Bid/no-bid brief
The job, contract time, wage and material rules, and the risks that matter, so you can decide fast whether it’s worth pricing.
Free spec review · PTX Construction OS
Stop passing on bids you could win.
A free spec review for civil, utility and small GC contractors with more bid requests than hours to price them.
See what you might have missed on a bid you already submitted.
30-minute call · No cost
The problem
Why good bids get skipped.
- You pick bids by who has time to price them, not by which jobs you could win.
- Every bid package takes hours to read before you know if it’s worth pricing.
- Hiring another estimator is expensive and slow.
What you get
A full read of your bid package, shown on your own bid.
Risks buried in the specs
Each risk and requirement the AI flags, ranked by how much it could hurt, with the spec section it came from.
Trade-by-trade scope
The job broken into activities in the order it gets built, each line with its trade, so you can see what to self-perform and what to send to subs.
Suggested RFIs
Questions for the engineer, each with the page it came from, ready to send before the question deadline.
Screens show a sample bid with fictional data.
How it works
Three steps, about 30 minutes of your time.
Share a bid you already submitted
Send a Google Drive link to the bid package: specs, plans and any addenda.
Pick a time for your review call
Choose a slot when you submit. We run the review before the call.
Walk through the findings
On a 30-minute screen share, we go through what the review found.
Is this for you?
A good fit
Contractors bidding public work, roughly $2.5M–$20M a year, with a small estimating team or none at all.
Not a fit
Large GCs with a full preconstruction department. You already have the people and systems this is built to replace.
Veteran-owned · Direct founder support
Big-contractor capability, without the overhead.
When I worked for large contractors, we had big estimating teams, expensive software and a system for every step of a bid. I always wanted to bring that kind of capability to smaller companies, but they couldn’t afford the people or the systems.
Construction OS uses AI to give small contractors that capacity without adding overhead. When you book a review, you work with me directly.
Luke Thomis, Founder
Questions
Is it really free? What’s the catch?
Yes, it’s free, one review per company. We run it on a bid you’ve already submitted and walk you through the results. If it looks like a fit, we’ll tell you about the founding program on the call. There’s no obligation.
Is my bid data kept confidential?
Yes. Your documents are used to run your review and are never shared with other contractors.
What files do you need?
The full bid package for one bid you’ve already submitted: the specs, the plans and any addenda. Put them in a Google Drive folder set to “Anyone with the link can view.”
How long until the review call?
You pick the time when you submit. Calls are booked at least 24 hours out, so the review is finished before we meet.
Do I have to switch software?
No. The review needs nothing installed and doesn’t change how you bid or what your GCs use. You share a Drive link and join a call.
See how a spec review would change what you can bid.
See what you might have missed on a bid you already submitted.
30-minute call · No cost