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Marapone CostLine Live · included with Pro and Firm

Committed value says one thing. Burn rate says another.

CostLine is the financial control layer AI Estimator doesn't cover — the Estimator prices the bid once; CostLine tracks what actually happens to that budget once work starts, and produces the WIP schedule bonding companies and banks ask for. Every cost line carries a real cost-to-complete forecast, not a manual guess. Opens on Pro and Firm, open in your browser today.

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Live in the dashboard for Pro and Firm accounts today, no waitlist, no separate rollout.

Where the job is forecast to land against the contract — the real app, recorded
Where it picks up

AI Estimator prices the bid once, at tender. CostLine is what happens after: budget vs. committed vs. actual, by CSI division, for the life of the job — the piece none of the pre-construction programs are built to track.

What's built

The forecast, and how it is built.

Portfolio

Every job, one glance

Every active project with contract value, committed cost, forecast cost, budget variance and estimated margin at a glance, plus an over/underbilled flag per job.

Job Cost Detail

Budget, committed, actual — by division

Budget vs. committed vs. actual-to-date by CSI division, with a real cost-to-complete forecast per line and a change-order ledger tracked alongside it.

WIP Schedule

The standard percentage-of-completion report

Contract value, costs to date, estimated cost to complete, estimated total cost, earned revenue, billed to date, and over/(under) billing, with a portfolio total row. The exact format bonding companies and banks ask for.

Why the conservative view wins

Two views of "what's left to spend," and the more conservative one wins.

Each cost line's estimated cost to complete takes the more conservative of two figures: remaining committed subcontract value (committed minus actual), and what the current burn rate implies (actual divided by percent complete, projected to 100%). The second view is what catches a line where the subcontract value still looks fine on paper but the crew is spending faster than they are progressing.

On the seed project used to build it, a concrete division was doing exactly that — the app correctly flagged it as a roughly $268,000 overrun risk even though nothing about the subcontract itself had changed. That is the difference a burn-rate check makes over reading the subcontract value alone.

Pre-construction, then execution

Eight tools, one job, start to close-out.

Pre-construction

Blueprint Auditor

 Pre-construction

SpecChecker

 Pre-construction

AI Estimator

 Pre-construction

Bid Leveler

 Pre-construction

ScopeGuard

 Execution · live

FloatGuard

 Execution · live

TradeVet
Execution · you are here

CostLine

Before you start

Questions about CostLine.

Which plan opens CostLine?

Pro and Firm. Pro is $499 a month for all eight programs and up to five seats; Firm is $1,199 for up to twenty. There is nothing extra to buy — CostLine is already in the dashboard on either. The five plans.

Is there a free trial?

The free trials are on Solo (seven days) and Field (fourteen), and neither plan opens CostLine. To see it on your own job before you subscribe, ask us and we will walk you through it.

How is the cost to complete forecast?

Each cost line takes the more conservative of two figures: the committed subcontract value still to be spent, and what the current burn rate implies (actual divided by percent complete, projected to 100%). The second is what catches a crew spending faster than it is progressing while the subcontract still looks fine on paper.

Where does my data go, and can I take it with me?

It lives in a workspace scoped to your account, on Marapone’s own infrastructure, and nothing you put in trains any model. Cancel from your dashboard with no notice period; you keep access to the end of what you paid for, and your work exports to PDF, Excel and CSV.

No upgrade, no new tier

Part of Pro and Firm.

All eight programs are live on Pro and Firm, CostLine included, already in the dashboard — no upgrade fee and no separate purchase.

Start on Pro — $499/mo → See the full pricing table