New Orleans, LA
FOUNDATIONS ESTIMATING.

## Foundation work in New Orleans is not like anywhere else You already know this. The Mississippi River Delta soil — soft alluvial clays, high water tables, and peat layers — means every foundation job carries risk that a generic estimating spreadsheet will not account for. Pile-supported slabs, deep timber pilings, helical piers, and grade-beam systems are standard here, not edge cases. Your bids need to reflect that complexity from line one. Estimate.Pro is built for foundation contractors doing real work in real conditions. You walk the site, the app builds the scope, and you have a sendable bid in 8 minutes. ## Why estimating is harder here New Orleans sits in one of the most geologically active urban footprints in the country. The ground moves — subsidence rates in some neighborhoods run 1 to 2 inches per year. That affects: - **Material quantities.** A leveling job that looks like 10 yards of fill on a flat-ground calculator may need two to three times that volume once differential settlement is accounted for. - **Pile depth.** Timber and concrete piles often need to reach 30 to 60 feet to hit load-bearing strata. Your estimate needs to reflect actual soil boring data, not a national average. - **Drainage and waterproofing.** FEMA Flood Zone AE and VE designations cover large portions of the city. Any below-grade or slab work triggers elevation certificate requirements and often triggers additional freeboard above BFE. - **Code layer.** Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code references IBC 2021 with state amendments, and Orleans Parish adds local enforcement overlays. Getting the code reference wrong on a bid can cost you the permit and the job. ## How Estimate.Pro handles this **AR-assisted measurement.** On supported devices, the app uses ONNX-assisted live AR measurement to capture dimensions on-site. For camera or photo-based input, measurements are flagged as estimates — you always know what's verified and what's approximate. **Saved material cost workspace.** Concrete, rebar, helical pier hardware, and drainage aggregate prices in New Orleans move with Gulf Coast supply chains. You save your own current material costs in the app so every estimate reflects what you actually pay at your supplier, not a national index that hasn't been updated. **Scope-of-work AI.** After your walkthrough, describe what you saw. The AI generates a structured scope — excavation, forming, reinforcement, waterproofing, backfill, compaction — that you edit, not rebuild from scratch. Foundation scopes that used to take 45 minutes now go out in under 10. **25 trades, one platform.** If you're a foundation contractor who also crews out drainage, concrete flatwork, or structural repair, those trades are already in the app. You don't need a separate tool. ## Pricing that doesn't penalize small crews The Free tier costs nothing and requires no credit card. Pro is $39 per seat per month. Elite is $79 per seat per month and includes Stripe Connect with 0% platform fee on payments, plus invoice exports. The Crew plan at $399 per month flat works for larger operations billing across multiple crews. The 3% Stripe Connect platform fee applies on Free tier. Pro and Elite drop that to 0%. ## What you get on the first bid Sign up free, walk a foundation assessment job, talk through what you saw, and watch the app return a line-item scope with your saved material costs applied. Edit the quantities, set your margin, and send. That's the workflow. Eight minutes is the median — not a marketing number, a measured one. New Orleans foundation contractors deal with enough uncertainty in the ground. Your estimating process doesn't need to be another source of it.