Getting started
What MillOS does
What MillOS does, and who owns the number.
MillOS turns a bid package into an estimate your team can check. Give it your drawings, specifications and addenda, and it returns a sourced estimate, a workbook and a proposal. An estimator reviews every line, and files built before every line is approved carry a Draft stamp.
What you give MillOS
- The drawings and specifications for a bid, and any addenda.
- Your own instructions for how your shop estimates.
- Your Product Library, with your products, units and rates.
What you get back
- A priced estimate you review line by line. Each priced line shows how it was measured, and most trace back to a measurement on the drawing.
- An estimate workbook you can open and edit.
- A proposal you can download.
The professional owns the number
MillOS reads, measures and prices. Your estimator approves, rejects or comments on each line, then sends feedback for another round. Approval is what removes the Draft stamp, so a file without it is one a person has decided.
Words used in these guides
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Project | One bid: its drawings, Chats, instructions, Memory and deliverables. |
| Chat | A conversation with MillOS inside a Project, where an estimate starts and its files appear. |
| Workspace | Your shop's account: its members, Projects, Files, Product Library and instructions. |
| Expert | A specialist job MillOS sends to read, measure or check part of your package. Each one shows as a card in the Chat. |
| Skill | A packaged set of instructions MillOS follows for one kind of work, such as measuring millwork. |
| Memory | Notes MillOS keeps between runs, for your Workspace and for each Project. |
| Product Library | Your list of products, each with a unit, a measuring method and price tiers. |
| Takeoff Studio | The drawing screen where every sheet and measurement can be seen and edited. |
| Estimate review | The page where you approve, reject or comment on each priced line. |
| Round | One priced pass of the estimate that you review. Your feedback on round 1 produces round 2. |
| RFI | A request for information: a question for your estimator or the design team. |
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