Ediphi, a cloud-based preconstruction platform that centralizes estimating and cost management, today announced Ediphi Academy, a structured training and certification platform for everyone who works with the Ediphi product. Currently in beta with Ediphi's largest customers, Ediphi Academy enhances onboarding and training with a clear, sequenced path from the first login to certified power user status. Ediphi Academy answers the call for better, more comprehensive training of the next generation of preconstruction professionals. Users can learn the Ediphi platform and earn a marketable credential before entering the workforce. Access is free for qualifying users.
Closing a Long-Standing Gap in Preconstruction OnboardingPreconstruction teams face a familiar problem: estimators are expected to be productive with tools that take months to learn. Onboarding has historically relied on informal knowledge transfers, scattered video links, and tribal knowledge that walks out the door when a team member leaves.
Ediphi Academy addresses this directly. The platform offers five sequenced courses spanning the full Ediphi product — from first project setup through practical estimating workflows — with over 50+ short training videos, each paired with a Help Center article. Knowledge-checking quizzes track progress and verifiable credentials.
"We're starting with Ediphi fundamentals, but that's just the entry point. The long-term vision is a resource center for anyone in preconstruction dealing with estimating methodologies, cost narrative crafting, and risk management,” said Dustin DeVan, CEO and Co-Founder, Ediphi. “We intend to help meet the industry’s needs to empower the next generation of precon pros.
What’s InsideThe Ediphi Academy curriculum is organized into five courses that mirror how preconstruction professionals actually work:
Getting Started: Navigate Ediphi with confidence. Set up a first project, understand the cloud workflow, and learn the terminology, keyboard shortcuts, and permissions model that power everything else.
Estimate Setup: Build a properly structured estimate from day one, covering milestones, primary estimates, buildings, use groups, area sheets, sort fields, and line items.
Estimate Management: The day-to-day craft of refining estimates — detailed summaries, line item updates, multi-user collaboration, versions, locking, back calculations, and the formula engine.
Reporting: Standard reporting, variance analysis, the Excel Add-in for last-mile work, owner bid forms, and benchmarking.
Cloud-based Estimating Features: Cost modeling, advanced formulas, attributes, geometry worksheets, alternates, assemblies, systems, contracting, and the full depth of the Ediphi platform.
Verifiable CredentialsCompleting Ediphi Academy earns the Ediphi Foundations Certified credential — a verifiable badge with a unique ID and a public verification page that anyone, including recruiters and employers, can use to confirm authenticity without an Ediphi account. One-click LinkedIn integration means the credential travels with the estimator’s career from the moment it’s earned.
Ediphi Academy joins a short list of construction software platforms – alongside larger companies including Procore and Autodesk – that offer structured, verifiable certification programs. For a company of Ediphi’s size and stage, it reflects an unusually strong commitment to customer success and workforce development.
Built for Everyone in the Ediphi EcosystemEdiphi customers: Preconstruction teams at general contractors — executives, preconstruction leads, estimators, and operations leaders — each get a role-based learning path. New hires can be onboarded in days, and leadership gains visibility into their team’s proficiency.
Ediphi internal teams: Sales, Customer Success, Support, and Implementation work from the same certified source of truth as customers — so every demo, onboarding, and support conversation comes from a team trained on identical material.
Construction students and academic programs: The next generation of preconstruction professionals can learn the Ediphi platform and earn a marketable credential before entering the workforce. Access is free for qualifying students, and Ediphi plans to expand this to accredited construction management programs as the platform grows.
How Access WorksEdiphi Academy is invite-only by design. When a customer organization comes on board, Ediphi provisions initial users and sends invitations directly. Each organization also receives a designated Company Admin who can independently invite, manage, and assign training to their own team — no support ticket required. Every learner’s progress is private to their company, and every credential is traceable back to the organization that issued the training.
Built In-HouseEdiphi Academy was designed and built entirely by the Ediphi team. Every interaction, screen, and learning path is purpose-built for the way preconstruction professionals actually use the product — because the team that built the platform is the same team that built the academy.
For more information, visit Ediphi.com.
Ediphi is a cloud-based preconstruction and estimating platform that centralizes cost management, estimating, and data into one connected system. The company helps contractors and owners move projects from early design through cost modeling, detailed estimating, value engineering, and contract execution in a unified environment, improving decision-making and reducing risk. Founded and led by construction technology veteran Dustin DeVan, who previously founded BuildingConnected (acquired by Autodesk), and Michael Navarro, Ediphi is focused on radically simplifying preconstruction for teams across North America and beyond. For more information, visit Ediphi.com.
