Field teams and estimators: stop losing scope between the job walk and the keyboard.
Describe the project the way you'd brief a colleague — by voice, from the truck, while the details are still fresh. BuildBid parses the description into a structured draft estimate: line items, quantities, units, and pricing, ready for review.
Every parsed line carries a confidence flag and the assumption it rests on. Vague scope ("a couple hundred feet of fence, give or take") is surfaced as low-confidence and called out — never silently priced.
Voice drafts land in the same pipeline as uploaded-plan estimates: same review view, same proposal output, same correction loop. A change order captured by voice on Tuesday looks identical to a takeoff-built estimate by Thursday.
Talk through the job on your phone or desktop — trades, rough quantities, site conditions, exclusions. No template, no form fields. Typed descriptions work the same way.
The description becomes structured line items with quantities, units, and pricing from the same engine that powers plan extraction. Ambiguity becomes a flagged assumption, not a hidden guess.
Sweep the low-confidence rows, correct what the parser misheard, and export the proposal. Corrections feed the data flywheel, so the next voice draft starts smarter.
Voice capture — describe the scope conversationally; transcript shown live.
Parsed draft — line items with quantities, units, pricing, and confidence flags.
Review view — low-confidence rows surfaced first, assumptions inline.
Sample plans, zero setup. The draft comes back with quantities, confidence flags, and the source rows we used. You review before you send.