AI Bidding for Commercial Contractors
Your bids take days.
They should take hours.
BidAnvil is AI-powered bid generation for commercial contractors. Drop your documents, review the numbers, download a finished bid in your format — configured for your trade, your template, your rate card.
40–60%
Bid prep time cut
Your template
Output format
Private
Never trained on your data
Any trade
Configured per shop
The problem
Your competitor automated this last quarter.
01
Buried in docs.
Your estimator sits with a stack of drawings and specs, counting fittings and looking up rates for 10, 12, 15 hours. By the time the bid goes out, three faster shops already submitted.
02
Key-man risk.
When your best estimator takes a week off, the bid pipeline stops. Their rates, their markup logic, their knowledge of what the client actually wants — it’s all in their head.
03
Revenue on the floor.
You’re no-bidding jobs you could win because you don’t have the bandwidth to chase them. Every bid you skip is revenue you’ll never see.
How it works
Drop your docs. Review the numbers. Download the bid.
Upload
Drop your bid package.
Scope documents, specifications, drawings, BOMs, rate sheets — drop them in. BidAnvil classifies everything automatically and extracts what matters.
Review
Confirm the numbers.
BidAnvil builds a line-item table with quantities, resolves your rates, and computes live totals. Your estimator reviews every row. Nothing ships without their confirmation.
Download
Generate and ship.
Hit synthesize. BidAnvil generates a formatted bid in your house template — your terminology, your markup, your compliance language. Cross-checks against every spec. Download the .docx. Send it.
Human-in-the-loop. Your estimator stays the final authority — BidAnvil builds the first draft so they can react to numbers instead of starting from a blank page.
Review-gatedDon’t take our word for it.
Walk through the three steps yourself with a pre-loaded sample bid.
The differentiator
Not another AI that writes like AI.
Generic AI
BidAnvil
Outputs a document that sounds like a chatbot wrote it.
Outputs in YOUR template, YOUR terminology, YOUR markup — reviewed by YOUR estimator before it leaves.
Doesn’t know what your specs require.
Cross-checks your draft against every compliance requirement in the bid package and flags gaps before you submit.
Forgets everything between sessions.
Tracks your bid volume, review time, win rate, and ROI — and shows you the numbers every quarter.
Built for the trades
One platform. Configured per trade.
BidAnvil isn’t a generic AI with a trade-skin. Each vertical is configured against real documents, real rate cards, and real compliance requirements from that trade’s work — tuned with design partners before it ships.
Pipe fabrication
Live todayASME / API-aware bid generation with isometric drawing interpretation, process-specific labor rates, and compliance cross-check.
- ASME B31.3 · API 570
- Iso drawing parsing
- SMAW / GTAW / GMAW / FCAW / SAW
Roofing
Early accessProposal assembly on top of your measurement stack — Hover, EagleView, CompanyCam. Design partner slots open.
- Measurement integration
- Warranty language
- Commercial + industrial
General contracting
Early accessScope extraction, sub-bid parsing, and compliance cross-check layered on your Procore / STACK / Sage stack.
- Sub-bid normalization
- Spec cross-check
- GMP + lump-sum output
Mechanical / MEP
In designRate-aware assembly for HVAC, plumbing, and industrial mechanical scopes. Accepting input on scope specs now.
- Industrial MEP
- Code cross-check
- Accubid-compatible output
Don’t see your trade? If your shop does repeat bids against defined codes or specs, BidAnvil can probably be configured for you. Get in touch →
ROI preview
The math is simple.
Monthly bid labor
$7,800
Back in your pocket (40–60%)
$3,120 – $4,680 / mo
Or roughly 10 more bids your team can chase.
Based on industry data from ServiceTitan and Varseno: AI-assisted bid generation reduces prep time 40–60% on average.
Design partner program
We’re onboarding three partner shops.
BidAnvil is live and working. We’re looking for three shops to join our design partner program — early access at half price for a 6-month commitment, in exchange for case study rights and feedback that shapes the product.
- ✓50% off monthly rate for the first 6 months
- ✓Direct line to the person building the tool
- ✓Prompt tuning against your actual rate card and templates
- ✓Published case study (anonymized if preferred)
Pricing
Transparent pricing. No enterprise sales calls.
Setup
Includes discovery, configuration against your real bid documents, prompt tuning, and 2–3 revision cycles until the output matches your house style.
Monthly
Includes hosting, unlimited bids, ongoing prompt maintenance, quarterly ROI review, and direct support. Rate depends on team size and bid volume.
Design partners
50% off monthly for the first 6 months. 2 slots remaining.
All bid documents are processed privately. We never train on your data. Documents can be purged on request.
Ready to bid faster?
Stop starting every bid from a blank page.
Book a 15-minute call. We’ll scope your setup, show you the tool, and answer whatever you bring.