Your next contractor client just posted a job for a Senior Estimator.
A GC in your market just posted an estimator job they will struggle to fill for months, while the bids stack up. Every morning by 7am we send you those contractors, with the decision-maker's contact and outreach written in your voice.
Our first client got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. Read the case study
Why a Construction Estimator posting is your best lead signal
An estimator posting tells you three things. Budget is approved. The need is public. Nobody is hired yet. And good estimators are so hard to find that the seat may sit empty for months while bids pile up. That contractor just put a $90K salary behind work you sell per bid. We watch LinkedIn and the hiring systems companies post through, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, every night, and throw out staffing agencies, recruiters, ghost reposts, and other estimating firms. What's left is your list.
Senior Estimator
Cardinal Ridge Construction
“Cardinal Ridge Construction is a $40M commercial GC. Our chief estimator retires this fall and bid volume is up. We need a Senior Estimator to own quantity takeoffs, sub buyout, and 4 to 6 competitive bids a month across office, retail, and light industrial.”
Why this is a lead:
Cardinal Ridge budgeted $110K plus benefits for a seat every GC in the country is fighting over, and those 4 to 6 bids a month still have to go out while they search. That is exactly the work your firm prices per bid, at a fraction of the salary. Reach out this week and you're not a cold pitch, you're the firm that keeps them on bid day while the seat is empty. Overflow work like this often stays with you after they finally hire.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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Every estimating firm blasts the same GC email lists, so your cold outreach lands in a pile of lookalikes.
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Your best moment to pitch is when a contractor is drowning in bids, and you have no way to know when that is.
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An estimator job posting is the clearest sign a contractor needs you, and nobody is watching for them.
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Referrals from past clients keep the lights on, but they never grow the book.
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Contractors don't go looking for outside estimating until they've already missed a bid date.
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
Senior Estimator
$90K to $130K a year plus benefits
- 60 to 90 day recruiting timeline
- Benefits cost on top of salary
- Single point of failure
- Stuck with headcount when things slow down
Your firm instead
Estimating Firms
Per bid pricing or a monthly retainer, a fraction of one salary
A full-time estimator runs $90K plus a year, takes months to find, and can walk to a competitor for $10K more. Your firm turns bids around in days, scales up when work is heavy, and costs nothing when it's slow. The posting proves they already have the budget.
See the leads in your market before you pay for anything.
We'll run the real engine on your market, free, for seven days. Real reports, real postings, real contacts. Then it stops.
One firm per market
We only work with one estimating firm firm per market.
Every lead in your market goes to you and nobody else. When your metro is taken, we turn the next firm away. That keeps the leads worth having, and it's the honest reason to decide before a competitor does.
$497 a month. That's the whole pricing page.
Daily Lead Delivery
$497/monthEvery morning: the companies that just posted for a role you replace, with the decision-maker's contact and outreach drafted in your voice. No setup fee. No contract, cancel anytime. And one firm per niche per market. If you're the fractional CFO firm in Denver, nobody else gets Denver fractional CFO leads.
60-day money-back guarantee. Not satisfied? Full refund, no questions asked.
One client covers years of this. One owner's rep project, one CFO retainer, one managed IT contract. Any single one pays for Hidden Client many times over.
Get Started Risk-FreeFrequently asked questions
They want a full-time estimator. Why would they hire my firm instead?
Often they can't hire one at all. Estimators are among the hardest seats in construction to fill, and the posting can sit open for months while bids still have to go out. You cover the gap per bid for a fraction of the $90K to $130K they just budgeted, starting this week instead of after the search. Plenty of contractors keep the outside firm even after they hire.
How do you handle ghost jobs and reposts?
Every posting gets checked for when it first went up. Stale reposts get thrown out, along with staffing agencies, recruiters fishing for resumes, and other estimating firms hiring for their own bench. Each lead shows the posting date and why it scored, so you can judge it yourself.
How many leads will I actually get?
Most mornings 2 or 3. Some mornings 6, some mornings 1. Estimator postings are one of the highest-volume titles in construction, so the filtering matters more than the firehose. Our first client, an owner's rep construction firm, got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
You send it, from your own inbox. Each lead comes with an email written in your voice that references the exact posting, like the 4 to 6 bids a month line in a Senior Estimator listing. You get the decision-maker's name, title, LinkedIn, and a verified email when we find one. Copy, tweak, send.
Do you work with other estimating firms in my market?
No. One estimating firm per market. Once your market is taken, the contractors we find there go to you and nobody else. We turn the next firm away.
What if it doesn't work for us?
Try it free first. We run the same engine for 7 days, real reports, then it stops unless you sign up. After that it's $497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime, with a 60-day money-back guarantee. One GC who sends you their overflow bids covers that many times over.
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From the Founder
Why I built this
I built Hidden Client because I kept seeing the same thing: a company posts a job, interviews for two months, and the firm that could have done the work never hears about it. That felt fixable with software, so I fixed it.
It's just me here, and I read every reply. If your leads are off, email me and your setup gets corrected the same day. That's the whole support department, and it's faster than most.
Jeremy Olken
Founder, Hidden Client · jeremy@hiddenclient.com
The postings are already up. The clock is already running.
Somewhere in your market, a company posted the role you replace this week. Signup takes about five minutes, and your first report lands tomorrow by 7am.
$497/mo. 60-day money-back guarantee.
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