Plans in. Priced estimates out.
Takeoff eats days, so you pass on work. BidLine reads the plan set, takes off every line, and prices it against your own price book. Your costs, your labor rates, your markups. Every line shows how it was priced. You review it, you correct it, you send it, and BidLine keeps what you corrected.
AI takeoff and estimating software for commercial security and low-voltage contractors.
| Item | Qty | Unit | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
Card reader, single-gang, mullion RDR-40213 | 36 | $412.00 | $14,832.00 |
Door contact, recessedNeeds review no match | 58 | Not priced | |
Cable, 22/4 shielded plenum, 1000ft CBL-22406 | 12 | $186.00 | $2,232.00 |
- Card reader, single-gang, mullion$14,832.00RDR-40213 · 36 @ $412.00
- Door contact, recessedNot pricedno match · 58Needs review
- Cable, 22/4 shielded plenum, 1000ft$2,232.00CBL-22406 · 12 @ $186.00
From plan set to sent estimate.
Upload the plan set.
Drop in the drawings. Multi-pass extraction reads every sheet and takes off every line: devices, cable, hardware, labor.
Review the lines.
Every line shows how it was priced: Matched, Needs review, or AI priced. When the system isn’t sure, it says so. 6 lines need your review before this goes out.
Send the estimate.
Numbers anchored to your own price book, synced from ServiceTitan or imported. Export a clean XLSX carrying your item codes and send it the same day.
Your price book, not someone else’s averages.
BidLine reads in your price book: vendor costs, labor hours, markups. ServiceTitan syncs natively, and any other book comes in by import. Matching runs in stages, exact part numbers first and AI pricing last. Close calls get flagged, not guessed.
Exact matches first.
Part-number matches land before anything AI touches a price.
Prices that hold.
Matched values are snapshotted onto the estimate. Catalog updates never rewrite a bid you already sent.
Refuses to guess.
Lines the system can’t price with confidence are marked for you, not papered over.
An estimate you can defend, line by line.
You sign the bid, so you should be able to say where every number came from. BidLine labels every line, flags the ones it cannot price with confidence, and leaves the rest of your systems alone. Your estimator makes the call.
Every line shows its source.
Matched lines carry the price book entry they were priced from. Everything else reads Needs review or AI priced. Corrections your estimator makes are captured against the line they changed: what it was, what it became, and which sheet it came from.
Nothing sends itself.
BidLine flags what it is not sure about and stops there. Your estimator reviews the lines and corrects them. Nothing leaves BidLine until your estimator exports it.
Nothing gets ripped out.
Your proposal tool, your CRM, and your books stay where they are. BidLine writes to none of them. It exports an XLSX carrying your item codes.
It learns the way your people bid.
Your estimators know things the drawings do not say.
That a hospital corridor gets a different mount than an office one. That this GC's spec always means the mullion reader, not the single-gang. That you add on cable in a retrofit because the plenum is never as clean as the plan.
That knowledge lives in three people's heads and walks out the door when they retire.
BidLine writes it down. Every time an estimator re-picks an item, overrides a price, or fixes a labor line, the correction is captured against the line it changed and the sheet it came from. Not as an audit log. As your book.
Month one, BidLine prices off your price book. Month twelve, it prices off your price book and every call your estimators have made since.
Captured, not logged.
Every correction records what changed, what the line was flagged as, and which sheet it came from. Structured, not a note field.
It stays yours.
Your corrections are not pooled, not shared with other contractors, and never used to train anything outside your account. If you leave, the record leaves with you.
It survives your estimators.
The person who knows how you bid a school retrofit will retire. The way they bid it does not have to.
Built for the trades that bid from drawings.
Access control, video, and intrusion
Card readers, door contacts, cameras, panels, and the head end that ties them together. Dense device schedules spread across dozens of sheets, where manual takeoff burns entire days.
Structured cabling and datacom
Drops, backbone, racks, and pathway. Long repetitive counts across every floor plan, the part of takeoff nobody wants to do by hand.
AV and low-voltage generalists
Mixed scopes on one job: displays, speakers, cable, backboxes, and the labor to hang it. One workspace to price all of it against your own book.
Gates, barriers, and commercial doors
This one is next, not shipped. You bid perimeter gates, operators, and openings where the hardware schedule is the bid, a different problem than a floor of devices. We are opening that work to founding partners in this trade.
One book. One method. Every branch.
Run three branches and you have three ways of estimating. Buy a company and you inherit a fourth, along with its spreadsheets, its margins, and its own idea of what a card reader costs.
The first estimate at the new location is not the hard part. The hard part is getting every location bidding off numbers you control, in a form comparable enough that you can tell which branch is bidding thin and which one is leaving margin on the table.
When corrections are captured the same way everywhere, that comparison stops being an argument and starts being a report.
Scale and Enterprise are built for contractors in that position. Today it is design work, not a shipped feature, and we are opening it to founding partners who run multiple branches or are buying other contractors.
Prove it on your own bids first.
Every contractor starts with a paid 45-day pilot, run on your plan sets and your price book. If the numbers hold up and you sign, the pilot fee comes off your first year and you pick the tier that fits your volume.
Bring up to three of your hardest recent bids. We load your price book, run those plan sets, and compare the output to the estimates you already approved, line by line. The $5,000 is credited in full to your annual agreement if you sign within 30 days of the pilot ending.
- Your price book loaded, ServiceTitan sync or import
- Up to three real plan sets run end to end
- Line-by-line comparison against your approved estimates
- A written scorecard: what matched, what needed review, what we missed
- Founder-led onboarding and a weekly working session
Team
For a two-estimator shop that bids steadily off drawings.
- 2 estimator users, about 20 estimates a month
- One price book, ServiceTitan sync or import
- Full review workspace, per-line status: Matched, Needs review, AI priced
- XLSX export with your item codes
Growth
Our recommended tierFor an estimating team that turns down work on capacity.
- 5 estimator users, about 75 estimates a month
- Everything in Team
- Estimator corrections captured, structured, and kept in your account, so BidLine prices closer to your numbers every month
- Monthly working session with the people building it
Scale
For contractors standardizing estimating across branches.
- Up to 15 estimator users, about 250 estimates a month
- Everything in Growth
- Onboarding runs branch by branch with a named lead
- Multiple price books and API access are not shipped. We scope them with Scale founding partners.
Enterprise
For multi-brand groups with procurement and security review.
- Estimator seats and estimate volume scoped to your group
- Your security review and paperwork handled directly with us
- SSO and role-based access are not shipped. We scope them with Enterprise founding partners.
- Commercial terms, support response, and rollout written into the agreement
Implementation is priced separately, from $3,000, and is scoped after the pilot. Every tier runs a twelve-month minimum term, invoiced annually. Founding-partner spots are limited, and we onboard each one ourselves.
Questions, answered straight.
What does BidLine actually do?
Does BidLine integrate with ServiceTitan?
Which contractors is BidLine built for?
How accurate is the AI takeoff?
Do we have to replace the software we bid and propose from today?
How much does BidLine cost?
Who can see our price book and our margins?
What happens to the corrections our estimators make?
How do I get started?
Bid every job.
Upload a real plan set and watch your numbers come back, priced from your own book.
Bring your hardest recent bid.
30 minutes with a founder. Bring a bid you already sent, with the plan set. We price it against your own book and walk the lines next to your numbers.