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About Clear Estimates

Built on remodeling experience. Trusted nationwide.

For 20+ years, Clear Estimates has helped remodeling contractors estimate with confidence, present professional proposals and build stronger businesses.

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Presenting Clear Estimates at an industry event.

  • 20+

    years helping contractors estimate

  • 50,000+

    contractors have used Clear Estimates

  • 350

    U.S. markets with local labor and material pricing

  • 12,000+

    cost items in the Part Library

Featured in

  • Builder
  • Remodeling
  • Deck Builder
  • JLC
  • Custom Home

Experience that shapes everything we build

Clear Estimates began as an estimating solution developed inside an established residential remodeling company, a recipient of multiple national NARI awards and recognized as a “Big 50” contractor by Remodeling Magazine. Built to address the demands of real projects, it evolved into a dedicated software platform serving contractors across the country.

That practical foundation continues to guide our work. From our estimating tools to our customer support, we focus on helping contractors price work efficiently and communicate clearly with their customers.

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Taking questions at a Clear Estimates event.

Trusted by contractors nationwide

50,000+ contractors have used Clear Estimates. Our platform combines practical estimating tools with a comprehensive cost database covering 350 U.S. markets, bringing local pricing and decades of industry knowledge to every project.

Dot map of the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, showing where Clear Estimates is used
Clear Estimates users across the United States.

Industry expertise. Continuously advancing.

In 2020, Clear Estimates acquired RemodelMAX, bringing the cost database behind our software in-house. Today, our library includes 12,000+ cost items, with regional material and labor pricing updated every quarter.

Our cost data has also supported Remodeling Magazine's Cost vs. Value Report, extending its impact across the residential remodeling industry.

We continue to invest in the tools contractors need, from the AI Estimator to digital proposals, e-signature, invoicing and payments, with customer feedback helping shape what comes next.

We meet contractors where they work: trade shows, training sessions and industry events.

A Clear Estimates team member training a group of contractors at a trade show booth
A training session at the 2015 Remodeling & Deck Show in Chicago.
Two Clear Estimates team members at the Clear Estimates booth at a trade show
The Clear Estimates booth at the 2014 Remodeling & Deck Show in Baltimore.

Our history

From a remodeling company's in-house estimating program to the software contractors use across the country.

  1. 2005

    Clear Estimates launches as a desktop program you download and install.

  2. 2007

    A partnership with RemodelMAX brings a deeper database with regional pricing. Customers move from buying a license to a monthly subscription.

  3. 2013

    A cloud version replaces the desktop program, so you can estimate on any device with a browser.

  4. 2014

    Clear Estimates, powered by RemodelMAX, is selected to partner with Remodeling Magazine on its annual Cost vs. Value Report.

  5. 2017

    Clear Estimates Pro launches, adding invoicing, CRM and email-marketing integrations, a Buildertrend connection and multiple users.

  6. 2020

    Clear Estimates acquires RemodelMAX and brings the cost database behind the Part Library in-house.

  7. 2026

    Built-in e-signature: clients sign proposals and change orders from any device.

Clear Estimates, Inc. is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Questions about the software, our cost data or working together? Get in touch, or call (800) 540-3935.

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