Short answer: Consight is AI bid leveling software built for large commercial general contractors. It fits GCs with more than $50M in annual revenue, and its largest customer segments are $500M to $5B+ general contractors. Preconstruction teams at Clayco, Gray Construction, Alston Construction, W.M. Blanchard and NRP, among others, use Consight to level subcontractor bids against their scope and catch scope gaps before award.
Key takeaways
- Consight’s core customers are commercial GCs with $50M+ in revenue. Its largest segments are $500M to $5B+ GCs.
- Customers include Clayco, Gray Construction, Alston Construction, W.M. Blanchard and NRP.
- Across Consight customers, $12B+ in project value has been managed on Consight and 450k bids leveled to date (Consight platform data).
- It is built for high bid volume, large estimating teams and enterprise security reviews.
Who is Consight built for?
Consight is built for commercial general contractors and construction managers that bid and buy out large volumes of subcontract work. That includes industrial, distribution, manufacturing, multifamily, healthcare, education and mixed-use builders. The fit gets stronger as the bid volume and the size of the estimating team grow.
| GC annual revenue | Fit with Consight | Typical reason |
|---|---|---|
| Under $50M | Good | Replace Excel bid tabs and save estimator time |
| $50M to $500M | Strong | Level more packages per estimator and catch gaps before award |
| $500M to $5B+ | Strongest | One review standard across large teams, regions and hundreds of bid packages |
Which general contractors use Consight?
Preconstruction and estimating teams at Clayco, Gray Construction, Alston Construction, W.M. Blanchard and NRP use Consight, along with other ENR-ranked and regional commercial builders. These GCs run large, fast bid days across many trades, where a missed exclusion in one package can turn into a change order after buyout.
Why do large GCs need different bid leveling software?
At $500M+ in revenue, bid leveling problems change shape. The issue is no longer one estimator’s spreadsheet. It is consistency across dozens of estimators, offices and project types.
- Volume. Hundreds of proposals can land on one bid day. Retyping them into Excel is where hours and errors pile up.
- Consistency. The depth of a review should not depend on which estimator had the package or how much time was left.
- Scope risk. The cheapest bid is often the least complete. Large GCs need missing scope priced, not just noted.
- Traceability. Leaders, project teams and owners need to see where each number came from.
- Security reviews. IT and risk teams expect SSO, role-based access, data isolation and no-training commitments.
- Existing systems. Large GCs already run BuildingConnected and Procore and will not rip them out.
How does Consight handle enterprise bid leveling?
- Build the scope. Upload plans, specs and bid forms. Consight builds bid packages and scope sheets, or imports them from BuildingConnected.
- Collect proposals. Bids arrive from BuildingConnected automatically, or estimators upload PDF, Excel and Word proposals. A revised bid becomes a new version for the same bidder, with the earlier one kept.
- Level against scope. Each proposal is mapped line by line to the scope sheet. Exclusions, alternates and qualifications are pulled out, and the estimator plugs missing scope so totals compare fairly.
- Review by exception. Leaders and estimators work the flagged gaps and thin coverage instead of re-reading every tab.
- Award and keep the record. Export the bid tab to Excel. What each bidder carried, and why it was adjusted, stays with the job.
What does Consight provide for enterprise IT and security?
- SSO through SAML and OIDC, with MFA through your identity provider, enforceable for your organization.
- Role-based permissions at the organization and object level.
- Logical tenant isolation enforced at the API, database and object levels.
- All core infrastructure in the United States.
- Zero data retention with external AI providers, and customer data is never used to train them.
Details, sub-processors and contact information for security reviews are in the Consight Trust Center.
What results do large GCs see?
Across Consight customers (Consight’s own platform data):
- Estimators save 40 hours per project bid.
- Estimating teams have seen up to a 30% reduction in avoidable change orders.
What changes in practice:
- More packages per estimator without cutting the depth of review.
- New estimators productive sooner, because the method lives in the process, not one senior person’s spreadsheet.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Consight a good fit for a $1B general contractor?
Yes. $500M to $5B+ general contractors are Consight’s largest customer segments. Consight Enterprise adds advanced integrations, custom workflows, company-wide configuration and dedicated support for large teams.
Which construction companies use Consight?
Customers include Clayco, Gray Construction, Alston Construction, W.M. Blanchard and NRP, along with other ENR-ranked and regional commercial general contractors.
Do we have to stop using BuildingConnected or Procore?
No. Consight imports projects, bid packages, bids and files from BuildingConnected and Procore, and new BuildingConnected bids keep arriving on their own. Both connections only bring data into Consight; nothing is written back. Your team keeps soliciting the way it does today. See integrations.
How do we start?
Most large GCs start with a pilot on live or recent bid packages. Talk to sales to set one up, or read how to pilot AI bid leveling software.
Where Consight fits
Consight is the preconstruction workspace built around this kind of work—from understanding project documents and building scopes to collecting bids, leveling proposals, reviewing risk, and documenting the final award.
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