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Measured on six things

Bidding and job costing software built for excavation, grading, and underground utility contractors.

Security

HTTPS enforced, CSP, SPF and DMARC present — 6/12 checklist points. Missing HSTS, frame protection, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy. No SOC 2, ISO, or pen-test claims found. Basics in place, hardening thin.

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ProfitDig

About this app

ProfitDig helps excavation, grading, and underground utility contractors know their margin before the dirt moves. Bid by the cubic yard and linear foot with overhead, profit, tax, and bond calculated automatically, measure quantities straight from the plan PDF, and track real job costs against budget in real time. Month-to-month plans from $149/mo, no contracts, 30-day money-back guarantee.

Key features

1Bid by cubic yard and linear foot with overhead, profit, tax, and bond calculated automatically.
2Measure quantities directly from plan PDFs by drawing polygons and lines, then export to the bid.
3Track real job costs against budget in real time, with crew and equipment rosters and daily site records.

Target customer profile

Drawn from the product itself, not from a survey.

Scout Review

Written by AI from measured evidence, scored out of 100.

ProfitDig is bidding and job-costing software aimed squarely at excavation, grading, and underground utility contractors. The pitch is sharp: know your margin before the dirt moves, bid by cubic yard and linear foot with overhead, profit, tax, and bond auto-calculated, measure quantities from plan PDFs, and track real costs against budget. The site is fast (98 mobile / 100 desktop Lighthouse) and the app UI looks consistent and modern. Pricing is transparent at $149/mo flat, no contracts, 30-day money-back guarantee. The weak spots are real: no free trial or demo, no visible docs, thin security hardening (6/12 headers, no compliance claims), and accessibility failures around unnamed controls, contrast, and table headers. A credible, well-positioned niche tool with a narrow addressable market.

Measure by measure

Usability

Clear 3-step flow (build bid, price it, track costs) and pricing stated upfront at $149/mo flat. Feature sections show real UI. No free trial or live demo, and no docs/help center surfaced — you buy on faith plus a 30-day refund.

Design

Judging the app UI via store/homepage screenshots: consistent soft-green accents, rounded cards, clean data tables with real column headers. Hero dashboard communicates margin tracking instantly. Templated checkmark sections and crowded bottom screenshots cost it a few points.

Speed

Lighthouse mobile 98/100 (LCP 2.3s, CLS 0.004, TBT 0ms) and desktop 100/100. Genuinely fast, well-optimized marketing site with no measured lag or complaints. Near the top of the anchor band.

Security

Accessibility

Lighthouse a11y 82/100 but with real failures: unnamed buttons and links, low color contrast, non-sequential headings, small touch targets, and headerless cells in large tables. No WCAG statement or a11y page found. Mid-band.

Growth

Sharp wedge: bid by cubic yard/linear foot with auto overhead, profit, tax, bond, plus PDF takeoff and live job costing. Specific to excavation/utility contractors. Real problem, real differentiator — but a narrow niche with entrenched estimating incumbents.

Improvement areas

No free trial or live demo — buyers commit on a 30-day refund alone.
No visible docs or help center to explain onboarding, imports, and job costing.
Accessibility failures: unnamed buttons/links, low contrast, missing table headers, small touch targets.
Thin security hardening: 6/12 headers, no HSTS/frame protection, no SOC 2 or pen-test claims.

Design & Usability

ProfitDig's design is judged on its app UI, since it ships through Google Play and the website is marketing. The screenshots show a consistent, modern system: soft green accents, rounded cards, and clean data tables with real column headers (ID, NAME, Quantity, Total). The hero dashboard communicates margin tracking instantly, and feature sections pair concrete UI with benefit text. Usability follows a clear three-step story — build the bid, price it, track every dollar — and pricing is stated plainly at $149/mo flat with no contracts. The gaps: no free trial or live demo, and no docs or help center surfaced in the fetched content, so buyers commit on a 30-day refund alone. The bottom feature screenshots feel crowded and the repeated checkmark sections read as templated.

Speed & Security

Speed is the standout. Lighthouse mobile performance lands at 98/100 with LCP 2.3s, CLS 0.004, and TBT 0ms; desktop hits a perfect 100/100. That is a genuinely fast, well-optimized site with no measured lag and no user complaints in the collected evidence. Security is more mixed. The HTTP probe confirms HTTPS enforced, a Content-Security-Policy, and both SPF and DMARC records — six of twelve checklist points. But HSTS, frame protection, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, and Permissions-Policy are all absent, and no SOC 2, ISO, or pen-test claims appear anywhere in the fetched content. For a tool that holds bid margins and job costs, the transport layer is solid while the hardening and compliance story is thin.

Accessibility & Growth

Accessibility scores 82/100 on Lighthouse but carries real, specific failures: buttons and links without accessible names, insufficient color contrast, headings out of sequential order, touch targets too small, and large-table cells missing headers. No WCAG conformance statement or accessibility page was found, and the product appears English-only. That places it mid-band — functional for many users, friction for screen reader and keyboard users. Growth is a judgement on the idea: ProfitDig names a real, painful problem (contractors discovering lost money after the job) and serves a specific segment — excavation, grading, and underground utility contractors — with a concrete wedge in bid-by-cubic-yard/linear-foot pricing plus PDF takeoff and live job costing. The site claims $2B+ in bids built, and the domain dates to 2013. The limit is the niche: estimating software for this trade is a small pond with entrenched incumbents.

Conclusion

If you run an excavation or utility crew and you're still building bids in spreadsheets and finding out you lost money after the job, ProfitDig is aimed exactly at you, and the $149/mo with a 30-day refund is a low-risk way to test it. The speed and the app UI hold up. What you won't get is a free trial, a demo, or much documentation — you're buying on the guarantee. And if accessibility or security compliance matters to your org, the missing headers and unnamed controls are worth flagging before you commit. Solid niche tool, honest pricing, room to mature.

Suggestions for improvement

Add a free trial or an interactive demo — a 30-day refund is not the same as trying before you buy.
Publish a docs/help center so buyers can see how onboarding, imports, and job costing actually work.
Fix the accessibility failures: name the buttons and links, raise color contrast, add table headers, enlarge touch targets.
Harden security headers (HSTS, frame protection, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy) and publish a security page.

How we score

Alternatives comparison

Named competitors, point by point. Nobody paid to appear here or to be left out.

	ProfitDig
Pricing model	$149/mo flat, no contracts, 30-day money-back guarantee	Not provided in app details
Bid by cubic yard / linear foot	Yes — core feature with auto overhead, profit, tax, bond	Not provided in app details
PDF plan takeoff / quantity measurement	Yes — upload plan PDF, draw polygons/lines, export to bid	Not provided in app details
Real-time job cost tracking vs budget	Yes — costs flow from field to job report in real time	Not provided in app details
Mobile app availability	Google Play available; App Store 'Coming Soon'	Not provided in app details