AI bid analysis for specialty contractors

AI bid analysis for
specialty contractors.

Upload your bid package — plans, specs, addenda, geotech. Cut hours of reading down to minutes. Cited to source, professionally reviewable, grounded in your own rate database.

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What you get

Every section a PE would want.

Each analysis lands as a single reviewable report — eight sections, every claim cited back to your source documents.

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SummaryDesignEstimateExecutionRisksScopeRFIs
Project Summary
Owner, location, dates, key parties
Design Recommendation
Primary system + alternates, cited
Line-item Estimate
Your rates · 18-category workbook
Project Execution
Crew, equipment, materials, schedule
Risk Assessment
Severity-rated with mitigations
Scope Analysis
Included · excluded · ambiguous
RFIs Drafted
Prioritized clarification questions
PE-Reviewable Output
Stamped, snapshot, immutable

All numbers in real analyses cite back to your uploaded source documents.

What it does

Four jobs, one workspace.

The whole loop — from lead triage through stamped proposal — in a single tool built around the specialty workflow.

Bid Intelligence

Lead scoring, bid-fit reasoning, and a kanban pipeline that knows what to chase and what to pass on.

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Estimating Depth

18-category cost workbook with your rate database, labor burden by state, equipment rates, and group production math.

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Project Execution

Crew + equipment + materials with lead times. Daily logs, actuals tracking, sub quote roll-up — the whole won-bid loop.

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Engineering Defensibility

Every recommendation cited to the page. PE-review banner on every output. AI critic pass + immutable snapshots.

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How it works

Three steps. No new workflow.

Drop in what the GC sent you. Get back what your engineer would write — ready for them to review.

1

Upload the bid package

Drag in plans, specs, addenda, geotech, RFP — any PDF set the GC sent over. No reformatting, no manual entry, no template required.

2

Run the analysis

Quick scan in ~60–90 seconds for go/no-go. Full analysis in 3–8 minutes — design rationale, line-item estimate, risks, RFIs — every number cited back to the source page.

3

Review, stamp, send

Your PE reviews the AI output, edits inline, and signs off. Export as PDF or push into your proposal. The original is preserved as an immutable snapshot.

Built for defensibility

An estimating tool you can stand behind.

Built on PE-reviewable output

Every analysis ships with a banner that requires PE sign-off. We never replace licensure — we draft, you sign.

Cited to the source document

Numbers carry a page reference back to the plan sheet, spec section, or report page they came from.

Critic pass + immutable snapshots

A second AI pass flags numeric drift, contradictions, and unsupported claims. Snapshots preserve the original.

See three completed analyses

Three real bid analyses from contractors using the tool. Read the output before signing up.

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Questions you should be asking

FAQ.

No. Every analysis ships with a banner that requires PE sign-off before any bid commitment. The tool drafts; the engineer signs. We never replace licensure — that's the design.

Specialty foundation and earth retention — micropiles, soil nails, shoring walls, helical piles, drilled shafts. The cost workbook, design prompts, and RFI patterns are tuned for these. More scopes added based on customer demand.

Quick scan (lead triage, go/no-go): about 60–90 seconds. Full analysis (design rationale + line-item estimate + risks + RFIs): about 3–8 minutes for a typical bid package, depending on document volume.

Yes — that's the point. Bring your existing rate database (labor, equipment, materials, burdens by state) and the estimate uses your real unit costs. HeavyBid CSV import is supported. Without your rates, you get AI-estimated ranges instead — clearly badged so you know which is which.

Your uploaded documents and analysis output stay in your workspace, scoped by row-level security at the database. Encrypted at rest. You can delete on request. We never train on your bids.

Every numeric claim cites the source page. A second AI pass (the critic) flags numeric drift, contradictions, and unsupported claims for review before you sign off. The PE reviewer catches what's left — that's the workflow.

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BidCertain

See it on your own bid.
30 minutes, walked-through.

Bring a real bid package on a live call. We'll run it through BidCertain together — cited, reviewable output you can keep — and you decide whether it's worth the seat.

See sample output

All AI output requires licensed PE review before bid commitment.