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Build Useful Calculators.
Publish After Review.

Create hosted calculator drafts, submit them for review, and share approved tools with your audience. Publication, search visibility, traffic, leads, buyer availability, and revenue are not guaranteed.

Why Publish on CostSignals?

2,500+ Public Calculators

Explore public planning tools across home services, personal finance, legal, and B2B topics before creating your own draft.

Conditional Revenue Share

Eligible active Pro or Business creators can accrue 20% of a charged lead price only after an attributed lead is accepted and the buyer charge succeeds.

Discovery Foundations

Hosted pages can provide canonical metadata and applicable structured data. Indexing, rankings, rich results, and search visibility are not guaranteed.

Project Request Workflow

Published calculators can let users submit project requests. Routing and acceptance depend on approved buyer availability, coverage, price, funding, and capacity.

Use Cases

Contractors & Home Service Pros

Create a planning calculator for a service you understand, submit it for review, and share its public URL if it is approved.

Trade Associations

Organize useful planning tools around member specialties while keeping assumptions and methodology specific to each calculator.

Home Service Aggregators

Build a reviewed collection of hosted calculators without operating separate calculator infrastructure.

Content Partners

Add interactive planning tools to topic coverage and link readers to a hosted calculator when publication is approved.

Built for Quality and Performance

CostSignals provides publishing and review infrastructure. Calculator assumptions and evidence remain tool-specific.

Discoverability Foundations

Hosted pages use canonical metadata and can expose applicable structured data. Search engines decide indexing, ranking, and result presentation.

Tool-Specific Methodology

Assumptions, source coverage, localization, and applicable dates vary by calculator and should be reviewed on its own page.

Responsive Hosted Pages

Pages are designed for responsive use. Performance varies by page, device, network, and measurement run.

Fully Hosted Platform

CostSignals hosts, serves, and maintains every calculator page. No infrastructure to manage — publish your calculator and let the platform handle the rest.

How Calculator Moderation Works

Creator submissions enter a multi-step review process before an admin publication decision.

Submission Checks

The submission workflow checks required calculator structure and content before a draft can enter review.

Admin Decision

An admin reviews the submitted calculator and can approve it, request revisions, or reject it.

Revision Path

When revisions are requested, the creator can edit the draft and submit it for another decision.

Reapproval Required

A flagged calculator can be revised and resubmitted, but restoration requires a new approval and has no guaranteed turnaround.

What You Get

Hosted calculator builder with configurable fields, formulas, outputs, and content
Responsive public pages for calculator drafts that pass admin review
Canonical metadata and applicable structured data on hosted public pages
Project-request forms on eligible published calculator experiences
Tool-specific methodology and source disclosures where the calculator provides them
Conditional revenue-share eligibility for active Pro and Business creators

Platform at a Glance

2,500+
Published calculators across roofing, HVAC, plumbing, flooring, fencing, and more
4
Public planning categories: home services, finance, legal, and B2B
20%
Conditional share of a successfully charged, accepted, attributed lead for eligible active plans
$25
Minimum available earnings required before an eligible payout request

How Publishing Works

Build a draft and send it through the same review process described in the creator dashboard.

1

Create a Draft

Choose a calculator template and configure its fields, formulas, outputs, and supporting content in the creator dashboard.

2

Submit for Review

Send the draft to admin review. Review timing varies with queue and complexity; approval and publication are not guaranteed.

3

Publish if Approved

An approved calculator receives a hosted public page. Search visibility, traffic, project requests, and commercial outcomes are not guaranteed.

Conditional revenue and payout eligibility

Eligible creators with an active Pro or Business plan accrue 20% of the charged lead price when a lead attributed to their calculator is accepted and the buyer charge succeeds. Earnings may be adjusted for refunds or chargebacks.

An active creator with a configured Stripe Connect account, at least $25 in available earnings, no payout already in progress, and remaining daily capacity may request a payout. A request starts as pending and may complete, fail, or be cancelled; payout timing is not guaranteed.

Traffic, leads, buyer availability, acceptance, revenue, and payout availability are not guaranteed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sign in to the creator dashboard, choose a template, configure a draft, and submit it for admin review. An approved calculator receives a hosted public URL. Approval, publication, traffic, and leads are not guaranteed.
Free, Pro, and Business plans expose different creator features. Revenue share is available only to eligible creators with an active Pro or Business plan and remains subject to attribution, buyer acceptance, and successful charge conditions.
CostSignals hosts approved calculator pages with canonical metadata and applicable structured data. Search engines control indexing and ranking, so search visibility, traffic, and rich-result presentation are not guaranteed.
Eligible creators with an active Pro or Business plan accrue 20% of the charged lead price when a lead attributed to their calculator is accepted and the buyer charge succeeds. Earnings may be adjusted for refunds or chargebacks. Traffic, leads, buyer availability, acceptance, and revenue are not guaranteed.
Calculators are planning tools based on user inputs and tool-specific configured assumptions. Methodology, source coverage, localization, and applicable dates vary by calculator. Verify the methodology, sources, and current inputs on that calculator’s page before relying on a result.
Creator drafts enter an admin review workflow. Reviewers can approve a submission, request revisions, or reject it. Checks depend on the calculator and the submitted content; review does not certify a result for every real-world project.
A creator can build and submit calculators without a paid plan. Publication still requires approval. The revenue-share entitlement requires an active Pro or Business plan and does not guarantee traffic, buyer availability, accepted leads, or earnings.
Review timing varies with queue and complexity. Approval and publication are not guaranteed. If revisions are requested, the creator can update the draft and submit it for another review.
An active creator with a configured Stripe Connect account, at least $25 in available earnings, no payout already in progress, and remaining daily capacity may request a payout. A request starts as pending and may complete, fail, or be cancelled; payout timing is not guaranteed.
A flagged calculator can be revised and resubmitted. Restoration requires a new approval and has no guaranteed turnaround. The creator dashboard shows the current workflow state and any available review feedback.

Start Publishing Calculators Today

Sign in to create a calculator draft and submit it for review. Approval, publication, traffic, leads, and revenue are not guaranteed.

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Quality Standards & Enforcement

Review decisions depend on the submitted calculator and its content. These workflow controls do not certify results for every project.

Submission Gate

A draft must satisfy the current structural and content checks before it can enter admin review.

Variable Review Timing

Review timing varies with queue and complexity; approval and publication are not guaranteed.

Revision Workflow

When a reviewer requests changes, the creator can edit the draft and submit it for another decision.

Restoration Decision

A flagged calculator can be revised and resubmitted. Restoration requires a new approval and has no guaranteed turnaround.