◆ For commercial specialty subcontractors

A senior estimator's read on every bid.

$99 a month. Upload the drawings and specs, or forward the invite. Get back a go/pass-worthy read, with your scope that's hiding in other sections pulled out and risky contract terms cited to the page.

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From a real BidIntell read

On a State of Missouri rebid (U2603-01), BidIntell flagged this on page 2 of the bid documents:

"...liquidated damages the sum of $700 for each working day thereafter that the entire work is not substantially complete."
U2603-01_REBID_Bid_Documents.pdf · p.2 · Liquidated damages

Flagged with the page. It doesn't change the score. You decide what it's worth.

Example job, not a customer

Sample invitation brief

BidIndex: 82/100 — Open & assign — invite read

Based on the invitation only — a triage read, not a bid/no-bid.

01The problem

Your bid boards deliver the invitations. The hard part is deciding which ones deserve estimator time.

BidIntell reads the invitation, and the drawings and specs when you include them. The label is Open & assign, Worth a look, or Likely skip, with a clear why.

A

Skip the ones that will never be priced

Cut time spent on invitations that were never going to be priced.

→ estimator hours stay on real opportunities
B

See fit signals early

See fit signals early — project, scope, client — without downloading the whole package first.

→ Open & assign / Worth a look / Likely skip before the full drawings
C

Keep time for work you can win

Keep estimating time for work you can win.

→ pursue or pass, with a clear why
02How it works

Inbox. BidIndex. Brief. Board. Submit. Follow up.

The decision loop after the invite lands — not a capacity forecast, not a second estimating tool.

1

Forward the invite

The invite is enough to start. Drop the PDF or forward the email — BidIntell reads it so you're not the one digging through 200 pages to find the call.

BidIntell scores up to 4 PDFs per email. Each file can be 25 MB. About 25 MB of attachments total per email. Gmail and Outlook usually cap attachments around 20–25 MB. For a bigger bid set, upload the PDFs in the app (Analyze). Google Drive and OneDrive links in the email aren't read.

2

Get a BidIndex + a Brief you can trust

One whole number, 0–100, across Project Fit, Scope Fit, and Client Fit — weighted to your business, honest about what's unknown. The label is Open & assign, Worth a look, or Likely skip.

3

Track submission, follow up with approval, log the outcome

Keep the bid on the board through submit and professional follow-up — drafts you approve, never silent sends — so the next call gets sharper.

Where BidIntell sits

Upload the drawings and specs, or forward the invite. BidIntell reads the package the way a senior estimator would.

The loop ◆ LIVE vs COMING
InboxLIVE

Invites land. Forward or drop — that's enough to start.

BidIndexLIVE

Open & assign, Worth a look, or Likely skip — the BidIndex for your company, not a win probability.

BriefLIVE

From the invitation or from the documents — honest about drawings not opened yet.

BoardLIVE

Inbox — qualify, track, and keep the good ones visible.

SubmissionLIVE

Record the submit so the bid doesn't disappear after the number goes out.

Follow-UpLIVE

Draft / approve only. You send. No silent emails to clients.

Decision Card depthCOMING

Richer one-look decision surface — not claimed live.

Situational Follow-UpCOMING

Reason-aware follow-up drafts. Today's Follow-Up is draft/approve only.

Company PlaybookCOMING

Company-level playbook. Not in the product yet.

CapacityComing soon

Capacity planning is coming soon. Today BidIntell scores your invitations and builds the Brief.

03Who it's for

Specialty commercial subcontractors — any CSI division.

If you receive bid invites and have to decide which ones deserve estimator time, BidIntell is built for you.

Built for

Specialty subcontractors

Any specialty trade bidding commercial work — openings, finishes, specialties, furnishings, mechanical, electrical, roofing, structural steel, and the rest. Fabricators bidding as specialty contractors are in. Analyze invites, brief the ones that deserve time, track submission, and follow up until you have a clear outcome.

Solo estimators → 10-person teams
Not for

Who should skip BidIntell

  • Not for general contractors. You bid TO a GC. BidIntell is not a GC bid-leveling tool.
  • Not for residential. Commercial specialty work only.
  • Not for distributors or manufacturers’ reps who can’t decline. If you have to quote every invitation that comes in, a bid/no-bid filter is the wrong product.
04Personalized scoring

Same bid. Different score. That's the point.

A drywall contractor with a 50-mile radius and a roofing contractor across the state should never get the same recommendation on the same job. BidIntell weights every bid the way you prioritize.

