Allometry · Industries · Construction
Industries · Construction

Underwrite the job, not the bid sheet.

For general contractors, specialty trades, and equipment deployment shops. Score every project by margin headroom, route equipment by site density, and price change orders against the live cost model — before the bid.

Sample customer · TBDCivil contractor · 28 active jobs · 3 regions
What breaks at scale

The bid wins. The job loses money.

Construction operators bid against historical estimates — but margin is set by site complexity, weather, supply lead times, and crew utilization that show up after the contract is signed. By then, the slip is locked in.

§ Bidding

Estimates anchored to last quarter

Materials and crew costs move weekly. Allometry's cost engine reasons in real units (yards of concrete, crew-hours, equipment-days) against current ERP and supplier feeds.

§ Mobilization

Equipment idle, crews stuck

Dozers, lifts, and pumps move between jobs on tribal knowledge. Allometry sequences mobilization by margin contribution and weather windows.

§ Change orders

Margin leaks in the field

Field-issued change orders priced against gut feel erode margin daily. Allometry generates change-order pricing against the live cost model — auditable, attributable, defensible.

Where the margin lives

A job book, scored job by job.

A 28-job civil contractor is not 28 averages. Allometry scores each job against live cost, weather, sub-default risk, and change-order capture — so the ones bleeding margin get repriced, defended, or walked away from before the slip locks in.

Most contractors look at job margin at closeout. By then, the slip is already on the books. The deal that should have been walked away from has already burned 8 weeks of crew time.

Allometry pulls live material indices (lumber, concrete, steel), sub-default scores, change-order history, and weather windows into every active job — and reprices the projection daily. The 6 levers on the right are what an Allometry CFO dashboard rolls up to project IRR.

Bid win rate · 12moBy GC archetype + project size
22%+3.4pt
Avg gross margin at bidLive cost engine vs estimated
14.2%+1.1pt
Margin slip · bid → closeModeled vs realized 6mo
−3.6pt+1.8pt better
Change-order capture rateField-priced vs walked
68%+12pt
Sub-contractor default riskComposite credit + history
4.1%−0.8pt
Project gross margin · compositeAllometry-defended portfolio
10.8%+5.1pt
Customer outcomes

"We stopped guessing change-order pricing. Margin came back twelve points in two quarters."

Mid-market civil contractor running 28 concurrent jobs across three regions. Allometry deployed against live cost model and equipment fleet, with change-order pricing automated against material indices.

+12ptMargin · 2 quarters
3.1×Bid velocity
28Active jobs
Sample customer · TBDCivil GC · 28 jobs · 140 pieces of equipment
15-minute Pulse assessment

Score your active job book.

Connect to your ERP, project-management system, and equipment dispatch. We'll score a sample of jobs, surface the leaking change orders, and walk you through the model — with your data.