Takeoffs01
Smart Plan Takeoffs
Upload plans and let AI identify grading, paving, and utility quantities automatically.
Real data + AIFor land developers and site contractors
Know what the land will costbefore you commit.
Main Street Commercial Site · Chesterfield, VA · 6.2 ACIllustrative product data
29Pricing regionsEach with its own cost multiplier
3,000+Counties across the USHazard-mapped with a soil-risk profile
Bid-GradeHighest accuracyMeasured against signed contracts
What DirtBid AI checksOn every parcel you screen
USDA soil map & map unitsHydrologic groupWater table & rock depthUnsuitable & drainage flagsMarine clayMuckKarst
Shallow rockCSI-organized line itemsMarkup waterfallBranded PDF reports452 pricing regions3,000+ counties across the US
Powerful · Practical · Purpose-built
Everything you need to price with confidence. From takeoffs to markup, DirtBid AI gives you the tools, data, and intelligence to win more work — all in one place.
Cost library02
Regional Cost Library
Regionally priced, CSI-organized line items across 29 pricing regions, built and maintained by our estimating team.
AI assistant03
AI Scope Assistant
Get a complete, priced scope with missing-item warnings before you bid.
Reports04
Professional Reports
Branded PDF estimates with markup waterfall, division breakdown, and a one-page Soil Risk Summary.
Why not just ask a chatbot?
One search on ChatGPT or Claude can’t price your dirt.
Ask a general AI chatbot for a sitework estimate and you’ll get a confident, generic answer. DirtBid AI works the other way around: a team of estimators and engineers built the data, and our AI builds every report from it.
A general AI chatbotOne search, one guess
- Answers from general internet text
- Generic, national price guesses
- Knows nothing about the county you’re building in
- No way to trace where a number came from
- Never checked against a real bid
DirtBid AIReal data, built by people, powered by AI
- Reads the official USDA soil survey for your exact parcel
- Regionally priced, CSI-organized line items from our cost library
- County risk profiles and local cost multipliers for 3,000+ counties across the US
- An audited markup waterfall — every line defensible
- Measured against real executed contracts
Built by people, powered by AI. 30+ years of sitework estimating expertise, encoded into our cost model and checked against real executed contracts.
The data underneath
Built on Real Data — Not Guesses
Every number in DirtBid AI has a source you can name.
01Official USDA Soil Survey
Live API data from USDA-NRCS
Marine clay, muck, karst, and shallow rock flagged before you price the dirt — the same soil data geotechnical engineers start from.
023,000+ Counties Across the US, Hazard-Mapped
Every county and city we price
Profiled with dominant soils, risk scores, and local cost multipliers — the knowledge that usually takes a career to learn.
03A Waterfall That Holds Up
Audited decimal math
Mobilization, contingency, overhead, profit, bond, insurance — computed in the industry-standard order. Every bid defensible line by line.
How it works
How DirtBid AI Works
From plans to a winning bid — in three simple steps.
1
Upload Plans
Upload your site plans (PDF or images). AI automatically identifies grading, paving, and utility quantities.
2
Build Estimate
Get CSI-organized line items with real-item pricing. Adjust quantities, override costs, and add notes.
3
Win the Bid
Generate a professional PDF report with markup waterfall. One-click export — ready for your client.
Proven against signed contracts
We measure our estimates against real executed contracts.
Real bids
Every estimate is benchmarked against signed, executed contracts — not national averages
$250K
The real soil change-order a $350 Soil Report is built to flag in advance
30+ yrs
Sitework estimating expertise encoded into the cost model
Pricing
Simple, Transparent Pricing
Screen one parcel, or put every parcel through the same check. Preview the soil screen free.
Soil Report
One parcel · soils only
$350 / parcel
The "is this parcel worth a real look" check. No dollars.
- USDA soil map & map units
- Hydrologic group
- Water table & rock depth
- Unsuitable & drainage flags
- One-page branded PDF
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Land Screening
One parcel · the product
$950 / parcel
Everything in the Soil Report plus the CSI site work estimate.
- Full Soil Report
- CSI-organized site work estimate
- Regional pricing · markup waterfall
- Estimate + Soil Report PDFs
- First one: 20-min walkthrough with Barrett
Land Screening Plan
For developers & contractors
$2,500 / month
or $25,000/yr — 2 months free
Five parcels a month — LOIs, bid invites, site sub checks.
- 5 Land Screenings / month ($500 each)
- Extra parcels $500 · no rollover
- Feasibility and Bid-Grade estimates
- AI scope assistant + QA validation
- 2 team seats
Pro
For estimating teams
$4,500 / month
or $45,000/yr — 2 months free
Ten parcels a month for a busy estimating desk.
- 10 Land Screenings / month ($450 each)
- Extra parcels $450 · no rollover
- Feasibility and Bid-Grade estimates
- AI scope assistant + QA validation
- Up to 5 seats
Need more than ten parcels a month, or a calibrated cost library for your firm? Talk to us
Can’t I just ask ChatGPT or Claude for an estimate?
You can — and you’ll get a confident, generic guess. A general chatbot doesn’t have the USDA soil survey for your exact parcel, a regional unit-cost library, county risk profiles, or a cost model checked against signed contracts. DirtBid AI’s data was built by a team of estimators and engineers, and our AI builds every report from that data, not from the open internet.
How accurate are DirtBid AI estimates?
Bid-Grade is our highest-accuracy mode for bid-ready numbers and Feasibility is built for fast go / no-go budgets. Both price from a cost library covering 29 pricing regions, validated against regional bands and anchored to real executed contracts. Every estimate is a planning-level tool — final pricing always depends on plans and site conditions.
Does a Soil Report replace a geotechnical study?
No — it is the screening step before one. For $350 it reads the official USDA survey for your parcel and flags whether the ground carries risks worth a full geotech investigation.
How does the free preview work?
No credit card: run one free soil screen on a parcel you know — the sitework risk score, top USDA hazards and soil names. Full Soil Reports, estimates, the AI assistant, and team features unlock with any product or plan.
Know the dirt before you commit.
Start your free preview with one soil screen. No credit card. No setup fees.
- No credit card
- One free soil screen
- Real cost data, not a chatbot guess