A bid board sends the same invite to everyone in range. Landing pages and lead magnets go after the work that never reaches the board.
PlanHub and The Blue Book list you beside every sub in range. Price becomes the only difference.
You know a handful of estimators. When one changes jobs, your invites go with them.
Property managers, architects and owners need glass and rails with no GC involved. They aren’t on a bid board looking for you.
A week of requests at a sample shop. The boards stay with the estimator. The pages bring in the work that never reaches them.
Example, Corvane Glass & Metal, a sample glass and metal shop, one week of leads. A shared lead, Tenant improvement, Lot 4: 3 others reach it first and priced in is 46h. Went to the low number. Corvane’s was the fourth price in. A lead from its own page, Broken storefront, Harbor Row: priced in 2h 12m. No bid list. A property manager asked Corvane. Priced the same day, awarded with no GC in between. The week before, Three logins and a shop email: 14 requests, priced in 39h 9m on average, 5 no bid, 2 awarded, cost per awarded job $330. The week after, One queue for direct work: 18 requests, priced in 11h 7m on average, 2 no bid, 5 awarded, cost per awarded job $200. Fourteen subs on the sample job above. Boards stay with the estimator. Direct requests sorted.
One queue for direct work
Broken storefront, Harbor RowYour job pages
No bid list. A property manager asked CorvaneRFQ, 40 bracketsGC, Thomasnet listing
Railing retrofit, Dock StOwner, Your job pages
Boards stay with the estimator. Direct requests sorted
Renee P.555-0163
Lower lite cracked on two doors. We manage the building. Who can look this week?
Corvane Glass & Metal: Hi Renee, your price for both doors is ready. OK to text it here? Reply STOP to opt out.
Priced in 2h 12m
Priced the same day, awarded with no GC in between.
Lot 4 bids
Storefront and interior glass, drawings attached. Bids due Thursday.
| Source | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| PlanHub | –Estimator’s login | –Stays with the estimator |
| The Blue Book | $120Estimator’s email | $120Stays with the estimator |
| Thomasnet listing | –A shop email | $200Queue, sorted by buyer |
| Your job pages | $180A shop email | $173Queue, sorted by buyer |
| All sources | $330Fourteen subs on the sample job above | $200Boards stay with the estimator. Direct requests sorted |
Sample spend, not a vendor’s price.
Lead generation is the paid-for half of Lead. New names go to the responder, and every one stays in your CRM.
Everything that gets you a lead.
More people find you and reach out.
Turn interest into a sale.
Keep the job moving.
Jobs run on time, with less of you managing them.
What happens after the job.
Finished work brings in the next job.
Feed it back into the machine.
Every finished job helps bring the next lead.
Then it starts again.
CRM: Customers, conversations, bookings, jobs and employee tasks in one place, across all five.
Leads arrive sorted, so nobody retypes a form.
Less time on bids you were never going to win.
More work that doesn’t start at the lowest number.
Free website
Plans from $1,500 a month.
You always keep your name, logo, photos, copy and domain. We keep the code and the system behind the site.
$1,500 a month
No lead lost.
Not in this plan
Every lead answered and booked, and we keep it running.
$4,000 a month
Every stage handled.
Starts hereUnlimited landing pages and lead magnets
Everything in Automated, and we run every stage for you.
No AI brain or agents of your own.
$7,500 a month
We run the whole cycle.
IncludedUnlimited landing pages and lead magnets
Everything in Automated, plus us working it and building on it.
Ad budgets and paid software stay on your accounts. Designed image and video posts start once you’re comfortable with AI drafts.
For glaziers and miscellaneous metals subs: GC prequalification, BuildingConnected, PlanHub, The Blue Book and what an estimator checks first.
Pick the markets your shop suits, show proof a buyer can check, and test Thomasnet with numbers. A plain plan for fabrication shop owners.
What engineers and purchasing buyers look for before they send an RFQ: materials, tolerances, drawing formats, certifications and lead times.
Fill out each GC’s prequalification form, keep your profiles current on the platforms that GC uses and have insurance, bonding and safety papers ready. Then follow up after every bid, win or lose.
Three ways in: a bid board for work already out to bid, search for owners and property managers who need it before anyone bids, and the GCs and customers you have already delivered for. The last one costs the least.
BuildingConnected is mostly private invites from GCs. PlanHub is an open marketplace you browse by area. The Blue Book is a directory where GCs search your trade and invite from your ProView.
Only if your office can carry it. Prevailing wage changes your labor number, and weekly certified payroll is real paperwork. If you’re set up for it, it deserves its own landing page.
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