Know your
real numbers
before you bid.
Pre-built business calculators for trade contractors. Built by people who know the work. Instant download. No subscription. No fluff.
Most trade businesses
run on gut feeling.
That works until it doesn’t. One bad bid, one slow month, one crew you can’t afford to carry — and you realize the numbers were never actually in your control.
Underbidding jobs
You price from memory instead of math. Material costs shift. Labor runs long. The job you thought made money quietly didn’t.
Revenue leakNo real labor rate
You know what you pay your guys. You don’t know what they actually cost you loaded — overtime, downtime, taxes, turnover built in.
Margin killerCash flow surprises
Winter comes. Jobs dry up. You knew it was coming and still didn’t have a number that told you exactly when to be concerned.
Business riskExcel tools that think like a contractor.
Every calculator in the Trade Blueprint store was built from a real conversation with a real business owner in that trade. Not guesswork. Not templates scraped from a finance blog. Actual pain points, turned into working math.
You download it, enter your numbers, and immediately see your operation differently. That’s the whole thing. No software. No account. No monthly fee.
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Works in Excel or Google SheetsNo special software. Open it on the same laptop you already use for everything else.
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Plain-English setup guide includedEvery input explained. What it means, where to find the number in your business.
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Instant download. Yours forever.Pay once. No subscription. No expiration. Update it yourself as your business changes.
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Add-on modules availableExpand what you have. Labor rate builders, cash flow planners, material buffers — all plug in to the base file.
Pick your trade.
Know your numbers.
The fastest way to see if a job is worth taking before you ever price it. Enter your square footage, materials, and crew size — get your break-even number instantly.
- Single-tab estimator with material + labor inputs
- Break-even and margin outputs
- 1-page setup guide PDF
The complete version. Multi-tab, formula-driven, built around real flatwork contractor data. Material costs, crew labor, overhead allocation, and margin targets — all in one file.
- 4-tab calculator: materials, labor, overhead, summary
- Adjustable margin targets by job type
- Built-in waste and overage buffers
- 1-page plain-English setup guide
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Four steps.
Then you own it.
Browse the store by trade vertical. Find the calculator built for the problem you’re actually dealing with.
2 minutesPay once. Instant download page opens with your calculator file and the setup guide. No account required.
InstantOpen the one-page PDF first. Takes 3 minutes. Then open the calculator and run your last completed job through it.
~10 minutesIt’s yours. Update it as your costs change. Add modules as your operation grows. No expiration. No fees.
OngoingBe honest with yourself.
- You run a trade business and you’re estimating from experience, not math
- You know you’ve left money on jobs but can’t quantify it
- You’ve been meaning to “get the numbers organized” for a while
- You want a tool, not a consultant or a software subscription
- You have Excel or Google Sheets and you know the basics
- You’re doing real volume — even if the margins feel tighter than they should
- You already have a CFO or bookkeeper managing your job costing
- You’re a homeowner looking for a DIY project estimator
- You want software with a dashboard and integrations
- You’re looking for someone to manage your books for you
- You need a fully custom solution built around your exact operation
Built on real conversations with real business owners.
Need it built
for your business?
The pre-built calculators cover most situations. But if you’re running real volume and want something built around your exact rates, your exact jobs, your exact operation — that’s a different conversation.
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Trade Blueprint is a division of Southern View Development.
Real estate. Land. Storage. Acquisitions. The calculators are how we stay connected to the ground.