<p>Pricing data quality matters because your estimate is only as good as the price behind it, and bad pricing turns a winning number into a losing job you discover in the field weeks later.</p> <p>BidLight pulls pricing from a database that costs roughly $30,000 a year to maintain, plus Craftsman, 1Build and RSMeans. Two AI models read your geometry and metadata and classify BOQ line items at 86% accuracy. You get labor, equipment, material and time costs in minutes, and when the design moves, the cost moves with it.</p> <p>A number you can defend wins the bid. A guess loses the margin.</p> <p>What to check before you trust any pricing engine:</p> <ul><li>Current sources, not last year's book.</li><li>Classification accuracy measured on line items.</li><li>A direct connection to the model, inside Revit and Navisworks.</li><li>Version history, with every publish saved and comparable element by element.</li><li>Costs that update when the design changes.</li></ul> <p>In one case study, a team saved 680 hours and saw a 35% higher win rate. Your early estimate becomes a service you can bill for.</p>