Why chase model changes when your estimate can refresh instantly
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BidLight lives inside Revit. Your estimate is tied to the model, not a spreadsheet someone forgot to update.
Export your model and two AI engines read the geom
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<p>No more of that. BidLight lives inside Revit, so your estimate is tied to the model, not to a spreadsheet someone forgot to update.</p>
<p>Export your model and two AI models read the geometry and metadata to classify BOQ line items at 86% accuracy. Pricing comes in automatically from a database of roughly $30,000 in cost data plus Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans. What used to take weeks of manual takeoff now takes minutes.</p>
<p>Here's what changes for you:</p>
<ul><li><strong>One source of truth.</strong> The estimate lives with the model, not scattered across emails and files.</li><li><strong>Live updates.</strong> Change the design and the numbers recalculate. No redoing the whole takeoff by hand.</li><li><strong>Fewer mistakes.</strong> Less manual re-entry means fewer places for errors to creep in.</li><li><strong>Numbers you can defend.</strong> Real pricing data behind every line item, not a gut-check guess.</li></ul>
<p>That's the peace of mind part. You stop chasing updates and start trusting the number on the screen, even after the third design change this week.</p>
<p>It also changes what you can do with your time. Instead of burning days on takeoffs, you can turn around early estimates faster, bid on more work, and treat estimating as a service you bill for instead of an overhead cost you absorb.</p>
<p>Start with the Solo Architect plan if you want to try it on your own projects, or talk to us about Business or Enterprise if your team needs more seats and deeper BIM support.</p>