<p>&quot;Staff The Right Crew, Not A Guess&quot; is about knowing how many people you need before you commit, instead of padding the number and hoping.</p> <p>Here is the headache it solves. You win the job, then you guess at crew size off gut feel and old spreadsheets. Guess high and you eat the cost. Guess low and you fall behind schedule.</p> <p>BidLight reads your Revit model and gives you labor costs alongside material, equipment, and time, all in minutes. That is the core of bim vs traditional cost estimating in aec. Traditional takeoffs mean someone counts by hand, then redoes it every time the design moves. With your model driving the numbers, the labor forecast updates in real time when the design changes.</p> <p>How to put it to work:</p> <ol><li>Build or open your model in Revit.</li><li>Export to BidLight.</li><li>Read the labor forecast next to material, equipment, and time costs.</li><li>Adjust the design and watch the crew estimate update.</li><li>Track the work with the built-in Kanban board that pulls from those same predictions.</li></ol> <p>The two AI models classify your BOQ line items at 86% accuracy, and pricing comes from a large cost database plus sources like RSMeans. So when you tell a client how many hands and how many hours, you have numbers you can defend.</p> <p>Staff to the work, not to a hunch.</p>