<p>You are paying someone with estimating skills to hunt down files. That is the real cost.</p> <p>Here is what happens every week. Someone moves a duct. Nobody knows who, when, or why, so the coordination meeting burns two hours finding out. Issues sit scattered across Teams, email, and Bluebeam. Someone compares exports side by side, the way it was done in 2005. The estimate goes stale, and nobody sees it until the GC meeting three weeks after the slip started.</p> <p>BidLight keeps one live record of the project inside Revit and Navisworks. You publish straight from the model, every export is versioned and diffed element by element, and issues land in a digest by 6am that shows what you own. Two AI models read geometry and metadata to classify BOQ line items at 86% accuracy, pulling current pricing from a roughly $30,000 database plus Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans. Export and you get labor, equipment, material, and time costs in minutes. Change the design and the number updates in real time.</p> <p>Plans run from Basics at $260 per licence per year to Max at $590. Enterprise is custom.</p> <p>So the estimator goes back to estimating. That is the win.</p>