Tell an Estimate’s Full Cost Story with Milestones in Ediphi

If you’ve ever lost track of your estimates somewhere between ‘95%SD_final_v3’ and ‘95%SD_FINAL_v9’, you’re not alone…

For decades, estimators have been facing a critical problem.

Project milestones — those key moments where design, scope, and cost converge — are disconnected from the estimates that define them.

Today that changes.

Ediphi just released ‘Milestones’, a better way to track the stage of each estimate, quickly identify the right estimate, and capture the full cost story from start to finish, all in one cloud-based platform.

Here’s how it works.

Estimates directly tied to milestones 

Ediphi is built by a team of seasoned estimators who’ve experienced the same pains as you.

Without a “filling cabinet” system based around key milestones:

• Estimate titles become indistinguishable with project name, design stage, milestone percentages, and revision counts
• Sorting through handfuls of estimates per milestone becomes time consuming and error prone
• And valuable data for cost trendlines, variance reporting, and value engineering is lost (because if you can’t correctly categorize estimates, you can’t learn from them)

So — we built Milestones.
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Milestones store and track estimates within each design stage (ex. Conceptual, Schematic, Design Development (DD), and Construction Documents (CD)), allowing you to tag estimates with specific milestones and locate them with ease.

Now, you can tell the full, comprehensive cost story of your projects and:

• Track how costs evolve over time across design iterations
  
• Preserve important project context from start to finish
• Run detailed variance reports across milestones to understand what changed, where it changed, and why

👉Learn how to build your first Milestone in Ediphi.

Why this matters for GCs everywhere

Estimates are living, breathing documents.

At every stage of a project, GCs are running new scenarios, aligning with architects and owners, and making changes to scope, schedule, and budget.

When estimates are bucketed into those project stages within a cloud-based tool, it rips open the door for collaboration, transparency and historical insight.

Historically, milestone tracking has been disconnected from estimating tools. Now, Ediphi is introducing the ability to connect milestones to estimates in one unified preconstruction platform.

This means:

• No more double data entry across multiple platforms
  
• Complete visibility into cost evolution at each milestone
  
• Insight into granular questions, like: “Why did concrete costs increase 20% between 50% SD and 75% SD?”
• And the ability to learn from what your own data suggests 

Finally — a better way to tell the full cost story

Ediphi’s Milestones replace a historically fragmented, error-prone process into one connected and meaningful workflow. 

With this release, estimators are one step closer to a complete preconstruction solution.

Estimators, owners, and architects can now track costs with confidence and tell the full story of a project — from concept through completion.

Let’s walk you through how Milestones simplifies your preconstruction process. Book a demo with our team today.