About
Bidflow builds an AI copilot for electrical contractors that reads complex drawings and documents, counts electrical devices, and accelerates job estimating and quoting. Its differentiation is a trade-specific vision model focused on power devices, lighting fixtures, and controls, with claimed 95–99% accuracy and proof-of-work review workflows.
Market
Bidflow competes in construction technology, specifically AI-assisted electrical estimating and digital takeoff software. Its positioning is electrical-specialist and AI-first: it scans complex drawings and automates device counting, promising to reduce work from hours to under 10 minutes, while established alternatives such as PlanSwift, McCormick Systems, and STACK offer broader or more traditional estimating and takeoff workflows.
Electrical contractors and electrician companies, particularly estimating and bidding teams that spend significant time reviewing complex construction drawings and manually counting devices. The product appears suited to contractors seeking faster, more accurate bid preparation rather than to general-purpose construction users.
At a Glance
Problem
Electrical contractors spend substantial time sifting through drawings and other project documents, manually counting devices, and completing repetitive pre-construction work before they can submit a bid. The core economic pain is the skilled estimating labor and elapsed time consumed by manual “bean counting,” which slows a contractor’s ability to prepare a competitive quote. The clearest killer use case is turning electrical plan drawings into a device takeoff quickly rather than spending hours doing it by hand.
Product / Service
Bidflow is an AI copilot and SaaS product for electrical contractors. It reads project drawings and counts devices automatically, reducing a task the company says can take hours to under ten minutes. Its AI is deliberately focused on power devices, lighting fixtures, and lighting controls, including receptacles, outlets, junction boxes, motors, lighting-schedule items, occupancy sensors, dimmers, photocells, and switches; the narrow scope is intended to preserve accuracy.
Market
Bidflow competes in construction technology, specifically AI-enabled electrical takeoff, estimating, and pre-construction software. Established or adjacent alternatives include Trimble Accubid, McCormick Systems, Countfire, and STACK Takeoff & Estimate. Bidflow’s positioning is differentiated by an AI-native copilot focused narrowly on electrical takeoffs rather than a broader estimating or construction-management suite.
The company appears to be at an early commercial stage. It is backed by Y Combinator and listed as an active SaaS company in the Winter 2026 batch; its LinkedIn profile reports a 2–10-person organization and 134 followers. The available evidence does not disclose revenue, customer counts, or other operating metrics, so there is not enough public information to characterize it as scaled or to confirm that it is generating material revenue.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Y Combinator
Recent News
Y Combinator’s 2026 real-estate and construction directory lists Bidflow as a Winter 2026, active company. The listing describes Bidflow as using AI to help electricians speed up competitive bidding.
Extruct’s coverage of the YC Winter 2026 batch lists Bidflow and describes its product as AI electrical takeoff from drawings.
TechBible profiled Bidflow as an AI assistant for electrical contractors. The coverage highlights automated electrical takeoffs, component counting, bills of materials, drawing analysis, material pricing, and labor-unit workflows.
Extruct’s analysis of Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 cohort identifies Bidflow as an AI copilot for electrical estimating.
Founderland profiled Jesse Choe as Bidflow’s co-founder and described the company as an AI copilot helping electrical contractors automate estimating and win more jobs.
Y Combinator’s social coverage highlighted Bidflow among its Winter 2026 startups, describing the company as compressing electrical estimates from days to minutes with AI.
Y Combinator’s company profile introduced Bidflow as an AI copilot for electrical estimating that scans complex CAD drawings and counts symbols with claimed accuracy of up to 99%. The profile also describes Bidflow’s document-processing and change-order workflows.
Tracxn’s company record lists Bidflow as a seed-stage company and records a 2026-01-01 Y Combinator seed round. The evidence does not provide a funding amount or indicate that Bidflow issued a separate funding announcement.
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Bidflow uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model charging $0.03 per device or fixture, with no subscriptions. Customers pay for completed counting results and certain service features may carry fees.