Pre-construction utility · Southeast Wisconsin
Forward one trade PDF — framing, mechanical, drywall, millwork — to bids@getbeyondx.com. You get back a clean, line-item Excel with every extension re-calculated and every exclusion pulled out. No account. No demo call. No dashboard to learn.
Send an old quote from a job that already closed — nothing live, nothing sensitive. That is enough for you to judge whether the output is worth anything. Want a mutual NDA in place first? Ask, and you will have one back signed the same day.
On the sample below, the parser caught a $451.20 extension error on line 5 of a nine-line drywall quote — a transcription slip the sub made, and the kind of thing that quietly walks into your budget.
The actual output
Below is a representative Southeast Wisconsin drywall proposal — the kind of faxed-then-scanned, three-page layout that breaks every generic PDF tool — next to the sheet the engine returns.
| HANG 5/8 TYPE-X BD CLGS+WALLS | 14850 sf | .62 | 9,207.00 |
| TAPE & FIN LVL 4 THRUOUT | 14850 | .74 | 10,989.00 |
| LVL 5 SKIM gr rm/foyer/stair | 3240 sf | .41 | 1,328.40 |
| PVA SEAL & PRIME COAT | 14850 | .18 | 2,673.00 |
| CORNER BEAD sq + bullnose ret | 412 lf | 1.85 | 311.00 |
| RADIUS ARCHWAY BUILD-OUT | 3 ea | 285.00 | 855.00 |
| GARAGE — FIRETAPE ONLY | 1120 sf | .36 | 403.20 |
| HI-CLG SCAFFOLD PREMIUM | l.s. | — | 1,450.00 |
| STOCK & DISTRIB BD TO FLRS | 1 ea | 980.00 | 980.00 |
| Scope | Description | Qty | Unit | Unit $ | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanging | 5/8" Type X board, ceilings & walls | 14,850 | SF | 0.62 | 9,207.00 |
| Finishing | Tape & finish, Level 4, throughout | 14,850 | SF | 0.74 | 10,989.00 |
| Finishing | Level 5 skim — great room, foyer, stair | 3,240 | SF | 0.41 | 1,328.40 |
| Priming | PVA seal & prime coat | 14,850 | SF | 0.18 | 2,673.00 |
| Trim / Bead | Corner bead, square + bullnose returns | 412 | LF | 1.85 | 311.00762.20 |
| Trim / Bead | Radius archway build-out | 3 | EA | 285.00 | 855.00 |
| Garage | Firetape only, no finish | 1,120 | SF | 0.36 | 403.20 |
| Access | High-ceiling scaffold premium | 1 | LS | 1,450.00 | 1,450.00 |
| Material | Stock & distribute board to floors | 1 | EA | 980.00 | 980.00 |
Line 5 reads 412 LF × $1.85. That extends to
$762.20, not the $311.00 printed on the quote.
The sub's stated total of $28,196.60 is
$451.20 light.
Every row gets re-multiplied and the column gets re-summed against the stated total. When they disagree, you are told exactly which row and by how much — before it becomes a change order argument in month four.
Or hand us the harder one
Forward all three quotes for the same trade on the same job and we will send them back normalised side by side — same scope rows, same units, with each sub’s exclusions lined up against the others. One bundles stocking and another excludes it. One quotes Level 4 and another Level 5. That is usually where the cheaper bid stops being cheaper.
| Standardised scope | Sub A | Sub B | Sub C |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rough framing labour | 38,400 | 41,200 | 36,900 |
| Lumber package | 62,150 | 58,900 | 61,400 |
| Crane / setting | included | 4,800 | included |
| Sheathing & housewrap | 9,240 | 9,240 | not bid |
| Total as quoted | 109,790 | 114,140 | 98,300 |
| Adjusted to equal scope | 109,790 | 114,140 | 107,540 |
Sub C looks $15,840 cheaper than Sub B. They did not bid the sheathing. Priced at what the others charge for it, C’s real number is $107,540 — still lowest, but by $2,250 over Sub A rather than the landslide the bottom line suggested.
Same address, same zero setup, same free first three. Closed jobs are fine — in fact a job you already have the real numbers on is the best possible test, because you can check our answer against what actually happened.
The obvious question
You can, and for a one-page quote it will do fine. Here is where it stops being fine — and it stops quietly, which is the problem.
On a multi-page quote where the table continues across a page break, rows go missing. Nothing warns you. The output looks complete, reads clean, and is short two line items.
Ask for a total and it will usually echo the number printed at the bottom of the page. That is the number you were trying to verify. Errors survive untouched.
“Painting by others” buried in a footer is the most expensive sentence in the document. Generic extraction treats it as prose and leaves it out of the structure entirely.
Run the same prompt on six subs and you get six column layouts. Nothing stacks, nothing levels, nothing imports. You end up hand-aligning anyway.
Scope, description, quantity, unit, unit price, total — the same six columns from every sub, every trade, every time. If a field will not validate, the run fails loudly instead of guessing.
Extensions are recomputed and the column is re-summed independently of anything the LLM read. The math check is code, not a language model opinion.
The whole workflow
From whatever inbox you already live in. Attachment intact, no renaming, no upload portal. You get an automatic confirmation that it landed.
Line items, units, extensions and exclusions come out into a fixed schema. Every row is re-multiplied, the column re-summed, discrepancies flagged by row.
A reply on the same thread with the spreadsheet attached, same business day. Import it, or paste it straight into your estimate.
Three things people ask first
Every builder’s estimate sheet is laid out differently, and a standardised export you still have to re-arrange has saved you nothing. Attach your own cost-code template to the first email and we map the rows into your columns instead of ours.
Digital PDFs, flatbed scans and phone photos are all fine, including the faxed-and-rescanned ones. Handwritten quotes get flagged for manual review rather than guessed at — a confident wrong number is worse to us than a slow right one.
Reply and ask, and a mutual NDA comes back signed the same day. No portal, no account, no signature platform to register with. Most people send a closed-out job instead and skip it entirely — both are fine.
Before you send anything
Sub pricing is the most sensitive number in your business. You should not have to guess at this, so here it is plainly.
Who this is built for
Not a general PDF tool. It is tuned on the layouts and trade shorthand that actually come out of this region — and the alpha is deliberately small so the mapping gets tuned to your sheet, not an average of everyone's.
The person who loses a full day of bid week to re-keying, and knows exactly which sub's layout is the worst.
Five to forty homes a year, no estimating department, evenings spent in a spreadsheet that should have filled itself in.
Three framers on one lot, three different formats. Same schema out of all three is the entire point.
First 3 extractions are free
The alpha is open to five estimators in the Milwaukee–Waukesha area. No budget conversation, no onboarding, no sales call unless you ask for one.
Got three quotes for one trade? Send all three and we will level them. Prefer to ask a question first? Same address — a person reads it.