Your bid work comes through GCs and Division 08 packages. Your fastest cash comes from a storefront door that will not latch on a Tuesday. We build the path for both.
Every GC wants the same packet in a new form: COI, bonding letter, EMR, safety program, references. It goes out by email, and nobody can find the latest copy.
Shop drawings and submittals for one curtain wall job eat the same weeks you should spend bidding the next one.
Retainage and slow pay apps hold your margin for months after punch. Storefront door service pays in days, and nobody markets it.
The spec names a Kawneer system or approved equal. Without project photos of that system installed, the GC leans to the glazier who can show one.
The same Division 08 invite at Quellbrook Glazing, a sample contractor, run twice: first an email in the bids inbox, then a job that takes the bid set, gets approved equal and hardware answered, and follows up the quote. The takeoff stays the estimator’s, in Bluebeam Revu.
Example job record for Quellbrook Glazing, a sample commercial glazing contractor: a storefront bid invite from a general contractor with a 96 hour bid clock. In the bids inbox, the first reply takes 3 days, the quote goes out 5 hours after the bid date, nobody follows up and no answer comes back. On the job record, the bid set comes in through the site’s upload, a first reply goes out in 6 min and the invite passes straight to the estimator. Approved equal, door hardware and finish come back with site photos. The estimator does the takeoff in Bluebeam Revu and attaches the marked PDF, 11 openings, and sends a quote of $26,050 with 52 hours left. Two follow-ups go out and stop when the contractor awards the job. Sizes, finish and hardware go to the project manager for shop drawings, and a review request follows punch.
Existing openingDennick Construction, site upload
Head and transomDennick Construction
Sill, left bayDennick Construction
Interior glass, your last jobNadia, with the quote
Closer, punch walkInstall crew
Not on a job
Quote to Dennick ConstructionCorley Commons, Bldg C
Total$26,050
Priced by NadiaSent Wed 10:00am
Awarded
Corley Commons, Bldg CDennick Construction, Bid due Fri 2pm
A site with storefront, curtain wall and entrances, shown project by project.
Storefront and curtain wall pages that come up when GCs and owners search.
Answers on storefront systems and lead times that AI tools quote to a GC.
A bid request page that takes plans and specs.
Projects you closed in, posted on LinkedIn for the GCs you bid for.
An AI agent sorts bid invites by scope and due date, so none slips.
A missed call from a GC gets a text back and a time with the estimator.
Bid reviews and site walks book into the estimating calendar.
Every bid invite and due date on one dashboard, from every plan room.
After each project, the GC gets asked for a review and the next bid.
GCs you bid for hear about finished projects and open capacity.
PostHog shows which project pages GCs read before they invite you to bid.
Session replay shows the GC who opened your project list and left.
Each month you see bid invites, bids sent and contracts won.
Every invite reaches one dashboard, and BuildingConnected stays.
What we buildPrequal, project proof and service requests live in one place, kept current for you.
Estimators and project managers stop resending the same documents.
More invites from GCs who checked you, and more service work between bids.
Your numbers Set them and both lines move.
Extra jobs a month that pay for the plan
$54,000 moreWith a system, plan paid
$0 moreNo system
1 extra job a month × $6,000 kept per job − $1,500 for the plan = $4,500 more a month. Count only work you would not have won anyway.
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.
Every lead answered and booked, and we keep it running.
$4,000 a month
Every stage handled.
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.
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.
What AISC asks a fabricator to submit, how long it takes, and the 2026 fees from AISC's own schedule, plus the costs it does not publish.
How a glass shop shows up for repair, shower door and board-up searches, using Google's own Business Profile rules on hours, names and service areas.
An honest look at AI for fabricators and glass shops: quoting intake, steel takeoff and follow-up, what vendors claim and what is still unproven.
An aluminum framing system that holds glass and entrance doors at street level: shops, lobbies, offices. It fills an opening from the floor to the head, and its spec usually sits in Division 08 beside entrances and curtain wall.
Shop drawings and a field measure come first. Then the installer sets the sill flashing and the frame, anchors it at the head and jambs, sets the glass with gaskets or glazing tape and seals the perimeter. Each system maker publishes its own instructions.
Leads GHOBZ. Scopes, builds, tests and hands off every site. ghobady.com (opens in a new tab)
“I started ghobz because good businesses kept losing work to websites that did not do them justice. I still look at every site before it ships.”
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