ESTIQX was built on 20 years of standing on Southern California job sites — from San Diego's coastal multifamily to Beverly Hills' ultra-luxury estates to Mulholland's most demanding hillside builds. We are the human layer above every estimating tool in the market.
Every national estimating firm on the market runs the same cost databases. RS Means. Gordian. National averages built from thousands of projects across the country — including markets that have nothing to do with Southern California.
The result is an estimate that tells you what something might cost in a market that is not yours, in a labor environment that is not yours, against a permit timeline that is not yours.
ESTIQX was built to fix that. Not with better software. With 20 years of presence in the exact markets where our clients are building — absorbing the real numbers that no database has catalogued yet.
The construction estimating industry has a problem with honesty. National averages applied to local markets are not estimating — they are guessing with extra steps. ESTIQX does not guess.
Not reading about these markets. Standing on them. Watching what concrete actually costs this week, what permit delays actually cost next month, and what finish specifications actually cost when the owner wants what they saw in Architectural Digest.
San Diego to Beverly Hills. Carlsbad to Mulholland. Each market has its own pricing reality. Each market gets its own ground-truth data. One standard across all of them: the exact estimate, not the convenient estimate.
Not 5–7 business days. Not a callback queue. 24 hours from plan submission to a number you can submit. Because the contractor bidding against you is not waiting — and neither should your estimator.
That is not a tagline. That is a standard we have held for 20 years. Every number ESTIQX produces is defensible, sourced from real local project data, and reviewed by a licensed California estimator before it reaches your desk.
Not a bot. Not a template. Not an overseas team running your plans through software at 2am. A professional who knows your market, your project type, and what the real number is.
Upload your plans or start a conversation. A licensed California estimator responds within 24 hours with the number your project actually costs — in your market, this quarter.
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