Bid-grade estimates
in minutes, not days.
A bid-grade CSI estimate used to take your best estimator two or three days. DirtBid AI generates it in about a minute — soil-aware, regionally priced, and QA-checked — so you can bid more work without hiring more estimators.
At a glance
Bid-Grade line items
A full CSI-organized scope — earthwork, utilities, paving, E&S — priced from a regional 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.
Team seats included
Two seats on the Land Screening Plan, up to five on Pro — your estimator, your PM, and you in 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.
In practice
How contractors run a bid through DirtBid AI
Create a project with the county and acreage, and DirtBid AI immediately applies the right regional multiplier from its 29-region cost model across Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Texas, and pulls the county'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 AI'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.
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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 with two seats; Pro is $4,500/month for ten parcels with up to five seats — soil intelligence included.