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One pricing engine, everywhere
Discounts, taxes, design fees, surtax — computed once, displayed identically in the grid, the proposal, the AI prompt, and the customer portal.
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Quote it. Design it. Install it. Bill it. One workspace.
BidGlory is the end-to-end bid workspace for AV integrators, electricians, and project-based specialty trades — from the first walkthrough to the signed proposal, the field install, and the final invoice.
- One pricing engine. The number on the proposal cover always matches the grid.
- Two estimators on the same bid. Zero silent overwrites.
- AI drafts the proposal. The estimator approves before send.
- NEC Article 220, panel schedules, plan takeoff. Built in.
THE PROBLEM
The same project lives in five places — and nothing reconciles.
A spreadsheet for the bid, a Word doc for the proposal, a PDF plan for the takeoff, a shared inbox for client questions, a notes app for what got installed. Quantities drift. Labor estimates get overwritten. A discount applied in the bid never makes it to the printed proposal. Two estimators silently overwrite each other.
Today
- ✕A spreadsheet for the bid.
- ✕A Word doc for the proposal.
- ✕A PDF plan for the takeoff.
- ✕A shared inbox for client questions.
- ✕A notes app for what got installed.
- ✕Two estimators silently overwrite each other.
With BidGlory
- ✓One workspace from walkthrough → invoice.
- ✓One pricing engine — identical numbers everywhere.
- ✓Plan takeoff → bid items in two clicks.
- ✓Customer portal in the audit trail, not a forgotten email thread.
- ✓Two estimators editing live — no lost edits.
- ✓AI drafts the proposal. The estimator ships it.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
Vertical depth, not horizontal sprawl.
The things a generic CRM or a bookkeeping app will never do — built in.
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Real-time collab with safety
Live presence chip shows who else is in. Optimistic concurrency turns silent overwrites into a “Reload to see Bob's edits” banner.
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AI that respects the operator
Cover letters, scope text, combos, labor sanity checks — generated as drafts the estimator approves. Never auto-shipped.
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NEC Article 220 load calc
Demand-factor tiers, three-phase balance analysis, panel schedules — code-compliant service sizing inside the bid.
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Plan takeoff canvas
Drop markers on a PDF plan, draw room polygons, count devices per room automatically. Generate a draft bid from the count.
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Customer portal, integrated
Clients log in, see their proposal, comment inline, accept or request changes — every interaction in the audit trail.
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Agentic via MCP
11 MCP tools across three scopes — read, draft, direct. Claude, GPT, any MCP client can list bids, search the catalog, and propose line items. No approve_draft tool ships — LLMs can't promote their own writes.
A LOOK INSIDE
The grid, the proposal, the plan, the portal.
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AI ASSISTANCE
AI drafts the proposal. The estimator ships it.
The fastest first draft you've ever shipped — but nothing reaches the customer until you've reviewed it.
- AI proposal drafter. Cover letter + scope of work + install notes from the bid contents. First draft in seconds.
- Combo suggester. Catches the missing wire / mount / bracket before the customer does.
- Labor sanity check. Flags rooms where labor hours look off for the items selected.
- Good / Better / Best. Generates tier options for any line item — structured upsell, not freeform negotiation.
- Approval gate. Proposal export blocked until AI-generated text is reviewed.
BYO LLM. Works with any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — self-hosted or cloud. No LLM configured? AI panels stay quiet; everything else still works.
CUSTOMER PORTAL
Integrated, not bolted on.
Clients log in with email and password to see their current proposal, leave comments inline, accept it, or request changes. Every interaction lands in the bid's audit trail — not in a forgotten email thread.
- Inline proposal comments — your team replies in the same bid.
- Accept-with-signature or request-changes flow.
- Share-token links for one-off read-only views without provisioning an account.
- Full audit log: who saw what, when, from where.
HOW WE DIFFER
The other tools you're considering.
We'd rather you self-select. If one of these fits better, use it.
| Tool | What they do | Where BidGlory wins |
|---|---|---|
| BidMagic (company ceased business 2023) | The AV bid tool a generation of integrators ran their shops on. The company behind it ceased doing business in 2023 — no updates, no support, no path forward. Operators keep telling us they still can't find anything better. | We're the team that was hired to build BidMagic — as its technical lead — and BidGlory is our own product from a totally separate company. It's compatible with BidMagic databases and proposal templates: restore your .bak, keep every bid, client, and product you've ever entered. |
| D-Tools | AV-specific bid + design — the long-standing incumbent. Built on FileMaker Pro top to bottom: SI is the FileMaker desktop client, Cloud is the same FileMaker stack delivered through the browser. | Pure web stack — built browser-native from day one, not a FileMaker app behind glass. No FileMaker license, no Windows Server, no sync model. Integrated customer portal, AI drafting, real-time multi-user editing. |
| Portal (competitor) | Newer web-native AV bid + design — cloud-only subscription chasing the D-Tools install base with a modern UX. | Full electrical engineering depth — NEC Article 220 load calc, panel schedules, three-phase balance — not just AV. AI drafter with a hard approval gate. Portable .bgbid export so your data is never trapped in our cloud. |
| JobTread / ServiceTitan | General-purpose contracting CRMs — generic project + dispatch + invoicing. | Vertical depth: NEC Article 220 load calc, panel schedules, three-phase balance, plan takeoff. |
| QuickBooks + spreadsheets | The status quo for most small integrators — bookkeeping plus everything else in Excel. | Anything that isn't bookkeeping. You stop retyping the same number into five tools. |
| Houzz Pro / Buildertrend | Residential contracting — kitchens, baths, GC work. | AV / electrical specificity — combos, alternatives, lighting + electrical engineering fields on every product. |
| Every other AV bid tool | Closed product surface — your data is whatever a human types into the UI. Agents need not apply. | Native MCP server, 11 tools, three scopes. Claude / GPT / any MCP client can read bids, search the catalog, and propose line items — every call hashed into dbo.McpAuditLog. No approve_draft tool ships; humans still own the gate. |
STRAIGHT TALK
What BidGlory isn't trying to be.
We'd rather you self-select out now than be disappointed in month two.
It's vertical software.
Built for AV integrators, electricians, and project-based specialty trades. Not a generic CRM. Not a general bookkeeping app.
Onboarding takes 1–3 weeks.
Initial setup includes catalog import and proposal-template configuration. A finite project, not an ongoing burden.
Single-tenant today.
One company per install. Multi-pod horizontal scale-out is on the engineering roadmap — not shipped yet.
AI is optional.
Needs an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Self-hosted LLMs work. Cloud LLMs work. No LLM = AI panels stay quiet, everything else is unaffected.
MADE BY PROJECTTHUNDER
BidGlory is built and maintained by ProjectThunder, a senior software studio in business since 2004. It's the same engineering practice behind their custom software development, their agentic AI systems, and the MCP server for agents that ships inside their open-core commerce engine — the same .NET rigor and audit-logged, human-gated AI, applied to the AV and electrical trades.
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