For plumbing estimators
Price the job. Skip the chasing.
ITB intake, RFQ chasing, quote leveling, and proposal formatting — Mission diagnoses the operating constraint before prescribing the build.
Your day
A dozen live bids, and half the day never touches a takeoff
Reading the drawings, sizing labor, and calling the markup is your craft. The rest is filing plans, chasing suppliers, and updating the tracker.
- Judgment — takeoff, scope, labor units, risk, the bid/no-bid call
- Interpreting incomplete drawings, deciding what’s in scope, sizing productivity for this crew, reading the spec risk, and setting the markup.
- Admin tax — intake, filing, RFQ chasing, re-keying, reformatting
- Logging ITBs across email and plan rooms, downloading plan sets, chasing quiet supply houses, transcribing quotes, and reshaping every proposal to the GC’s form.
What it costs
Win rate is the whole game, and admin caps how many bids you finish
Roughly one win for every four bids — so every invitation you can’t get to thoroughly is forgone revenue.
Too many live bids split the attention
About a dozen live bids can sit on your desk at once, each with its own deadline, document set, GC contact, and scope of plumbing, hydronics, or process piping.
Estimator capacity decides what the firm wins
The average plumbing win rate is about one in four bids, and top performers reach roughly 40% — so estimator capacity directly caps how much work the company lands.
Inbox bid work steals the week
One contractor recovered ~20 hours a week by pulling bid tracking and communication out of inboxes, shared drives, and spreadsheets.
Directional patterns from the trade and from operator interviews — not Mission results. Your numbers get established in the assessment.
Where the constraint often shows up
It carries the intake, the chasing, and the formatting — you keep the number
The agent handles gathering, transcribing, and chasing. Every pricing, scope, and bid/no-bid judgment stays with you.
- Unified ITB inbox and bid board
Watches email and plan-room portals — BuildingConnected, iSqFt, Procore, PlanHub — and auto-logs every invitation with project, GC, deadline, scope, and document link.
- Document & addenda watch
Pulls new addenda the moment they post and flags exactly what changed against the set you’re working — so you never take off the wrong drawing.
- RFQ send-and-chase
Drafts and sends supplier RFQs from your takeoff scope, tracks who hasn’t responded, and auto-follows-up — escalating only when a quote is late on bid day.
- Quote leveling & proposal prep
Reads supplier quotes out of PDFs and emails into a normalized leveling sheet, flags scope gaps, then reshapes your approved number into each GC’s bid form.
The result
More quality bids out the door — without more nights at the desk
The chasing and re-keying run themselves, so your hours go to reading the job and getting the number right.
Drowning in the inbox
- Invitations scattered across email and a half-dozen plan rooms, deadlines buried in the noise
- Days lost chasing quiet supply houses and re-keying quotes into a leveling sheet by hand
- An addendum drops after you’ve already taken off the old set
A bid board that fills itself
- Every ITB logged in one place with deadline, scope, and the document link attached
- RFQs sent and chased automatically; quotes landed and leveled before you lock the number
- You’re alerted the moment an addendum changes the set you’re working
Safe by default
It drafts and chases. You commit the number.
Mission gathers, transcribes, and follows up — but the proposal goes out only when you approve it, and every action is logged.
- Connected
- Works inside the tools you already run on — email, calendars, sheets, your CRM, your portals.
- Approved
- Anything risky or off-mission is held for your sign-off before it touches data or goes out the door.
- On mission
- You set the assignment once. The work stays on it for days and weeks without drifting.
- Observable
- You always have a clear view of what ran, what changed, and what needs a call — no transcript spelunking.
Let the chasing run itself so you can price the job
Thirty minutes on your week, and you leave knowing what the seat is really costing.
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