<p>A stale unit cost in your pricing database takes margin before the first sub signs. A $0.50 miss on one line looks small until it runs across the whole takeoff. Then it is real money gone.</p> <p>BidLight keeps current pricing in the model. Two AI models read geometry and metadata and classify BOQ line items at 86% accuracy, pulling from a roughly $30,000 pricing database plus Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans. You export from Revit or Navisworks and get labor, equipment, material, and time costs in minutes. When the design changes, the number updates in real time. No side-by-side PDF comparison, no re-doing takeoffs.</p> <p>How to catch the leak:</p> <ol><li>Stop pricing from last year&#39;s spreadsheet.</li><li>Export straight from the live model, not a copied file.</li><li>Let the AI classify the line items and pull current pricing.</li><li>Check the diff between export versions element by element.</li><li>Bill the early estimate as a service when it holds up.</li></ol> <p>Numbers you can defend win the work. Plans run from Basics at $260 per licence per year to Max at $590.</p>