<p>Specialized-trade pricing in BidLight comes straight from your Revit model — no calls to subs, no PDF price books to dig through.</p> <p>Here&#39;s how it works:</p> <ol><li><strong>Export your model.</strong> BidLight reads geometry and metadata directly from Revit.</li><li><strong>AI classifies the line items.</strong> Two AI models sort BOQ line items — including specialized trade scopes — at 86% accuracy, so you&#39;re not manually tagging each one.</li><li><strong>Pricing gets applied automatically.</strong> Costs are pulled from BidLight&#39;s own database of roughly $30,000 in priced items, cross-referenced against Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans — sources built on current market and labor cost data across trades.</li><li><strong>The estimate updates live.</strong> Change the design in Revit and labor, equipment, material, and time costs recalculate in minutes, not days.</li></ol> <p>The point is that you&#39;re working from current, sourced pricing the moment you export — not a rate sheet someone emailed you last quarter or a number a sub gave you over the phone. That&#39;s also what makes the output defensible when a client or GC pushes back on a number: you can point to where it came from.</p> <p>If a trade&#39;s scope is unusual enough that it needs a closer look, that&#39;s where BidLight&#39;s done-for-you BIM services come in — execution plans, 4D/5D, and fabrication detailing — but for day-to-day estimating, the in-Revit workflow is built to keep you out of calls and PDFs entirely.</p>