Reviewing the AI findings

Once analysis finishes, BidCraft drops a Structured Analysis section under the room. This is where you check the AI's work — it takes about 30 seconds and saves you from a wrong proposal. The trick is knowing where to look first. This article walks you through the review in order of importance.

The Structured Analysis collapses by default with a one-line summary (something like "Floor 48 sqft · 2 fixtures · 1 niche · condition 6/10") so the room cards stay scannable. Click Show full analysis when you want the deeper read.

Start with Measurements & Scope

If your project has a category set (tub-to-shower conversion, full bathroom remodel, backsplash install, etc.), BidCraft knows exactly which surfaces matter for that kind of job. Rather than a flat list of every dimension it found, it lays out a grid of surface tiles per room — for a tub-to-shower conversion, that's things like the shower floor, shower walls, curb, niches, and glass enclosure — each with its size in large type and its finish (material, tile size, pattern) as pills underneath.

A tile is in one of three states:

Every finish pill is color-coded by where it came from — a soft gray pill is a photo-based guess, a green-tinted pill means it came from a voice note or a contractor edit. Contractor-stated measurements and finishes always win.

The surface editor

Tap any tile and one editor handles it, matched to what the surface needs:

• Area surfaces (floor, walls) auto-derive the total from length × width you type in, with a "type a total instead" toggle for when you already know the square footage.
• Linear and count fields (ceiling height, perimeter, curb length, corner count) live in the same sheet's Details section — a straightforward number each.
• Finish (material, tile size, pattern) is a dropdown per attribute, with a Custom… option for anything BidCraft doesn't have pre-loaded.

Surfaces the checklist didn't predict

If the AI noticed something outside your project type's usual checklist — a five-wall shower, a half-wall divider, a soap shelf separate from the main niche — it still shows up as its own tile in that room's grid. Nothing gets hidden in a collapsed section; use the "+ Add" tile at the end of the grid if you want to add something the AI didn't catch at all.

After a re-analysis: what changed shows up first

Re-run an analysis — because you added photos, dropped a voice note, or just wanted a second pass — and BidCraft doesn't make you hunt for what moved. Anything the new analysis changed or newly found rides to the top of the confirm box as one-tap chips, each spelling out the before and after in plain numbers:

"Your last analysis updated Shower walls — Back wall: 96 → 104 sqft"

Tap ✓ to keep the new reading and lock it in as yours — from then on it's a contractor-confirmed number the AI won't touch again. Leave a chip alone and nothing changes. It's a fast way to stay on top of what a fresh analysis did to your numbers without re-checking every tile by hand.

If the surface that changed is a split one — shower walls broken into back, left, and right — the chip names the individual wall that moved, and any confirm question about that surface applies to the whole group at once. You're always confirming the actual work, not a blurred average.

Then check the Surfaces table

The Surfaces table is the single most important thing to review, because every line item on your proposal gets sized from these numbers. If the floor sqft is wrong, the demo line is wrong, the install line is wrong, and the materials cost is wrong.

Each row shows a surface — floor, walls, shower walls, ceiling, niches — and its dimensions. Quick gut-check questions:

• Does the floor square footage match what you'd estimate by eye?
• Is the wall sqft in the right ballpark? (Roughly: perimeter × 8 feet × 80–90% accounts for door/window cutouts.)
• Are the right surfaces listed? If you remember a niche and don't see one, that's worth a second look.

[!tip] A rule of thumb for a standard 8x6 bathroom: floor is around 48 sqft, total wall area is around 320 sqft minus fixture and door cutouts, perimeter is around 28 feet. If you see wildly different numbers, double-check before moving on.

[!note] In bathrooms with an alcove tub, the AI defaults the tiled wall area to a 3-wall surround (back wall plus the two end walls, ~60–72" above the tub) — typically 60–100 sqft of tile per bathroom, not the full perimeter × height total. If the job actually tiles every wall full height (or to a wainscot), say so in a note and the AI will follow your lead.

Material Detection

Below the surfaces table you'll see what each surface is made of — porcelain tile, ceramic, drywall, cement board, wood substrate, etc. Two things matter here:

If the AI flags asbestos risk on any surface, take it seriously. Older homes (pre-1980) often have asbestos in floor adhesives and substrates, and the AI is conservative — it flags rather than ignores.

[!warning] If asbestos risk is flagged, do not start demo without testing. Get a sample tested by a certified lab. Price the job assuming you may need an abatement contractor. Not optional.

Look at Condition scores

Each major surface gets a 1-10 condition grade. The scale is calibrated to be useful, not arbitrary:

Use these scores to back up your conversations with the client. If you tell them "the substrate's at a 3, we need to rip it," you've got the AI's read as confirmation.

Confidence badges on every dimension

This is the part that separates BidCraft from a basic photo measurer. Every single dimension has a confidence badge:

Red badges are not "broken" — they're a signal that you should double-check that number before the proposal goes out. Most rooms have at least one yellow.

[!tip] The fastest way to turn a red badge green: record a voice note with the actual measurement. Voice notes are the highest-trust dimension source in the whole app, higher than any photo measurement.

Editing inline

Click any number in the surfaces table to edit it directly. The change saves immediately and gets a blue "Manual" marker so the AI knows not to overwrite it later.

[!steps]

1. Click the dimension you want to change.
2. Type the correct value.
3. Hit Enter to save.
4. The number now shows a blue border — your override is locked in.

This works for any dimension on the surfaces table, not just floor and wall sqft. Niche dimensions, ceiling height, linear measurements — all editable.

How the AI shares findings with your proposal

The numbers and observations on this page don't just live here — they travel forward into both the scope draft and the full proposal automatically. Specifically:

• Condition scores and existing-material notes get attached to each room and fed into the scope-draft prompt, so the AI's room-by-room read of "1980s ceramic tile, mortar-bedded, condition 3/10" can show up in the recommended demo/abatement line items the first time you see the scope.
• The same signals reach the proposal prompt, so when BidCraft is sizing demo, prep, or build-up scope, it has access to the condition reads instead of guessing from generic averages.

That means a careful review on this page genuinely improves the proposal that comes next — fixing a wrong material detection or correcting a condition score changes downstream pricing, not just the display here.

The review checklist

A 30-second review of every analysis:

1. Surface tiles — any terracotta "size?" tiles? Tap to fill them in.
2. Surfaces table — do the dimensions look right?
3. Material detection — does it match what you remember from the walk?
4. Asbestos flag — present or absent? If present, plan testing.
5. Condition scores — do they match your read of the job?
6. Red confidence badges — are any worth correcting with a voice note?

That's it. If everything checks out, move on to scope review.

Next steps

If something didn't look right, head to AI analysis troubleshooting for the common fixes. If the numbers were off, Editing project dimensions walks through manual overrides. Otherwise, you're ready to lock scope and build the proposal.