Case Study: Outside Ideas achieves faster, more accurate estimates and accelerated growth with ProEst

How ProEst Helped Outside Ideas Accelerate Growth

Outside Ideas, an Adelaide-based landscaping, civil construction and structural concreting firm founded in 2003 (about 150 local and 100 interstate employees), runs a six-person estimating team that produced 300+ estimates last year and manages awarded bids from $100K to $9M on annual revenue of $50M with 50% growth forecast by 2025. Facing the capacity and accuracy limits of custom Excel spreadsheets as projects grew in size and complexity, Outside Ideas replaced Excel with ProEst in 2019 to modernize estimating and scale operations.

ProEst’s cloud-based, flexible estimating platform was implemented and integrated with Outside Ideas’ Vista accounting software, enabling one-click data transfers that reduced a multi-day administrative task to about five minutes, eliminated manual entry errors, and streamlined pre-construction workflow. By improving estimating accuracy, productivity and system integration, ProEst helped Outside Ideas accelerate bidding capacity and better position the company for its projected growth.

Outside Ideas

Aaron Superina

Director