BidReady for General Contractors.
Ship bids faster. Answer your owner's security team with a straight face.
Your estimator keeps their takeoff tool. Archer handles intake, scope review, and proposal assembly — and brings a documented safety architecture your owner's compliance team can actually audit.
For your estimator
Archer doesn't replace your estimator's takeoff tool. It wraps around it.
Your estimator already has a system. They know their tool. Archer doesn't touch that.
What Archer does: parse the spec book, filter to the trades your scope covers, and hand your estimator a trade-organized scope summary with RFI candidates flagged. Before they even open the drawings.
The 90 minutes of intake your estimator does before real work starts? Archer does it in the time it takes to forward an email.
For your owner relationships
When your owner's security team asks “how is this secured?” — you have an answer.
Owners are asking harder questions about the tools their GCs use. “Where does our project data go?” “Who has access?” “What controls are in place?”
With most tools, you shrug. With Archer, you hand them a documented architecture: capability-based tool authorization, type-system-level injection defense, and per-turn cost caps with cycle detection.
Your owner's compliance team can audit what Archer can and cannot do. That is not a marketing claim — it is a system property.
For your win rate
Faster bid response is a win-rate multiplier.
The GC who responds first with a clean, complete proposal gets the follow-up call. The one who responds three days later gets a “we've already awarded.”
Archer's pipeline turns a 6-hour sprint into a 90-minute review. Your estimator spends their time on judgment calls — pricing strategy, risk assessment, scope refinement — not on reading spec books and formatting documents.
More bids submitted. Higher quality per bid. Faster turnaround. That compounds.
Integration
Archer doesn't replace BuildingConnected or SmartBid.
Your bid invitations still flow from those networks into your email — and Archer picks them up automatically. No migration. No new portal to check. No workflow disruption.
Archer sits downstream of your existing bid networks and upstream of your estimator. It's the step between “bid invite received” and “estimator starts work” that currently takes your team 90 minutes of manual reading. Archer does it in minutes.
Trust & safety
Built to pass your owner's audit.
Capability-based authorization
Every tool Archer can use is explicitly granted per task. No implicit permissions. No ambient authority. Your project data is accessed only through scoped, auditable capabilities.
Learn moreInjection defense at the type system
Spec books are adversarial documents — conflicting instructions, ambiguous language, sometimes outright errors. Archer's type system prevents malformed inputs from propagating through the pipeline.
Learn morePer-turn cost cap with cycle detection
Archer has a hard ceiling on what it can spend per processing step. If it detects a loop or runaway behavior, it stops. No surprise invoices. No unbounded compute.
Learn moreReady to streamline your bid response pipeline?
Archer integrates with your existing workflow. Your estimator keeps their tools. Your owner gets the compliance story they need.