Construction & trades
Get your numbers in before bid day
Bid day goes better when your quotes are already in. We set up AI that writes a personal pricing request to every supplier and sub on your list, with the right scope, sheets and due date, then queues them for you to approve and keeps track of who answered.
At a glance
Supplier & Sub Pricing Requests
- Starting at
- $3,500 per workflow
- Typical timeline
- Most are live in 1–2 weeks
- Works with
- GmailOutlookGoogle SheetsExcelClaude +3 more
Set up in person, on your own accounts
What it is
In plain English
Every bid needs numbers from other people. Block and mortar from the yard. Scaffold. Sheet metal. A roofer. And every time, it’s the same email, copied, renamed and sent one at a time at ten at night, followed by three days of wondering who actually got it.
Dom uses this when his own company bids a job. See it in our real work. You give it a bid and a list. It drafts a personal pricing request for every supplier and sub, with their name, the scope they’d price, the sheets and spec sections to look at and the due date. Your own prices never go in. The drafts wait in your email until you approve them, then go out from your own account, a few minutes apart.
Then it keeps track. Who answered, who didn’t, who needs a nudge. When quotes come back, they can be pulled into one sheet so you can level them side by side and see who excluded what. Picking the supplier you trust to deliver on time is still your call.
On the front end, bid finding tells you which jobs are worth asking about. On the back end, estimating and takeoff gives you the quantities your suppliers need to price. The inbox demo shows a close cousin on sample email: a messy inbox sorted, with replies drafted for you to approve.
What’s included
What you get
Set up on your accounts, tested with your real work, and explained to your team before we call it done.
- One clean list of your suppliers and subs, sorted by trade and area, in a sheet you own
- A personal email for each one: their name, the project, the scope they'd price, the due date and one link to the drawings
- Material-quote requests for suppliers, and labor-and-material requests for subs that ask about schedule and insurance
- Drafts saved in your Gmail or Outlook so you look them over before anything goes out
- A send queue that spaces emails out, so they come from you and not from a blast tool
- A tracker that shows who answered, who bounced and who's still missing
- Friendly follow-ups drafted for anyone who hasn't replied a couple of days before your deadline
- Optional: incoming quotes pulled into one sheet so you can level them side by side
How it works
One example, step by step
A typical setup. We shape every step around how your business already runs, and you approve anything that goes out.
Example workflow
Supplier & Sub Pricing Requests, start to finish
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Step 1
Pick the bid
Tell it the project and which packages or materials you need priced.
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Step 2
Pick the list
It pulls the right suppliers and subs for each trade and area from your sheet.
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Step 3
Draft
AI writes a personal email to each one with the scope, sheets, spec sections and due date.
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Step 4
You approve
The drafts sit in your email. You skim them, fix anything and approve.
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Step 5
Queue and track
Emails go out from your own account, spaced out, and replies are tracked.
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Result
Follow up
Anyone still missing gets a polite reminder before the deadline.
Tools, timing & price
What it takes to get it running
Tools we use
- Gmail
- Outlook
- Google Sheets
- Excel
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
We’re not a reseller or partner of any of these companies. You sign up in your own name, and we set it up and train you on it.
Typical timeline
Most are live in 1–2 weeks.
Counted from the day you approve the written plan. We test with your real work before anything goes live.
Starting at
$3,500 per workflow
Automation Build
Final price after the audit.
- You pay software vendors directly, at their price, with no markup
- You own every account and file
- No long-term contract
See it work
Try it with sample data
Ten messy emails sorted into leads, customers, bills, vendors and junk — with replies drafted.
Sam’s inbox Sample
Inbox
6 unread
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Sample Equipment Rental
PAST DUE - 2nd notice - Acct 20931 – Our records show invoice 88120 (skid steer, September) is 15 days past due. A late fee will be added after Friday…
Bills 6:30 AM -
Dana K.
quote for front steps?? – hi, got your name from my neighbor on Elm. our front steps are crumbling and my mother-in-law almost tripped sunday…
Leads Sun 9:48 PM -
Acct Security Team
URGENT!!! your mailbox will be DELETED in 24hrs – Dear user, we detected unusual activity. Verify your password now to avoid losing all messages. Click here…
Junk Sun 3:12 AM -
Linda P.
Still waiting on the gate (2nd email) – I wrote last week about the side gate you put in. It still won’t latch and the dog got out Saturday…
Customers Sat 5:47 PM -
Mark T.
