, basements, additions, whole-home
  • Running up to twenty people, or on your own
  • Doing jobs from about $5,000 to $250,000
  • Still estimating on a spreadsheet, a legal pad, or in your head
  • Losing evenings to paperwork you'd rather not be doing

Probably not, if you're —

  • A production builder putting up thirty of the same house
  • Commercial or heavy civil — the pricing model doesn't fit
  • Running twenty-plus field crews and needing enterprise scheduling
  • Looking for accounting software — this feeds QuickBooks, it doesn't replace it
  • Happy with how estimating goes right now, honestly

What the first ten minutes look like.

There's nothing to set up first, no onboarding call to schedule, and no setup weekend. Here's the whole thing. (Coming from CoConstruct, JobTread or a spreadsheet? You can bring your clients, subs and past prices with you, whenever you want.)

You sign up and add your company details

Your name, your logo, and your default overhead, profit and deposit percentages. About four minutes. These pre-fill onto every estimate afterwards, so you never type them again.

You describe a job you already know

Use one you've already priced. That's the honest test: you'll see straight away how close it lands and where you'd correct it.

You read the estimate and correct it

Whatever you change is the first entry in your numbers. If it's useful, keep going — send it as a proposal and run the job from it. If it isn't, you've spent ten minutes and no money.

Text messages from a contractor: Working current job estimate now. Then: Only $600 off! So cool.
"Only $600 off!"A remodeler running one of his current jobs through it, and checking it against the number he'd already worked out himself. That's the test.

You won't be figuring it out on your own.

New software is a lot to take on when you're already running jobs. So you don't have to learn it all at once, and you don't have to learn it by yourself.

Tutorials where you need them

Short how-tos built into the app, on the screen you're actually using. No manual to read first and no training video to sit through before you can start.

A real person when you're stuck

Reach out from inside the app and you get someone who knows remodeling, not a script.

One step at a time

During your trial, short emails walk you through the next thing worth trying, so you pick it up a piece at a time instead of all on day one.

If something in here doesn't make sense, that's ours to fix, not yours. Tell us, and we'll either walk you through it or change it.

Simple pricing. Fourteen days free.

One job it helps you win, or one change order it stops you eating, covers the year twice over — and you end it owning a set of numbers you didn't have when it started.

Solo Contractor
$97/month
Billed monthly
One person
  • Every feature listed below
  • One seat — just you
  • 20 project renders a month
  • Clients pay invoices online
  • QuickBooks Online sync
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Team
$297/month
Billed monthly
Up to five people
  • Everything in Solo Contractor
  • Five seats — you and four others
  • 100 project renders a month
  • Per-person permissions, with pricing hidden from the crew
  • Office-only notes and a shared schedule
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Scale
$497/month
Billed monthly
Up to twenty people
  • Everything in Team
  • Twenty seats — the office and every crew
  • 250 project renders a month
  • Per-person permissions, with pricing hidden from the crew
  • Office-only notes and a schedule shared across the company
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Custom
Priced to fit
21 people or more

Running more than twenty people? Tell us how many need access and we'll put together a price that fits. Same app, every feature, a seat for everyone in the office and on the crews.

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Every plan includes

  • AI estimates from voice or photos
  • Rate Capture — your corrections build your numbers
  • Proposals, contracts and e-signatures
  • Good / better / best options on one proposal
  • Deposit paid online at signing
  • Automatic follow-ups on proposals
  • Before-and-after project renders on proposals
  • Read receipts on everything you send
  • Change orders with your markup applied
  • Client selection sheets and overage tracking
  • Build plans, code checkpoints and material takeoffs
  • Draw schedules and invoicing
  • Clients pay invoices online — deposited to your bank
  • One client page per job — progress, payments, paperwork
  • Daily log with photos
  • Job costing — receipts, crew hours, sub invoices
  • Your numbers — the whole business on one screen
  • Estimate templates
  • Schedule with calendar sync
  • Punch list with in-person sign-off
  • QuickBooks Online sync
  • Job timelines, deliveries, to-dos and contacts

Try it on a job you've already priced. Then try a second one.

Fourteen days free, no charge, cancel in two clicks and that's the end of it. Two weeks is long enough to walk a real job, correct the estimate, and then run a second one — which is the only way to see the corrections carry forward. One job tells you where it starts. Two tell you where it's going.

Cancel any time before it ends and that's the end of it — no form, no phone call, no retention offer to sit through.

Card required to start the trial so nothing breaks the day it ends.
Online invoice payments carry a per-payment processing fee, which you can pass on to your client.
Subscribing inside the iPhone app instead? Prices there can differ by a dollar or two — Apple's price tiers don't include every amount — and yearly billing is on the web only. Same plans.

The questions you're already asking.

Can an AI really price my jobs?

Not on its own, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. What it does is write the whole estimate — every line item, quantities, labor hours, materials, subs — priced for your area, so you're correcting numbers instead of building a spreadsheet from nothing.

Then it learns what you charge. Every rate you change teaches it your real costs, and after a handful of jobs the estimates come back much closer to what you'd have written yourself. You approve every number before anything reaches a client. Nothing goes out that you haven't read.

I tried another AI estimator and the numbers were nowhere near what I charge.

I believe you, and I'd have closed the tab too. Most of them price from someone else's numbers — a national cost database or a supplier catalog, averaged from jobs that aren't yours, in markets that aren't yours. It doesn't know your tile setter, your lumber yard, or how long a bathroom actually takes your crew. The ones that let you fix it make you keep a price book up to date yourself, and when you don't, next month it's wrong the same way.

