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For BuildingConnected users
Bids → Zebel → Budget

BuildingConnected gets the bids in.

Are you still leveling them in a spreadsheet? Zebel brings them into your estimate, so your team can review and level them against the live budget without retyping.

PRICING
UNLIMITED USERS
BUILT BY
PRECON PROS
WORKS WITH
BUILDINGCONNECTED
Construction estimator in a hard hat and safety glasses reviewing an estimate on a rugged tablet at a job site at dusk
FIG. 00 — BIDS + BUDGET
01 / BUILDINGCONNECTED BIDS
02 / ZEBEL BID LEVELING
03 / YOUR LIVE BUDGET
What happens after the bids come in
Estimating solutions trusted by leading construction companies and real estate developers.
Logos of construction companies and real estate developers that use Zebel, including Amazon, Moss, Hoar, Brown Construction, Camden, Harkins, Crescent Communities, Irvine Company, Stiles, Hy-Vee, Granger, Wolverine Building Group, Hubbell, Prometheus, Headwaters, UrbanCore, Subtext, Vista Residential, Goff Companies and Deacon
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The gap
Bids → budget / handoff audit
THE GAP

The bids are in. Now the retyping starts.

BuildingConnected collects the bids. Leveling them against your estimate still happens in a spreadsheet.

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Bid PDFs downloaded one by one
02
Line items retyped into a bid tab
03
Exclusions buried on page four
04
Scope compared by eye, trade by trade
05
Leveled numbers copied back into the budget
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Whatever the estimator remembers
→
BuildingConnected gets the bids in. Leveling belongs inside the estimate.
Diagram of three BuildingConnected subcontractor bids imported into Zebel for a scope check and leveled against your estimate in one pass instead of retyping every bid by hand.
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How it works
Bids → Zebel → Budget
HOW IT WORKS WITH BUILDINGCONNECTED

From bids received to a leveled budget.

Keep inviting subs and collecting bids in BuildingConnected. Zebel brings them into your estimate, so your team reviews and levels them against the live budget.

PARTNER / BUILDINGCONNECTED
STAYS / INVITES + BID COLLECTION
ZEBEL ADDS / REVIEW + LEVELING
Bids in BuildingConnected. Leveling in Zebel.
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Bid leveling
Deep dive / 01 of 02
BIDS → ESTIMATE

Level bids against your estimate, not a spreadsheet.

AI Bid Review reads every bid and shows where each number came from. Your estimator levels and chooses.

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Bring BuildingConnected bids into the estimate
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AI extracts line items and shows the source text
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Scope gaps and exclusions flagged against your bid form
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Your estimator levels, chooses and updates the budget
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Zebel bid leveling screen with AI Bid Review flagging excluded scope items against the bid form, and a leveled foundations bid showing its source text from the bid PDF for estimator approval.
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The estimates
Deep dive / 02 of 02
03 · Manage your estimates

From first number to final deliverable.

Leveled bids are one step. Create, improve, validate and deliver every estimate in the same connected workflow.

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Create
Estimates

Conceptual budgets from your cost history, then detailed estimates with Togal.AI takeoff imports, bid leveling, and AI bid review.

Estimate · unit cost
Total direct · NRSF
$333.15
06 Wood & plastics
$46.29
06.411 Cabinets
$4,811
Vs. 2 comparable projects
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Improve
Estimates

Work through value engineering options and compare alternatives before you submit.

VE · Flooring upgrade
None
$1,311,730
Luxury
+21.66%
✓ Super Luxury
+51.67%
Super Luxury · applied
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Validate
Estimates

Zebel's AI agents flag scope gaps, anomalies, and potential mistakes before bid day.

AI Oversight · 2 flags
⚠ Scope gap detector
Flag
⚠ Unit cost check
High
✓ Formula integrity
Pass
Fix before bid day →
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Deliver
Estimates

Export estimates into customizable reports and proposals, in PDF and CSV.

Export · estimate
Estimate report
PDF
Proposal
PDF
Cost data
CSV
Ready to send ↗
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Case file
Customer since 2023
CASE STUDY

UrbanCore Construction

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Client
UrbanCore Construction
(21)
Segment
General contractor
(22)
Uses
Historical data · Estimating · AI
(45)
Contact
Andy Beach, Principal
(57) STATEMENT
“Zebel has definitely helped us do more estimates with less people and know that they're going to be more accurate.”

Integrating AI into pre-construction in our business with Zebel has set us apart from our competitors because it is so cutting edge and it's helping nail down the details. It's helped us with our win rate and strengthen the relationship with clients, because they're able to come to us early and then we can help them work through the process from very early on.

— ANDY BEACH, PRINCIPAL
FIG. C — CUSTOMER INTERVIEW, URBANCORE
VIDEO TESTIMONIAL
Before Zebel
1 wk+

To produce a conceptual estimate, per Director of Preconstruction Jon Reid.

With Zebel
Hours

Same-day estimate turnaround, per the UrbanCore case study.

Customer since
2023

Concept through detailed pricing and GMP in one workflow.

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Questions
BuildingConnected users / 4 answers
QUESTIONS BID TEAMS ASK

Keep BuildingConnected. Fix what happens next.

Bids still arrive where they always have. Zebel is where they meet your estimate and budget.

CASE STUDY · PROMETHEUS
“The estimating tool we've always wanted our Excel templates to be.”

Prometheus, describing Zebel in its case study.

SOURCE: PROMETHEUS CASE STUDY, ZEBEL.IO
Q.01

Do we stop using BuildingConnected?

No. Keep sending invitations and collecting bids there. Zebel is where those bids get reviewed and leveled against your estimate and budget.

Q.02

Does the AI level the bids for us?

No. AI Bid Review reads each bid, extracts line items, shows the source text and flags discrepancies. Your estimator reviews, levels and chooses.

Q.03

What happens to our bid tab spreadsheets?

Leveling happens inside the estimate, next to your budget and your historical costs, so there's no separate tab to keep in sync.

Q.04

Who on the team can use it?

Everyone. Pricing includes unlimited users and unlimited estimates, and onboarding takes about a month.

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Get started
Works with BuildingConnected / Unlimited users
DEMO TICKET — BUILDINGCONNECTED USERS

Level bids against your live budget.

See how bids from BuildingConnected get reviewed and leveled inside your estimate, with AI Bid Review flagging gaps and your team making the call.

ADMIT YOUR WHOLE TEAM
(01)
Users
Unlimited
(02)
Estimates
Unlimited
(03)
Onboarding
~1 month
(04)
Data cleanup
By Zebel
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