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Hands-on help putting AI and automation to work inside an electrical estimating shop — led by a Red Seal electrician and working estimator who builds these workflows daily. Not software you have to figure out alone: we set it up in your shop, on your documents, with your team.
Capacity is deliberately small: two active engagements at a time. If the calendar is full, you get a start date, not a no.
What an implementation actually covers. Every orange line below is work the system does; the judgment calls stay with your estimator. All of it is running today inside a working electrical estimating desk.
Stays yours: the bid / no-bid call.
Stays yours: the counts — quantity judgment stays at the estimator's desk.
Stays yours: margins, risk money, and the final labour factor.
Stays yours: which vendor to trust, and every email that actually gets sent.
Stays yours: the number on the bid form.
Stays yours: the relationship — and the signature.
Stage 04, watched: takeoff lines routed by trade, and the switchgear vendor's RFQ composing itself — only that vendor's scope, only hard quantities. The allowance line never makes it in, and the draft waits for a human to send it. Re-created with fictional data.
Nothing above sends, submits, or signs anything on its own. Drafts, checks, math, and organization are the machine's job — every send and every final number is a human decision.
Microsoft 365 and Outlook, Excel of any vintage, Bluebeam, and plain old file servers — and if there's an Accubid, McCormick, or ConEst seat in the shop, the system rides alongside it, it doesn't replace it. If your estimating lives in Excel and your email lives in Outlook, you're exactly the shop this was built in. Google shop? Same system, your tools.
The working system runs on Claude — a subscription your shop holds, one seat per person operating it, the same way you hold your Bluebeam licences. There is nothing of ours to license. The four pre-bid checks below are plain code and need no seat at all.
The part of this that isn't advice. Every priced workbook runs four checks that are code, not judgment — each reads a specific cell in your spreadsheet and reports the cell it read.
There is no override flag.
The gate catching the invisible one: journeyman rate typed equal to the apprentice rate. Real check code on a fictional demo workbook — output shown verbatim from an actual run, including the cells it read.
The math: 72% of contractors report difficulty filling estimating positions. A fully loaded estimator runs $100,000–$155,000 a year in Canada and more in most US markets. Electrical contractors net about 6% — so a $2M job carries roughly $122,000 of profit, and a missed fire alarm package on that job runs $40,000 to $150,000. One catch covers the engagement several times over.
Canadian shops are billed in CAD, US shops in USD at the prevailing exchange rate — the USD figures shown are indicative and the exact fee is confirmed in the written scope.
CA$5,000 · US$3,500
fixed fee · credited toward the implementation · 1–2 weeks · remote
A top-to-bottom map of how bids move through your shop today — intake, takeoff, quotes, addenda, bid-day — and exactly where AI and automation buy hours back. Book the implementation within 60 days and the audit fee is credited in full.
CA$25,000 · US$18,000
fixed fee · 4–6 weeks · remote
The roadmap, built. We set up the system in your shop, on your documents, calibrate it against your own historical bids, and train your estimator to run it without us.
CA$2,500 · US$1,800 /mo
12-month term · 60 days' notice · monthly · remote
The system does not stay current on its own. Vendor pricelists move, labour units get reissued, code cycles turn over, and the platforms underneath change without asking. This keeps it running, and keeps it yours.
The implementation includes formal training for your estimating team — and most US states and Canadian provinces run employer training funds that cover a meaningful share of exactly that portion for shops that qualify. Florida's Incumbent Worker Training grant and Nova Scotia's WIPSI are two examples; your state or province almost certainly has its own version, and the strongest rates typically go to smaller shops.
You apply; we structure for it. The training is a named deliverable with its own invoice line, curriculum outline, hours, and completion records — the documentation those applications ask for — and if you pursue funding, the training phase is scheduled after your approval date, as the programs require. Financing exists on both sides of the border, too: Canadian shops with $1M+ in annual revenue can fund AI-adoption projects like this through BDC's LIFT program at preferential rates, and US shops routinely finance technology projects through SBA-backed 7(a) lending via their own bank — either way, the audit deliverable doubles as the business case those applications need. Eligibility and amounts are the programs' call, not ours, and we'll tell you on the fit call whether your headcount and location look like a match.
Real footage, fictional demo package: the bid-day AI review — findings with dollar exposure, every quote machine-verified against the documents, word for word.
Bidprobe's automated bid review is the self-serve piece of this — see a complete sample report. Your first review is free.