Per seat. Per month. No implementation fee.
One tender caught properly pays for a year. Every plan includes the full extraction and citation workflow — the tiers differ on seats, volume and support.
The bid desk, without the AI
that’s $41/mo — charged once a year
- Documents, tenders, RFIs and bid calendar
- Quantity takeoff on desktop
- Scope of work built by hand, with citations
- Cloud backup of every document
- No AI reading — see Plus
One trade, read for you
that’s $149/mo — charged once a year
- Everything in Base
- Reads the spec and addenda, cites every page
- Standard drawing analysis
- Up to 100 drawing sheets per tender
- One trade — add more below
Drawing-heavy work
that’s $291/mo — charged once a year
- Everything in Plus
- Enhanced drawing analysis — reads each sheet in finer detail
- Up to 250 drawing sheets per tender
- Priority support
Multi-office, or a GC bidding everything
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited trades and sheet volume
- Data residency options
- Onboarding and a named contact
Prices in CAD. Sign-ups are not open yet — the trial is the way in when they are.
Add another trade
A plan covers one trade — the sections and drawing disciplines that trade actually bids. If you bid more than one, add it. Each trade is read on its own terms rather than averaged into a generic pass.
Concrete and rebar, say, or drywall and painting
- Adds that trade's spec sections
- Adds the drawing disciplines it needs
- Add or drop any time
Every discipline, every division
- Reads every drawing discipline, not one trade's
- Reads the whole specification, not a slice
- Roughly three times the work of a single trade — priced accordingly
What's in each plan
| Feature | Base | Plus | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Documents, tenders, RFIs, bid calendar | Included | Included | Included |
| Quantity takeoff (desktop) | Included | Included | Included |
| Scope of work by hand, with citations | Included | Included | Included |
| Cloud backup of every document | Included | Included | Included |
| Export (CSV and bid letter) | Included | Included | Included |
| Reads the spec and addenda for you | — | Included | Included |
| Page-level citations on every item | — | Included | Included |
| Addendum supersession tracking | — | Included | Included |
| Drawing analysis | — | Standard | Enhanced |
| Drawing sheets per tender | — | 100 | 250 |
| Trades included | — | 1 | 1 |
| Additional trades | — | +$79/mo | +$159/mo |
| General Contractor scope | — | +$149/mo | +$299/mo |
| One free AI tender, whatever your plan | Included | Included | Included |
| Support | Priority |
Questions estimators actually ask
How does the free trial work?
Fourteen days, full product, no credit card. You get the whole extraction and citation workflow on your own documents — not a canned demo tender. At the end the account goes read-only — nothing is charged automatically, nothing is deleted right away, and your work stays exportable for 30 days.
Who can see the tender documents I upload?
Only the seats in your account. Documents are stored on Canadian infrastructure, are never used to train anything, and are never shared between accounts. Enterprise accounts can run on a dedicated instance.
Why is it priced by trade rather than by tender?
Because that's what drives the work. A pack tells Tender Helper which specification sections and which drawing disciplines matter to you — a concrete finisher reads structural and architectural sheets, an electrical contractor reads electrical ones. Reading only what your trade bids is faster, cheaper and produces a shorter list worth reviewing. If you bid more than one trade, add it and each is read on its own terms.
What's the difference between standard and enhanced drawing analysis?
Both read every sheet in scope and cite what they find. Enhanced (on Pro) reads each sheet in finer detail and catches more on dense structural drawings — schedules, sections and details where a lot is packed into a small area. If your work is drawing-heavy, it's the difference worth paying for; if your scope lives mostly in the specification, standard is likely enough.
What if it misses something?
It will, sometimes — which is why the output is a draft you review, with the page beside it. It is a faster first pass, not a replacement for the estimator's read. Items that can't be cited to a page are discarded rather than shown, and the discard count is displayed on every run.
How does billing and cancellation work?
Billed in CAD, monthly or annual. Cancel from settings at any time — you keep access to the end of the period you've paid for, and an expired trial's data stays exportable for 30 days.
Can I add and remove seats mid-season?
Yes. Seats are prorated the day you add them and released at the end of the billing period, and the same goes for an added trade. Tendering season isn't flat and the pricing shouldn't pretend it is.
Is it available in French?
A French interface is planned — and specs written in French are already extracted with citations the same way. Half the corridor bids in French; it isn't an afterthought.