Universal Estimator Pro
Description-first estimating for contractors: describe the job and build the price from priced assemblies, measured takeoffs, and client-ready proposals.
Real software for real businesses and communities.
Tate Built designs and builds applications in Louisville, Kentucky — estimating tools, inspection software, and community platforms that working people rely on every day.
About
Tate Built is the software practice of Ray Tate — "The Architect Tate" — a builder who runs construction and service businesses by day and builds the software they run on.
Every application here started as a real problem in a real operation: pricing work accurately, training inspectors well, keeping a community center's doors open to the people it serves. The software is designed in the field, tested where the work happens, and refined by the people who use it — not the other way around.
The applications
Currently online and in daily use:
Paideia Inspection Suite
Inspection training and exam preparation for Kentucky home inspectors — study modes, timed practice, and progress that follows you from phone to desktop.
Tate Inspection App
The field inspection workflow: photos, dictation, video walkthroughs with transcription, and clean reports — captured on site, assembled for you.
Community Builder
The platform behind community-center apps — announcements, programs, workshops, and member sign-in — live today at the Arthur S. Kling Center in Louisville.
Coming soon
Coming soon
Tate's One Stop — Contractor Portal
A working home for contractors: apply to join the network, line up for subcontracting opportunities, and train toward estimating work.
Coming soon
Universal Estimator Pro for Mobile
The estimator, built for the field: the full pricing workflow as an installable app on your phone.
Application development
Tate Built also builds applications for other businesses and organizations. If your operation runs on spreadsheets, paper, and workarounds, it may run better on software built for exactly what you do.
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Business tools
The internal systems a company actually needs — the ones no off-the-shelf product quite fits.
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Estimating & operations apps
Pricing, proposals, scheduling, and field workflows for contractors and service businesses.
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Community platforms
Member-facing apps for centers, programs, and organizations that serve the public.
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Installable web apps
Software that installs on any phone and works like an app — no app-store gatekeeping between you and your people.
Every engagement starts with a conversation about the work itself — what you do, where it hurts, and what a tool would have to do to earn its place.