For commercial electrical estimators
Mission chases the gear quotes, re-keys the pricing, watches the addenda, and keeps the bid log — so you stay on the number.
Your day
You juggle several live bids at different stages — one mid-takeoff, one waiting on lighting and gear quotes, one due at 2 with an addendum that just dropped. Seeing the building in a set of plans and setting the final number is where the money is made. The chasing, re-keying, and reconciling around it is what drains the desk.
Soliciting and chasing distributor quotes, re-keying PDF pricing into Accubid or McCormick line by line, reconciling late addenda against an existing takeoff, formatting the proposal for each GC’s portal, logging every bid into a tracking spreadsheet, and following up after submission.
Reading the drawings and specs to see what’s really being asked, catching scope buried in the general notes, choosing and adjusting labor units for this crew and these conditions, making build-vs-sub calls, and setting the final number — the part only you can do.
What it costs
You’re the revenue engine — no bid, no backlog — and the single biggest risk surface, where one fat-fingered labor unit is committed for the life of the job. With several bids due the same week, the busywork is the binding constraint on how many quality numbers go out, and one missed step turns a win into a loss.
Vendors put manual takeoff and the counting around it at as much as half of every bid cycle — directional, but it’s a large share of your hours that’s rules-based busywork.
And roughly 60% land in the final week — each one forcing a re-check and sometimes a re-takeoff hours before the deadline (directional, vendor-sourced).
Most estimating spend flies blind — chasing the wrong GCs and project types with no feedback loop, because the bid log never gets kept current.
With Mission: Mission carries the chase, the re-key, the addenda watch, and the log, so your hours go to takeoff judgment and the final number.
What Mission does
You assign the workflow once. Mission’s agent works the distributor inbox, stages the pricing, watches the portals, and keeps the bid log — while every takeoff, labor-unit, and final-number call stays with you.
Emails RFQs to your distributor list from the bill of materials, tracks who has and hasn’t responded, sends follow-ups as bid day approaches, and surfaces a clean comparison — so you stop babysitting an inbox waiting on a gear quote.
The result
When chasing, re-keying, and reconciling run on their own, the busywork stops capping your throughput — and your judgment reaches every bid you should be pricing instead of only the ones you have time to file.
Without the chase-and-re-key tax, you can get to every bid thoroughly instead of triaging which ones you have time for.
Every revised set is caught the moment it posts with the delta highlighted, so missed scope stops getting baked into a committed number.
Post-bid follow-up runs on its own and keeps your win/loss numbers current by GC and project type — the step most firms skip entirely.
Safe by default
On a binding bid, a transcribed-wrong price or a scope gap missed in a late addendum goes straight to margin for the life of the job. Mission is built so the agent does the chasing, the re-keying, and the formatting and proposes the rest — the takeoff, the labor units, and the final number stay yours to approve.
Works inside the tools you already run on — email, calendars, sheets, your CRM, your portals.
Anything risky or off-mission is held for your sign-off before it touches data or goes out the door.
You set the assignment once. The work stays on it for days and weeks without drifting.
You always have a clear view of what ran, what changed, and what needs a call — no transcript spelunking.
Tell us the bids that route through you every week, and we’ll show you the quote chasing, re-keying, and addenda watch Mission would carry.
