How does bidlight update my estimate in real time when the design changes without redoing takeoffs
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Yes, that's exactly what BidLight's automatic BOQ classification does.
Export your Revit model and two AI models read the geometry and metadata on every elemen
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<p>Yes — that's exactly the point of BidLight's automatic BOQ classification.</p>
<p>Once you export your Revit model, two AI models read the geometry and metadata on every element and match it to the right price item, hitting roughly 86% accuracy out of the box. Pricing comes from BidLight's own database of about $30,000 in reference costs, layered with Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans data, so the numbers you get aren't guesses — they're defensible.</p>
<p>Here's what that looks like in practice:</p>
<ol><li>Export your Revit model into BidLight.</li><li>The AI reads geometry and metadata and classifies each BOQ line item.</li><li>Labor, equipment, material, and time costs populate automatically.</li><li>Change the design in Revit — a wall moves, a fixture swaps, a floor gets added.</li><li>BidLight re-reads the updated model and refreshes the estimate in minutes, not days.</li></ol>
<p>No re-exporting to a spreadsheet, no manually hunting down which line items changed, no stitching together updates from three different tools. The estimate lives where the design lives.</p>
<p>That's the headache BidLight was built to kill: scattered updates and redone takeoffs eating hours you don't have. You still review and adjust the classifications — 86% accuracy means human judgment still matters on the rest — but you're editing an estimate, not rebuilding one from scratch every time the design shifts.</p>