MIRROR ENGINEER
Estimating software for general contractors

DROP THE PLANS. IT MEASURES.
YOU PRICE IT.

Mirror Engineer reads your plan set and measures the takeoff off the sheet. You set your own prices. Your subs' bids line up side by side. Every number lands on your summary, marked with where it came from.

SAMPLE JOB
MIRROR ENGINEER

WATCH IT

One SAMPLE job, start to finish: plans in, measured, priced, calculated, bids awarded, on the summary — then the same software on a phone.

SAMPLE A SAMPLE job. No real job, no real prices. Cut from the full eight-minute walk — ask Alma for the whole thing.

WHERE IT STANDS

Said plainly.

Works today

  • The general contractor pack: takeoff, Bid Review, the calculators, Bid Compare and the summary — one software.
  • Walked end to end on a SAMPLE job, on a computer.
  • On the SAMPLE job, the price set from the takeoff, the awarded bid and the calculators land on one summary, each line marked with its source.

Next

  • The other trades.

The company

  • Beta. Pre-revenue.
  • No price on this page yet — talk to Alma.
  • Looking for general contractors who will run it on a real bid and say what breaks.

HOW IT WORKS

One software. The header and the menu stay put; every step opens in the middle.

The plan editor measuring a footing run on a SAMPLE sheet
1 · TAKEOFF

It measures.

Drop the plan set. It reads the title block and the scale; click the corners and it measures the run.

Bid Review with SAMPLE rates being set
2 · BID REVIEW

You set the price.

Type your price per foot and per yard. Dollars move only when you press SET.

A SAMPLE rake wall framed to scale with a window, a door and two T-walls
3 · CALCULATORS

Framing, foundation, roof.

A rake wall with a window, a door and two T-walls, framed to scale, with a cut list.

Bid Compare awarding a SAMPLE bid
4 · BID COMPARE

Your subs' bids, side by side.

It reads them and shows what is in your total and what is not. Award one.

The summary sheet showing line 05 stamped with its source
5 · TOTAL IT

On your summary.

Each line is marked with its source: STATED is your price, QUOTED is the awarded bid.

The summary line on a phone
AND ON A PHONE

The same number.

The same software on a phone. Line 05 matches the computer.

What you get: one file. It opens in your browser, and your plans stay on your computer — nothing uploads.

BUILT BY A BUILDER

Alma Jessop

Alma Jessop

30+ years in construction. Ran a framing company at 20, then became a licensed general contractor and a Parade of Homes award winner.

Helped develop earlier estimating software and demoed it at the NAHB International Builders' Show for years. Today he works as a lead estimator — and he built Mirror Engineer.

Also the inventor on two U.S. concrete hardware patents — ClimateBuilt.

TALK TO ALMA

A question, a demo on your own plans, or a seat in the beta. This opens your own mail app or phone — nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Sister company: ClimateBuilt — patented hardware for concrete, from the same founder.