Northstar Concrete cuts bid time 62% on tilt-wall projects

A 14-person concrete contractor in Denver replaced a patchwork of legacy tools with Bedrock. Here's what changed.

Northstar Concrete is a 14-person tilt-wall and structural concrete contractor in Denver, Colorado. They bid 60–80 projects a year — distribution centers, light industrial, retail pads, and the occasional public-sector job.

A legacy desktop estimating package for assemblies and cost database A separate PDF viewer for plan markup A spreadsheet for tilt panel takeoff (custom workbook built in 2014) A word processor for proposals A whiteboard for the bid pipeline

Their average bid took 9 hours of total estimator time. Their VP of Estimating, Carlos Mata, described the workflow as "five tools and a prayer."

Carlos was already frustrated with the workflow when a sudden subscription price hike on their legacy estimating tool forced a re-evaluation. Bedrock came up in a referral from another concrete contractor in his network.

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