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You are not choosing
between two tools.
You are choosing whether
the seam stays manual.
The honest comparison is not ArosBid against your takeoff software. It is ArosBid against how a pursuit runs on your desk today — the inbox, the share drive, and the spreadsheet built in the last hour before close.
Stage by stage.
Seven stages of a pursuit, as they run now and as they run with the gate in place.
- 01IntakeHow it runs now
An invitation lands in somebody’s mailbox. Whoever opens it first decides, informally, whether it is worth chasing.
With ArosBidThe invitation is recognised, a pursuit workspace opens, and the close calendar is drafted against the real dates in the documents.
- 02Reading the setHow it runs now
Whoever has hours available skims the sections they always skim. The front end is read last, if at all.
With ArosBidEvery document and every addendum is read, including the front end, and each finding is cited to the document and page that proves it.
- 03Bid / no-bidHow it runs now
A hallway conversation, decided on memory of how this general contractor behaved last time.
With ArosBidScored against your own record with that GC and against comparable pursuits you have already closed.
- 04Vendor solicitationHow it runs now
RFQ packages assembled by hand and sent by hand. Follow-ups happen when somebody remembers.
With ArosBidPackages drafted per trade, and every open quote tracked with follow-ups until it lands or the trade is covered.
- 05LevelingHow it runs now
A spreadsheet built in the last hour before close. Vendor totals are trusted as printed and exclusions live in the fine print.
With ArosBidEvery quote normalised to the same scope lines, each stated total reconciled against its own itemisation, exclusions pulled out and priced.
- 06ProposalHow it runs now
Scope, clarifications and exclusions written from memory and from whatever the last similar job said.
With ArosBidAssembled from the decisions actually recorded during this pursuit, so what you send matches what you priced.
- 07After submissionHow it runs now
The folder closes. Why the bid was lost is rarely written down, so the next pursuit starts from the same blank page.
With ArosBidBuyout, bonds, turnover and debrief run in the same workspace, and the bid-to-win gap feeds the next number.
Where everyone actually sits.
The category is not one queue. Most tools solve a different stage of preconstruction, and knowing which stage is the whole buying decision.
| Stage | Category | Examples | Built for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quantities | AI quantity takeoff | Togal.AI, Drawer AI | Reading drawings to detect, measure, count and label elements automatically, returning structured quantities without manual measurement. |
| Cost | Preconstruction estimating | Ediphi, Quotr | Centralising cost management and estimating — cost modelling, value engineering and detailed estimates from early design onward. |
| Risk | Contract and document AI | ContraVault | Reviewing contracts and project documents for risk, alongside takeoff and project-management tooling. |
| Schedule | Schedule optimisation | ALICE Technologies | Generating and comparing construction schedule options against constraints and resourcing. |
| Intake | Bid sourcing | BuildingConnected, ConstructConnect, SmartBid | Distributing and aggregating invitations to bid between general contractors and subcontractors. |
| The seam | Running the pursuit | ArosBid | Reading the whole set including the front end, drafting every send, reconciling every total as code, and stopping at a human before anything leaves the office. |
Why we would back ourselves.
Five claims, each of which you can check on a walkthrough rather than take on faith.
- 01We read the front end
Most of the category starts at the drawings. The clauses that disqualify a bid — mandatory attendance, prequalification, bonding thresholds — live in Division 00 and 01, and we read those first.
- 02We do not price by model
Every extension, sum, reconciliation and allowance is deterministic integer-cent code. A takeoff that is five percent light is checkable; a hallucinated total is not.
- 03The gate is architecture
The mail connector cannot release anything that does not cite a recorded, approved decision. It is not a confirmation dialog the agent could route around.
- 04We run the whole cycle, not one stage
Intake, review, bid/no-bid, BOM, RFQs, leveling, budget, proposal, readiness, then buyout and debrief. The seam between stages is where bids are lost.
- 05Your stack is untouched
We do not measure quantities and do not want to. Takeoff, cost data and accounting stay exactly where they are, which is why we integrate with them rather than replace them.
Why choose us.
Four things that are architecture rather than features, which is why no plan removes them.
- Nothing auto-sends
The mail connector will not release anything that does not cite a recorded, approved decision. It is not a setting on any plan.
- Money is computed, not predicted
Every extension, sum, reconciliation and allowance runs as deterministic integer-cent arithmetic. No model prices your job.
- The agent never holds a credential
Capability-scoped connectors hold the keys, enforce access, and log every allowed and every refused request in your own deployment.
- Your instance, your data
An isolated deployment on your own subdomain with your own database and document store, signed into with your Microsoft Entra ID.
Built by Arosplatforms
We build AI operating systems that run your whole business.
ArosBid is the construction vertical of Arosplatforms, an AI consulting firm that builds industry-specific AI operating systems and ships them end to end — strategy, custom development, agents and automation, retrieval systems, MLOps, and governance.
arosplatforms.com- 12industry AI operating systems, of which preconstruction is one
- 40+clients served across those industries
- 3 weeksto first value, as published by Arosplatforms
- AI strategy & advisory
- Custom AI development
- Agents & automation
- RAG & knowledge systems
- MLOps & infrastructure
- Governance & security
Figures as published by Arosplatforms.