How did one estimator turn bidlight into a service she can bill for
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A BIM coordinator can sell coordination as a deliverable by publishing early and keeping the record current while details are still loose.
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<p>A BIM coordinator can sell coordination as a deliverable by publishing early and keeping the record current while details are still loose.</p>
<p>Here is the play:</p>
<ul><li>Publish from the Revit model during design development.</li><li>Compare revisions and pin issues to the elements that need decisions.</li><li>Package it as advice: the issue log plus a short note on trade-offs.</li><li>Charge a fixed fee for the coordination review, separate from modeling hours.</li></ul>
<p>Because every publish is a versioned snapshot, keeping the record current does not mean starting over. The 6am digest keeps owners on what they hold, and closed issues carry a screenshot, a tagged user and the model commit.</p>
<p>Clients start seeing you as the person who finds problems while they cost about $50 to fix, not $5,000 to $50,000. That is a service worth paying for.</p>