The moment a platform is awarded a capterra badge, construction professionals take notice. The badge is not a vanity icon; it represents verified user satisfaction, product reliability and proven return on investment. For residential builders, remodelers and specialty trades juggling tight margins, that independent seal of approval cuts through the marketing noise and signals real-world performance. CountBricks is proud to wear the capterra badge because it validates what our customers already know: we turn spoken scope into accurate, profitable estimates in minutes.
• Consistent five-star user reviews that highlight ease of use and support
• High adoption rates among construction professionals, not casual DIY users
• Demonstrated feature depth for estimating, invoicing and project cost control
• Rapid deployment with minimal training time
• Ongoing product innovation tracked across multiple software updates
Achieving the badge required more than positive feedback. Our development roadmap is laser-focused on the daily pain points of residential contractors. Every feature has to shave hours off admin, protect margins or win jobs faster. Here is how CountBricks delivered:
• Voice-to-estimate engine: Speak the scope and CountBricks instantly maps tasks, labor units and material SKUs against live supplier pricing. What once took two hours at the laptop now takes two minutes on-site.
• AI blueprint takeoffs: Upload PDF plans or snap a photo. Our computer vision calculates square footage, linear footage and material counts automatically, then pushes the data straight into the estimate.
• Real-time cost libraries: Lumber, hardware and finish prices update daily. Your proposals reflect market reality, eliminating the surprise of a price hike between quote and purchase order.
• Integrated invoicing: Convert an approved estimate into a progress invoice with one tap. Retention, change orders and taxes are applied automatically.
• Mobile-first field capture: Site crews can add voice notes, photos and quantities that sync back to the office in real time, keeping budgets current.
• Dedicated construction success team: Our specialists—all former supers and estimators—provide onboarding, template setup and workflow coaching included in every subscription.
Contractors adopt technology for one reason—profit. Since rolling out CountBricks, residential builders have reported:
• 75 % reduction in estimating time
• 18 % average increase in accepted bids due to faster turnaround and professional proposal docs
• 12 % boost in gross margin from accurate labor factors and dynamic material pricing
• Near elimination of manual data entry errors that previously led to costly change orders
1. Book a 30-minute demo at CountBricks.com/consultation
2. Import your supplier catalog or use our pre-built residential database
3. Record a sample scope of work on your phone; watch it convert to a full estimate
4. Customize your proposal template with your logo, allowances and payment terms
5. Send the proposal directly to the client from CountBricks and track views in real time
• Create voice shortcuts for recurring tasks like “standard 200-amp service” to auto-populate materials and labor units
• Use the revision history to benchmark original budgets against actuals and uncover slippage early
• Connect your accounting software through our native export to speed up reconciling payables
• Apply regional cost multipliers when bidding outside your home ZIP code
• Share read-only blueprints with subs via the CountBricks mobile viewer to eliminate version confusion
A capterra badge is a milestone, not a finish line. Upcoming releases include predictive schedule forecasting, carbon footprint calculations for sustainable builds and mixed-reality plan overlays. As a subscriber, you receive every upgrade automatically—no costly module purchases or downtime.
The capterra badge on CountBricks isn’t just another graphic on our homepage; it is a promise of measurable jobsite improvements. If you are a residential GC, custom home builder or trade specialist looking to tighten estimates, close jobs faster and control project costs, explore how CountBricks can re-engineer your pre-construction process.
Ready to experience award-winning estimating? Visit CountBricks.com/services and schedule your personalized walkthrough today.
When Apex Timber Framing partnered with CountBricks, they faced a common challenge—estimating staff spent evenings crunching numbers instead of growing the business. By deploying our voice-to-estimate workflow, the lead estimator reduced takeoff time on a 3,200 sq ft custom home from four hours to forty minutes. The saved time allowed the team to pursue two additional projects that month, one of which closed at a 14 % higher margin than the company average.
• Field walk: Superintendent dictated wall layouts, header sizes and hardware specs directly into the CountBricks mobile app
• Automatic structuring: AI mapped each note to labor assemblies and lumber SKUs, pulling live prices from the local yard
• Client presentation: Proposal exported to a branded PDF with allowances and milestone payments, then e-signed the same day
• Detailed voice notes captured on-site yield more accurate quantities than office recollection
• Live pricing protects thin framing margins from sudden commodity spikes
• Professional, transparent proposals reinforce trust and speed approval
1. Start every job with a narrated scope walkthrough—even if you already have drawings. The spoken context surfaces hidden costs like difficult access or specialty fasteners.
2. Leverage the CountBricks template library to standardize inclusions and exclusions, reducing disputes and change orders.
3. Revisit accepted estimates monthly. The system’s variance reports compare budgeted versus actual usage so you can tighten future labor factors.
The capterra badge confirms what Apex Timber Framing discovered firsthand: CountBricks is more than estimating software—it is a growth engine for residential construction companies. See similar gains on your next project by booking a demo at CountBricks.com/consultation today.
