Bid-grade estimates
in minutes, not days.
A ±5% CSI estimate used to take your best estimator two or three days. DirtBid generates it in about a minute — soil-aware, regionally priced, and QA-checked — so you can bid more work without hiring more estimators.
±5% bid-grade line items
A full CSI-organized scope — earthwork, utilities, paving, E&S — priced from a Virginia cost library calibrated against real executed contracts.
The waterfall you actually use
Mobilization → contingency → overhead → profit → bond & insurance, compounded in the industry-standard order. Every intermediate number stored and defensible.
QA validation before you bid
Sanity checks estimators run in their head — pipe without manholes, asphalt without stone base, missing E&S, undocumented exclusions — flagged before the bid goes out.
Soil risk before mobilization
USDA soil data flags marine clay, muck, karst, and shallow rock on the parcel — so unsuitable-soils surprises become priced line items, not change-order fights.
5 team seats included
Your estimator, your PM, and you — one shared workspace, every project visible to the whole team.
A PDF your client takes seriously
Branded bid package with division breakdown, markup waterfall, and the Soil Risk Summary — generated in one click.
How contractors run a bid through DirtBid
Create a project with the county and acreage, and DirtBid immediately applies the right regional multiplier from its 8-region Virginia cost model and pulls the jurisdiction's soil-risk profile — marine clay in Fairfax prices differently than saprolite in Chesterfield, and the system knows it. Generate the estimate and the AI drafts a full CSI-organized scope — clearing, earthwork, storm, sanitary, water, paving, E&S — with every price validated against DirtBid's cost library bands. Anything outside the band gets flagged for your review, never silently accepted.
From there it's your estimate: override quantities and unit costs inline (overrides are tracked, originals preserved), tune the markup waterfall percentages to your bonding and overhead reality, run QA validation to catch missing scope, and export the branded PDF bid package. What used to be two days of spreadsheet work compresses into an afternoon of review.
Can I edit the AI’s line items?
Every quantity and unit cost is editable inline. Overrides are tracked with the original value preserved, so you can always see what the model proposed versus what you decided.
Does DirtBid match how I structure markup?
The waterfall — mobilization, contingency, overhead, profit, bond, insurance — compounds in the industry-standard order, and every percentage is adjustable per estimate.
What if a generated price looks wrong?
Prices outside the library’s regional band are flagged automatically. Flag any item yourself with one click, correct it, and the totals recalculate instantly.
Priced under a single seat of the legacy tools.
Legacy estimating suites run $400+ per seat per month and know nothing about your dirt. The Land Screening Plan is $2,500/month for five parcels; Pro is $4,500/month for ten with up to five seats — soil intelligence included.
Try It On Your Next Bid →