The estimator retires. The pricing stays.
Every bid, negotiated clause, scope letter, unit rate and post-mortem your firm has produced — asked in plain language and answered with the document, the page and the date it came from.
What it does
Ask it the way you would ask the person who has been here thirty years: what did we exclude on the last hospital for this owner, what did we price curtain wall at in that market, which sub finished the 2021 data centre on time. The answer comes back with the bid, the letter or the rate sheet behind it, dated and open to read — while the bid is still being written, not after it went out.
It is one head of GR Brain, reading your record alone and never pooled with anyone else's. Access follows the permissions the documents already carry, so a bid nobody should see does not surface in an answer. Where the record is silent, it says so — an unanswered question is cheaper than an invented one.
In practice
- 01
Take the record in
Past bids, scope letters, negotiated contracts, rate sheets, post-mortems and the correspondence around them — including the folders that only ever lived on one estimator's drive.
- 02
Ask in plain language
Questions go in the way people ask them across the table, not as keywords. Answers name the document, the page and the date, and open on the original rather than a summary of it.
- 03
Keep it current
Every bid you submit, clause you negotiate and job you close joins the record the same week. The library gets deeper each quarter instead of leaving the building with people.
Spec
- INDEXED
- BIDS · LETTERS · RATE SHEETS
- ANSWERS
- CITED · DOC · PAGE · DATE
- ACCESS
- INHERITS DOCUMENT PERMISSIONS
- SOURCES
- YOUR RECORD ALONE
100 %
Answers returned with the document, page and date behind them