Case Study: a US-based commercial glazing contractor protects its proprietary estimating logic with Ideas2IT Technologies

US-based Commercial Glazing Contractor standardizes 40 years of estimating logic with Ideas2IT Technologies

A US-based commercial glazing contractor faced the risk of exposing 40 years of proprietary estimation logic, which was housed in an unprotected and ungoverned Excel workbook. With five independent copies in use, they needed to secure their intellectual property and standardize their bidding process. Ideas2IT Technologies was engaged to solve this challenge through a custom web application and data engineering effort.

Ideas2IT Technologies built a secure, on-premises web platform with a black-box Node.js computation engine to encapsulate all estimation logic. They developed a React frontend with role-based access and automated proposal generation. The solution eliminated formula exposure, enforced methodology consistency across all estimators within three months, and reduced proposal generation time from a manual process to just hours.