Product Overview
What It Is
Ediphi is an all-in-one pre-construction platform that unifies estimating, GC/GR modeling, cost modeling, and bid leveling from concept through final buyout.
The Problem It Solves
Current Approach
Today, pre-construction teams use fragmented tools: estimators work in one platform, operations use spreadsheets for GC/GRs, and cost modeling happens in separate applications. This creates multiple sources of truth, version control issues, and delays in delivering cost data. Assembling benchmarks, adjusting regional costs, and reconciling numbers across departments consumes days.
How It Changes
Ediphi consolidates all workflows into one platform. It eliminates data silos through integrated estimating, GC/GRs, and cost modeling. The platform's dynamic cost database adjusts for regional variations automatically, unit-based takeoffs reduce scope gaps, and real-time collaboration between estimators and operations ensures alignment. GCs move from concept to client proposal in hours, rather than days.
Area of Focus
General contractors and large construction companies in the pre-construction phase, specifically those handling conceptual estimating, detailed estimating, general conditions cost development, and cost modeling before bid and buyout.
Key Features
Dynamic Unit Price Catalog (UPC)
Pain: Static cost databases don't account for regional variations. When following clients across the country, teams manually adjust costs or use inaccurate averages.
Ediphi's UPC is a living database with cost data for 25+ major US metros. Teams select a baseline region, and Ediphi automatically escalates or de-escalates costs across regions using factors or pro-rata adjustments. As estimators complete projects and speak with trade partners, they can crowd-source cost updates directly into the UPC, keeping data current without manual intervention.
Concept-to-Detail Estimating with LOD
Pain: Estimators toggle between static spreadsheets for high-level estimates and detailed estimating tools, losing data consistency and making variance analysis manual and error-prone.
Ediphi's LOD tagging bridges the gap between conceptual and detailed estimates. A conceptual estimate might have 100 lines organized by use group; when moving to detail, the same lines tie to industry-standard cost codes. This enables automatic variance reporting, so teams can track how actual detailed costs compare to the initial concept. All stages exist in the same tool, eliminating spreadsheet friction.
Formulas with Context
Pain: Excel formulas are cryptic. A cell might multiply by 1.5, but nobody remembers why. Changing formulas risks breaking estimates.
Ediphi formulas include variable names that explain the logic. Instead of a bare multiplier, the formula reads "0.5 waste factor", so the intent is clear. Formulas can reference the area sheet, use groups, or other line items, creating linked logic that updates automatically. Overriding a formula doesn't delete it. Teams can revert or toggle logic on and off.
Historical Pricing and Domain Knowledge
Pain: When pricing a specific scope, such as elevator pit removal, estimators can't quickly see how similar work was priced on past projects. They either guess or hunt through archived files.
Historical pricing surfaces past costs inline during estimation. Right-click any line item and see every time it appeared across the company, filtered by region or company-wide. If a price seems off, toggle it out. Teams can also identify the original estimator and ask context-specific questions. This turns the estimate into an interactive reference guide, replacing slow, manual benchmarking.
Unit Mix and Rooms for Revenue-Based Estimation
Pain: Architects and clients want to understand cost per unit, such as an apartment, hotel room, or parking space, not just total square footage. Tracking this in spreadsheets is tedious and error-prone.
The Unit Mix tool lets teams define units, such as studios, one-bed and two-bed apartments, operating rooms, or emergency rooms, and specify fixtures per unit type. Ediphi automatically calculates quantity takeoffs, so adding a bathroom updates quantities for tile, toilets, and fixtures everywhere. Costs roll up to cost per unit, enabling option engineering conversations with clients in real time. If a client asks what happens when more revenue-generating spaces are added, the estimate updates instantly.
Systems Takeoff
Pain: Scope gaps occur when systems aren't fully detailed. A curtain wall package might include the wall itself but not the embeds or structural ties, leading to back-charges and claims.
The Systems group consolidates cost lines into a single package. Instead of adding just "Curtain Wall", estimators create a system that includes the wall, embeds, and structural ties. This visual grouping highlights what's included and prevents scope gaps. Systems can be saved as templates and reused across projects, speeding estimate build and improving consistency.
General Conditions and General Requirements
Pain: Operations and estimators disagree on overhead. Clients push back that GC/GR numbers are too high, and there's no clear link between what's budgeted and what's justified.
Ediphi ties GC/GRs directly to staffing plans, project schedules, and the estimate itself. Costs escalate into future fiscal years, and markups link to specific bid packages. When clients question overhead, teams show exactly what's included. Teams can also reallocate costs to hard line items to present a different structure without changing the total.
Contracting and Bid Leveling
Pain: Building scope sheets for trade bids is manual and error-prone. Coordinating responses and identifying scope gaps usually requires spreadsheets and email chains.
One click exports the estimate into structured scope sheets by trade, complete with scope, bid requirements, and alternates. Teams can track bidders, flag missing bids, and coordinate scope gaps directly in the platform. If one bidder can't cover a scope item, it can be reassigned to another without leaving the platform.
