We’re building the estimation platform we wish existed.

Alex and Sarah met while working defense contracts, where they watched talented estimators duct-tape together cost proposals in Excel workbooks that nobody else could maintain. Rate tables lived in someone’s head. Version control meant renaming a file with today’s date. Compliance checks were a prayer.

They realized the problem wasn’t laziness — it was tooling. Enterprise solutions cost six figures and took months to deploy. So most teams just kept using spreadsheets, and kept losing proposals to math errors, stale rates, and formatting mishaps.

Basis is the tool they wished they had: fast to set up, easy to learn, and rigorous enough for a DCAA audit. We started with government contractors because that’s what we know, but the problem is universal. Any team that builds complex quotes deserves better than a spreadsheet.