Blu by Buildxact is Buildxact's suite of AI-powered skills, designed to help you quote faster, smarter and with confidence. Blu is built into your estimating and planning workflow, so you can use it right where you already work.
Blu includes the following:
Blu Estimate Generator Skill (including the Blu Reference Estimate Skill)
Blu Assistant (including the Blu Document Review, Document Creation and Schedule Skills, and Blu Settings)
Blu Estimate Review Skill
Blu Takeoff Skill
Blu Assembly Skill / Blu Recipe Skill
Blu Quote Letter Creation Skill- Blu Business Management Skill
Why Blu?
Anyone can ask a general AI chatbot for a price. Blu is different because it brings four things together, inside the estimating workflow you already use.
The right model for every task: Blu uses more than 10 AI models from the three major AI providers, and sends each task, such as reading plans, measuring takeoffs, pricing scope and writing scopes of work, to the model that does it best. When a better model comes out, Blu can switch to it.
Real construction data: Blu draws on 16 years of residential estimating, more than $50B in projects digitized and over 180,000 jobs on the platform, plus live supplier/dealer pricing. A general chatbot prices from internet averages. Blu prices from what jobs like yours actually cost.
Your own context: Blu uses your rates and markups, assemblies/recipes and templates, suppliers/dealers and past jobs, so the estimate it creates is one you'd write yourself, in your format.
You stay in control: Blu suggests and you decide. You can review and edit everything before it goes to your client.
The more you estimate with Buildxact, the better Blu's suggestions get.
Blu skills
Blu Estimate Generator Skill
The Blu Estimate Generator Skill lets you quickly create detailed and accurate estimates, powered by local data including labor, materials and services. Start with your project type and a location, and Blu will create a complete, editable estimate. With the Blu Reference Estimate Skill, you can choose a previous estimate or template as the starting point.
Load your plans as well, and the Blu Estimate Generator Skill and Blu Takeoff Skill work together to take you from plans to a starting estimate.
Blu Assistant
The Blu Assistant helps you keep working with your estimate once it's created. Ask Blu in plain language to make bulk changes or add detail. Its skills include:
Blu Document Review Skill: load plans and documents and check your estimate against them.
Blu Document Creation Skill: create Scopes of Work, quote packages and RFIs.
Blu Schedule Skill: build a construction schedule from your estimate.
Blu Settings: tell Blu how you work so its suggestions match the way you build.
Nothing changes until you approve it. Chatting with the Blu Assistant doesn’t use credits, but loading plans or documents into it uses Blu Credits.
Blu Estimate Review Skill
The Blu Estimate Review Skill lets you see what you might have missed when preparing your estimate. It gives you smart tips on missing costs, compliance, safety, materials and site-specific risks.
The review is tailored to your job, giving you the option of adding details like areas involved or environmental factors. Use it like a checklist to tighten up your estimate, step by step.
Blu Takeoff Skill
The Blu Takeoff Skill does the heavy lifting for you. Just upload your plans and Blu auto-scales, auto-measures, and even names pages based on project areas. It has two levels:
Areas and perimeters: auto-measure floor areas and perimeters.
Complete takeoff: measure everything on a floor plan page in one go, including areas, perimeters, lengths and counts of fixtures and openings. This uses Blu Credits.
Blu Assembly Skill / Blu Recipe Skill
The Blu Assembly Skill (Blu Recipe Skill in Australia and New Zealand) generates accurate items, prices and quantities directly from your supplier/dealer into your estimate costings. Simply prompt the skill with your requirements and measurements, and Blu will gather your items and prices from your preferred supplier/dealer, ready for you to add to your estimate.
Blu Quote Letter Creation Skill
The Blu Quote Letter Creation Skill is an AI-powered quote letter layout. Instead of changing settings and using advanced editing, describe what you want, such as adding images, hiding columns or changing colors, and Blu updates your quote letter for you.
Blu Business Management Skill
The Blu Business Management Skill looks across your whole Buildxact account, so you can ask questions about your business, like which projects need your attention or where you're over budget, and get answers based on your own data.
Try a Blu add-on
If your plan doesn't include a Blu skill you want, you can try it free for two weeks as an add-on.
Does my subscription plan include Blu?
Foundation: includes the Blu Assembly Skill / Blu Recipe Skill. The Blu Estimate Generator Skill is available as an add-on.
Pro: includes everything in Foundation, plus the Blu Estimate Generator Skill. The Blu Takeoff Skill and Blu Estimate Review Skill are available as add-ons.
Master: includes everything in Pro, plus the Blu Takeoff Skill and Blu Estimate Review Skill.
The Blu Assistant is available wherever you have the Blu Estimate Generator Skill.
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