Cost Modeling for Quick Client Proposals
Pain: After a client meeting, generating a preliminary estimate means hunting through past projects, adjusting scope, escalating for time and region, and applying spreadsheet logic. That takes a day or more.
Cost Modeling benchmarks completed estimates as templates. Select a past project, filter by use group, and populate with new specs. Ediphi applies regional and temporal escalation automatically. Teams can override line items, hide outliers, and customize metrics, then export to PDF or Excel in minutes. Proposal turnaround moves from days to hours.
Used By
Target Customer Types
DPR Construction
$7.2B revenue, 8,000 employees
“After extensive evaluation, including over three years of research and pilot programs among leading estimating tools, Ediphi stands out for its robust, cloud-based approach to the preconstruction life cycle.”
— Alan Watt, preconstruction technology leader, DPR Construction
Hensel Phelps
$5.8B revenue, 4,500 employees
“Owner bid forms are a pain, and preconstruction is left with figuring out all of this information in the last mile, putting together our bids from trade partners and our numbers. Ediphi is the next generation of estimating platforms, and the Excel Add-in is a snappy workflow.”
— Kyle Bonde, Senior Estimator, Hensel Phelps
Suffolk Construction
$5.1B revenue, 3,000 employees
“I recently did a study comparing our estimating team's performance from pre-Ediphi to now. We increased revenue per estimator by $20 million, and the return on investment was 1,900 per cent. I've never seen anything like that. That's in addition to the other efficiencies we're seeing as we roll out Ediphi at a national level.”
— Scott Menard, National Director of Preconstruction, Suffolk Construction
Wright-Ryan Construction
$850M revenue, 1,200 employees
“Since transitioning to Ediphi from Sage Estimating, we have observed a significant improvement in our ability to generate estimates and utilize data for future construction projects. This switch has saved us considerable time. Although we have only been customers for a short period, the more I use the software, the more impressed I am. The capability to customize our reports and create high-end proposals will undoubtedly benefit us in our future project pursuits.”
— Brian Labossier, Senior Estimator, Wright-Ryan Construction
Implementation & Onboarding
Estimating teams begin by building or uploading past estimates. The UPC is populated from company historical data or regional benchmarks. Operations teams set up GC/GR templates reflecting their staffing and overhead structures. Pre-construction leads configure cost models with past projects to enable rapid client proposal generation. Affected workflows: estimating from conceptual to detailed, GC/GR budgeting and project overhead planning, trade bid solicitation and buyout management, and pre-construction client proposals and cost modeling. Realistic adoption timescale: teams can start estimating simple projects within one to two weeks. Full adoption, covering GC/GRs, cost modeling, and bid leveling, typically requires four to eight weeks as teams configure templates and migrate historical data. Pilot projects accelerate learning.
Security & Privacy
ROI & Value
Estimated turnaround time
Reduction from days to hours for client proposals and bid packages.
Bid leveling efficiency
Faster identification of scope gaps and cost savings through automated comparison.
Alignment between estimating and operations
Fewer disputes over GC/GR and estimate accuracy, leading to cleaner buyouts.
Option engineering velocity
More cost scenarios evaluated in less time, improving client negotiations and business development win rates.
Founding Team
Dustin DeVan
CEO and Founder
Dustin began his career as a general contractor, spending six formative years in the field. This experience deepened his passion for construction and sparked his ambition to improve preconstruction workflows. He founded Building Connected, a preconstruction platform that Autodesk acquired for $275 million, a landmark validation of the market need. With Ediphi, Dustin is continuing this mission to transform how GCs approach estimating and cost planning.
Michael Navarro
CTO and Co-founder
Mike brings 20 years of preconstruction and operations leadership from Suffolk Construction and custom home building. In 2017, while leading Suffolk's regional estimating team, Mike identified a critical gap in available platforms. He spearheaded development of a custom solution that was adopted nationwide, generating $20M in additional revenue per estimator. Mike's hands-on experience with the pain points GCs face, combined with his proven ability to build and scale solutions, drives Ediphi's product vision.
Funding
Total Raised
$18.5M
Stage
Series A
Investors
About the Company
Ediphi is the most advanced cloud-based estimating software for general contractors. The platform streamlines preconstruction workflows and empowers better decision-making, enabling GCs to guide clients toward optimal target value design.
At its core, Ediphi makes it drastically more efficient to generate conceptual and detailed cost estimates quickly, as well as easier to work through design iterations and value engineering in real time. With preconstruction powered by Ediphi, design and contracting teams move fast with clarity and confidence, make decisions using reliable data, and deliver faster results to end customers.
Leveraging cloud infrastructure, Ediphi ensures data accessibility across all workflows, from estimating to procurement and risk management. Contractors reduce non-recoverable preconstruction costs, accelerate the time to groundbreaking, and better serve their customers.