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Overtrace vs. estimate review: audit the actuals, not just the estimate.
Estimating platforms like Xactimate — and rules engines for reviewing estimates — are how restoration scope gets priced. But large losses often start on time & materials, and then what matters is the actual billing: who was on site, which machines ran, what was bought. That’s what Overtrace audits.
Why teams choose Overtrace
Why restoration teams add Overtrace to their estimating stack.
Built for T&M actuals
Labor, equipment, per diem & materials reconciled to signed field records and receipts, day by day.
Every line, not a sample
Overtrace reconciles every employee-day, machine, receipt & total in the package — thousands of pages — instead of the slice a person has time for.
Every finding cited to its page
Billed line, supporting record and the deciding number boxed on the page image. The trade, the client and the auditor can all check it in seconds.
Minutes, not weeks
A month’s package is read in minutes. The review that follows is sorted by dollars, so the biggest problems are decided first.
Side by side
Overtrace vs. estimating software, side by side.
| Capability | Estimating software | Overtrace |
|---|---|---|
| What it checks | Estimating software: Estimates against pricing & estimating rules | Overtrace: Actual T&M billing against field records, contract & receipts |
| Inputs | Estimating software: Scope, line items, price lists | Overtrace: The billing package: invoice, T&M, sign-ins, equipment lists, receipts |
| Labor hours | Estimating software: Estimated | Overtrace: Billed vs. signed, for every employee-day |
| Equipment | Estimating software: Estimated quantities & durations | Overtrace: Billed vs. signed list, crew days & monthly rates |
| Evidence | Estimating software: Estimate line items | Overtrace: Page-cited findings with the annotated package |
Getting started
Overtrace works alongside your estimating software.
See it on a package like yours
A 30-minute demo on a real T&M billing package.
Keep your estimating software
Overtrace runs alongside your estimating software. There’s nothing to migrate and nothing for your trades to adopt — it reads the PDFs they already send.
Prove it on live invoices
A 60-day pilot on your next two monthly invoices, with direct founder support, before you commit.
Questions
Common questions.
Do I still need Xactimate?
Yes, for estimating. Overtrace doesn’t price scope — it audits what was actually billed on time & materials work, which estimating tools aren’t built to do.
Can Overtrace check equipment counts against the space being dried?
Overtrace checks equipment against the signed equipment list, crew presence, quantities and rates. Whether the equipment plan itself was right-sized is a judgement call — one you can encode as a rule if your project has a standard.
Get started
Bring us your worst package.
See Overtrace audit a real T&M billing package in a 30-minute demo. Then prove it on your next two invoices in a 60-day pilot.