Estimating & tendering

    You bid ten.You win two.The eight cost the same.

    Estimating is the only department where most of the work goes in the bin. I build the system that breaks down the pack, fires the RFQs, chases the subbies until the quotes land, and levels them into one comparison. Your estimator still sets the price. They just stop doing the admin.

    Sydney. I build it myself. No offshore team, no slide deck.

    Tender · Lot 4
    Mixed use, Alexandria
    Closes in
    02:14:09
    0
    Packages
    0
    RFQs out
    0
    Quotes in
    0
    Scope gaps
    Structural steellevelled
    Concrete & formworklevelled
    Glazing & facadelevelled
    Hydraulicchasing 3
    Electricallevelled
    Mechanical / HVACchasing 2
    Joinerylevelled
    Balustradesno quote
    YOU
    The number is yours.
    The system never sets a price. Not once.
    The maths nobody runs

    What did losing cost you last year?

    Use your own numbers. This is the part that makes the decision for you.

    Spent on tenders you did not win
    $0
    Every year. Gone. It buys you nothing and you cannot bill a cent of it.
    0
    Hours a year on tender admin
    $0
    Back on the table if the admin goes away
    Your inputs, not my assumptions. The right hand figure is what the admin share above is costing you. The pricing, the risk and the judgement stay exactly where they are: with your estimator.
    The drag

    Ask your estimator what they did last week. It will not be estimating.

    Ringing the same six subbies for a quote that closes Friday.
    Twenty nine quotes in twenty nine formats, compared by hand in a spreadsheet.
    Addendum 3 lands and nobody is sure which packages it changed.
    A scope gap found after you have won it, and it is yours to wear.
    A tender tracker that is out of date the day after it is updated.
    You win, and everything the estimator knew is stuck in their head.
    What I build

    Bid more. With the same team.

    Built on your subbie list, your packages, your rates. It sits on top of the software you already run.

    01

    Tender pack breakdown

    Drawings, spec and BOQ read and split into trade packages, with the scope for each one drafted. The two days before you can even send an RFQ, gone.

    02

    RFQs that chase themselves

    Requests go out to the right subbies with the right scope. Non responders get followed up on a schedule until they answer or the clock runs out.

    03

    Quote levelling

    Quotes arrive in every format known to man. They come back as one comparison, like for like, inclusions and exclusions on the same page.

    04

    Scope gap detection

    It tells you what nobody has priced, before you submit rather than after you win. This is the one that pays for the whole build.

    05

    Tender tracker and addenda

    Every live tender, its deadline, its status, and what changed when the addendum landed. Current, without anyone maintaining it.

    06

    Won job handover

    When you win, the tender knowledge moves to the project team as a brief: scopes, quotes, assumptions, exclusions. Not left in someone's memory.

    The obvious objection

    You are not letting a robot price your jobs.

    Correct. Neither am I. Here is exactly where it stops.

    It never sets a number

    The system assembles, compares and flags. It does not price work, set margin, or make the risk call. That stays with your estimator, because it is the thing the business lives or dies on.

    It flags gaps. It does not fill them.

    Where a scope is missing or ambiguous, it tells you. It does not quietly assume and it does not guess. An assumption you did not know about is exactly how a job goes bad.

    Your subbies, your rates, your history

    Built on your data: who you actually use, what they actually charge, what they actually delivered. Not generic market rates scraped from somewhere else.

    Everything is logged

    Every quote, chase, assumption and change sits in the record. When a variation gets argued eighteen months later, the trail is there.

    Selected work

    Systems that run businesses.

    Regulated lending. Professional services. Designed, built and delivered end to end.

    Professional services

    Operations platform

    In production

    A firm running hard statutory deadlines and heavy document flow across spreadsheets, email, and systems that did not talk to each other.

    Replaced with one platform: case management, deadline tracking, staging and progression, automation with human sign off, CRM, forecasting, integrations, SOPs and a client portal.

    Mapped, built and handed over. The team runs it themselves.
    Regulated fintech

    RapidLend

    In market

    An AI lending platform. The engine reads a full financial position: assets, debts, expenses, income, and living and working circumstances.

    It ranks 2,000+ products from 27 lenders in under a second with the reasoning attached. Open banking pipeline, five integrated APIs, compliance gates and audit logging on every AI surface.

    Designed, built and launched. Architecture through to interface.
    How we would work

    Start with one tender.

    No platform migration. No twelve month program. One process, working, then the next one.

    Step 01

    Operations audit

    1 to 2 weeks · fixed fee

    I sit with your estimator and your office team and map how a tender actually moves, from pack to submission to handover. You get a costed roadmap: what is worth automating, the hours it saves, what it costs. Yours to keep either way.

    Step 02

    Build

    Fixed scope · fixed price

    We take the biggest drain, usually RFQ chasing or quote levelling, and put it into production. Your team uses it on the next tender, not next year.

    Step 03

    Run

    Monthly retainer · optional

    I extend it into procurement, project admin and reporting as you go. Or I document it, train your team, and hand it over. Both are fine.

    Next step

    Get the hours back.

    Thirty minutes to see what this looks like inside your business.

    • Hundreds of hours a year, back
    • Out to tender in a day, not a week
    • Every quote you have ever been given, searchable
    • Subbies chased without anyone lifting a phone
    • Scope gaps caught before you submit
    • Bid more jobs with the team you already have