Bid the next job off what the last one cost.

In a bid business, you can only bid it right if you know your real cost.

Book a call A 20-minute call. We tell you straight if AI fits.

The three ways Where the number goes wrong.

Big Dog OS Bids: a tender priced from your own cost, with labor, rig and consumables each traced to the payroll, invoice or log it came from

Phone: two tenders due this week, and the one that fits

Every bid goes one of three ways.

Too highYou lose the job.
RightYou win it and make money on it.
Too lowYou win it and lose money on it.

Your real cost lives in your daily reports. If they are late or retyped, your bid rests on a feel.

Once your data is in one place, these questions have answers.

Real cost. What a job really costs, all in.
Real margin. Which jobs make money, and which only look like they do.
Next bid. What to bid next, from your own history.

Two projects side by side in Big Dog OS: cost per meter against the bid, and the margin trend — **History**Two jobs side by side: what you bid, what each meter really cost.

Big Dog OS cost inputs: a supplier raises a labor rate on an invoice, the cost per meter moves, and Big Dog offers to reprice the open bids — **Next bid**A rate goes up on an invoice. The open bids get repriced from it.

What did the last job really earn?

Put in your own rates and costs, and see the margin before you price the next one.

Try the Job Cost and Margin tool See what each job really earns.

What owners ask first.

Big DogNo. 11

How do we know it pays back?

The audit puts hours and dollars on three activities from your own numbers. The proof of concept measures them on your own data. You decide from results.

Our answerFinanceOwner

Big DogNo. 22

Who else uses it?

We run our own companies on it, and we are building it with an underground mining contractor now. We do not name clients, the same way we would not name you. We show you the system on made-up data first.

Our answerOwnerFinance

Big DogNo. 15

We tried AI. Some of it flopped.

Common. Most AI never gets wired into the business. The audit finds the few places where it pays and skips the rest. You see that list before anything is built.

Our answerOwner

All 25 questions