What happened
Bobyard said on Oct 29 that its AI now goes past the takeoff. It reads the drawings, builds a priced estimate from your cost list, makes a branded proposal, and puts together submittals from product PDFs and specs.
Source: Bobyard blog, 2026-10-29. This is our short summary. Read the source for the full story.
How a contractor could use it
If you bid from plans, try it on one bid you already sent. Load your common items once, let it count and price, then check every number before the proposal goes out. Use the submittal part after you win to pull product sheets into one PDF.
Added 2026-10-30. Check any tool's price and terms on its own site before you use it.
Try this prompt
Copy it into Grok Bot, Claude or ChatGPT. Fill in the parts in [brackets].
Here is the scope of work for the [job name] job: [paste scope]. Make me a checklist of every product sheet and spec I need for the submittal package. Group it by part of the job. Mark anything the scope does not make clear so I can ask the GC.
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