<p>You already paid for RSMeans, Craftsman, or 1Build data as part of your BidLight subscription — and most teams never touch it. BidLight was built around that waste.</p> <p>Instead of buying a database and then hand-keying quantities against it in a spreadsheet, BidLight pulls pricing straight from a combined database of roughly $30,000 in cost data, layered with Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans, and connects it directly to your Revit model. Two AI models read the geometry and metadata in that model to classify BOQ line items at 86% accuracy, so the pricing data actually gets applied instead of sitting in a login you forgot about.</p> <p>Here&#39;s what that looks like in practice:</p> <ol><li>Export your Revit model into BidLight.</li><li>The AI classifies line items against material, labor, and equipment categories automatically.</li><li>Current pricing from the database gets attached to each item — no manual lookup.</li><li>You get labor, equipment, material, and time costs in minutes.</li><li>Change the design, and the estimate updates in real time — the data keeps working instead of going stale.</li></ol> <p>The point isn&#39;t just access to pricing data. It&#39;s that the data is wired into your actual model, so every quantity takeoff is already priced, current, and defensible when a client or GC pushes back on a number. You paid for the subscription either way — BidLight is what makes it worth paying for.</p>