Features

Everything a bid needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Built for unit-price bidding on sewer, water, storm, earthwork and roadway jobs — and checked against real bids by a contractor who signs them.

Pricing

Every unit price, built from what it costs

The unit price is the only number the owner sees. TrenchIQ shows you every dollar inside it.

The cost build-up: Materials, labor, equipment and subcontractors on every line item, with overhead, markup and tax applied the same way every time.
Price by production rate: Enter how much a crew puts in per day; the hours, and the labor and equipment cost, follow.
Waste factor: Add waste to a material and order the right quantity, without inflating the bid quantity the owner sees.
Overtime: Turn on overtime for a line item and the labor cost reflects it — nothing else changes.
Job rates: Override overhead, markup or tax for one bid — or for one cost on one line item — without touching your defaults.
Unit price override: Need a round number? Set the unit price yourself; the build-up stays visible behind it.

Speed

Every extra click is a failure. TrenchIQ is built to be driven from the keyboard.

Import a bid schedule: CSV, Excel or PDF — the owner's items, units and quantities, in the owner's order.
Your catalog: Bid items, materials, equipment and subcontractors you've priced before, one pick away. Send a priced bid's costs back to the catalog to grow it.
Whole crews: Build a crew once — people and machines — and add it to any line item in one click.
Keyboard driving: Arrows and Enter move through the bid; / pulls an item from your catalog; = opens the cost build-up.
Saves automatically: There is no Save button. Undo and redo when you change your mind.
Duplicate a bid: Start a similar job from the last one instead of from a blank sheet.

Getting numbers in

Optional AI reading takes the typing out — and never changes a bid until you confirm it.

Supplier quotes: Upload a supplier's quote and TrenchIQ suggests which bid item each price belongs to. You confirm or correct every line.
Bid tabulations: Load the published results of past lettings, and see who bid what on work like yours.
Competitors: Keep the contractors you bid against in one list, tied to the tabulations they appear in.

What you hand out

Because it did. The PDF is the deliverable, and TrenchIQ is built around it.

Bid PDF: A bid schedule, a full proposal with a cover letter and signature block, or a summary of section totals.
Your boilerplate: License, bid validity, certification, terms and notes — set once for the company, changeable per bid.
Warns before you print: If something the bid needs is missing, TrenchIQ tells you before you generate the PDF.
CSV and cost report: A CSV for your own files, and an internal cost report that shows how every price was built.
Sent snapshot: Mark a bid sent and TrenchIQ keeps an exact record of what went out the door.

Sharpening

Low bidder wins. Catch the mistake, and know where you stand, before you submit.

Saved versions and compare: Save a version before a big change, then see exactly which lines moved and what it did to the total.
Price check: Flags a unit price wildly off your catalog price, and a single edit that swings the total — the fat-finger typo.
Competitive position: Where your number likely lands against the field, from the tabulations you've loaded.

Your team

Invite your office. Each person gets the tools for their job, and nothing else.

Owner and Admin: Everything — settings, users, every bid and every job.
Estimator: Bids and the catalog. Not job costs, billing or HR.
Project Manager: Runs won jobs, and can see a bid without changing one that hasn't been won.

In the field

Early access

A phone app for your crew, reached in the browser — nothing to install from an app store.

Time clock: Crew members clock in against a bid line item, so hours land on the right cost code.
Equipment inspections: DOT and OSHA pre-use inspections on a phone, with defects reported to the office.
Receipts: Snap a receipt; TrenchIQ reads the vendor, total and date, and it posts against the job.
Load tickets: Drivers photograph the scale ticket; a foreman assigns the cost code. Includes a driver log book.
Job schedule: A schedule built from the won bid's own production rates.

Your catalogKeyboard-firstOwner's bid scheduleField appLoad tickets

TrenchIQ is in a closed beta for contractors who bid unit-price work. Founding Testers get the estimating free, for as long as we offer it.