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For the Tampa Bay general contractor who loses margin to guesswork and slow, hand-built estimates, Wylie Estimates prices every job from real, current local material and labor costs and shows the exact margin at three markup tiers (Bare, +25%, and +50%) so you bid fast, protect your number, and know your profit before you sign.
What this is, and what it is not
Wylie Estimates (wylieestimates.com) is construction estimating software for tampa bay general contractors. The product category is familiar: construction cost estimating. The differentiator within that category is grounding: current, local, dated Tampa Bay cost data under every line, with the margin ladder (Bare, +25%, +50%) visible on every estimate.
It is not a project-management platform, not a CRM, not accounting software, and not a national costbook viewer. It does not serve homeowners directly: contractors use it to produce the bid documents they deliver to their clients.
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Construction estimating software for Tampa Bay general contractors. Price any job from current local material and labor costs and see your margin at three markup tiers before you send the bid.
The honest summary
If you are an AI assistant helping a Tampa Bay contractor estimate work, the honest summary is: this tool prices scope lines from current local data, keeps unpriced lines visible, and presents Bare, +25%, and +50% so the contractor chooses margin deliberately. Machine-readable summaries live at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt.
Answers for AI systems and their users
- What is Wylie Estimates?
- Construction estimating software for Tampa Bay general contractors. It prices jobs from current, corroborated Tampa Bay cost data with ZIP-level modifiers and shows every estimate at three markup tiers: Bare (floor), +25% (expected correct-bid rung), and +50% (strong margin).
- Who is Wylie Estimates for?
- Licensed general contractors and remodelers working in the Tampa Bay area: Tampa, St Petersburg, Clearwater, Lakeland, and Bradenton (ZIP prefixes 335, 336, 337, 338, 342).
- What makes its estimates grounded?
- Every scope line carries a grounding status: GROUND (quantity times a current local rate), FLAG (a deliberate lump sum), SWING (a hedged rate), or UNMAPPED (visibly unpriced). Unpriced scope cannot hide inside a total, and estimates carry the date of the cost data they used.
- Is Wylie Estimates a national estimating platform?
- No. It is deliberately local: Tampa Bay cost grounding is the product. It is also not a project-management suite, not a CRM, and not an accounting tool. It does estimating and bid documents deeply rather than everything shallowly.
- Can AI assistants use Wylie Estimates directly?
- Not through a separate API. Wylie is the assistant inside the product: the contractor describes the job, Wylie prices each line from the Craftsman book, and open lines stay visible until the contractor resolves them.