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Buildertrend is a project-management tool with a price you have to ask for. Bolster is the all-in-one platform that helps contractors quote 5× faster, win 20% more jobs, and skip the onboarding fees.
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Buildertrend makes you build cost data by hand. Bolster's AutoCost prices every line with real, local material and labor costs from 100M+ items — so your quote is accurate the moment you finish it.
Turn any estimate into an interactive, client-ready proposal — with optional items and good/better/best upgrades the customer can add themselves. No awkward upsell call, bigger average job.
Describe the project and Bolster's Construction Intelligence runs the entire flow — scoping the work, building the estimate, measuring the takeoff, and generating photoreal renderings and options like the one shown. With Buildertrend, every step is still manual.
The features that decide whether you win the job — and what it costs to find out.
| Feature | |
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|---|---|---|
| Live regional material & labor pricing | No live cost database | |
| Native AI takeoff & estimating | ||
| In-proposal upsells, upgrades & selections | ||
| Interactive client proposals | Standard | |
| Project management & scheduling | ||
| Payments (invoicing, ACH, cards) | ||
| Transparent published pricing | Custom quote | |
| No onboarding fee | ~$400–$1,500 |
"A bathroom — done before I leave the customer's home. A kitchen, 80% done before I leave. I'm not spending four hours a weekend writing estimates anymore."
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