Enter company costs
Record payroll, owner compensation, overhead, and recurring operating expenses.
Profit & Margin Control
Price the job around the business behind it.
Turn payroll, overhead, owner compensation, and field capacity into a cost basis you can use before the bid leaves your desk.
Bring your latest estimate or pricing sheet.Start from what you already use.
Why it matters
Markup is not the same thing as profit.
A markup can look healthy while payroll and overhead erase the margin. BidPilot models the company cost basis before measuring the job.
How it works
A clear path from input to reviewed estimate.
Each step stays visible, editable, and connected to the same job.
Calculate break-even
Turn those inputs and working capacity into a daily and hourly cost basis.
Apply the crew basis
Snapshot the appropriate company rate onto the estimate.
Review estimate margin
Compare the client price with the modeled cost of completing the work.
Built into the workflow
What Profit & Margin Control gives you.
Crew-day cost
See the combined cost of field labor and company overhead for a working day.
Hourly break-even
Understand the hourly cost implied by the company model.
Overhead allocation
Include expenses that a flat labor rate usually leaves out.
Margin checks
Review job margin against the rate carried by the estimate.
Target-margin guardrail
New estimates start at your configured target margin, and the AI estimator is told to stop once it clears that target instead of padding past it.
Keep exploring
Connected parts of the same estimate.
Questions
About Profit & Margin Control
Straight answers about how this part of BidPilot works.
Does BidPilot calculate markup or margin?
BidPilot shows margin against a modeled company cost basis, rather than treating markup as profit.
Will old estimates change when my costs change?
No. An estimate snapshots its crew rate so later company-cost changes do not silently reprice prior work.
What target margin does a new estimate start at?
Whatever your company has configured in Defaults — new estimates apply that org-level target automatically instead of a hardcoded default.
Build the next estimate in your numbers.
Start free and teach BidPilot the rest as you work.