Pro Spotlight: The Self-Building Estimate - How RENDR Measurements Flow Straight into JobTread

Estimating sucks. But because it has to be done right, it takes time — so as a result, it’s the job that gets pushed to the back burner while proposals sit unfinished and contracts go unsigned. In this session, A.J. Ballantine of RENDR shows a faster, more repeatable way through it: scan a space, edit the floor plan in RENDR, sync it straight into JobTread, and let quantity formulas and parameters build accurate estimates without manually calculating every takeoff. Change the floor plan, re-sync, and the estimate keeps up — no recalculating quantities by hand. A.J. isn’t demoing this from theory. He owns Cornerstone Remodeling, a Maryland design-build firm doing $10–12M a year, where he got out of the estimator’s seat the hard way — by building systems that don’t depend on the owner to finish or fix every number. Estimating included.