Bid estimating software for contractors
Bid faster.
Bid right.
TrenchIQ replaces the bid spreadsheet. Keep your pricing in one place, build every bid from it, watch the math work itself out — and hand the owner a bid that foots to the penny.
Built with real contractors, on real bids
| Item | Qty | Unit price | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.018" PVC Sewer Main | 1,240 LF | $68.42 | $84,840.80 | ||
| 1.0248" Sanitary Manhole | 6 EA | $5,875.00 | $35,250.00 | ||
| 1.03Connect to Existing Manhole | 2 EA | $3,140.00 | $6,280.00 | ||
| 1.044" Service Lateral | 18 EA | $1,212.50 | $21,825.00 | ||
| Section subtotal | Section subtotal | $148,195.80 | |||
- Materials$24.86
- Labor$15.74
- Equipment$14.18
- Overhead & margin$13.64
The problem
One wrong cell costs real money
On a $2 million bid, one spreadsheet mistake can lose you the job — or win it for you at a loss. And you rebuild that spreadsheet every time.
The spreadsheet
- A formula dragged one row too far
- Last job’s tax rate, copied by accident
- Unit prices rounded after the line was extended
- Every bid rebuilt by hand from the last one
TrenchIQ
- The math lives in one place and is tested to the penny
- Your rates, set once, applied to every bid
- Unit price rounded first, so the bid always foots
- Your catalog grows with every bid you save to it
How it works
Plans in. Bid out.
- 01
Bring the bid schedule
Drop in the engineer’s schedule — CSV, Excel or PDF. Items, units and quantities come in, in the owner’s order.
- 02
Price from your catalog
Materials, crews and machines you’ve priced before are one pick away. Overhead and margin work themselves out.
- 03
Hand in a clean bid
A professional PDF with your company on it, where every unit price times quantity equals its line total.
What you get
Everything a bid needs. Nothing it doesn’t.
See inside every unit price
Every dollar traces back to a material, a labor or equipment hour, a sub’s price, or your overhead and margin. No black box, no guessing where a number came from.
Your catalog, reused
Price a line once, save it, and pull it into the next bid. Your numbers get sharper with every job.
Whole crews at once
Add a crew and its equipment to a line item instead of entering each person and machine by hand.
Supplier quotes, read for you
Upload a quote and TrenchIQ suggests which bid item each price belongs to. Nothing changes until you confirm it.
Know where you stand
Load bid tabulations from past lettings and see how your number compares to the competition’s.
Saves as you type
No Save button. Undo when you need it. Save a version before you sharpen the pencil, and compare the two.
The deliverable
A bid that checks out
The PDF is what you hand in, so it’s what TrenchIQ is built around. Your company, your license and terms, the engineer’s schedule in the owner’s order — and a unit price rounded before it’s extended, so every line checks out when the engineer runs the numbers.
- Bid schedule, full proposal or summary
- Warns you before printing if something’s missing
- CSV and a cost report for your own files
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| No. | Description | Qty | Unit price | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.01 | 8" PVC Sewer Main | 1,240 LF | $68.42 | $84,840.80 |
| 1.02 | 48" Sanitary Manhole | 6 EA | $5,875.00 | $35,250.00 |
| 1.03 | Connect to Existing Manhole | 2 EA | $3,140.00 | $6,280.00 |
| 1.04 | 4" Service Lateral | 18 EA | $1,212.50 | $21,825.00 |
Your numbers stay yours
Your unit prices are how you win work. We treat them that way.
We never bid against you
Nobody at TrenchIQ uses your prices to bid, price work or advise another contractor. It’s written into our Terms of Service.
Walled off in the database
Each company’s bids sit behind its own wall, checked on every read — including reads from our own team’s console.
Yours to take, yours to delete
Your numbers belong to you. Never pooled, never sold, never used to train AI. Ask, and we export or delete them.
The details are in plain English in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
How we protect your numbers- Materials
- Labor
- Equipment
- Subs
Built with real contractors, on real bids
TrenchIQ was built with real contractors, on real bids. The bid builder was checked against those bids by the people who have to sign them — and it’s built to price any trade’s work the same way: materials, labor, equipment and subs.
Closed beta
Become a Founding Tester
We’re opening TrenchIQ to contractors who price their own bids. Founding Testers who use it on real bids and tell us honestly what works keep free access to TrenchIQ’s estimating tools for as long as we offer them.
- Use it on real bids for your company
- Tell us what’s slow, confusing or wrong — especially a number
- Join a couple of short calls with the people who build it
Every tester is invited by us. The full conditions are shared before you start.