LAYER 1 · FOUNDATION
The operating system
Methods, controlled datasets, calculators and workflows. The source of truth for how the work is done.
EstOS Intelligence is being built to connect deep research, live market signals, historical performance, real-world experience and human judgement, then turn what we learn into better estimating decisions and reusable tools.
EstOS is a controlled estimating methodology: data structures, calculators and repeatable workflows that define how an estimate is built, checked and improved.
EstOS Intelligence sits on top of it as the research, evidence and tool-building layer. Luna, the AI partner, works through that layer under human authority. Each layer has a different job, and the operating system stays in charge.
Methods, controlled datasets, calculators and workflows. The source of truth for how the work is done.
Research, evidence, memory, market awareness and tool creation that help the operating system improve.
Luna reasons, researches and operates through EstOS Intelligence, locally and within defined permissions.
Every estimate produces intelligence. Prices move. Crews perform differently. Markets change. Methods improve. Projects teach lessons. Too often that knowledge stays trapped in spreadsheets, inboxes, project folders and people's heads.
EstOS Intelligence is being designed to capture that learning, challenge it, validate it and make it useful again.
The goal is a controlled loop that turns information into intelligence, intelligence into tools, and tools into better results.
For construction estimating, we envision five connected intelligence layers working around the estimator rather than replacing the estimator.
Research materials, labour, equipment, construction methods, regulations, suppliers, products, productivity and industry practice. Compare sources, surface conflicts and retain traceable evidence.
Bring estimating knowledge out of isolated files and into a governed evidence base that can improve future decisions.
Use current market information to detect movement in pricing, availability and risk, without silently rewriting the estimator's assumptions.
When a validated calculation or decision is repeated, EstOS Intelligence can help turn it into a controlled calculator, workflow, database or estimating kit.
The long-term value comes after the bid. Compare assumptions with actual performance, investigate the gap and propose controlled updates to the system. Better data should create better tools, not disappear into an archive.
These principles shape every capability on this page. They come from the EstOS mission and apply to the tools, the intelligence layer and Luna alike.
Important changes, assumptions and governed actions remain subject to explicit human approval.
Show what is known, where it came from and where uncertainty remains.
Validated knowledge becomes reusable infrastructure whenever the work repeats.
Private data, durable memory and sensitive operations increasingly run on hardware under direct control.
The operating system should survive model changes. Intelligence is a capability, not allegiance to one vendor.
Actual outcomes challenge estimates, assumptions and workflows so the system improves instead of calcifying.
Each capability carries an honest status. "In secure app" means it exists in the protected EstOS Intelligence application; "Next" and "Planned" are direction, not claims.
Controlled estimating methods, production and quantity calculators and repeatable workflows, proven against real estimating work.
Evidence, activity, library and Human Gate approvals inside the protected EstOS Intelligence application.
Investigate methods, pricing and productivity; compare sources, surface conflicts and keep traceable evidence.
Turn validated, repeated decisions into controlled calculators, databases and estimating kits.
Detect movement in pricing, labour, equipment and availability without silently rewriting assumptions.
Compare assumptions with real outcomes and propose controlled, human-approved updates to the toolset.
A conventional assistant might return a number. EstOS Intelligence is intended to help explain where the number came from, what could change it and whether it deserves to become part of the estimating system.
The estimating toolset can grow from real work instead of becoming a collection of disconnected spreadsheets.
Structured takeoffs and repeatable calculators for scope-specific quantities.
Crew logic, productivity assumptions, labour-hours and duration models.
Rental duration, mobilization, temporary facilities and schedule-driven indirect costs.
Quotes, historical costs, market movement, escalation and source confidence.
Convert labour, crews and constraints into realistic task durations and estimate-driven schedules.
Compare assumptions against actual results and feed approved lessons back into future tools.
Live data should not silently rewrite a cost database. A model should not declare its own assumptions to be truth. EstOS Intelligence is being designed around explicit authority and Human Gates for consequential changes.
The underlying pattern is broader: domain knowledge + research + operational data + human judgement + reusable tools + continuous learning. If that architecture proves itself in estimating, the same platform could support other professional domains.
Pricing, takeoff, productivity, labour, schedules, indirects, procurement, market research and post-project learning.
Equipment history, model and serial data, manuals, service bulletins, symptoms and previous repair outcomes.
Schedules, constraints, RFIs, submittals, correspondence, resource history and lessons learned.
Supplier quotes, historical pricing, lead times, availability, performance and current market movement.
These broader applications are directional possibilities, not current product claims. Estimating remains the primary domain in active design.
The build is staged deliberately: prove the operating system, connect intelligence to the work, then extend the pattern beyond estimating.
Drawn from the Mission roadmap. Phases describe direction, not delivery dates.
We are not trying to build another chat window for estimators. We are building an intelligence layer that can learn the profession, preserve evidence, strengthen the operating system and help professionals build better tools around what actually works.
Product story, Luna development, team, mission and marketing. No private project data and no credential handling.
The authenticated Launch Hub. From it, authorized users reach EstOS Intelligence, the existing command center for evidence, activity, library, workflows and Human Gates, which keeps its own owner login.
Local models, memory, tools and sensitive execution increasingly handled on hardware under direct control.