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    Tools for your estimating workflow

    Take off quantities, find plan details, and organize your project costs.

    Takeoff & plans

    ClickONCE™ computer vision takeoff

    Multiple takeoff windows and scales

    Plan loading with automatic renaming and detail links

    Search & review

    Text search and find

    Plan navigation with advanced field search

    Audit filter and change log

    Detailed estimating

    Labor, material, equipment, subcontractor, and other costs

    Duration-based general conditions

    Work breakdown structures

    BuzzBID Technical Walk-Thru

    Efficiency, speed and accuracy are vital in creating a profitable, winning pricing estimate. BuzzBID has these and many more new features to improve your pricing productivity. 

    Advanced Takeoff

    Extreme automation and intelligence built into every workflow, you have unprecedented flexibility to power through your takeoff process in record time with absolute confidence.

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    Advanced Pricing

    The interface is built with a "feature layering" approach with a "keep it simple" layout. This makes it easy to understand for simple pricing estimates, but powerful layered features are intelligently exposed as you need them, to serve for more complex pricing estimates.

    Planning a shared estimating workflow? Learn how BuzzBID multi-user functionality works.

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    Which trades does BuzzBID support?
    BuzzBID is built for nine commercial specialty trades: drywall, metal framing, plaster, EIFS, stucco, acoustical ceilings, fireproofing, insulation, and painting. Each trade gets dedicated ClickONCE workflows and AddOnASSEMBLY templates tuned to how estimators for that trade actually work.
    Does BuzzBID work for general contractors as well as specialty trades?
    Yes. BuzzBID supports both general contractors and specialty trade contractors with custom databases and configurable takeoff workflows. General contractors typically use the flexible pricing and assembly configurations to bid across multiple trades within a single project. 
    Do different trades need different BuzzBID tiers?
    Most trades work well with BuzzBID Advanced, which combines ClickONCE takeoff with assembly-based estimating, work-in-place tracking, and the bid proposal generator. Fireproofing contractors typically use BuzzBID FireShield, which adds UL Fire Test integration, ClickONCE structural member detection, board foot calculations, and inspector spray reports. See BuzzBID pricing to compare tiers.
    Which trade sees the biggest speed improvement from computer vision takeoff?
    Trades with heavy linear or repetitive takeoff work — walls and ceilings, plastering, stucco, EIFS, and fireproofing — see the biggest speed improvements. BuzzBID's ClickONCE computer vision replaces click-by-click perimeter tracing with single-click takeoff for linear partitions, wall tags, corner bead, cutouts, and area ceiling tile. The result is up to 500% faster takeoff on those trades.