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Get started with Costimate.
From your first sign-in to your first paid invoice, one step at a time.
For experts
- Join the Costimate Expert NetworkSign up as an independent expert, what Costimate checks before companies can find you, the network agreement you sign in Costimate, your Costimate rate and your public profile.
- My businessThe expert's dashboard across every company you work with, what is due this week, the invitations to answer, your bids, your profile and your money, and how to work in one company at a time.
- Invitations and the bids you are onAnswer an invitation to a bid, read what the bid is, work through your checklist items and tasks, talk to the team, and open the files shared with you.
- Contracts and documentsSign what a company asks you to sign, inside Costimate, and give it the papers it asks for, a CV, a certificate or proof of insurance, or give one unasked.
- Time and invoicesLog the time you work on a bid, submit each week for the company to approve, invoice your approved time, set your billing details, and follow what is paid.
- Tenders for you, and a CV tailored to a bidSee the open public tenders in your sectors and say you are available, and have AI write your CV for a bid from your own profile, in the EU, World Bank or a generic format.
Start here
- What Costimate doesA short tour of how a tender notice becomes a lead, a bid, a project and an invoice in Costimate, and what sits around them.
- Plans, seats and billingWhat Free includes, how the paid plans follow your seats, how to add seats or change how you pay, what happens when a subscription ends, and where Stripe's invoices are.
- Your profile and sign-inYour own profile, your password, two-factor authentication and passkeys. What each one does, and who reads what is on your profile.
- GlossaryThe words Costimate and these pages use, each in a line, with the page that says more.
Trust
- Security and your dataWhere your data is kept, how companies are kept apart, who can see prices and pay, how you sign in, and what AI and connected apps may read.
- Privacy and data processingWhich legal text covers what: the Privacy Policy, the Data Processing Terms, the Terms of Service and the Expert Terms, and where to go with a question or a request.