Two things are different here. Every line is editable — quantities, hours, rates, markup, all of it, and you can add or delete lines. And your corrections are the input — that's Rate Capture. Remodelr records what you changed a rate to, on what kind of work, and whether the client took the price. After a few real jobs the estimates come back at your numbers rather than a database's, and those numbers are yours to export.

So judge it on the trial the honest way — run a job you've already priced by hand and see how far off it is. That tells you where it starts. The thing worth paying for is where it ends up.

Want it side by side first? Here's how Remodelr compares with Handoff, JobTread and Buildertrend — every claim sourced, and honest about where they're the better pick.

I'm not a computer person. How long before I'm actually using it?

Your first estimate takes about as long as walking the job. You describe the work out loud, the same way you'd explain it to a carpenter, and you get something to edit rather than a blank form.

No setup project, nothing you have to import, no onboarding call. (If you're coming from CoConstruct, JobTread or a spreadsheet, you can bring your clients, subs and past prices with you.) If you can leave a voicemail, you can use this. And when something isn't obvious, there's a short tutorial on that screen and a real person to ask.

I've tried construction software before. It was a nightmare.

Most of it is built for production builders — big, expensive, weeks of setup, and assuming you've got somebody in an office running it. If you bounced off one of those, that's the software's fault, not yours.

This one starts working the first time you use it, on one job, without configuring anything. If it needs a manual, I've built it wrong.

Do I have to use an iPhone?

No. Everything runs in a browser — estimates, invoices, build plans, the schedule, client pages — on Windows, Mac, or any phone. That includes the voice walkthrough: pull up the site on whatever phone is in your pocket, hit record, and talk the job through the same way.

There's an iPhone app as well, and the two stay in sync, so you can walk a job on your phone and do the paperwork at a desk without retyping anything. A few things are still iPhone-only — capturing a signature in person is the main one — but nothing you need to price and send a job.

My crew shouldn't see what I charge. Can I control that?

Yes. On Team and Scale, every person has their own permissions — you can give the lead carpenter the build plan and the schedule while pricing, margins and invoicing stay hidden. Office-only notes are a separate channel your crew and your client never see.

I already use QuickBooks. Does this replace it?

No, and it shouldn't. QuickBooks is your accounting; Remodelr is everything upstream of it. Estimates and invoices push across to QuickBooks Online, so your bookkeeper carries on exactly as before.

The integration went through Intuit's own app review, so it isn't a bolt-on that breaks next quarter.

Can my clients pay me through Remodelr?

Yes. Every invoice goes out with a link, and your client can pay it by card or bank transfer from their phone. Payments run through Stripe and go straight to your bank account. Card payments usually land about two business days after the client pays; bank transfers take a few days longer. Your very first payout takes about a week while Stripe verifies your business — that's standard for any new account, not something we add.

The invoice marks itself paid, the client gets a receipt, and it's recorded in QuickBooks. Card processing carries a fee on every payment; you can pass it on to the client where your state allows it, or absorb it. You connect your bank account once, in settings.

What happens to my data if I stop paying?

It's yours. Cancel and your estimates, invoices and jobs are still there — export what you need. That includes the numbers Rate Capture built: your rates, your unit costs, your production times, exported as a file you keep. I'm not going to hold your business hostage to a card on file, and I'm not going to build you something and then keep it.

$97 a month is real money. What if it doesn't pay for itself?

It's about three dollars a day — less than the fuel to drive out and look at a job you don't win. One change order you'd otherwise have eaten covers two years of it. One kitchen you win because you quoted Monday instead of Thursday covers the rest of your career on it.

And if it doesn't work out, the trial costs nothing — fourteen days with the card not charged, and you can cancel in two clicks any time before it ends. The only thing you're actually risking is ten minutes.

What happens if you close this tab.

Nothing dramatic. That's the problem.

Next Monday a homeowner calls about a kitchen. You'll get to it Thursday, the way you always do. Maybe you win it, maybe you don't — and you'll never find out which of the two guys who quoted it faster got the job.

The one you're building now finishes in March and comes in a few thousand light, and you won't be able to point at exactly where, because the tile upgrade and the extra outlets and the two days of rain never got written down anywhere.

And a year from now you'll know exactly as much about your own costs as you do today. Every job you price between now and then teaches you something, and every bit of it goes in a folder or in your head or nowhere.

That's not a disaster. It's just another year of it. The fourteen days cost you nothing, and you'll know by the end of the first one.

Start building your numbers this week.

Your next estimate can be written before you're back in the truck — and this time, what you learn on it doesn't disappear.

No charge for fourteen days. Cancel any time, in two clicks. Already have an account? Sign in.

P.S. — Use a job you've already priced. Walk it, describe it, and hold the estimate up against the one you built by hand. That's the only test that matters, and it takes about ten minutes. Whatever you correct on it is the first entry in your own numbers — you keep that whether you subscribe or not.

Where the numbers on this page come from

  1. NAHB, Remodelers' Cost of Doing Business Study, 2026 edition (fiscal 2024 data) — summary on Eye on Housing
  2. NAHB, Remodelers' Cost of Doing Business Study (fiscal 2011 data) — reported in JLC
  3. Association of Professional Builders, State of Residential Construction Industry Report, 2026 (U.S. builders) — summary
  4. Association of Professional Builders, State of Residential Construction Industry Report, 2025 (2,240 builders, U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand) — summary
  5. Houzz, 2026 U.S. Houzz & Home Study (2025 renovations) — summary
  6. Houzz, 2022 U.S. Houzz & Home Study — summary
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