Submittals that build themselves
Bobyard turns your takeoff into a GC-ready submittal package, so you can skip the spec sheet hunt and the formatting.
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From catalogs to cover page, with Bobyard’s AI
Share your inputs
You can work directly from your Bobyard takeoff, then upload any product catalogs and project specs.
Confirm the cut sheets
Bob GPT searches your library and the web, highlights model numbers, and ranks the matches for you to confirm.
Export your GC-ready submittal
Once confirmed, Bobyard builds you a branded package in one bundled PDF, ready to send your GC.
Why contractors choose Bobyard
Save hours on every submittal
Bobyard automates the manual submittal prep steps. No more screenshots or PDF markups.
Build a smarter shared library
AI identifies products and specs to build your team a reusable, updated library for any project.
Send winning packages
Send a clean, accurate submittal package the first time, and turn resubmittals around faster.
What’s inside every Bobyard estimate
Import materials from your takeoff
Your takeoff materials show up as submittal items, with descriptions already filled in from your legend.
Upload catalogs once
Bobyard splits catalogs into individual products and pulls out manufacturer, model, and size for your team.
Get hours back with match and find
Bob GPT looks through your library and the web for each item, then shows you the best matches.
Send a polished PDF
Bobyard crafts your submittal with a cover page, table of contents, and spec sheets into one polished PDF.
Resubmit without redoing work
Bobyard builds the resubmittal only for flagged items so you don't need to repackage anything.
Keep track of submittal status
Always know what's approved, under review, or in revision right from Bobyard.
Real contractors, unbelievable results
Takeoffs are built around materials, so your quantities and pricing are already dialed in from the start. You can grab linear feet, area, and volume all in one pass. It's ridiculously fast. We're talking cutting takeoff time in half on real jobs.”
Marty Grunder · Founder, Grunder Landscaping
Bobyard’s AI tools are on another level now—way more intuitive, way more organized, and feel like they're working with you. Reviewing big plans that used to take hours now takes a fraction of the time.”
Marty Grunder · Founder, Grunder Landscaping
If you're trying to level up your estimating this season, there's nothing else like this on the market. Period.”
Marty Grunder · Founder, Grunder Landscaping
Before, I'd spend my entire day doing a takeoff when now I can spend maybe like an hour doing the takeoff, and I can spend the rest of the day working on submittals and getting pricing.”
Gustavo Fonseca · Project + Takeoff Engineer, New Path Landscape
I mean, you throw it in Bobyard, it'll autofill the whole legend. I'm probably saving 12 hours per project. It's a huge help to have the AI to go through it.”
Gustavo Fonseca · Project + Takeoff Engineer, New Path Landscape
The time frame of getting it, putting it in Bobyard, and then being able to do markups, and then sending it to our guys in the field? That happens within an hour, if not minutes.”
Vincent Jimenez · Senior Estimator, Landscape Connection
Before, I'd spend my entire day doing a takeoff when now I can spend maybe like an hour doing the takeoff, and I can spend the rest of the day working on submittals and getting pricing for some sort of product that we're going to need on a job.”
Gino Borello · Co-Owner, New Path Landscape
Bobyard's AI makes any estimator 1000x better.”
Rudy Prado · Estimator, K&D Landscaping
This is literally the future of estimating, and it's time to get on board.”
John Barrett · PM/Estimator, Chopper Landscaping
Bobyard has helped in getting a lot more work our way. And through that, we have been able to hire more workers.”
Vincent Jimenez · Senior Estimator, Landscape Connection
The time frame of getting it, putting it in Bobyard, and then being able to do markups, and then sending it to our guys in the field? That happens within hours, if not minutes.”
Vincent Jimenez · Senior Estimator, Landscape Connection
This is literally the future of estimating in landscaping, and it's time to get on board.”
John Barrett · Chopper Landscaping
We used to have two takeoff engineers in our office quantifying everything the old school way—clicking on every last symbol, pulling lines on every last line. What used to take a day now takes about an hour.”
Gino Borello · Co-Owner, New Path Landscape
I would strongly recommend Bobyard just because of the time saved, the accuracy, the efficiency.”
Selena Herren · General Manager, Smith & Enright
Bobyard is a tremendous tool. I would never go back to the way that we did it before.”
Quint Henninger · EVP, Green Landscaping
If you're trying to level up your estimating this season, there's nothing else like this on the market. Period.”
Marty Grunder · Founder, Grunder Landscaping
Takeoffs are built around materials, so your quantities and pricing are already dialed in from the start.”
Marty Grunder · Founder, Grunder Landscaping
I would strongly recommend Bobyard just because of the time saved, the accuracy, the efficiency.”
Selena Herren · General Manager, Smith & Enright
Bobyard is a tremendous tool. I would never go back to the way that we did it before.”
Quint Henninger · EVP, Green Landscaping
This is literally the future of estimating in landscaping, and it's time to get on board.”
John Barrett · Chopper Landscaping
Bobyard has been a game changer for us.”
Gino Borello · Co-Owner, New Path Landscape
Bobyard’s Submittals feature is easy to use. The product matching has been accurate every time I’ve tried it. The PDF assembly is nearly instant, which saves a significant amount of time compared with our manual process.”
For irrigation and soil submittals, Bobyard is nearly twice as fast as the way we did it before.
Search accuracy on our irrigation catalogs was flawless, and setting up the package and items was straightforward.”
