<p>Yes — that&#39;s exactly the point.</p> <p>BidLight puts a pricing database of roughly $30,000 in line items, sourced from Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans, directly inside Revit. You&#39;re not toggling between a spreadsheet, an email thread with three subs, and your model. You export, and the numbers are already there.</p> <p><strong>How it works:</strong></p> <ol><li>Export your Revit model into BidLight.</li><li>Two AI models read the geometry and metadata to classify BOQ line items — about 86% accuracy out of the box.</li><li>Current rates for labor, equipment, and material are pulled from the pricing database and matched to those line items.</li><li>You get a full cost and time estimate in minutes, not the days or weeks it takes to chase down quotes.</li><li>Change the design, and the estimate updates in real time — no re-sending RFQs to subs to see what shifted.</li></ol> <p>The result is a number backed by a documented source, not a gut feel or a stale quote from three months ago. That&#39;s what makes it defensible when a client or GC pushes back — you can show exactly where the price came from instead of saying &quot;that&#39;s what our sub told us.&quot;</p> <p>Subs still matter for final buyout pricing on a signed job. But for early estimates, budget checks, and the back-and-forth of design development, calling around for numbers is the slow, outdated way to do it. BidLight gets you a working estimate before that phone call would&#39;ve even been returned.</p>