Introducing BidScreen Cloud and Pursuit: Takeoff and Bid Management in Your Browser

Vertigraph has built takeoff software for construction estimators since 1991. Today we are launching two products at once: BidScreen Cloud, professional quantity takeoff that runs in your browser, and Pursuit, an AI-powered construction CRM that keeps every bid in one place. BidScreen Cloud is available now with a free account. Pursuit is in beta, with founding pricing for teams that get in early.

This post covers why we built them, what they do, who they are for, and how to get started.

Why we built them

For more than three decades, our answer to takeoff has been desktop software. BidScreen XL measures quantities inside Microsoft Excel. SiteWorx OS models cut and fill from your drawings. Estimators run their bid days on both, and they are not going anywhere.

But desktop software has two limits we could not engineer around. First, a license lives on one machine. When the estimator who sits at that machine is out, the takeoff sits idle with them. Second, the takeoff was never the whole bid. The emails, vendor quotes, addenda, soils reports, and follow-ups around it never had a home. They lived in inboxes and folder trees, and one buried addendum can sink a bid you should have won.

BidScreen Cloud fixes the first problem. Pursuit fixes the second.

BidScreen Cloud: takeoff software in your browser

Open a browser, log in, upload your PDF plans, and start measuring. That is the whole setup. Nothing to install, no license keys to move between machines, no files stranded on one computer.

The features that matter most on bid day:

• Company classes. Set up your class list once and every estimator measures with the same names, so exports line up with your workbook every time.
• Auto trace and multi-point arcs. Trace a boundary in a few clicks instead of clicking every vertex, and measure curved work accurately.
• Real-time collaboration. One login from any browser, office or home. The whole team can work the same takeoff and see every change as it happens.
• Excel-ready exports. Class names and quantities come through structured and intact, so the numbers drop straight into your estimating workbook. The same exports can feed Pronamics, OpenCore, or your own automation.
• Worksheet cloning. Duplicate a worksheet and its setup instead of rebuilding it sheet by sheet.
• AI auto scale and auto class (beta). AI detects the scale from your plans and suggests construction classes, so you spend less time on setup and more time measuring.

Pursuit: an AI-powered construction CRM for estimators

Most CRMs were built for software sales teams, then dressed up with construction labels. Pursuit is a construction CRM built around the way estimators actually work: projects, not pipelines. Every project gets a brain. Drag in plan sets, specs, emails, takeoff exports, and soils reports, and Pursuit indexes all of it.

• Ask the project anything. Nanodoc, the project document chat, answers plain-English questions about scope, quantities, deadlines, and spec sections. Every answer comes back cited to the exact document and page, so you can check its work before you bid on it.
• Every conversation on the record. Outlook threads log themselves to the right project. Follow-up reminders fire on schedule, not when someone remembers. The correspondence history behind every customer stays with your company, not in one estimator's inbox.
• Bid calendar, quotes, and e-signatures. A shared bid calendar keeps dates in front of the whole team. Send quotes and collect signatures on contracts without leaving Pursuit.
• Win/loss you can act on. Hit rates by customer, project type, and region show which customers award you work and which ones shop your number. Describe the report you want in plain English and the AI report builder puts it together.

Pursuit is in beta, and we use that word honestly. The core workflows are live, and we are still building. Founding pricing is how we pay early teams back for their feedback: lock the rate now and it holds while you stay subscribed.

Who they are for

BidScreen Cloud is for estimating teams that want professional measurement without desktop overhead. The five-person shop that could never justify enterprise takeoff pricing. The team split between the office and home. The company that needs more bid volume without another hire.

Pursuit is for the estimator who runs the whole bid, not just the measurement: chasing vendor quotes, tracking bid dates, digging answers out of a 300-page spec, and reporting hit rates at the Monday meeting.

And if you live in BidScreen XL and Excel today, keep living there. Nothing about this launch forces a change.

How BidScreen Cloud and Pursuit work together

Takeoff and bid management are halves of the same job, so we connected them. BidScreen Cloud takeoff exports flow into Pursuit's project brain alongside your drawings and specs, and quantity questions get answered next to the documents that produced them.

One honest note: the automatic connection is BidScreen Cloud only. BidScreen XL and SiteWorx OS do not feed Pursuit today. You can still drag a desktop export into the project brain like any other file, but there is no live link.

What this means for BidScreen XL and SiteWorx OS customers

Nothing changes. We keep developing and supporting the desktop products; June's 9.8.1.0 release, which added vector snapping on flattened PDFs, is recent proof. Your licenses, your Full Serve maintenance, and your workflow stay exactly as they are. BidScreen Cloud is a new option, not a migration notice.

How to get started

1. Create a free account at app.vertigraph.com. One login covers BidScreen Cloud and Pursuit.
2. Upload a PDF plan set and run a real takeoff. Company classes and auto trace are there from the first measurement.
3. Export to Excel and check the numbers against your current workbook. If it does not fit your workflow, you have lost nothing but an afternoon.
4. When you are ready for the bid management side, start with the Pursuit overview and its founding pricing.

Common questions

Is BidScreen Cloud replacing BidScreen XL?

No. BidScreen XL remains our takeoff tool inside Microsoft Excel, with active development and support. BidScreen Cloud is for teams that want takeoff in the browser.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Both products run in a modern web browser on any machine. There is nothing to download and there are no license keys to manage.

What do they cost?

You can create a BidScreen Cloud account and start measuring for free. Pursuit is in beta with founding pricing that holds while you stay subscribed. Current pricing for both lives on the BidScreen Cloud and Pursuit product pages.

Does Pursuit work with BidScreen XL?

Not automatically. Pursuit's takeoff integration is with BidScreen Cloud. If you run BidScreen XL, you can still use Pursuit for documents, correspondence, bid dates, and win/loss tracking, and you can drag Excel exports into the project brain by hand.

Thriving, not just surviving

We build so contractors are thriving, not just surviving. That is the reason Vertigraph exists, and these two products are its next step: measurement that is not chained to one machine, and a bid process that is not scattered across ten inboxes.

Create a free account, run a takeoff on a real plan set, and tell us what is not right yet. We are building this with you.