Electric Ease Brings Its Largest Platform Release to NECA 2026, Giving Electrical Contractors Faster Bids and Full Control of Every Number
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DES MOINES, IA — SEPTEMBER 1, 2026 — Electric Ease, the estimating platform built for electrical contractors by electrical contractors, today announced the largest release in the company's history, five new and rebuilt capabilities that compress the work of building a bid while leaving every decision in the estimator's hands. The announcement comes ahead of the company's debut exhibit at NECA 2026 in Las Vegas, October 4 through 7, where Electric Ease will demonstrate the full release at booth #3130.
The release addresses the parts of estimating that consume the most time and create the most risk, from the first read of a plan set through the proposal that goes out the door.
Crosscheck compares a project's plans against its spec book and finds the places where the two documents disagree. Architects reuse boilerplate spec language, and a spec book routinely calls for things that were never drawn. Those conflicts usually surface in the middle of a job, when someone is emailing an architect late at night and waiting on an answer while the schedule slips. Crosscheck surfaces them before the bid goes out and drafts the request for information the estimator would otherwise write by hand.
Quantum Count reads a plan set, finds the devices and materials on every sheet, and counts them automatically. The estimator sees what was found and where, and can correct, add, or remove anything before the numbers move forward. Counting and takeoff regularly consume around a quarter of the time it takes to build a bid. Quantum Count does that same work in a fraction of it.
Bid Assistant is an assistant built by Electric Ease specifically for electrical estimating. It’s not a general-purpose chatbot like the models from big tech. Bid Assistant uses an internally built model with a custom harness designed around how the electrical trade actually works, rather than pulling public data from big tech models or the open internet. This is not a generalist AI chatbot with an electrical label on it; it answers from real trade experience, not web searches.
Assembly Builder AI produces the assemblies and parts lists an estimator would otherwise build piece by piece, with full editing control so the estimator can shape them to the way their company prices work.
Proposal Builder turns a finished estimate into a clear proposal summary a contractor can put in front of a client, without rebuilding the numbers in a separate document.
"Estimators do not want software that thinks for them. They want the tedious work done fast and accurately, and then they want to apply their own judgment to it. We built this release by asking existing clients what eats the most hours in an estimator's week and where they feel least sure of their numbers; then attacked those two things in that order," said Korey Miller, CEO of Electric Ease. "That is how we get to a superior platform that carries a contractor from plan all the way through purchase."
What ties the five together is a single design principle. Every automated step shows its work, and the estimator can see it, change it, and sign off on it before it becomes part of the bid. Nothing in the platform produces a number a contractor cannot trace back to its source.
"I spent my career estimating electrical work, and I never once met an estimator who wanted a black box handing them a number," said Kevin Buckalew, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Electric Ease. "What our customers keep telling us, and what I saw for years in the field, is that counting alone is roughly a quarter of the job and none of it is the part they got into this trade to do. Our job is not to take the estimator out of the estimate. It is to hand back the hours that never needed a human in the first place."
Electric Ease was built to give estimators the confidence that comes from knowing their numbers, not from guessing at them. The company has worked exclusively with commercial and industrial electrical contractors since its founding, and every capability in this release came out of watching how those contractors actually build a bid.
All five capabilities will be available in Electric Ease 2.0, the version of the platform debuting at NECA on October 4. Electric Ease will demonstrate these new features at their booth #3130 during NECA 2026, running October 4 through 7 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
About Electric Ease
Electric Ease is an estimating platform built specifically for commercial and industrial electrical contractors. The platform brings plans, takeoff, pricing, and proposals into one place so estimators can bid more work, more accurately, in less time. Electric Ease is headquartered in Grimes, Iowa, in the Des Moines metro. Learn more at https://www.electric-ease.com/.
Because the best bid is not just the one you win. It is the one that lets you sleep at night.
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