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GC: Competitive Grid

Assumptions (constant across rows)

~200 units, 10–12 unit types, 500–800 sheets (arch + struct + MEP + site/civil).

Full CSI scope to materials (SF/LF/EA/CY/TON), spec/schedule parsing, and exportable BOQ.

“Hours per feature” are user hours and sum across all trades (flooring, drywall, paint, doors/hardware, casework, concrete, masonry, steel, roofing, sitework, FP, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, low voltage).

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GC Landscape

GC Landscape

Feature / Workflow (all trades)

SubHub AI

Beam AI (service)

Togal.AI

Kreo

STACK (Takeoff Boost)

Measure Square (+ Bluebeam/Excel)

Plan ingestion & sheet selection

✔ Automated preview/filter (~0.5–1 hr)

✔ Upload, service organizes (~0.5–1 hr)

✘ Manual indexing (~2–4 hrs)

✘ Manual (~2–4 hrs)

✘ Manual (~3–5 hrs)

Multi-trade feature extraction (rooms, walls, symbols, fixtures, linework)

✔ Automated, cross-trade models (~1–2 hrs review)

✔ Automated + human QA (~4–6 hrs review)

△ Areas strong; symbols/lines limited → (~20–40 hrs)

△ Auto rooms/walls; symbols mixed → (~18–35 hrs)

△ Assisted detection (walls/lines) → (~22–40 hrs)

△ Per-trade tools; lots of manual → (~30–50 hrs)

Spec/schedule parsing & scope mapping (CSI packages)

✔ Automated mapping by division (~2–4 hrs)

△ Semi-auto; relies on service team (~8–12 hrs)

✘ Manual mapping (~40–70 hrs)

△ Templates help, still manual (~35–60 hrs)

✘ Manual (~45–75 hrs)

✘ Largely manual (~50–80 hrs)

Trade conditions & connectors (openings, transitions, penetrations, laps, terminations)

✔ Automated rules per trade (~1–2 hrs)

△ Added by service/QC (~6–10 hrs)

✘ Manual (~20–40 hrs)

✘ Manual (~18–35 hrs)

✘ Manual (~20–40 hrs)

✘ Manual (~25–45 hrs)

Measurements/roll-ups (SF/LF/EA/CY/TON across trades)

✔ Auto-BOQ with cross-sheet joins (~1–2 hrs QA)

✔ Auto + team QA (~6–12 hrs)

✔ Areas auto; lots of manual adds (~20–35 hrs)

✔ Auto areas/lengths; manual roll-ups (~18–30 hrs)

✔ Some auto; heavy manual roll-ups (~20–35 hrs)

Deliverables & coding (CSI-coded BOQ, Excel/PDF, alternates)

✔ One-click exports (~0.5–1 hr)

✔ Packaged by service (~2–4 hrs)

✔ Reports; cleanup needed (~4–8 hrs)

✔ Reports; cleanup (~4–8 hrs)

✔ Reports; heavy cleanup (~5–8 hrs)

Addendum / revision diffs

✔ Auto diffs, re-roll (~0.5–1 hr)

△ Returned by service (~2–4 hrs)

✘ Manual (~5–10 hrs)

△ Semi-auto + manual (~4–8 hrs)

✘ Manual (~6–10 hrs)

Total estimator hours / full-project bid

~10–16 hrs

~30–50 hrs

~110–200 hrs

~100–180 hrs

~120–220 hrs

~160–260 hrs

Cost per bid (estimator only, @$50/hr)

$500–$800

$1,500–$2,500

$5,500–$10,000

$5,000–$9,000

$6,000–$11,000

$8,000–$13,000

Beam AI Fee (service charge)

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+$40,000 flat fee/project

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Total Bid Cost incl. Beam Fee

$500–$800

$41,500–$42,500

$5,500–$10,000

$5,000–$9,000

$6,000–$11,000

$8,000–$13,000

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