The spreadsheet is our real competitor, and it deserves a straight answer: it is free, infinitely flexible, and the person who built it understands it completely. It breaks in exactly three places — it cannot resolve a disagreement with the ERP, it cannot stop a quote from going out below cost, and it retires when its author does. We start by reading your spreadsheets, not replacing them.
| Spreadsheets | Allometry | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | $800–2,500/mo |
| Flexibility | Total — anything you can model | Opinionated — a floor, tiers, caps, an audit chain |
| Cost truth | One version, often stale, disagrees with the ERP | Truth Resolver picks executed cost from closed work and shows the losers |
| Enforcement | None — the sheet cannot stop a bad quote | Below floor does not send |
| When materials move | Someone remembers to update it | Every price reprices automatically and holds the floor |
| Key-person risk | The sheet retires with its author | The logic lives in the ledger, versioned and auditable |
You are under ~$5M, quote a handful of jobs a month, and one person can hold the whole cost picture in their head.
Quotes go out below cost between spreadsheet updates, the ERP and the sheet disagree, or the person who built the sheet is the single point of failure.
One contract, twelve months of history — we rebuild what each job actually cost against what you quoted. You keep the result whether or not you buy anything.