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Where the estimate and the budget stop drifting apart

Product, brand, marketing site and campaigns for Trestle, construction software being built in Manila for Philippine builders.

Project: Trestle
Sector: Construction software
Engagement: Ongoing
Delivery: Design to launch, end to end

The project

What Trestle is

Trestle is an operating system for construction companies. Estimating, budgeting, procurement, field work and finance sit in one connected system, so a number is entered once and carried everywhere it is needed.

The idea came out of market research, and one gap stood out. A builder prepares the estimate in one sheet, retypes it into the budget, and from that day the two drift apart. Trestle is in build and not yet public.

Product build
Design and brand
Marketing website
Campaign management

The work

What we build and run

Product build

We are building the application: estimating, budgeting, procurement, field and finance as parts of one system rather than separate tools.

Design and brand

We designed the product interface and the Trestle brand, including the mark.

Marketing website

We built the public site that explains the system to builders.

Campaigns and marketing

We run the campaigns that will take Trestle to market.

Only here

What made this one different

Estimating comes first

Estimating is the part we are proudest of. It is where every other number in a project starts, so it is where the system starts too.

Typed once

The estimate becomes the budget without being retyped. That one hand-off is the reason the product exists.

How it ran

One crew, every part of it

Scope

4 kinds of work

Handled together, so nothing waits on a handoff between vendors.

Delivery

Design to launch, end to end

The same people from the first brief onward.

Engagement

Ongoing

Still being built and run today.

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