Keybid brings you the work — the public bids in your trade and your market, matched to your scope and the deadlines you can still hit — then it runs the bid: every invitation carded, the full plan set read, the risk flagged with its sheet number, the follow-ups drafted. A bid department that never sleeps, for every trade. The work you used to do at 9 p.m. is done before you open the laptop.
Work does not turn into revenue in one step. It gets found, captured, read, audited, chased — and only then does it get won. Break one link and the job is gone, and most of the time nobody ever tells you which link it was. Keybid runs all six.
Public lettings — state DOT, county and municipal — filtered to your scope, your market and the dates you can still hit.
Keybid watches the inbox where ITBs already land and turns each one into a card: the GC, the contact, the value, the due date and time. No forwarding, no retyping, every 60 seconds.
Drop in the plans. Sheets mapped, quantities pulled, the E-sheets handed to the electrician and the C-sheets to the dirt crew — by CSI division, for all eight trades.
Risk, speed and safety — prevailing wage, bonding, dewatering, over-ex — each one flagged with the sheet it came from, so you can go look before you price it, not after you win it.
Addenda pinned to the right bid, and when an addendum moves the date your board moves with it. Follow-ups drafted and waiting for one tap. Deadlines watched while you are in the field.
By the time you sit down, the finding, the reading and the chasing are done. What is left is the number — and the number was always your job, not software's.
Everyone sells you one link. The databases stop at Find — you still do the reading, the chasing and the remembering, and you pay thousands a year for a list. The inbox tools start at Capture and end about there. The gap in the middle is not a feature gap; it is the 9 p.m. work, and it is where jobs get lost.
Public solicitations — state DOT, county and municipal lettings, in one feed. Then the part that actually matters: Keybid filters that feed by what you build, where you work, and which bids are still open long enough to price. Area alone is not a match. A grading contractor does not need the switchgear package across town, and nobody needs the job that closed Tuesday.
State DOT, county and municipal solicitations — live and verified, every row carrying its source so you can open the original posting yourself. Not a bigger list to wade through — the right work, matched to what you build and the deadlines you can still hit.
Keybid already reads plan sets by division — 31, 32 and 33 are sitework, 03 is concrete, 26 is electrical — so it reads an opportunity the same way, whether the source hands it a division number, a NAICS code, or one line of scope text. That is how it tells an earthwork package from an electrical one.
Filter to the cities and states you actually work in. Then ranked: your trade first, soonest deadline on top. A job you cannot get a number in on by Friday is not an opportunity.
Ranked by your trade and by how soon the deadline is, so the handful you would have picked yourself are the ones you see first. Filter by city and trade to cut the rest out entirely. Not a bigger list — a better-ordered one.
"Add to my bids" and it becomes a card on the same board that reads the plans, runs the audit and drafts the follow-ups. Find, price, chase, win — without leaving the app or retyping a thing.
The legacy platforms sell a database and a login. You still do the reading, the chasing and the remembering — and you pay thousands a year for the privilege, after a sales call, at a price they will not print on their own website.
“Good contractors do not lose jobs on price. They lose them on the follow-up nobody sent, the addendum nobody opened, and the spec buried on sheet C8.0 — or they never see the job at all, because somebody else saw it on Monday.”
Subs and the general contractors who invite them work the same bid from opposite ends. It belongs in the same place.
Not built yet: scope-coverage tracking, sub invitations and bid levelling. Those are the GC-specific tools and they are on the roadmap, not in the box. If that is what you need, say so before you pay — ryan@keybid.ai.
Point Keybid at your inbox, forward an invitation, paste one in — or open Find Work and add a job that was matched to your scope. Within seconds it is a card with the GC, the value and the deadline.
Full sets, every trade, by CSI division. You get the sheet map, the quantities, and the compliance audit — risk, speed and safety, each with its citation.
Follow-ups drafted, addenda pinned, deadlines watched. You read, you tap, you go back to building. Keybid handles the rest.
Keybid automates the bid desk today. The direction is the entire pre-construction desk — and this is the map, not what is in the box today.
Inbox sweep, plan reading, the compliance audit, addenda, follow-ups, and Find Work on state & local solicitations — running now, for every trade.
Turn a read plan set into a first-pass quantity takeoff against your own historical unit costs, with the work shown so you can check every line.
Buyout and sub coverage, change orders, certified payroll — the paperwork that should fill itself in. The long road, stated honestly.
We will put a founding seat under your name at $119 and hold it. Nothing is charged, nothing is installed, and you can walk away by ignoring one email.
Find them, read them, chase them and win them from one place — $119 a seat, printed right here, no demo required. The first 30 companies lock that rate for as long as they stay.
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