Service Project Estimate Workbench
Build an authored service-project estimate from labor visits, minimum time blocks, resources, overhead and contingency, with one final price rounding and optional fee comparison.
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How to use Service Project Estimate Workbench
List the planned labor visits and resource quantities. Labor duration is rounded within each visit under your minimum/block convention; exact direct costs then receive authored overhead, contingency and either markup or target-margin pricing. The report retains the complete cost trail.
- Use the example as the schema; replace its labels and entered model assumptions.
- List the planned labor visits and resource quantities. Labor duration is rounded within each visit under your minimum/block convention; exact direct costs then receive authored overhead, contingency and either markup or target-margin pricing. The report retains the complete cost trail.
- Calculate, inspect the complete witnesses and limitations, then copy or download the JSON report.
Good to know
- At most 60 labor and 60 resource rows, with at least one row overall. Duration/minimum are 0–100,000 minutes per visit; visits 1–1,000; block 1–1,440 minutes. Overhead/contingency/markup can be 0–1,000%; margin must be below 100%. Final upward rounding uses an integer 1–10,000-cent quantum. This contains no market rate, legal terms or tax model.
- Local calculation with no upload, input persistence or outside lookup. Model JSON is limited to 30,000 characters and 10,000 values. Decimal quantities are strings with up to six places; count fields use plain JSON integers. Exact fractions are capped at 8,192 bits. The complete JSON output is limited to 1,000,000 characters; approximate numbers preserve their stored values. Unsupported states fail explicitly.
Common questions
Does the requested margin equal a markup of the same percent?
No. A markup multiplies cost by one plus the chosen fraction. A margin solves price as cost divided by one minus that fraction. Final upward price rounding can increase the achieved margin slightly; both exact and rounded prices remain visible.
Are my model inputs saved or sent to a server?
No. This model runs in the current browser tab and creates a local JSON download. It does not save your input or call an external data service.
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