Features powering your estimate
• Multiple cost types on one item. Capture material, labor, equipment, and subcontractor cost in a single entry, instead of splitting one item across several lines.
• Bundle items into assemblies. Build small cost bundles once, then stack them into bigger ones for complex jobs.
• Bulk CSV import. Bring in years of pricing you've already built, without retyping a single line.
• Folders. Organize your database by division, size, or however your team thinks about pricing, so the right cost is always easy to find.
• Purchase-unit conversion. Bobyard converts your measured quantities into the units you actually buy in, so the ordering math is already done.
• Bulk-edit items. Update a cost once, and every line item using it updates with it.
• Tax and overhead by cost type. Apply different rates to labor, materials, equipment, and subs, because they don't cost the same to carry.
• Distributed indirect cost pool. Spread indirect costs proportionally across the cost types you choose, instead of an even split that doesn't reflect your business.
• Markup or margin toggle. Price the way you already think about profit.
• Configurable profit base. Choose exactly which costs your profit is calculated on.
• General conditions and alternates tables. Keep base-bid costs and optional add-ons cleanly separated, so nothing gets missed or mistakenly included in the final number.
• Custom columns and formulas. Build the exact calculation your business needs, even for pricing logic specific to one trade or job type.
• One-click export. Go from a finished estimate to a proposal without leaving Bobyard.
• Branded templates. Every proposal looks like it came from your company, not a generic export.
• Auto-fill details. Relevant company details straight from your Bobyard account, so you're not retyping the same info every time.
Features powering your submittals
Upload your catalogs once and Bobyard builds a searchable product data library your whole team can use on every project.
• Catalog upload: Add manufacturer catalogs to the library one time. They are available to every project and every teammate.
• Auto-split and tagging: AI splits multi-product catalogs into individual products and tags them, so there is no manual organizing.
• One shared library: A catalog one person uploads helps the whole company, not just that project.
• Search online: If a product isn't in your library, "Not here, search online" finds public manufacturer PDFs.
• Organic materials: Generate a product data page for shrubs and other organic materials, with a description, an image, and cited sources.
• Cited sources: Generated pages show where the information came from, so you can check it before it goes to your GC.
Your spec defines what to submit, your takeoff knows what goes into it. Bobyard connects the two so your submittal is organized before you start.
• AI submittal log: Upload the spec or submittal requirements, and Bobyard identifies the required packages, like product data, warranties and test reports, with spec references.
• Takeoff import: Pull materials from your Bobyard takeoff straight into each package. Legend info fills in as the item description.
• Bulk item creation: No Bobyard takeoff? Add items to a package in bulk from a list.
• Takeoff materials: Import materials from a project's takeoff straight into the submittal item list.
• Legend auto-fill: Legend info fills in as each item's description.
Bob GPT does the searching, and you make the call on every product.
• Search all: Run one search for every item in the submittal, across your library and the web.
• Ranked matches: Each item shows candidate matches ranked by confidence score.
• Page control: Box the exact product on each page and uncheck the pages you don't need.
• Model number highlighting: AI highlights.
• Page finding: Bobyard finds the exact pages of a product within hundreds of catalog pages.
• AI smart markup: Bobyard highlights model numbers so you can check a match at a glance, and edit any way you like across text, highlights, boxes, etc.
• You confirm everything: Approve and attach each match yourself. You confirm every product and page before it goes in the package.
One polished PDF for your GC, and a way back in when it comes back.
• Branded cover page: Build a cover page from a template with your company info and project info.
• Table of contents: Generated with page numbers, item names, and descriptions.
• Fully editable: Edit the cover page and contents before you export.
• One-click export: Export one bundled PDF and send it the way you do today.
• Status per item: Mark each item Approved, Approved as Noted, or Resubmission Required.
• Resubmittals: Generate a resubmittal with only the flagged items instead of starting over.
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FAQ
Construction estimating software helps contractors turn takeoff quantities into priced bids by applying costs, overhead, and profit to generate an accurate number to send to a client.
AI estimating software starts from the drawing: the AI produces the takeoff, and those quantities flow straight into your reusable cost database and estimate table instead of being re-entered in another tool. Bobyard carries the same work through to a branded proposal, so estimators spend their time on scope and pricing decisions rather than rebuilding numbers.
Yes. Bobyard connects your estimate directly to a branded, client-ready proposal, generated in one click without exporting to another tool.
Look for software that automates your takeoffs and connects them to an estimate table, with a reusable cost database, tax and overhead set by cost type, markup or margin, bulk editing, and a branded proposal with no manual entry.
Yes. Bobyard can carry a job from takeoff through estimate and proposal on its own, or you can export to CSV, Excel, or PDF and keep your current estimating system.
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FAQ
Bobyard Submittal is AI submittal software built into Bobyard. It turns your takeoff into a GC-ready product data submittal package. Bobyard’s AI finds matching product data (spec sheets or cut sheets) in your catalogs or on the web, and you export one PDF.
Upload your catalogs to the product library once, then import your materials and let Bob GPT match product data to every item. You confirm each match, add a branded cover page, and export one PDF for your GC.
No. Bob GPT searches and ranks candidates with confidence scores, but you confirm every product and every page before it goes in the package.
Search online from inside the submittal to find public manufacturer PDFs. For plants and other organic materials, generate a product data page with an image and cited sources, or upload a screenshot from an official source.
No. A Bobyard takeoff is the fastest path because materials import straight in, but you can also create submittal items in bulk from a list.