Before bidding a job, a contractor has to measure every wall on the blueprints, hours of tracing lines by hand, even with today’s software. And they only win one job in five.

So it’s never worth measuring every bid, and they skip jobs they might’ve won. I wanted to make it fast enough to bid on everything.

I built BidBud end to end, the brand, the product, and the AI system that does the work. A contractor uploads their blueprints and gets back every measurement they need to price the job, in minutes instead of hours.

I’m the non-technical founder, so I owned the why and the what. I designed how it works, set the bar for how accurate it had to be, and directed AI tools to build it, turning the problem into precise instructions, checking every result against real contractor bids, and running that loop until the numbers held.