<p>You stay in Revit. You export your model to BidLight, and minutes later you have labor, equipment, material, and time costs you can defend. Here is how it runs:</p> <ol><li><strong>Build your model in Revit.</strong> Keep working the way you already do, with geometry and metadata in place.</li><li><strong>Export to BidLight.</strong> One handoff from the model you already have.</li><li><strong>Let the two AI models read it.</strong> They classify your BOQ line items at 86% accuracy by reading geometry and metadata, so you skip the manual takeoff.</li><li><strong>Get priced.</strong> BidLight pulls current pricing from its own roughly $30,000 database plus Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans.</li><li><strong>Review the breakdown.</strong> Material, equipment, labor, and time costs land in minutes.</li><li><strong>Change the design, watch the number move.</strong> Estimates update in real time, so you stop chasing scattered revisions.</li><li><strong>Track it on the Kanban board.</strong> Material, equipment, and labor predictions feed project management at the project or program level.</li></ol> <p>That last part is what people mean by 5D BIM cost estimation: your 3D model carries cost and schedule data too, so the estimate lives with the design instead of in a separate spreadsheet.</p>