RoofBid AI: Building a Bid Tool With Midwest Commercial Roofers

If you estimate commercial roofing work, you know the week. Three bid packages land on Monday. Each one has drawings, specs, and an addendum or two. You're also walking a job, answering a GC, and checking on a crew.

Something gives. Usually it's the bid you didn't get to.

Good jobs get passed on because nobody had time to bid them. That's the problem I want to work on.

What RoofBid AI is

RoofBid AI is a bid and estimating tool I'm building at Dreki Solutions for commercial roofing contractors. It's coming soon. It is not finished and not for sale yet. It's in early access, and I'm building it with a small group of founding pilot contractors in the Midwest.

The idea is simple. The software does the first pass. Your estimator checks it, fixes what's wrong, and signs off before anything goes to a GC or owner.

How it's supposed to work

This is what we're building toward. Pilot feedback decides what gets built first.

1. Sort the bid package. It reads the documents and lays out roof areas, systems, and spec requirements, so your estimator can check them in one place instead of flipping through sheets.
2. Draft the estimate. It proposes quantities and line items as a starting point, with the source for each one shown. If a number came from a drawing, you can see which one.
3. Your estimator approves. Nothing gets priced, sent, or committed until a person signs off.

AI proposes. People approve.

What it won't do

It won't decide what to bid. It won't pick your exclusions or your margin. It won't send anything to a GC on its own. Those calls belong to the people who carry the risk.

Why the source matters

An estimate you can't trace is an estimate you can't defend. When a GC asks why a number is what it is, your estimator needs to point to a sheet, a spec section, or a formula. That's why every quantity RoofBid AI drafts is meant to show where it came from. If the source is wrong or missing, your estimator sees it right away and fixes it before it costs you.

That's also how trust gets built. Not by the software being clever, but by your people being able to check its work quickly.

Why build it with pilots

I could build this alone and hope it fits how you work. That's how you end up with another tool nobody opens.

Instead, a small group of contractors gets in early. In return, they give a short call every couple of weeks, honest feedback, and a few real or scrubbed bid packages to test against. They see what's being built before anyone else and help decide what matters. If it isn't useful, they say so, and that changes the plan.

I'm not going to promise results. It's not built yet, and nobody has run a real bid through it. When there's something real to show, I'll show it.

Who's building it

Dreki Solutions is a veteran-owned software company in Michigan. It's a small shop. You'd work directly with me, Brett Moser, the founder.

Next step

Want a say in how it's built? See the RoofBid AI page at https://roofbid.dreki-solutions.ai. Or email brett@dreki-solutions.com with "RoofBid AI founding pilot" in the subject, or call (517) 215-7573. Send a short note about the kind of commercial work you bid and how you estimate today. I'll reply with how the pilot works.