VS EXCEL · THE REAL COMPETITOR
Excel got you here.
It won’t get you further.
Estimators don’t lose to Procore or Kreo. They lose to spreadsheet fatigue — the 70% of bid time spent reconciling drawings with line items, hunting codes, and rebuilding labour coefficients from memory. bidyou.ai isn’t replacing Excel. It’s replacing the manual work Excel can’t do.
| Dimension | Excel | bidyou.ai | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time per estimate (300 lines) | 4–8 hours | 30 minutes to validate AI draft | ×8–16 faster |
| Code lookup | Manual VLOOKUP across price databases | Automatic, with confidence score | 0 manual lookups |
| Drawing-vs-spec discrepancies | Found by accident, often after submission | Flagged before the meeting | Catch them upfront |
| Labour coefficients | Set by senior estimator memory or stale templates | Learned from your closed bids — accurate per project type | Consistent + auditable |
| Knowledge transfer | Locked in one estimator’s head | Encoded in vector store accessible to every team member | Org-level memory |
| Versioning + audit | File-named-v3-FINAL-real-final.xlsx | Git-style history of every change with provenance | Real audit trail |
| Multi-currency / multi-market | Manual conversion + sheet duplication | Built-in EN/PT/ES/FR + currency handling | 4 markets day 1 |
| Privacy | On your machine — but no AI assistance | Local AI (Ollama) — your data never leaves your perimeter | GDPR-clean by design |
| Cost | Office license + estimator hourly cost | Free up to 3 projects, then €X/mo (less than 2h estimator time) | ROI in days |
70% of an estimator’s time is reconciling discrepancies between drawings and bills of quantities. bidyou.ai doesn’t promise to measure cables to the millimetre — it promises to catch the discrepancies that take humans hours. Order-of-magnitude is enough.
Stop wrestling templates.
Free for the first 3 projects. No credit card.
Free for the first 3 projects. No credit card required.
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