KEYBIDEvery contractor deserves a bid department.
Not just the ones who can afford one.
A few thousand firms can afford estimating staff, plan reviewers, and follow-up discipline. Everyone else loses work they priced right — because nobody chased the award, nobody caught the addendum, nobody read sheet C8.0. The gap in construction isn't talent or effort. It's bid operations — and it has always been priced out of reach of the people who need it most.
Our mission is to close that gap. The capabilities big firms hire whole departments for, delivered in software, at a price a two-person sub can afford. Three jobs, start to finish:
1. Find the work
Opportunities matched to your trade and delivered as bid cards, not browser tabs. The public work in your trade — state, county and municipal solicitations — live and matched to what you actually build. The work that fits what you actually build, surfaced before the window closes, so your pipeline stops depending on who happened to forward you an email.
2. Audit the plans — for any trade
This is where estimators get burned, and it is where Keybid digs in. Plan Intelligence reads full plan sets by CSI division across all 8 trades — sitework, concrete, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, steel, masonry, framing — and pulls out the line items that decide whether a bid makes money:
Prevailing-wage flags. Bonding requirements. Soils and geotech references. Spec-section callouts buried two hundred sheets deep. Addenda risk — the change issued Thursday that rewrites the number you priced Monday. These are the items that hit compliance and eat margin, the ones a big firm pays a plan reviewer to catch. Keybid puts that review on every plan set you load, in every trade — and shows you the sheet and section it came from, so you can verify every flag yourself.
3. Run the bid
Winning is mostly discipline: the follow-up sent on time, the due date that never sneaks up, the question asked before the deadline instead of after. Keybid drafts the emails, tracks every date, and keeps the cadence going — with you approving every word before anything goes out in your name. The discipline that wins awards, without hiring someone to maintain it.
The number we measure ourselves on
Not sign-ups. Not time-in-app. The number we watch is the award rate of the contractors who use us. We won't promise you'll win more — nobody can honestly promise that, and we refuse to be the software that does. What we promise is the work: every opportunity surfaced, every plan set read, every follow-up drafted and on time. Whether that earns your subscription is a call you get to make every month.
Our creed
🧮 The AI never invents a number. Every statistic is your data, computed with plain math.
✍️ You approve every word. Nothing leaves in your name without your tap.
🔒 Your bids are your business. Never shared, never sold, never shown to another contractor. Export everything, any time.
🛠️ Built by people who bid. Every feature exists because a real bid demanded it.