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No black box, no guessing.
Costonomics builds deterministic, traceable cost tools for industrial and mining projects.
ShouldCost, the AACE-native estimating engine, prices your scope from cited references: CAPEX, OPEX and TCO, with the accuracy range built into every result.
Every number cites its source, every assumption is flagged and numbered — and when the data cannot support a number, the engine refuses rather than guesses.
Charge Forward
Understand the cost mechanics
Start with the free public calculators — published open models with the AACE Class 5 range built in — and the free AACE maturity self-assessment.
When the stakes rise, the same engine scales to the full platform — on your infrastructure, with your own cost data as the third simulation level.
One platform, four roles
Design office, estimator, project manager and buyer work on the same cost referential — role profiles scope what each one sees, and every project feeds your cost capital.
For Design Offices
A defendable number — without a dedicated estimator: equipment list in, should-cost out in minutes. BOM take-off, factored bulks, the AACE range built into the result — and the design-office profile works without vendor prices.
For Estimators
Your backbone, not your replacement: full AACE discipline — three data levels, every line explained and cited, versions diffed, parallel scenarios on one reference. The engine does the bookkeeping; you keep the judgement.
For Project Managers
Pass the gate with evidence: the AACE class determined from your deliverables — not declared — P10\/P50\/P90 with S-curve phasing, FTE staffing, scenario verdicts. The milestone file, ready for the review.
For Procurement
Negotiate at should-cost: supplier packs that never leak an internal price, multi-quote bid tabulation with a recommended mix, private observed-price memory, contractual index revision.
From Our Founder
Every number must defend itself
Costonomics is built for the people who sign the cost section — estimators, design offices, project managers and buyers. Every line cites its source, assumptions are numbered, and the AACE accuracy range is part of the answer, never an afterthought.