For general contractors
Your estimate tracks cost.
Nothing tracks scope.
Catch scope gaps earlier, flag risky exclusions, and protect margin before the number goes out.
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project records behind every review, so Ladder can spot the scope your trades tend to miss.
The problem
Scope gets lost between the handoffs.
Scope does not get missed in one place. It gets lost between drawings, specs, addenda, proposals, emails, spreadsheets, and trade assumptions.
Every bid has hundreds of calls. The hard part is keeping those calls visible, traceable, and carried forward.
Across the documents
Drawings, specs, and addenda do not always line up cleanly. Coverage becomes a judgment call under deadline.
Across the subs
One sub includes it, one excludes it, one qualifies it, one is silent. The spreadsheet shows numbers, not coverage.
Across the team
Calls get made in notes, emails, spreadsheets, and people’s heads. The context does not always travel with the decision.
Into buyout
Month three, it surfaces as a $180K change order — on a number you already signed, with no record of who owned it.
The solution
Keep every scope call connected.
Ladder works inside the tools your team already uses — email, Excel, takeoff, PDFs, proposals, and procurement — to bring docs, bids, and decisions into one live scope view.
Works where the bid already lives
No portal change. No new template. Ladder reads the files and formats your team and subs already use.
Automates the scope workflow
Docs, proposals, addenda, exclusions, and clarifications are checked continuously as the bid moves.
Keeps the team aligned
Everyone sees what is required, what is covered, what changed, and what still needs a call before submit and into buyout.
How Ladder works
Forward the ITB. Ladder does the first pass.
CC bid@getladder.ai. Ladder reads the docs, builds the required scope, checks coverage as proposals land, carries decisions forward, and keeps buyout tied to the bid.
Forward the ITB
When the ITB lands, CC bid@getladder.ai. No portal, no migration, no new tab your team has to live in.
Build the required scope
Drawings, specs, addenda, and contracts are read into a trade-by-trade scope checklist, with source links back to the documents.
Review the first-pass risk
A short brief shows what the job requires, what looks exposed, and where the team may need a decision before spending more time.
Send clean scope to the trades
Trade packages are organized around the required scope and can move through your existing bid workflow — email, BuildingConnected, or your own process.
Check coverage as bids land
As proposals return, Ladder checks each one against the required scope: covered, excluded, silent, conditioned, or unclear.
Carry the calls into the number
You send the bid knowing what is covered, what is carried, and which open items could affect margin.
Buy out against the bid
After award, procurement starts from the bid record — so the team buys what was bid and knows what was included, excluded, or still exposed.
Why it compounds
Stop missing the same scope twice.
Every resolved gap becomes company memory: what gets missed, which subs hedge, and which seams turn into change orders.
The next bid starts with that knowledge already in the review.
Start here
Send us one live bid.
Send one active project. We’ll show what the job requires, what each sub carried, what is still open, and where margin may be exposed.
No integration needed. First live bid free.