Automated takeoff and bidding
Upload the plan set. Get a quantity takeoff and a priced bid before your competitor has printed the drawings.
Biddy measures quantities from the PDF plan set, flags drawing conflicts, and prices the bid against your own historical costs with an itemised scope letter. For drywall, electrical, mechanical, concrete, glazing and framing subcontractors.
No account. No card. No sales call.
- Takeoff measured from the plan set
- Priced against your own historical costs
- An itemised scope letter with every bid
The problem
A subcontractor receives forty bid invitations a month and can only estimate six, because a takeoff from a 200-page plan set takes two days of measuring by hand.
So they bid the jobs they have time for rather than the jobs they would win, and hit rate stays low because volume is impossible.
Estimating software still requires a human to click every line.
Who it is for
Specialty subcontractors
Drywall, electrical, mechanical, concrete, glazing and framing subcontractors doing 1m to 30m a year.
Owners and estimators
The owner or the single estimator drowning in bid invitations they have no time to measure.
How much work goes unbid because takeoffs take too long?
Put in your bid invitations, how many you estimate, how long a takeoff takes by hand, your estimator's cost, your hit rate and contract size. See the days spent measuring and the work you never bid. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.
How the month adds up
- Share of invitations you bid
- 15%
- Days measuring takeoffs a month
- 12 days
- Estimator cost a working day
- $375
- Days needed to measure every invitation
- 80 days
- Estimators needed to measure every invitation
- 4.0
Take this with you
No email required. It is your result.
Biddy — unbid work calculator · 6 of 40 bid invitations estimated a month · 12 days a month measuring takeoffs by hand · 34 invitations a month never bid Run it yourself: https://biddyai.com
Method: unbid invitations = invitations - bids. Days measuring = bids x days per takeoff, and their cost uses the estimator's yearly cost spread over months and working days. The value of unbid work = unbid invitations x your hit rate x average contract value, which assumes your hit rate would hold on jobs you did not choose to bid.
Estimators who review instead of measure
Automated takeoff from the PDF drawings, so a subcontractor can bid the jobs they would win, not just the ones they have time for.
- 01
Scope identified
Upload the PDF drawings and it identifies the scope for your trade.
- 02
Measured for you
Linear feet, square footage, counts and assemblies are measured from the plans.
- 03
Specifications cross-referenced
It cross-references the specification sections that change the price.
- 04
Conflicts flagged early
Drawing conflicts and missing details that become change orders are flagged before you bid.
- 05
Your costs, not a book
Bids are priced against your own historical costs rather than a generic cost book.
- 06
A bid ready to send
It produces a bid with an itemised scope letter, including inclusions and exclusions.
Pricing
Priced by the number of takeoffs a month.
Starter
15 takeoffs a month.
- Automated takeoff
- Priced from your costs
- Itemised scope letters
Unlimited
For busy estimating teams.
- Unlimited takeoffs
- Historical cost database
- Multi-estimator seats
Prices in USD.
How it works
Biddy, from the first step to the result.
- 1
Upload the plan set
The PDF drawings for the job.
- 2
Takeoff is produced
Scope, quantities and specification references for your trade.
- 3
Review and adjust
Check the conflicts flagged and adjust the numbers.
- 4
Send the bid
Priced from your own costs, with an itemised scope letter.
Questions people actually ask
- What does Biddy measure?
- Linear feet, square footage, counts and assemblies for your trade, identified from the PDF plan set.
- How are bids priced?
- Against your own historical costs, not a generic cost book.
- What does the bid include?
- An itemised scope letter with inclusions and exclusions.
- Does it catch problems in the drawings?
- It flags drawing conflicts and missing details that tend to become change orders, and cross-references the specification sections that change the price.
- Does the estimator still have a job?
- Yes. The estimator reviews and adjusts rather than measures by hand.
- What does it cost?
- 599 dollars a month for 15 takeoffs, 1,290 dollars for 40, and 2,900 dollars a month for unlimited takeoffs with a historical cost database and multi-estimator seats.
- Which trades is it for?
- Specialty subcontractors including drywall, electrical, mechanical, concrete, glazing and framing.
- Why should I trust the unbid work calculator?
- It is arithmetic on your own figures, worked out in your browser. The value of unbid work assumes your current hit rate would hold, which it may not. It does not read drawings; the free first takeoff does that on a real plan set.
How much work goes unbid because takeoffs take too long?
Put in your bid invitations, how many you estimate, how long a takeoff takes by hand, your estimator's cost, your hit rate and contract size. See the days spent measuring and the work you never bid. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.
Open the free toolIt runs in your browser. Biddy never sees your inputs.