Bolster

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The platform for buying, selling and managing residential construction

Summer 2021Founded 201525 peopleCalgary, AB, Canada

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About

We are building the Amazon for construction where contractors can give their customers an interactive shopping experience, turning the estimate into a point-of-sale, for the first time. It is a marketplace for general contractors, subcontractors, retailers and consumers, powered by a database of over 114,000 real items.

From their website

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Bolster provides construction intelligence software focused on residential construction, enabling estimating, takeoff, scheduling, and client-facing presentations within an end-to-end platform. It combines live cost data, an estimating engine, project management, and sales tools to streamline workflows from lead to final payment.

Bolster offers an end-to-end Construction Intelligence Software platform with: auto-costing using live market data and supplier prices, an estimating engine that converts prices to job-ready estimates, a project management engine that sequences crews and schedules work, and sales tools including interactive client options and digital contracts. The platform also provides a permissions-managed payments workflow, CRM-like pipeline views, client portals, and integrations to connect Bolster with other software. Users can generate material lists, revisions, change orders, and customer-ready proposals, and leverage AI-assisted takeoffs and renderings to present options to clients.

Who it’s for: Contractors and remodeling/custom home building firms handling residential projects seeking faster estimates, better win rates, and integrated client proposals.

Features

autoCost with live material and labor data
AI-assisted takeoff and drawings
estimation engine with default and customizable rules
project management: scheduling and sequencing
materials, labor, and change order management
client-facing proposals and interactive options
integrations to connect Bolster with other software

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Founders · 1

Mike BignoldFounder

Columbia🎓 University of British Columbia

Mike Bignold is the founder and CEO of CostCertified. He conceived and built CostCertified while running his previous contracting contracting company, with the aim of transforming the construction industry. He dived full-time into CostCertified in 2017, it came out of beta in late 2020, and in 2021 it is expected to have over $200m of construction projects sold through the platform. Born and raised in Canmore, Alberta, he also has a BMgt from University of British Columbia (Okanagan).

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