Girder: Job Cost & Profit

Girder works out what a job leaves you before you say a number out loud. Most estimating apps are document makers: they write the quote and never mention whether the price was any good. Girder is built around the question they skip — did this job make money? THE PROFIT LINE Build the estimate — steel by section and length, your hours, your extras — and the quote sits next to what you keep, live, while you move the markup. It also does the translation shops get wrong: a 50% markup is a 33% margin. STEEL BOUGHT, NOT STEEL USED Three 1.1 m posts do not cost 3.3 m of steel. They cost a 6 m bar, and the rest goes in the offcut bin. Girder charges what the merchant bills and shows the drop as its own line — a shop that cannot see what offcuts cost keeps quoting net weight. Weights are calculated from the section, not looked up in a table, so a size that isn't in anyone's list still works.…