Downtobid (BasisBoard)

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AI-powered construction bid tracking and management platform for general contractors and subcontractors -- reads inbox (Gmail/Outlook) bid invites, deadlines, and RFIs onto a shared bid-board dashboard, and lets GCs upload plans to auto-generate scopes and send subcontractor invites. Formerly branded "BasisBoard" at basisboard.com, which now returns an error; the live, actively-maintained product is at downtobid.com.

Agent-hostile

2.8 /5 composite score

Strong at killing manual bid-invite data entry for subs via email parsing and published per-tier pricing, but no public API and a sales-assisted flow for GCs limit agent/automation friendliness.

Situational

Rubric Scorecard

How we grade →

Criterion	Score	Evidence
Value for the price	3/5	Subscription, from $119, free tier Source →
Agent Friendliness	1/5	API: unknown -- no public API found
Ease of adoption	3/5	web-saas, gentle learning curve
Portability & lock-in	4/5	2 file formats, export: bulk
Interoperability	3/5	2 integrations Source →

Pricing

ModelSubscription

Entry price$119

Free tieryes

Free vieweryes

Trialyes

Billing unitflat

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Evidence

File formats

Format	Direction	Support
PDF	import	partial -- AI reads uploaded construction plans/bid documents to generate scopes.
CSV	both	partial -- CSV import/export of subcontractor lists and bid data.

Integrations

Gmail (native) Outlook (native)

Adoption

Deploymentweb-saas

Self-serve signupyes

Implementation requiredoptional

SSO/admin requiredno

Training requiredtutorials

Learning curvegentle

Data export

Export mechanismbulk

Export scopeall-data

Ecosystem

Plugin marketplaceno

Sources

Pricing Integrations

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