Know What's
Worth Bidding.
BidDirective reviews project documents, identifies the scope that matters, flags what's missing, and gives your team a clear PURSUE, REVIEW, or SKIP decision.
Built for commercial subcontractors. You decide what to bid — BidDirective never prices or submits work on your behalf.
Qualification
Athletic Club Blvd.
Clayton, NC
- Trade
- Exterior Metal Framing + Sheathing
- Project Type
- Commercial Shell
Decision
PURSUE
Illustrative example
Deciding what to bid shouldn't take all week.
You already have more invitations, plan sets, and bid board listings than your team can work through. The hours go into opening each one, reading the scope, and working out whether it has anything to do with the work your company actually performs — before any of it earns money.
Too Many Projects
Invitations, plan room links, and forwarded sets pile up faster than anyone can read them. Nothing about the stack tells you which ones your crews can actually perform.
Too Little Relevance
Most of what lands in the inbox is wrong for your company before you open it: outside your territory, the wrong project type, a scope that belongs to another trade, or a package your operation is not sized to take on.
Too Much Time Wasted
Finding out costs real hours. Opening plan sets, scanning wall types, checking sheet indexes, hunting for the bid date — all to reach a decision you could have made from a single page.
We filter the noise. You decide what to bid.
BidDirective reads the documents you already have and identifies which opportunities deserve your attention. Every project is checked against the same six criteria before a decision is returned.
Trade
Whether the documents show work your company actually performs — not an adjacent scope that happens to share a wall section.
Location
Where the project sits relative to the territory you told us you work, and how that squares with crew travel and supervision.
Project Type
Shell, interior build-out, healthcare, education, industrial, multifamily — matched against the categories you pursue and the ones you avoid.
Scope
What the drawings and specifications indicate for your trade: assemblies, framing systems, heights, sheathing, ceilings, finishes.
Bid Deadline
Whether there is enough runway left to take off the work properly, or whether the date has already made the opportunity impractical.
Project Fit
Size, delivery method, and bidding criteria measured against the profile your company gave us — including the jobs you would rather not chase.
Three steps between an opportunity and a decision.
No software to learn and no dashboard to check. You tell us how your company bids, and the opportunities you send come back already reviewed.
Tell Us What You Build
We learn your trades, territory, preferred project types, and bidding criteria.
We Qualify the Opportunity
BidDirective reviews the documents and establishes what they actually say about your scope.
You Get a Decision
Every opportunity comes back with a clear PURSUE, REVIEW, or SKIP.
Not a link to a plan room. A decision you can act on.
Every opportunity comes back as a brief: what the project is, which part of it touches your trade, what the documents actually establish, what they leave open, and whether it deserves your estimating time right now.
Athletic Club Blvd.
- General Contractor
- Hartwell Builders
- Project Type
- Commercial Shell
- Relevant Trade
- Exterior Metal Framing + Sheathing
- Scope Summary
- Exterior cold-formed steel backup with exterior gypsum sheathing at the shell. Parapet and spandrel conditions shown on the wall sections.
- Plans Available
- Architectural set available · Structural referenced, not included
Decision
PURSUE
Strong trade and scope fit, with enough information to justify estimator attention.
BidDirective Note
Trade scope is clearly in your lane and the bid window is workable. Request the structural package before takeoff — stud design thickness is not established in the supplied set.
Illustrative examples · Not active projects
Built for subcontractors who would rather build than search.
BidDirective is set up around trades with a defined, repeatable scope — the companies whose bid decisions turn on whether a project's scope genuinely matches what their crews perform.
Drywall
Commercial gypsum board, interior partitions, rated and shaft wall assemblies, and finish-level scope across build-outs and ground-up work.
Metal Framing
Interior light-gauge framing packages — stud size and spacing, deflection conditions, soffits, headers, and specialty framing.
Exterior Framing
Exterior cold-formed steel backup and sheathing scope, parapets, and the structural attachment conditions that drive the price.
Acoustical Ceilings
Suspended acoustical grid and tile, specialty ceiling systems, clouds, and the reflected ceiling plan detail behind them.
Painting
Commercial painting and coatings scope — interior and exterior systems, substrate prep, and finish schedules.
Commercial Specialty Trades
Other commercial subcontractors with a defined, repeatable scope — profiled the same way and filtered against the same criteria.
Qualification, not lead generation.
BidDirective does not find you work. You already have opportunities — this is the review that tells you which of them deserve an estimator, and why.
Qualified Opportunities
Every opportunity comes back checked against your profile, with the reasoning attached — not a verdict you have to take on faith.
Trade-Specific Filtering
Your scope is treated narrowly. Work that appears on the same drawing but belongs to another trade is not counted as yours.
Less Administrative Work
The document reading and first-pass scope check happens before it reaches your estimator.
Faster Bid Decisions
Each brief is built to be read in about a minute and to end in a clear next action.
Human + AI Review
Software finds and organizes. People check the trade-level judgment before anything is sent.
Commercial Construction Focus
Built for commercial subcontractors and the way their scopes, packages, and bid dates actually work.
The projects on your desk already have an answer.
Tell us what your company builds and where you work. We'll tell you which of your opportunities are worth the estimating time.