Estimates that remove the guesswork
Price accurately, protect margins, and deliver profitable projects every time.
Bet your estimate spreadsheets aren’t this well-connected.
Spreadsheets isolate your estimates, but Float connects them to everything. Estimate with real context: your people, capacity, costs, and billable rates, all in one place.
Built for fast, accurate estimates that keep profit in focus.
Price & scope with real-time financials
Get a true picture of profitability with live updates to costs, margins, and budget use, plus project expenses to keep margins extra precise.
Start broad, then refine as you go
Estimate by role, then fine-tune as availability, conflicts, and rates come into focus—keeping plans flexible and accurate from day one.
Compare estimates to planned or actual hours
Track how your team is performing against the plan and actuals to avoid over-servicing and improve future scoping.
Since we started working with [Float], what used to take hours now takes minutes, and we’re seeing a clearer alignment between planned and actual profit margins—helping us make faster, more informed decisions.
Estimates that play well with your existing tools
Connect Float with your favorite tools to streamline workflows and enhance data integrity across your entire ecosystem.
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Frequently asked questions
Float’s project cost estimation feature lets you model resourcing scenarios, apply rates, see costs, and build budgets before work starts. You can compare options, track estimates against actuals, and see how staffing choices affect margin so profitability is always planned and never left to chance.
Unlike spreadsheets, which are static and manual, Float lets you build live estimates using real availability, roles, and rates—then adjust scenarios as plans change. You can track estimates against actuals in one system, so project costs, staffing decisions, and margins stay accurate as work evolves.
Yes. You can start with a high-level estimate and refine it as details become clearer. For example, you can start an estimate with roles only, then swap in people as your plans firm up. When scope, timelines, or staffing decisions change, you can adjust roles, people, and rates—and immediately see how those updates may affect your overall costs and margin.
Yes. Float lets you compare estimates to actual project performance in real time. You can track planned vs. actual hours, costs, and billable rates and see where scope shifted, margins changed, and where to improve future planning and profitability.
Float’s project estimation is best used by Operations leaders, resource managers, and project managers who want to price work realistically for their Accounts and Sales team. It gives them the context to align scope, people, rates, and timelines upfront, so projects are priced correctly and staffed with the right talent, and margins are protected from day one.
Yes, Float connects with popular tools like NetSuite, Google Calendar, Slack, Jira, Asana, Salesforce, HubSpot, and many others via Zapier to streamline workflows and keep data aligned across your ecosystem.
