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The EDGE Reviews & Product Details

Designed by experienced industry professionals, The EDGE is the most effective takeoff to estimate solution in the industry. Not only is The EDGE customized to your trade, but also to your business, so that your takeoff sources the exact materials and manufacturers that your company utilizes. With training to build the databases you need and the best customer service in the business, the EDGE caters to you. Stay ahead of the competition. Wouldn't you rather bid with The EDGE than against it?

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The Estimating Edge

Product Description

The Estimating Edge is a trade estimating software solution that is integrated with a drawing module that includes features to help you manage your estimates and more.

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Amanda Meyer (Marketing Coordinator at Estimating Edge)

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Estimating Edge is an estimating and takeoff software (all-in-one).

The EDGE Reviews (4)

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UL

Verified User in Luxury Goods & Jewelry

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/24/2021

"Powerful but dated interface"

2.5/5

What do you like best about The EDGE?

Capable of displaying tons of useful info and organizing it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The EDGE?

UX is dated. Not intuitive a lot of the time. Feels old and clunky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Matt B.

Business Development Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/30/2019

"Takes time to set up, but worth the effort."

4.5/5

What do you like best about The EDGE?

The new on screen takeoff feature is a game changer. No more digitizer, no more paper plans! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The EDGE?

Some of the search features within the program could be more intuitive. The built in help feature leaves a lot to be desired for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering The EDGE:

Definitely use patience, run dual estimates for a while to find the discrepancies. We found the system works perfectly, and mistakes are usually in due to input error.

Be intentional about building an accurate database of products and lookups. This will streamline your project handover process from estimating to operations. It takes longer on the front end, but saves so much time and mistakes later in the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The EDGE solving and how is that benefiting you?

Standardizing our estimates across the company gets the estimating and operations department on the same page. Project handovers are more accurate and less time consuming, leading to few mistakes on the operations side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UC

Verified User in Construction

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/24/2017

"Accurate Bidding"

3.5/5

What do you like best about The EDGE?

You are able to create an accurate estimate for a bidding job with this product. Once you have a general understanding of the program you can fly with it with ease. There are so many different ways to take off a variety of projects. It doesn't just have to be used for estimating, is also a great tool for tracking projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The EDGE?

It's not beginner user-friendly. With any new program, there is a learning curve. However, unless you take training or have someone teach you over a long period of time this is a hard one to understand without some help. Sheet uploading should be one of the easiest tasks and it always takes forever with this program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering The EDGE:

A drag and drop feature would be nice to have for drawings. Updated tutorials online. Also changing the interface to look more updated and user-friendly. Have a way to layer new addendums or bulletins on top of the previous sheets. Its very rare to bid something and not have at least one drawing change throughout the bidding process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The EDGE solving and how is that benefiting you?

The biggest benefits of the edge are having the pre-built conditions and digit take off. We are able to input all drawing into the edge and change them out when a new addendum is added. This a great tool used both in estimating and project management. Also useful for projections and production measure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jonathan T.

Project Engineer & Estimator

Construction

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/14/2017

"Estimating with the EDGE is great!"

5/5

What do you like best about The EDGE?

I use the shortcut keys constantly. Moving between pages and conditions is super easy and makes me more efficient. This program has a lot of capabilities that we're not currently utilizing. We plan to purchase some training time in order to improve our skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about The EDGE?

It's very frustrating that when conditions are linked and they're in multiple scenarios and you changed one detail of a condition, it changes it in all the scenarios. We use the same bidding EDGE file during post-bid reviews and throughout projects. We copy/paste the scenario and rename it. However, changing a detail of that condition messes with all the other conditions it's linked too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering The EDGE:

This is the first real estimating software I've used, so I wasn't sure about it at first. Once I tried it out on some sample projects to learn more about it, I became really comfortable with it and love it now. I can't imagine estimating any other way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is The EDGE solving and how is that benefiting you?

This software allows us to quickly estimate large projects with relative ease. Our database and templates are already built into a master file, so we just copy/paste into the project folder, rename it and go. We use the EDGE from the bidding process all the way through to the end of a project when we're awarded it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.