The product
AlphaBid replaces the click-counting, the manual Excel entry, and the bid-day PDF cleanup with one browser-based loop — purpose-built for Canadian plumbing, mechanical, and HVAC contractors.
Pipe runs, fixtures, joints, slab coring, equipment locations. The model reads the mechanical drawing the way an experienced estimator would — across every sheet in the set.
Quantities exported as a clean Excel sheet you can actually use. Add your unit prices, your assemblies, your markup — then re-upload to drive the estimate.
Your logo, contact details, HST line, line items, totals. A professional PDF the client sees — submit-ready, no formatting work on bid day.
Ask the AI anything about the drawing set. "How many hand sinks?" "What backflow is spec'd?" "Where does the 4" main change to 2"?" Answers grounded in the actual plans.
Drop in an addendum. See exactly what changed against the prior set — added fixtures, moved runs, schedule deltas — and update your quantities in one step.
Every detection, edit, and export is logged. When the GC asks how you got the number, you can show them. Useful at bid review. Critical at change-order time.
Workflow
Drop the mechanical PDF in. Multi-page sets, addenda, and scanned drawings all handled.
Pipe sizes, lengths, fixture counts, joints, slab coring — pulled the way an estimator would pull them.
Editable Excel takeoff. Apply your unit costs, your assemblies, your judgement. Re-upload when ready.
Branded PDF with your logo, address, HST line, line items, totals. Looks like you've had it formatted for years.
Attach the PDF, hit send. The takeoff that used to take a week is done in an afternoon.
"We've been building AlphaBid with the Coultice estimators on real GTA mechanical jobs since day one. They tell us what's missing in the legacy tools, what would save them a day a week, and what we'd be crazy to ship without."
— Coultice Mechanical, launch design partner (Toronto, ON)
Bring a real PDF. See the takeoff happen live. Walk out with the editable Excel.
Book a 20-min demoAI-generated takeoff quantities are estimates and may vary ±15% from actual field conditions. Every estimate is reviewed and approved by a qualified tradesperson before submission.