Leveling sub quotes and catching scope gaps before award
Five estimators. Twelve subs. One spreadsheet holding it all together.
Revelry normalizes sub quotes and flags scope gaps.
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Where the days actually go
Bid leveling is more about interpretation than simple arithmetic.
The true inefficiency is the time your team spends managing the spreadsheet.
While the math is quick, reviewing the quotes takes days of manual effort.
Quotes come in as PDFs, as spreadsheets, as three paragraphs in the body of an email.
- One sub prices demo with the concrete.
- Another carves it out and never says so directly.
- A third writes “per plans and specs” and leaves you to figure out which plan set they were looking at.
- Someone on your team opens all twelve, retypes the line items into your template, and tries to hold the differences in their head while the clock runs.
Revelry does that pass first.
- Line items get normalized into your Excel template and your scope sheet, not a format we invented.
- Inclusions and exclusions get mapped across every quote.
- Where one sub covers something the others don't, the gap gets flagged, and the flag points to the exact page and sentence in that sub's quote where the language lives.
Your estimator still makes the call.
They open the flag, read the source language, and decide whether it's a real gap or a difference in how the sub writes. The difference is that the discrepancy is in front of them at hour one instead of surfacing in a change order in month four.
What it does not do
It does not do quantity takeoff from drawings. That is the thing estimators ask about first, and it is the place AI is still unreliable enough that selling you one would cost more than it saved. Revelry works on the documents subs send you, where the ambiguity is written in words rather than measured off a page.
If takeoff is your biggest time sink, say so on the call. There is document work around it worth talking about.
Bring your last bid tab.
Upload a real packet instead of a sanitized example, and check every answer against its source.
No credit card required.