AI tools for the trades. Win more jobs. Keep more profit.
For general contractors, plumbers, painters, and HVAC pros — built by people who understand how the work actually gets done. No jargon. No fluff. Just tools that pay for themselves.
The parts of the job nobody pays you for.
Every trade business loses money in the same few places. Most contractors don't realize how much until they add it up.
Bids eat your nights.
You spend two hours on a proposal after a 10-hour day. You send it. You hear nothing. Then the homeowner tells you they went with the guy who quoted in 15 minutes.
You undercharged and didn't know it.
You finished the job at a loss — maybe 10%, maybe 30% — but nobody tracked which line item bled. Next month, you do it again.
Leads die in your inbox.
Someone called at 2pm while you were on a roof. By the time you called back, they'd hired someone else. Your CRM costs $200/month and didn't help.
Your best customers forget about you.
The homeowner whose bathroom you did in 2022 needs the other one done now — but she called the first contractor who ran a Google ad. You weren't in her head when it mattered.
BidForge: Bid in 5 minutes. Look like a pro. Win more jobs.
BidForge turns job details into a branded proposal PDF in the time it takes to grab a coffee. Stop losing bids to the guys who quote first. Stop burning weekends on paperwork.
- 5-step form. Full proposal in under 5 minutes.
- Professional PDF output, branded with your logo.
- Consistent pricing — no more guessing or undercharging.
- Send it while the lead is still hot.
$49/month— locked for 12 months
Waitlist only. Launch price $79/month.
Early access opens May 2026. Waitlist members get founder pricing locked in for 12 months and 3 months of priority support.
We ride with you. Then we build.
Most software companies start with the tech and go looking for a problem. We start with the work.
Before we build anything, we sit with contractors. We watch how bids get made on a gravel driveway. How invoices go out from a truck cab. How leads come in at 9pm from Facebook Marketplace. We find the specific places money leaks. Then — and only then — we build something to plug the leak.
If a tool won't clearly pay for itself inside 60 days, we don't ship it.
Have a problem BidForge doesn't solve?
Every trade business loses money in its own specific way. If BidForge isn't the tool you need — maybe it's scheduling, quoting materials, routing service calls, or something else entirely — we build custom.
We take on 2 custom builds per quarter. That's it. It lets us go deep, ship fast, and make sure what we build actually works in your shop. Every engagement starts with a paid discovery week where we embed with your team, diagnose the loss, and scope the tool.
Serious inquiries only. We don't take every project.
Why we're building this.
I don't come from tech. I've spent years as a project coordinator in the linear lighting industry, working next to GCs, subs, and installers every day. I watched brilliant tradesmen do great work and still come up short — not because the work was bad, but because the business side was bleeding. Bids written at midnight. Leads lost to the faster guy. Jobs finished below cost and nobody knew why.
AI changed what's possible. Most of it is being built for Silicon Valley. I'm building it for the shops I grew up around.
— Josh Meredith, Founder