RE: RE: Thursday – Hey, something came up at work. Any chance we can push the walkway to next week? Mornings are better for us…
Customers Fri 6:15 PM -
Hudson Sample Lumber
Price changes effective the 1st – Due to rising mill costs, pricing on treated lumber and bagged concrete mix will change on the 1st. Updated sheet attached…
Vendors Fri 4:40 PM - + 0 more
Inbox zero. All six emails are sorted below.
Leads
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Dana K.
quote for front steps??
Needs you today
AI New lead in Delmar. Crumbling front steps, wants someone out this week. Referred by a neighbor.
Dana K.
sample customer
quote for front steps??
hi, got your name from my neighbor on Elm. our front steps are crumbling pretty bad and my mother-in-law almost tripped on them sunday.
can someone come look this week?? we are in Delmar. thanks
Dana
Hi Dana,
Thanks for reaching out, and I’m glad your mother-in-law is okay. With the cold coming, now is a good time to look at those steps.
I can stop by Wednesday at 4:30 PM or Thursday at 8:00 AM. It takes about 20 minutes and the estimate is free. Which works better?
Sam, Sample Masonry & Repair
Nothing here yet Sort the inbox to fill this bucket.
Customers
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Linda P.
Still waiting on the gate (2nd email)
Needs you today
AI Upset customer. The side gate you installed won’t latch and her dog got out. Second time asking.
Linda P.
sample customer
Still waiting on the gate (2nd email)
I wrote last week about the side gate you put in. It still won’t latch and the dog got out Saturday. We found him two streets over.
This is the second time I’m asking. I’d really like someone to come fix it.
Linda
Hi Linda,
I’m sorry. You shouldn’t have had to ask twice, and I’m really glad your dog is okay.
We’ll fix the latch at no charge. I can have someone there Tuesday between 8 and 10 AM. If that doesn’t work, tell me a time that does and we’ll make it happen.
Sam, Sample Masonry & Repair
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Mark T.
RE: RE: Thursday
This week
AI Wants to move Thursday’s walkway job to next week. Mornings work best for them.
Mark T.
sample customer
RE: RE: Thursday
Hey, something came up at work. Any chance we can push the walkway to next week? Mornings are better for us.
Sorry for the short notice!
Mark
Hi Mark,
No problem at all. We can move the walkway to next week. I have Tuesday or Wednesday morning open, and the crew can start at 8:00 either day.
Reply with the day that works and I’ll lock it in. Thanks for the heads-up.
Sam, Sample Masonry & Repair
Nothing here yet Sort the inbox to fill this bucket.
Invoices & bills
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Sample Equipment Rental
PAST DUE - 2nd notice - Acct 20931
Needs you today
AI September skid steer rental is 15 days late. A late fee starts Friday. Pay it or call them today.
Nothing here yet Sort the inbox to fill this bucket.
Vendors
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Hudson Sample Lumber
Price changes effective the 1st
Before the 1st
AI Treated lumber and concrete mix go up on the 1st. Check any open quotes before then.
Nothing here yet Sort the inbox to fill this bucket.
Junk
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Acct Security Team
URGENT!!! your mailbox will be DELETED in 24hrs
Spam, blocked
AI A fake “verify your mailbox” scam. The link goes to a look-alike site. Blocked, no need to open it.
Nothing here yet Sort the inbox to fill this bucket.
6 sorted 3 need you today 3 replies drafted 0 approved
The three that need you today: a new lead, a past-due bill and an unhappy customer. Everything else is filed, and three replies are waiting for your OK.
Want your inbox sorted like this every morning?
Live demo with sample data. We build the real version on your own accounts.
Want this on your own accounts?Questions
Straight answers
Have a different one? Call or text (518) 704-3125.
More questions and answersWill this feel like spam to my suppliers?
It shouldn't, and we set it up so it doesn't. Every email goes out from your own account with your name and signature. Each one names the person, the project and exactly what you need priced, and they're spaced out instead of blasted all at once. Most of the time that's more personal than the copy-paste email we all send on a busy week.
Does it send anything without me?
Not unless you want it to. By default every email waits as a draft until you approve it, and you can pause the whole queue at any time. Once you trust the wording, you can let the follow-ups go out on their own. That's your call, and you can change it anytime.
Where does the supplier list come from?
From what you already have: your contacts, past quote emails, an old spreadsheet, the business cards in the truck. During setup we clean it up into one sheet sorted by trade and area. You own it, and adding a new supplier is one new row.
Keep exploring
Where this fits in
Industries that use it
Real work: we run this at our own company
Supplier & sub pricing requests Case study A personal pricing-request email for every supplier and sub on the list, drafted in one go, sent one at a time, with replies and follow-ups tracked. Read how it worksAlso in Construction & trades
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