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Everything Bracketsight computes traces to a versioned rules file carrying citations and a last-verified date. When a source changes, one file changes and every affected page updates. How the numbers are used is on the pricing methodology page.

  • Unverified data

    Both rule families below are unverified: pricing is placeholder reference data, and clause wording awaits construction attorney review.

    The citation URLs on the pricing rulesets are placeholders until a licensed cost source lands. Every price Bracketsight produces is an estimate only, not a binding quote, and nothing here is legal advice. Where a state prescribes notice wording word-for-word and Bracketsight has not transcribed it, no contract is generated for that state at all.

Pricing rulesets

  • Decks & carpentry — trades-decks-2026-08

    Effective 1 Aug 2026 · PLACEHOLDER REFERENCE DATA (Aug 2026). All unit costs and labor hours are modelled reference values pending a licensed cost-data source and sanity-check by two working contractors. Do not treat as market pricing.

    • Placeholder pricing basis — internal reference model, pending licensed cost data (RSMeans-style) and contractor review — verified 8 Aug 2026 — no source URL yet; placeholder pending a licensed cost source

  • Interior painting — trades-interior-paint-2026-08

    Effective 1 Aug 2026 · PLACEHOLDER REFERENCE DATA (Aug 2026). All unit costs and labor hours are modelled reference values pending a licensed cost-data source and sanity-check by two working contractors. Do not treat as market pricing.

    • Placeholder pricing basis — internal reference model, pending licensed cost data and contractor review — verified 8 Aug 2026 — no source URL yet; placeholder pending a licensed cost source

  • Bathroom remodel — trades-bathroom-remodel-2026-08

    Effective 1 Aug 2026 · PLACEHOLDER REFERENCE DATA (Aug 2026). All unit costs and labor hours are modelled reference values pending a licensed cost-data source and sanity-check by two working contractors. Do not treat as market pricing.

    • Placeholder pricing basis — internal reference model, pending licensed cost data and contractor review — verified 8 Aug 2026 — no source URL yet; placeholder pending a licensed cost source

State contract rulesets

This is an independent estimating and paperwork tool. It is not a quote, not a contract until you and your customer sign one, and not legal advice — a state’s required clauses change, and a contract that matters is worth an hour of a construction attorney’s time. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

Pre-launch build, and the prices are the part to be careful with. Every unit cost, labour hour, labour rate, waste factor, access multiplier and regional multiplier in all 3 rulesets is placeholder reference data, modelled rather than licensed, and none has been sanity-checked by a working contractor. Each file also sets its own staleness window of 120 days from , which has already elapsed. Use the structure — the takeoff, the assemblies, the ranges, the clause list — and put your own numbers over the top. The state contract requirements are a different matter: those are cited to statute, and where a statutory notice has not been transcribed word for word the generator refuses to produce the document rather than paraphrase it. What is settled and what is not is on sources and pricing methodology.