Bid intelligence software for contractors.
Rivetread reviews plans, specifications, addenda, and bid documents before you price the job—surfacing scope gaps, critical requirements, risks, deadlines, and RFIs your estimating process might miss.
Sample review / fictional project
Commercial renovation · bid set 09/12/2026
Demo data / sample data
Sample bid report
A review queue your estimator can act on.
This fictional Northline Medical Renovation review shows the kind of decision framing Rivetread is designed to support before a number goes out the door.
Selected finding
Special inspections
Inspection responsibility may sit outside the base scope
Confirm testing agency, schedule, and carry cost before the number is final.
“Special inspections for structural steel, concrete placement, and post-installed anchors shall be coordinated by the Contractor.”
Illustrative sample citation — fictional demo content, not a live report finding.
Every finding should lead you back to the source.
The examples above show document, section, page, and excerpt fields as an illustrative report pattern. They are fictional citations for this demo.
What is live today
The current product supports uploaded PDF names and extracted page text through DocumentTextViewer and DocumentTextSegment. It does not yet generate source-linked findings or section-level report traceability, so this sample does not present those capabilities as live.
What Rivetread finds
The details between the cover sheet and the final number.
Bring a practical preconstruction lens to plans, specs, addenda, and bid documents. Rivetread helps your team build a better list of things to verify.
Scope
Trade boundaries, inclusions, exclusions, alternates, and allowances.
Risks
Requirements that can change cost, sequence, procurement, or coordination.
Deadlines
Bid dates, submittal windows, long-lead decisions, and closeout timing.
RFIs
Ambiguities worth resolving before they become an assumption in the number.
Special inspections
Testing, commissioning, mockups, and inspection responsibility to verify.
Procurement
Submittals, lead times, owner-furnished items, and approved-equals constraints.
Closeout
Keep closeout, warranty, training, and turnover requirements visible before they get lost in the rush from award to mobilization.
How it works
Start with the documents already on your desk.
Rivetread fits the pre-estimating handoff: one project workspace for the source set, a readable first pass, and a decision list your team can bring into the tools it already uses.
Create the bid workspace
Start a project for the bid set you are pricing and keep its source documents together.
Upload the documents
Attach plans, specifications, addenda, scopes, and other bid PDFs to the project.
Review the requirements
Use the workspace to read extracted page text, then carry decisions into your estimating process.
Your team remains responsible for final review and bid decisions.
Built around the people pricing the work
A second set of eyes for every kind of contractor.
General contractors
Run a consistent preconstruction pass across the whole bid set.
Commercial builders
Keep addenda, owner requirements, and project-specific risk in view.
Specialty contractors
Check trade scope, interfaces, testing, and exclusions before committing.
Subcontracting teams
Give estimators and project leaders one place to align on open decisions.
Fits the workflow you already trust
Rivetread complements estimating, takeoff, and project-management tools.
It is a preconstruction review layer—not a replacement for the estimator’s takeoff, the PM’s judgment, or the systems your team uses to schedule, buy, build, and close out the work.
Before you price the next one
Make the bid set easier to question.
Create your Rivetread account, start a bid workspace, and upload the documents your team is already reviewing.
AI-assisted review with source-linked findings. Your team remains responsible for final review and bid decisions.