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Is your pricing data safe with Cubria?

Is your pricing data safe with Cubria?

Short answer: your pricing data stays yours. Cubria uses it to price your quotes — not to help anyone else price theirs. Your completed jobs are scoped to your own organization, and the numbers that give you an edge stay your edge. If you're going to hand a tool the record of what you charge and what things cost you, that's the standard it has to meet, and it's worth being plain about how it works.

Why this is the right question to ask

Your pricing is the thing you've built over years of jobs. It's how you know what your framing crew really costs, where you make margin, and where the last shop that lowballed a foundation got burned. That knowledge is your competitive edge — arguably the most valuable thing you'd put into an estimating tool.

So the worry is fair: if Cubria learns from my numbers, does that mean my numbers leak out? Does the tool get smarter for my competitor down the road because I fed it my jobs? You should ask that of any tool that touches your costs. Here's how Cubria answers it.

Your data is yours, and it's scoped to your organization

The starting principle is simple: the jobs and pricing you bring into Cubria belong to you. They live inside your own organization — the workspace you and your team share — and that's the boundary. Your completed cost sheets, your comparables, your quotes, your contracts sit inside your org, not in a shared pool.

That org boundary is also how your team works together. Multi-user orgs, roles, and invites mean the people you bring on — your estimator, your partner, your office manager — see your shared pricing, because they're part of your shop. The boundary is your organization, and it's yours to control who's inside it.

Your numbers are your edge. The point of the tool is to sharpen that edge, not spread it around.

Your pricing prices your quotes — not other builders'

This is the core commitment, and it's worth stating flatly: Cubria uses your completed jobs to price your quotes. That's the whole mechanic — it pulls comparable lines from your history to build a number you can defend, priced from your crews and your suppliers.

It does not turn your pricing into someone else's quote. Another builder's estimate is priced from their jobs, inside their organization — not from yours. The entire premise of Cubria is that a quote should reflect the builder who made it. A tool built on that premise doesn't work by blending everyone's numbers into a generic average; that's exactly the black-box, national-cost-book approach Cubria exists to replace. Your edge only stays an edge if it stays yours.

The assistant is read-only

Cubria has an in-app assistant — "Ask Cubria" — that answers questions about your own projects and pricing. Two things about it are worth knowing:

  • It only sees your organization's data — your projects, your quotes, your history.
  • It's read-only. It answers questions and surfaces what's already there; it doesn't reach out and change your records or move your numbers somewhere else.

So you can ask it "what did we price framing at on the last three walkout basements" and get a straight answer from your own jobs, without worrying that asking the question does anything to the underlying data.

What we won't pretend

Being honest builds more trust than a wall of badges, so here's the honest version: this article speaks to the principle — your data is yours, scoped to your org, used to price your quotes, and the assistant is read-only. It isn't the place to make specific security or compliance claims. If a particular certification or control matters to how you run your shop, ask us directly rather than taking a marketing line for it. The commitment we'll stand behind in plain language is the one that matters most to a builder: your numbers stay your edge.

Bottom line

Is your pricing data safe with Cubria? Your data is yours, it's scoped to your own organization, it's used to price your quotes and not shared out to other builders, and the assistant that reads it is read-only. The value of Cubria comes from your history staying yours — a tool that leaked your edge would be undercutting its own reason to exist.

That's the deal in one line: Cubria turns your pricing into quotes you can defend, and leaves the edge where it belongs — with you. If you want to see how that pricing engine works on your own jobs, that's what Cubria is built to do.

Frequently asked questions

Is my pricing data safe with Cubria?

Your pricing data stays yours. It lives inside your own organization, is used to price your quotes and not shared out to other builders, and the numbers that give you an edge stay your edge.

Does Cubria use my numbers to price other builders' quotes?

No. Cubria uses your completed jobs to price your quotes only. Another builder's estimate is priced from their jobs inside their own organization — the whole premise is that a quote should reflect the builder who made it, not a blend of everyone's numbers.

Can the Cubria assistant change my data?

No — the 'Ask Cubria' assistant is read-only and only sees your organization's data. It answers questions about your own projects and pricing and surfaces what's already there; it doesn't change your records or move your numbers somewhere else.

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