For owners and presidents
For owners and presidents of commercial subs.
BidTriage is not a tool for your estimators. It is the operating system for your bidding function, the visibility your CFO has been asking for, the discipline your senior estimator has been carrying alone, and the growth lever that does not require another hire.
The owner-felt problem
The bidding function nobody can see.
Six places it shows up before it shows up in your P&L. None of them are visible from the org chart.
- Problem 01
- You cannot grow revenue without hiring another $150K estimator. The bidding function does not scale with the work.
- Problem 02
- You are winning jobs that turn out unprofitable. There is no trace back to the bid decision that put you there.
- Problem 03
- Your senior estimator carries the bidding strategy in his head. He is two years from retirement.
- Problem 04
- Your CFO asks for monthly metrics on the estimating function. You cannot deliver them in a form she trusts.
- Problem 05
- Your insurance underwriter wants bid-quality data your team cannot produce.
- Problem 06
- You set strategy at the top of the year, but you cannot tell whether the bidding shop is executing it month to month.
The math
The math, at your team size.
| Team | Monthly waste | Annual waste | Hours recovered / est. / mo | BidTriage as % of recovered value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 estimators | $13,500/mo | $162,000/yr | ~30 hr | ~10% |
| 5 estimators | $22,500/mo | $270,000/yr | ~30 hr | ~9% |
| 8 estimators | $36,000/mo | $432,000/yr | ~30 hr | ~8% |
| 12 estimators | $54,000/mo | $648,000/yr | ~30 hr | ~7% |
| 15 estimators | $67,500/mo | $810,000/yr | ~30 hr | ~7% |
These numbers assume a $90/hour fully-loaded estimator cost and 50 wrong invites per estimator per week opened for 20 minutes each. We will model your real numbers on the demo call.
The owner dashboard
What you will see, every week.
BidTriage / Owner dashboard
Week of May 12, 2026 · Auto-updated daily
WIN RATE - TRAILING 12 MONTHS
18%
+4pp from twelve months ago
- JUN
- JUL
- AUG
- SEP
- OCT
- NOV
- DEC
- JAN
- FEB
- MAR
- APR
- MAY
Pursue / Review / Pass - last 30 days
- Pursue24%
- Review31%
- Pass45%
Discipline trending up. PASS rate is 8 points higher than 6 months ago.
Win rate by GC - top 8 by activity
| GC | Pursued | Won | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apex Industrial Group | 18 | 7 | 39% |
| Norman Regional Construction | 12 | 5 | 42% |
| Riverside Development | 9 | 1 | 11% |
| Greenway Capital | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Sandstone Logistics LP | 14 | 6 | 43% |
| Pinecrest Properties | 11 | 3 | 27% |
| Sunbelt REIT | 8 | 0 | 0% |
| Lakeshore Industrial Park | 6 | 2 | 33% |
Win rate by scope - last 12 months
- Pre-engineered metal26%
- Education22%
- Medical19%
- Industrial16%
- Office11%
- Retail8%
Rules - top 8 by fires in the last 30 days
- Preferred GC (top-12 list)47 fires
- PEMB scope > $5M margin floor34 fires
- In-region (200-mile radius from Tulsa)28 fires
- Education scope19 fires
- Medical scope17 fires
- Do-not-pursue GC list15 fires
- Specialty: hangar / aviation9 fires
- Margin floor: 18%7 fires
Estimator hours recovered - this month
224 hours
~$20,160 at $90/hour fully-loaded.
Across 8 estimators. Recovered from triaging the wrong invites that did not go to your team.
Live in your first 30 days. Real data from your team, scored against your own rules and history.
Your first 30 days
What happens in your first 30 days, the owner’s view.
- Week 01
You decide who gets read-only access. Our team connects ConstructConnect, ISqFt, BuildingConnected, and your shared estimator inbox. Your bids start landing in one place.
- Week 02
Your two best estimators give us their rules. Plain English. We codify them. They review and approve. Their institutional knowledge is now durable.
- Week 03
We run the model against your last twelve months of outcomes. New rules surface. Your team accepts, edits, or rejects each. You see your win rate broken out by GC, scope, and region for the first time.
- Week 04
Your team runs the daily queue. Your CFO gets the first weekly metrics email. You get the executive dashboard. Your senior estimator finally has time for pricing strategy instead of intake.
Owner to owner
Owner to owner.
I have spent enough time with the owner of our design-partner firm to know what is actually broken. It is not the estimators. They are good. They are running a process that has not been designed for the volume coming at them, against software that was built to push more invites into the queue rather than fewer. The math stops working at around eight estimators, and you feel it for years before you can name it.
I am building BidTriage because the bidding function is the only part of a commercial sub that has not had real software written for it. Estimating tools, project management, accounting, all fine. The decision of which bids your team should open in the first place lives in spreadsheets and someone’s head. That is where the real gain is.
I am looking for owners who want the same thing I want: a real instrument for running this function, not a dashboard pasted on top. If you can describe the shape of your bidding problem in three sentences, you are exactly who I want to talk to. I take every demo call for the first 25 customers personally.
Auston, founder · auston@bidtriage.com
Owner diligence
The deeper questions.
Q.What is the budget commitment?
Per-seat with volume tiering, annual contract. The order of magnitude is a small fraction of the recovered-value number on the ROI table above. We will model your team-specific number on the demo call. We do not publish pricing because the right number depends on your team size and the support package; we promise transparency on the call.
Q.How quickly do we see a return?
Hours recovered start showing up in week 4 as your team runs the daily queue. The CFO-grade weekly metrics start landing the same week. The full effect, where bidding decisions are systematically better and your senior estimator's rules are durable, lands in the first quarter.
Q.What does the contract look like?
Annual, per-seat, with a 30-day out for cause in the first quarter. We do not lock you in; we want you to stay because the value compounds, not because the paperwork made it hard to leave. Net-30 invoicing. Standard commercial software terms. No surprise auto-renewals.
Q.What happens if it does not work for our shop?
We have not had a customer fail to find value, but the honest answer is: in the first quarter, we will know together. If the platform is not earning its keep against your real ROI numbers at the end of Q1, we part ways cleanly. We would rather have a clean break and a working reference than a captive customer.
Q.Who else is using this?
Live with a Tulsa-based commercial metal-building GC under a paid Design Partner Agreement. Second commercial GC in a Sun Belt market in active onboarding evaluation. Two to three additional warm intros across Texas and the Mountain West in earlier conversations. We can connect you with the design partner directly on the diligence call.
Q.What is the data risk if we cancel?
Your data is yours. We export the full triage history, your rules, and your outcome data in machine-readable form on request. Full deletion within 30 days of cancellation, with a written confirmation. SOC-2 prep starts Q4 2027 and lands before we scale into enterprise procurement; we are honest that we are pre-SOC-2 today. Hosted on Google Cloud, US region. Per-customer isolation.
Talk to the founder
Book the call. We will model your actual ROI live, and you can walk away with a real number whether you sign or not.
This goes to Auston directly. We respond within one business day.