✓Weight the score the way you actually decide — Project Fit, Scope Fit, and Client Fit
✓Or start from a preset that fits how you bid — Relationship-First, Trade Specialist, Market-Volume
✓Know whether your scope is actually in the spec book — matched to your CSI sections, not a keyword guess
✓Pay-if-paid, retainage, vague scope — surfaced on page one, not discovered at signing
One project — three companies
Contractor A
Drywall · 50-mile radius
83
Contractor B
Roofing · 30-mile radius
52
Contractor C
Structural steel · 75-mile radius
34
Same project — three profiles, three calls
Pending 4
Medical Office
83
Office Park
71
Won 3
K-8 School
88
Urgent Care
79
Lost 2
County Admin
44
Ghosted 2
Apt Complex
38
05Outcome tracking

Every bid outcome builds your intelligence edge.

Won, lost, passed, or never pursued — BidIntell tracks every outcome and captures why. Over time, patterns emerge: which project types you win, where follow-up closed the loop, where your sweet spot really is.

✓Outcome recording: Won, Lost, Passed, No Bid
✓Decline reasons captured — too busy, bad contract, wrong trade
✓Win-rate tracking by trade, location, and project type
✓Follow-up until you have a clear outcome — clients are partners, not the problem
06Learns your business

The more you log, the sharper it gets.

Most software is as smart on day one as it ever gets. BidIntell is different — every bid you analyze, outcome you track, and client you rate feeds your own scoring engine. Your recommendations sharpen the longer you use it, tuned to your trade, your clients, and your market.

✓Competitive Pressure Score — built from the bidder counts you log, live after 3+ outcomes on a client
✓Bid Risk flag — warns when multiple risk indicators stack up
✓Client reputation — response and payment reliability from your own logged outcomes
✓Your data stays yours — every score is private to your account
Competitive PressureHIGH
You've logged 6–8 bidders on this client's commercial electrical work
Bid RiskELEVATED
→ Vague scope: "specs TBD" ×4
→ Aggressive timeline for size
→ 7+ bidders logged on this client
78%
response
12%
unresolved
9
bids logged
Illustrative · Built from the outcomes you log · Private to your account
07How scoring works

What the BidIndex Score actually measures

The BidIndex is a fit score — not a win probability. It's a triage tool: spend time on bids worth chasing, skip the ones that aren't.

You set the weights

Three sliders — Project, Scope, Client. The percentages below are default weights.

In Settings → Scoring, every contractor tunes how much each bucket counts toward their BidIndex. Push weight to what matters for your company; the three must add up to 100. Keywords move the index by a bounded amount. Pay-if-paid and other contract terms are flagged with the document and page and never change the score. That's why the same bid scores differently for two companies.

Relationship-First Trade Specialist Market-Volume
Default weighting ◆ adjustable per account
34%
Project Fit
default · you set yours

The kind of job you want: distance from your office vs. the service radius you set, plus building-type preference. Closer scores higher. A match on your target project types boosts the bucket; a non-match stays neutral. If location doesn't matter for you, its signal drops out of the index.

Drive distance Service radius Building type
33%
Scope Fit
default · you set yours

Is this your work? CSI MasterFormat section codes plus the trade terms you set — reading spec headers, drawing sheet prefixes, and invitation scope. Section-level matching (09 65 00) is far more precise than division-level.

CSI sections Trade keywords Sheet prefixes
33%
Client Fit
default · you set yours

Want this GC? Looks up the named client against your Clients list — your star rating, win history, and (after 3+ logged outcomes) Competitive Pressure from bidder counts you recorded. Your history is private to your account.

GC / client match Win rate Competitive Pressure

Favorable and risk keywords move the index by a bounded amount. Pay-if-paid and other contract terms are flagged with the document and page and never change the score.

Each invite gets a 0-100 BidIndex. Higher scores are a better fit for your company, and the label tells you whether to open it. See how scoring works.

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Book a free 30-minute Bid Selection Diagnostic. We'll review 3–5 recent bids, pinpoint where you're leaking win rate or margin, and send a written brief — no strings.

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09Resources

Learn how specialty subs pick which bids to price

Simple pricing

Priced per company.

Solo is $99 a month or $950 a year. Team: $199/mo or $1,910/yr, up to 3 users. Company is custom, from about $599 a month. Start free. No card required.

Monthly Annual −20%
Solo
1 user
$99/mo
$950/yr · $79/mo equivalent · save 20%
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✓Invitations read from email forward or PDF upload
✓Score, label, and the top reasons
✓Contract risk flags
✓Company settings
✓Client list with ratings
✓Outcome logging
Team
Team: $199/mo or $1,910/yr, up to 3 users.
$199/mo
$1,910/yr · save 20%
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✓Everything in Solo
✓Follow-up for the team, and a view of that work for the owner
Company
More than one office
Custom
From about $599/mo
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✓Priced for more than one office
✓We will scope it with you

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Common questions

Solo is $99 a month

A senior estimator's read on every bid.

Upload the drawings and specs, or forward the invite. Start free, no card. Run real bids through it each week and it stays free through Dec 31.

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Start free. No card required. · Solo $99/mo or $950/yr