Quote Requests Turned Around Fast, Without Cutting Corners
When a general contractor asks for pricing, it's usually needed back quickly, and several subcontractors are often asked at once. AedisPro is built for the way subcontractor teams actually work: narrow scope, fast turnaround, and a high-quality, professional-level quotation.
AI Takeoff Built to Fit a Defined Scope
Unlike pricing an entire multi-trade project, subcontractor work usually means measuring one defined scope: a single trade, a specific set of drawings. That's exactly where AI takeoff performs best. A narrower, well-defined set of items means the takeoff can be handled directly, not just assisted around the edges of a huge document set.
In practice: rather than spending the bulk of a tight turnaround window on measurement, the takeoff is completed quickly, leaving more time for competitive pricing and reviewing anything flagged as unclear.
Price Books: Build Your Rates Once, Reuse Them Every Time
Building up rates from scratch on every project is one of the slowest parts of quoting, and it's work you've usually already done before, just buried in an old spreadsheet.
Rates Built Once, Reused Every Time
Pricing can be saved into price books in AedisPro and pulled straight into any new project. A rate updated once is ready for the next job.
Pricing Stays Under Control
Pricing stays fully under the subcontractor's own control. Nothing is templated or shared, but it doesn't need to be rebuilt every time a new set of drawings comes in from a general contractor.
In practice: turnaround time on a new quote shrinks to mostly takeoff and review, since the pricing side is already sitting in the price book, ready to go.
Professional-Level Markups and Takeoffs, Submitted With Every Quote
General contractors comparing subcontractor quotes are also judging whether the scope has actually been understood, not just the number at the bottom. A single lump-sum figure with no breakdown makes that harder to demonstrate.
No Separate Cleanup Step
Traditional takeoff software produces a raw markup. Turning that into something presentable for a client usually means extra time spent afterward, manually cleaning it up or rebuilding it into a separate breakdown.
Professional-Level Output Built In
With AedisPro, a mini BOQ-style legend is included directly within the markups, so each item on the takeoff is already cross-referenced back to what's included in the price, with no separate cleanup step needed. This means professional-level markups and takeoffs can be submitted alongside the price, not just a total.
Specialized Measurement Tools Built for How Subcontractors Actually Take Off
Generic takeoff tools are built for tracing shapes, which works fine for simple areas, but falls apart on the kind of measurements subcontractors deal with constantly.
Count-to-Volume Tool
Take excavation pit volumes for pad footings: a traditional volume tool requires tracing through every single pit to calculate volume.
AedisPro's count-to-volume tool instead counts the number of pits and applies the dimensions directly, showing the calculation for each one, cutting the time spent on that kind of markup by roughly 50% compared to tracing tools.
This is one of several specialized tools built around scope-specific measurement patterns, rather than a single generic tracing tool applied to everything.
Specialized Tools Include:
- ✓Custom tools for repetitive measurements
- ✓Scope-specific measurement patterns
- ✓Built for real subcontractor workflows
- ✓Not just generic tracing tools
Built for Fast, Accurate Quoting on Defined Scopes
A tool built for managing an entire multi-trade project isn't what subcontractors need. What's needed is speed on a defined scope: fast takeoff, reusable pricing, high-quality quotations, and measurement tools that match how the work is actually measured.
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