Low Voltage / AV · Education / Higher Ed
Doubled higher-ed AV bid coverage during summer-build season.
A specialty AV + structured cabling firm bids almost exclusively to universities + colleges with summer-build deadlines. Pre-pilot, they declined a meaningful share of bids during the May-July rush because the team couldn't physically work them. OmniTakeoff's recognizer trained on their drawings expanded bid coverage during the peak window.
Industry
Education / Higher Ed
Region
Mountain West US
Annual revenue
Mid-market
Headline numbers
- Summer-rush bid coverage
- Meaningful improvement
- Win rate during rush
- Customer-validated outcome
- Bid hours per estimator/month
- Meaningful improvement
Specifics shared under NDA
Specifics shared under NDA on reference calls
Same overtime pool, more bids
Challenge
What they were solving for
Summer K-12 + higher-ed AV/cabling bids cluster May-July with hard deadlines. Pre-pilot the team declined a meaningful share of bid invitations because they couldn't physically work them.
Solution
How OmniTakeoff worked
Active-learning loop trained on reference projects in the months before peak season. Recognizer accuracy on their drawing style hit a usable level before the May rush kicked off (specific accuracy curves shared under NDA). Estimators expanded their personal bid coverage materially.
Outcome
What changed
Bid coverage expanded meaningfully in the May-July rush. Win rate improved as they shifted from picky-bidder to selective-bidder. Specific bid-count and win-rate numbers are shared under NDA on reference calls.
Summer rush used to mean we declined the right bids and took the wrong ones. Now we take everything that fits and pick the ones we want at award.
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