Takeoff and estimating software
Takeoff, pricing and the bid live in one place, so the number you send comes from the drawings you measured. Your whole team works on the same estimate, and so can your agent.
The assistant runs in your browser.What you ask it never leaves your computer.Smart Area: one click per room, curved walls included.
Drawings
Upload your plans and choose Detect with AI to read each title block for its sheet number and title. Organize sheets into folders by discipline, ready for your team to start the takeoff.
AI naming is optional. Keep the file’s original names or number the pages instead. See how your drawings are processed.
Revisions
Upload a revised drawing to its sheet and your takeoffs carry over. Compare revisions and BidCore marks what changed in red.
Fade the comparison in and out with a slider. Earlier revisions stay with the sheet.
Scopes and subcontracts
Lay out the work by trade, measure it by location, and export an Excel scope sheet for your subcontractors. Import their returned prices, compare quotes side by side, and carry the one you choose into your estimate.
Location rows keep each room’s quantity and price together. Compare inclusion answers alongside the numbers, and keep the other quotes for reference.
Inventory and teamwork
Inventory updates flag the item in your estimate. Sync when you’re ready to accept the new price or details.
Teammates working in the same estimate see your edits without refreshing. Separate indicators show inventory updates and edits made in the estimate, so you can review both, then sync or undo whenever you choose.
Roles and permissions
Bring in a takeoff specialist or remote estimator to measure your drawings. They work in your estimates and never see a price.
Their quantities reach your spreadsheet as they go, priced for you. Each member’s role decides what they can see and change.
Audit trail and submitted snapshots
Each proposal submission keeps its price, original PDF and a frozen snapshot of the estimate. Reopen a version to see the quantities, pricing and scope behind that bid.
The estimate’s audit log records who submitted each version and when, alongside pricing changes such as overhead and markup. Revise the estimate and submit again: earlier snapshots keep their original state and price.
Assistant
We tuned a small model on BidCore’s own commands, so it knows what to do with what you type.
It runs in your browser, so there is no trip to a server to wait for before it answers.
Nothing you type goes to a server or an AI provider. Only the result, like a new layer or a new project, is saved to your account.
Questions get an answer straight away. Anything that creates or moves something shows what it will do and waits for your yes.
Your computer · this browser tab
Any overdue bids?
BidCore assistant
Tuned by BidCore
Runs in your browser · responds in milliseconds
3 overdue bids
Your BidCore account
Agents
Use BidCore with your agent. Claude, or another agent that can use your browser, works in it the way you would: it reads the drawing, traces rooms into your takeoff and prices them from your catalogue, as you and with your permissions.
An agent acts as you, with your role’s permissions. Each change goes through the same actions as the buttons you click.
BidCore offers agent tools only after you allow them. Owners can switch them off for the organization, and deleting stays off until you turn it on. Those settings cover BidCore’s tools: an agent that works your browser can act as you either way, so you choose which agent to trust.
Your agent works in the browser tab where you are signed in. BidCore adds nothing to your machine.
Takeoff
Measure straight from your drawings at the scale printed on the sheet, imperial or metric.
Estimating
Price from your own catalogue of items, assemblies and templates.
Bids
Carry alternates and subcontracts alongside the base bid.
Team
Across the hall or across the globe, everyone on an estimate sees changes as they happen.
Formulas
Type a formula the way you would in Excel, or build it visually from nodes. It is the same formula either way, so switch whenever you like.
Functions like IF, ROUNDUP and CEILING, an optional leading =, and a keypad for the ones you would rather not type.
Name a value, like slab pitch, and use it in any formula. Variables save with the template.
Save a measurement template with its shape, units, formula and the items it counts, then reuse it on every takeoff.
Browse the free Market for starter libraries, preview one, and import it into your catalogue.
Export your takeoffs to Excel or CSV. The Excel workbook keeps each formula, not just its result, and it is built in your browser.
Privacy
Some of BidCore works on your computer, some of it in your team’s account, and some only when you ask. Here is which.
No cloud AI is involved in these.
The assistant
Your words are read in the browser tab and go no further.
Smart Area and Auto-count
Rooms and symbols are found on the page you are looking at.
Drawings on screen
Sheets are drawn and measured in your browser.
Stored for your team. Only people in your organization can open it.
Drawings and sheets
Uploaded once, then shared with your team.
Takeoffs, estimates and bids
The work your team builds together.
Messages and comments
Kept with the estimate they belong to.
Off until you turn them on.
Your own agent
BidCore’s agent tools start when you allow them. An agent in your browser can act as you either way, and what it reads goes to its provider, under your agreement with them.
Sheet names with AI
Choose it when you upload and BidCore reads each sheet for its number and title. Only then is an image of the page processed by AI. It is not used to improve products and is logged for a limited time for abuse checks.
No re-keying quantities into a spreadsheet. Measurements feed formulas, formulas feed pricing, and pricing feeds the proposal your client receives.
Pricing
Every person on your team takes one seat, owner included. Signups are private for now: request early access, once for your whole company, and we will send an invitation code for each user.
Takeoff, estimating and bids for your whole team, with an assistant and your own agent.
$39/ user / month
Request early accessWhat’s included
After you request access
Tell us about your team
One request per company: your company, your team size, how many users need access and what you use for takeoffs today.
We reply
We tell you when access opens for your team.
Get your team started
Get one invitation code per user. Create your company’s account on your own schedule, then invite the rest of your team from inside BidCore.