Import your variances. See your answer in five minutes. No cloud. No subscription. Your data never leaves your machine.
Every division has builders running 30-40% above average in variance spend. You know it's happening. But when someone asks "which builder, which trade, how much per home?" — you're digging through spreadsheets for a half day.
Ops meetings turn into guesswork. Standups have no teeth. And the VP wants a trend line you don't have.
A-F grades based on variance cost per home closed. Print them and put them on the table. Each card shows $/home, variances/home, category breakdown, and monthly trend.
See which communities are running hot and in which categories. Color-coded $/home matrix — instantly reveals which neighborhoods need which interventions.
Monthly $/home trajectory for every builder. Set a division target and track progress. See who's improving and who's not — the trend makes the conversation undeniable.
Head-to-head comparison in the same community, all categories. Apples to apples. Category-by-category bars show exactly where one builder is outspending another.
The same plumbing fix costs $800 on one lot and $2,200 on another. See vendor price spreads by trade category and find the pricing disparities worth negotiating.
Negative amounts flow through as credits. See your gross spend, chargebacks recovered, net cost, and recovery rate. Know if your accountability conversations are actually recovering money.
"Drywall", "Drywall Repair", "DRY - Drywall" all become one category. Auto-suggests groups based on similar names. Cleans up messy ERP data without touching the source.
Auto-detects columns from Buildertrend, MarkSystems, QuickBooks, BuildTools, Sage, BRIX, CoConstruct, or any CSV. 90+ column name aliases. Remembers your mapping for next time.
Pull a CSV from your ERP — Buildertrend, MarkSystems, QuickBooks, or any system that exports to spreadsheet. You need date, builder, amount, and category at minimum.
Open VarianceGrade in your browser. Drag and drop the CSV. The import wizard auto-detects your columns and maps them. No manual configuration.
Tell the tool how many homes each builder has closed. Every metric — scorecards, heatmaps, trends, comparisons — updates instantly. Print your scorecards and go.
VarianceGrade is a single HTML file. It runs entirely in your browser with zero internet connection required. There is no cloud, no server, no account. We literally cannot see your data. For divisions that treat variance cost data as confidential — this is the only tool that guarantees it.
Every feature included. Unlimited builders. Pay once, use forever.
Works on any computer with a web browser. Import your CSV in 5 minutes.
VarianceGrade handles the standard workflow. For divisions that need more, we offer custom builds and consulting.
You have variance data that doesn't fit the standard tool — maybe you need PO text mining, baseline year comparison, a specific executive report format, or integration with your starts history. We'll build a custom version of the dashboard tailored to your division's exact workflow and data structure.
Need someone who's actually sat in the ops chair to help you build a variance reduction strategy? We'll analyze your data, identify the biggest levers, build the accountability framework, and help you run the first round of builder conversations with scorecards in hand.
Have an idea for a feature that would make the tool more useful for your team? We actively build based on feedback from the field. Submit a request and if it's something other divisions would use, it may be included in a future release at no cost.
Running multiple divisions and need VarianceGrade across all of them? We offer volume pricing and can customize the tool with your company branding, division-specific defaults, and a unified category structure across all divisions.
A CSV with at least date, builder name, and dollar amount. Category, community, lot, vendor, and reason code are optional but unlock more features. The import wizard auto-detects columns from major ERPs.
No. VarianceGrade is a single HTML file that runs in your browser. Your data is stored in your browser's local storage on your machine. There is no server, no cloud upload, no account. We cannot see your data.
Anything that exports to CSV or Excel. We auto-detect columns from Buildertrend, MarkSystems, BuildTools, QuickBooks, Sage, BRIX, and CoConstruct. For Excel files, save as CSV first — the tool has step-by-step instructions.
The tool comes pre-loaded with demo data. When you purchase, you can explore every tab — scorecards, heatmap, trends, comparison — with sample data before importing anything of your own.
No. VarianceGrade supports unlimited builders, unlimited communities, and unlimited data history. Import as many records as you have — the tool handles it all.
If the tool doesn't work for your data or use case, email us within 30 days and we'll make it right — whether that means a refund or custom help getting your data imported correctly.
Yes. The file works anywhere you open it. Copy it to your work laptop, your home PC, a USB drive. Each computer maintains its own separate data.
A division ops manager who got tired of tracking variances in spreadsheets. Not a tech company. Not a consultant. Just someone who needed this tool for his own Monday standups and decided to make it available.