September 15, 2025

85% Client Retention: Modernizing Construction Estimation with Agile & .NET

The Challenge Operating within the specialized construction trades sector, the company had established a powerful application for precise takeoff and cost estimation in areas like …

The Challenge

Operating within the specialized construction trades sector, the company had established a powerful application for precise takeoff and cost estimation in areas like roofing and drywall. However, its strategic growth was limited by a significant functional gap.

Key pain points included:

  • Incomplete Market Solution: While most industry software focused solely on takeoff, forcing estimators back to Excel, the company’s solution integrated both takeoff and estimation but lacked a critical component.
  • Limited Serviceability: The application did not offer robust functionality for concrete contractors, a major trade segment, preventing its adoption as a comprehensive industry-wide platform.

The company needed to decisively extend its application’s capabilities to encompass concrete estimation, thereby capturing a new market and positioning the platform as a leading solution for the construction industry.

The Solution

To address these challenges, we architected and delivered a comprehensive, concrete-specific estimating module, seamlessly expanding the application’s core functionality.

Strategic Execution & Technical Delivery:

  • Robust Application Development: Engineered a high-performance, scalable estimator using the .NET Framework 4.7.2 and WPF, ensuring an intuitive user experience and long-term maintainability.

  • Precision Engineering: Developed and integrated a suite of accurate, industry-specific formulas tailored to the complex material and labor calculations for concrete work.

  • Seamless System Integration: Designed the new module for flawless interoperability with the existing application architecture, preserving user workflow integrity and data consistency.

Overcoming Critical Challenges:

  • Navigating Technical Complexity: Employed Agile sprints to systematically deconstruct and solve intricate technical hurdles, such as the seamless bidirectional conversion between U.S. customary and metric units.

  • Ensuring Project Success: Maintained a framework of transparent and continuous client communication throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring alignment and facilitating timely feedback on all deliverables.

The Outcome

The successful launch empowered the client to capture the concrete contractor market and solidify its position as an industry-leading platform.

  • 85% Customer retention rate
  • 20% Rise in New Client Acquisition rate