Pages analyzed
1,420
sample · commercial GC
Urban mixed-use
podium · ground-up.
A representative commercial GC bid: $32M ground-up podium-to-tower in a dense urban context. 1,420 pages of drawings, project manual, phasing plan, six addenda, and a curtainwall spec that quietly mandates a $70K mock-up before procurement.
Illustrative
This page is a representative example of what BidLedger produces for commercial GC ground-up bids. Project identity is composite, numbers approximate. Run your real bid through the free first analysis to see your actual findings against your actual source PDFs.
Documents fingerprinted
22
Addenda reconciled
6
Atomic claims considered
7,894
Verbatim-verified
6,712
Rejected (no source match)
1,182
Findings shipped in brief
218
Brief pages
26
Material takeoff priced
$31.8M
End-to-end runtime
34s
what a commercial GC bid looks like
1,420 pages, 22 documents, 6 addenda, and a phasing plan that runs the schedule.
Commercial ground-up bids are where the risk shifts from compliance to coordination. The drawings run thick: architectural, structural, MEP, plumbing, fire protection, civil, landscape, curtainwall, vertical transportation. The project manual is long. The general conditions are denser than they look. And the phasing plan is what actually drives the schedule — get a podium-to-tower transition wrong and you eat months.
BidLedger's pipeline runs in about 34 seconds against a bid this size. The verifier rejects about 15% of LLM-proposed claims — typically paraphrased phasing windows that don't match the source, or fabricated equipment models the LLM hallucinated from common patterns. None of those reach the brief.
What makes commercial bids worth running through this pipeline is the combination of bid size and coordination density. A $32M bid can absorb a single missed clause, but it cannot absorb a coordination-critical one — a podium-tower joint sequenced wrong, a curtainwall mock-up budget that doesn't appear in the takeoff, a crane permit window that wasn't calendared. The brief surfaces 218 ranked findings across scope, phasing, coordination, and AHJ permits. The takeoff prices everything and flags the materials with VIF requirements separately.
representative findings
Four findings the pipeline would surface — coordination and cost-ranked.
The quotes below mirror the kind of language commercial GC bids actually use. On a real run, each one would carry a citation to the specific sheet and page, plus a verifier confidence score.
Phasing requires temporary cooling for Tower B during equipment swap
+$48,000 risk"Phasing schedule requires temporary cooling for Tower B (floors 8–14) during equipment swap. Contractor responsible for tenant notice 14 days prior."
Phasing Plan · p. 7
Podium-to-tower structural transition — sequenced pour with no cold joint
COORDINATION-CRITICAL"podium slab and tower core shall be poured monolithically at the transition elevation. No cold joint permitted. Contractor coordination with concrete sub required minimum 21 days prior to pour."
S2.04 Structural Notes · p. 12
Curtainwall mock-up required for AHJ sign-off before procurement
+$72,000 risk"full-size curtainwall mock-up (minimum 2 bays, 1 floor in height) shall be constructed on site and approved by AHJ and Owner's consultant prior to release of fabrication."
Specification 08 44 13 · p. 18
NYC DOB after-hours work permit required for all crane operations
SCHEDULE-CRITICAL"all crane operations between 18:00 and 07:00 require NYC DOB after-hours work permit. Permit application 15 business days minimum."
General Conditions · p. 24
what we ship
A 26-page brief, a 5-sheet takeoff, a JSON sidecar.
Commercial GC bids produce thicker briefs because the scope section alone runs 8–10 pages and the coordination + phasing section runs another 4–6. The takeoff workbook prices by trade and rolls up by floor and tower section. AHJ permit windows get their own column so they show up in the schedule narrative, not buried in a sub-tab.
One detail BidLedger flags for commercial bids specifically: the disconnect between the phasing plan and the general conditions. The phasing plan says “equipment swap window starts Day 60.” The general conditions say “after-hours permits require 15 business days minimum.” If you don't apply for the after-hours permit on Day 45, you can't meet the phasing window. That kind of cross-document contradiction is exactly what the verifier surfaces — and the LLM doesn't miss it because the rules are spelled out in two different docs.
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