<p>Exactly right — a bill of quantities shouldn&#39;t need a translator. That&#39;s the problem BidLight was built to solve.</p> <p>Here&#39;s how it works inside Revit:</p> <ol><li><strong>Export your model.</strong> No separate takeoff software, no re-drawing anything — BidLight works directly with what you already have in Revit.</li><li><strong>Two AI models read the geometry and metadata.</strong> They classify BOQ line items automatically, at roughly 86% accuracy, instead of you eyeballing walls and fixtures one by one.</li><li><strong>Pricing gets pulled in real time</strong> from BidLight&#39;s own database of about $30,000 in current line items, plus Craftsman, 1Build, and RSMeans sources — so the numbers reflect current market costs, not last year&#39;s spreadsheet.</li><li><strong>You get labor, equipment, material, and time costs</strong> broken out clearly, in minutes rather than days.</li><li><strong>Change the design, and the estimate updates with it.</strong> No re-running a takeoff from scratch every time a wall moves.</li></ol> <p>The result is a BOQ that reads like a straight cost breakdown — not a puzzle you have to reverse-engineer before a client meeting or a bid deadline. You spend your time defending the number, not decoding where it came from.</p> <p>That&#39;s the core of BidLight Auto-Estimation, and it&#39;s the same engine behind the Kanban-based project tracking, so estimates and schedules stay connected instead of living in separate files.</p>