Example trade · drywall
Forward your bid invites. BidIntell reads them and returns Open & assign, Worth a look, or Likely skip, with the reason.
See a sample invitation brief — or forward a real invitation and get a ranked read back.
Invites come in.
BidIntell checks each one against your trade, area and GCs first.
Your takeoff time, by hand or with AI, goes only to the bids that fit.
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.
Cut time spent on invitations that were never going to be priced.
→ estimator hours stay on real opportunitiesSee fit signals early — project, scope, client — without downloading the whole package first.
→ Open & assign / Worth a look / Likely skip before the full drawingsKeep estimating time for work you can win.
→ pursue or pass, with a clear whyThe decision loop after the invite lands — not a capacity forecast, not a second estimating tool.
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 3 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.
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.
Keep the bid on the board through submit and professional follow-up — drafts you approve, never silent sends — so the next call gets sharper.
AI can do the takeoff now. BidIntell tells you which takeoffs are worth doing.
Invites land. Forward or drop — that's enough to start.
Open & assign, Worth a look, or Likely skip — the BidIndex for your company, not a win probability.
From the invitation or from the documents — honest about drawings not opened yet.
Inbox — qualify, track, and keep the good ones visible.
Record the submit so the bid doesn't disappear after the number goes out.
Draft / approve only. You send. No silent emails to clients.
Richer one-look decision surface — not claimed live.
Reason-aware follow-up drafts. Today's Follow-Up is draft/approve only.
Company-level playbook. Not in the product yet.
Capacity planning is coming soon. Today BidIntell scores your invitations and builds the Brief.
If you receive bid invites and have to decide which ones deserve estimator time, BidIntell is built for you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plug in your numbers. See smarter bidding in actual dollars.
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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Forward a bid invite and get a scored report back in under 2 minutes — no calls, no setup, no contracts.