Bids are eating
your nights.
One remodeler counts 40+ hours of estimating on a single $100K job. A roofer sends 5–8 bids a week — written after dinner. Same scope, same sections, same rates, retyped for the hundredth time. And the customer signs with whoever got them a real number first.
Thirty years of contractor forums, one sentence.
“Every week I’m spending 10–20 hours… then spending my nights building detailed scopes and pricing — all for free.”
— a contractor, r/Contractor
“We live and die on the bid, a little too high, and we loose the project, a little too low, and we loose our shirt.”
— a GC, ContractorTalk (spelling his)
“I loved doing the work but hated doing the estimates and sales part.”
— r/Construction
Real posts from public contractor forums and reviews — the trade talking about the problem, not our clients.
A bid writer trained on your bids — not a database app.
Estimating apps price from national databases, and their own reviews say what happens next: owners correcting every line. Your Bid Bot is built from your past bids and your rate sheet — your format, your wording, your numbers.
Talk the job in from the truck; the formal bid is drafted before you’re back at the shop. You approve every number, then send — same day, sometimes from the driveway.
Set up for you. Not by you.
Send your past bids
Five to ten past bids and your rate sheet. That’s your whole part of the setup.
Your writer gets built — in about a week
Template, wording, and pricing rules extracted from your real work — then validated against your own bid history before you ever rely on it.
Talk the job in. Approve. Send.
From the truck or the kitchen table — describe the job the way you’d tell your best estimator. The formal bid comes back in your format. You check every number and hit send.
Built so it can’t lie to you.
- It never invents a price — your rates, applied by code, with the arithmetic shown.
- It refuses to write anything it has no rate for.
- Nothing goes out without your approval.
A wrong number on a bid costs real money — so the writer writes, and a calculator applies your rates. When it has no rate for something, it stops and says so. We demo that refusal on the walkthrough, on purpose.
“This was a very easy process. I’m impressed with your professionalism and I’m excited to use my new AI helper.”
— Chris Wolf, Wolf & Wolf (roofing & exteriors, Eastside)
His bid writer was built from and tested against 600+ of his own past bids.
From $750 per document type.
A “type” is one kind of document — roof bids, remodel bids, proposals, change orders. The price follows what that document costs you today:
Standard
$750
A bid takes you up to a couple of hours today
Heavy
$1,500
Half a day to a couple of days each
Anchor
from $2,250
20–40+ hours each — the document your business lives on
Most owners start with one type — usually bids. First type built in about a week. You see it working on your own past documents before you rely on it.
The Bid Desk — none of your bids die in silence.
Most estimates don’t lose — they get ghosted. One study of 2,241 companies found the average business takes 42 hours to respond to a lead, and 23% never respond at all. The Bid Desk follows up on every bid you send — polite, persistent, in your voice — and reports one number a month: jobs it won you.
$650 a month, month to month. No annual contract, no metered surprises. At trades margins, one recovered job covers it — everything after that is yours.
Best fit at 15+ estimates a month. Ask about it on the call.
A good fit if
- You send four or more bids, quotes, or proposals a month
- You can name what they cost you — the evenings, the weekend at the desk
- You have a folder of past bids and a rate sheet you trust
Not the fit — and I’ll say so
- Fewer than four a month — honestly, a template and ChatGPT will do
- You enjoy building your own tools — you don’t need me for this
Get your evenings back.
Twenty minutes: walk me through your last bid — how long it took, and when you wrote it. I’ll tell you honestly whether a bid bot pays for itself in your shop.
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