BidcoreAI is an AI-powered preconstruction platform: read the documents, measure the drawings, price the quantities against your own cost data, package the bid and draft the proposal — in one workspace, for whichever trade you are estimating today.
Every page in this section describes the same platform doing a different job. The takeoff engine, the cost database, the bid tools and the proposal writer do not change between trades. What changes is what gets measured and in which units — cubic yards and formwork contact area for concrete, pounds of metal by gauge for ductwork, unit counts at coursing for masonry, head counts by hazard classification for sprinkler, cut and fill between two surfaces for earthwork.
That is the argument for a single system rather than a shelf of trade tools. A general contractor pricing a whole building measures every division in one project, against one cost database, with one set of drawings and one revision history. A subcontractor pricing one trade uses the same workspace scoped to their own scope, and gets the same audit trail: every quantity linked to the sheet it came from, every assumption written down.
The same is true downstream of the estimate. Bidding — packages, invitations, coverage, levelling and proposals — runs in the same project as the estimate that generated it, so the number you submit is the number you priced. Federal work adds solicitation reading, FAR clause review, wage determinations and proposals written to the evaluation criteria, on top of the same estimating engine.
The pages below go into the detail of each area — what the software does, how it does it, where bids in that scope usually go wrong, and what comes out at the end. Start with the head-term pages if you want the general argument, or go straight to what you are bidding this week.
23 workspaces on one platform. Type a trade, a material, a CSI division or "federal".
The capabilities every trade page below is describing a different application of.
Specifications, drawings and addenda read end to end, with the scope returned as a checkable list citing the page it came from.
Counts, lengths, areas and volumes measured on PDF drawings in the browser, proposed by AI and confirmed by an estimator.
Quantities priced against your own cost library, coded to CSI MasterFormat, with material, labor and equipment separated.
Your historical unit costs stored and reused, so the second estimate of a building type is faster and better than the first.
Contract clauses, liquidated damages, insurance limits and schedule risk extracted with page citations.
Scope split into subcontractor packages straight from the estimate, with the right sheets and spec sections attached.
Subcontractor quotes compared line against line, with what each included and excluded made explicit.
A proposal drafted from the estimate you priced, in the structure the client or the solicitation asked for.
SAM.gov opportunities, a free Go/No-Go Analyzer and proposal structures that match how solicitations are evaluated.
A re-issued drawing set compared against the last, so an addendum means checking what changed rather than starting again.
Several estimators in one project at once, with a record of who changed which number and when.
Windows, macOS, iPad or a jobsite laptop. No workstation licence, no plugin versions, nothing to install.
From a tenant fit-out to a federal barracks — the same workspace, scoped to the job.
The same seven steps whether you are pricing one trade or twenty-eight divisions.
The gains come from the connections between the steps, not from any single step.
Takeoff, estimate, package and proposal share one data model, so there is no re-keying and no chance of pricing a superseded takeoff.
Every estimate feeds one cost database. After a season of bidding, your unit costs reflect your crews on your projects rather than a national average.
Every quantity keeps its sheet, scale and author. When a number is challenged after award, you can show it instead of defending it.
The binding constraint on most contractors is estimator hours. Cutting takeoff time is what turns three properly priced bids a week into eight.
Reading the specification systematically catches the sections a hurried estimator skims — the omissions that survive into the contract.
Estimates, measurements, assumptions and correspondence live in the project rather than on one estimator's desktop.
Software solves the per-bid cost of estimating. It does not create hours in a week when five sets land at once. BidcoreAI also runs professional takeoff and estimating services staffed by estimators working in this same platform — send the drawing set and get back measured quantities, a priced estimate, a marked-up drawing set and a written basis of estimate.
Bring a set you have already bid. Watching it price a job whose real numbers you know is the only demo that settles anything.
