Market Intelligence
Pull up any closed Texas job and Caliche reconstructs the whole field — the winner and every loser, line for line, off the real public bid tabs. The numbers your competition bid and walked away from become the numbers you study before you commit yours. Nobody else in Texas hands you the losers' tape. Every figure is a real contractor bid — never a cost book, never a national average.
1,627,803
OBSERVATIONS
82,601
ITEMS
254
COUNTIES
4
SEGMENTS
7,459
CONTRACTORS
◆ DAILY
UPDATED EVERY MORNING
TX County Coverage
ALL · TX-wide coverage177 counties with bid-tab depth
Top Movers · Last 90 Days
curated · nightly refresh─ Scope Coverage Breakdown ─
Waterline
9,785
ITEMS
163 counties · 4 segments
Sewer
7,842
ITEMS
130 counties · 4 segments
Storm
9,152
ITEMS
132 counties · 4 segments
Paving
8,731
ITEMS
175 counties · 4 segments
Structures
1,283
ITEMS
109 counties · 4 segments
Same Item, Different Worlds
standard fire hydrant assembly · per EAIf this job is developer (subdivision) work, that's $2,650/EA of slack vs the municipal number. Don't sleep on the margin.
The whole Texas market — in one place.
Live Pricing Demo
No account needed. Type any civil item or pick one below — Low / Mid / High unit prices from 1.6 million+ real Texas bid observations.
Permit EstimatorFREE · NO SIGNUP
Every Houston-metro civil bid carries $5,000–$40,000 in permit costs estimators miss or guess at. Caliche indexes 459 fees across 11 jurisdictions — including the City of Houston — from each jurisdiction's current published fee schedule, plus 27 application forms and 22 design-standards manuals. No cost book or national estimator has this.
The proof
We ran Caliche against 1,870 real Texas bids it had never seen — each job's own prices stripped from the data first, so the engine can't cheat. In Houston, our deepest market, the median priced total landed ~1% over the actual winning bid; statewide ~3% — while the typical competing bid ran ~11% over.
1,870
real Texas bids, priced blind
~1%
median over the winner in Houston · ~3% statewide
0.0%
variance on repeat runs — deterministic
We don't predict the winner — nobody can. Even the strongest Texas contractors win only a fraction of what they bid. Caliche doesn't predict your number — it prices you at the winning level and shows you exactly where you stand. The ~1% (Houston) / ~3% (statewide) is the engine's measured median across 1,870 jobs — not a promise about any single one. Per-job results spread wider, and we show the range.
Not one lucky job — 1,870 of them. Blind, every time.
That's what running on real Texas market data buys you.
Two products. One platform.
Every job starts differently. Caliche meets you where you are — and prices every scope against real Texas data either way.
Drop an AutoCAD-exported PDF or DXF plan set — Caliche reads every sheet, identifies scopes by trade, and returns a complete quantity list ready to price. Open Plan View to measure on top of the drawing, jump between sheets, and verify counts before you trust them — like walking the prints, without the prints. No manual takeoff. The fastest path from plans to a number.
No plan set required. Already have the agency's bid tab? Upload it — Caliche prices every line item against the index and returns Low, Mid, and High on every scope. Above the bid: THE LINE — where jobs like this one actually got won. Your bid reads UNDER, ON, or OVER it, anchored to your segment so MUD jobs read like MUD jobs and TxDOT reads like TxDOT. Export a submittal-ready Excel in minutes.
Have both? Even better.
However a job starts, it ends the same way — at a real Texas number.
Pricing
One mispriced bid costs more than a year of Caliche.