TrueBuilt

quote-only annual plans (separate General Contractor and Subcontractor tiers); no public dollar figures Win & Set Up the Work

Cloud-based, AI-native pre-construction platform for general contractors and subcontractors combining quantity takeoff, cost estimation, bid management/leveling, and bid qualification/risk assessment in one tool, with an AI assistant and a Bidding Portal for GC-to-subcontractor collaboration; extended in late 2025 with acquired Capabuild LiDAR/360-degree jobsite-capture data.

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1.6 /5 composite score

RF1 and RF2 cap C1 and C2 because pricing is quote-only and no public API, CLI, or MCP is documented. The documented file surface is PDF project-document import, and firm-size fit is growing.

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Criterion	Score	Evidence
Value for the price	1/5	quote-only annual plans (separate General Contractor and Subcontractor tiers); no public dollar figures Source →
Agent Friendliness	1/5	API: unknown -- no public developer API, CLI, or MCP documentation found
Ease of adoption	2/5	web-saas Source →
Portability & lock-in	2/5	1 file formats
Interoperability	2/5	--

Pricing

Modelquote-only annual plans (separate General Contractor and Subcontractor tiers); no public dollar figures

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Evidence

File formats

Format	Direction	Support
PDF	import	unknown -- Public product materials reference drawings, spec books, and project documents analyzed by the platform.

Adoption

Deploymentweb-saas

Self-serve signupno

Implementation requiredvendor-led

Ecosystem

Plugin marketplaceno

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