<p>It&#39;s the pricing engine that keeps your estimate honest.</p> <p>BidLight runs on a database of roughly $30,000 worth of current labor, equipment, and material pricing data, blended with trusted industry sources like Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans. That&#39;s the backbone every estimate pulls from the moment you export your Revit model.</p> <p>Here&#39;s why that matters. Most estimators lose hours chasing updated unit costs from scattered spreadsheets, vendor quotes, and last year&#39;s numbers. That&#39;s the real time sink, not the takeoff itself. BidLight&#39;s database removes that step. When you export your model, two AI models read the geometry and metadata, classify your BOQ line items at 86% accuracy, and price them against live data instead of guesswork.</p> <p>What this gets you in practice:</p> <ul><li><strong>Current pricing, not stale pricing.</strong> No manually checking whether last quarter&#39;s lumber cost still applies.</li><li><strong>Defensible numbers.</strong> When a client or GC pushes back on a bid, you can point to where the cost came from.</li><li><strong>Estimates in minutes, not days.</strong> The database does the lookup work so you&#39;re not rebuilding pricing sheets by hand.</li><li><strong>Numbers that move with the design.</strong> Change the model and the pricing updates in real time, pulling from the same dataset.</li></ul> <p>It&#39;s not a black box. It&#39;s the same kind of sourcing a seasoned estimator would trust, just applied automatically to every line item in your model.</p>