AI Bid Scoping & Leveling for General Contractors

Melt Bid's bid leveling is as accurate as a skilled estimator doing it manually — just 4+ hours faster per package. It creates bid tabulations, levels subcontractor bids, and flags scope gaps and exclusions in under 2 minutes. Verification takes under 30 minutes per package, not hours. 120+ hours saved per project. Our AI has 95%+ accuracy, the best in the industry.

Yes — Melt Bid replaces the manual bid tabulation grunt work: extracting numbers from subcontractor proposals and copying them into Excel. But it doesn't replace estimators. It gives them superpowers — hours back every package to focus on bid strategy, scope decisions, and which sub to award. The data entry is gone. The judgment stays yours.

Yes — Melt Bid levels subcontractor bids directly into your firm's existing bid leveling template. Upload it once, every bid levels into it automatically. No new format, no workflow change.

No. The Excel add-in puts AI bid leveling and bid tabulation directly into the workbook estimators are already in. Directors and VPs use the web app — estimators never have to leave Excel.

About 2 minutes to level a full package, down from 6 hours manually. Verification takes roughly 30 minutes — every value in the bid tabulation is traceable to its source. Across 30 packages, that's under 30 hours total versus 180 hours manually.

Traditional bid management software is built for bid distribution — its bid leveling requires manual setup with no automatic scope normalization or gap detection. Melt Bid is purpose-built for subcontractor bid analysis: AI leveling, scope gap detection, apples-to-apples bid comparison, and full buy-out through GMP. Many general contractors use both to extract maximum value and protect margins.

Melt Bid is better in a few key ways:

Absolutely not. Melt Bid eliminates the manual grunt work — pulling numbers from proposals, building bid tabs, normalizing scope line by line. The strategic judgment — which sub to award, which scope gaps matter, which number to trust — is yours. Melt Bid gives estimators and precon teams a trustworthy foundation to make those calls faster and with more confidence, not a replacement for the expertise that built it.

Melt Bid is purpose-built for the subcontractor buy-out side. It analyzes subcontractor bids, creates bid tabs, levels bids apples-to-apples, and flags scope gaps automatically so GC teams pick the right subs before GMP.

Yes — specifically the bid management work that determines whether a project makes or loses money. Melt Bid handles incoming subcontractor bids through leveling, tabulation, and award.