Organizing inputs by room

For a single-bath remodel, you can ignore rooms entirely — everything you upload gets handled as one job. But the moment you've got a master bath plus a powder room, or a primary bath plus a guest bath, rooms become essential. They tell BidCraft where each photo belongs so it can analyze each area separately, measure each one independently, and price each one correctly.

How rooms work

Inside a project, open Capture and you'll see rooms listed in order. Each room holds its own photos, videos, notes and measurements. When you upload anything new, it automatically lands in your current room — no need to manually sort.

Each room shows a 3-box header at the top:

The boxes are color-coded so you can see at a glance what's missing:

• Amber — empty, not yet captured
• Red — missing and required (this almost always means Notes)
• Green — done

[!warning] Notes are required before BidCraft can analyze a room. Without at least one note explaining what work is happening, the AI doesn't have enough context to produce a useful scope. The Notes box stays red until you add one.

What else a room holds

Once a room has been analyzed, two more things live on its card, in the order you'd think about them.

Its measurements, under the photos and notes that produced them — a grid of surface tiles with the finish on each. Tap any number to correct it; yours always wins over ours. There's more on that in Editing project dimensions.

Its quick checks, last. When BidCraft needs one thing settled before it can price the work properly — who's supplying the tile, whether that wall is going full height — the question sits on the room that raised it, right under the numbers it would change, with a line saying what it's worth. Answer it and the measurements above update themselves. A question about the whole job, rather than one room, gets its own slim strip above the rooms instead.

Each room analyzes on its own, and there's a button to run all of them at once. When every room is analyzed and every check is answered or skipped, the Draft the scope button at the bottom of the page unlocks.

Adding a room

For a multi-room job, hit Add Room at the top of Capture. Each room gets a name you choose — "Master Bath", "Powder Room", "Guest Bath upstairs", whatever makes sense to you.

[!steps]

1. From Capture, hit Add Room.
2. Name it something memorable.
3. Upload that room's photos, video, and notes into it.
4. Repeat for each separate area you're quoting.

Your first room is created automatically when you start uploading — you don't have to think about it until you need a second one.

Rooms name themselves

You don't have to name a room at all if you don't want to. Once BidCraft analyzes a room, it renames it from what the AI actually sees — so "Room 1" becomes "Master Bathroom", "Room 2" becomes "Kitchen", and so on. No more squinting at a list of "Room 1 / Room 2 / Room 3" trying to remember which was which. If you uploaded a floor plan, the printed label on the plan does the renaming too — match a room to the plan and it picks up the exact label that's printed on the sheet.

[!tip] A name you type by hand is yours, period. The AI will never overwrite a room name you set yourself — auto-naming only ever touches the generic "Room N" placeholders. So if you want it called "the upstairs disaster bath," type it and it stays.

Creating rooms straight from the drawings

Tap Plans on a room card and upload a floor plan — or a builder's whole drawing set and tile schedule — and BidCraft reads every labeled room on the sheets and builds the rooms for you. Each one arrives with its plan number and floor (Room 116 · 1st floor), whatever the drawings printed for dimensions, and whatever the schedule specified for tile.

If the plan covers a single room, it lands on the card you uploaded it from rather than making a second one. If it's a whole set and you were still on an empty Room 1, the first room takes that card over.

Rooms the plans show but the schedule never mentions don't clutter the list. They collapse into a single line — 27 more rooms on the plans without tile work — and you add any of them in a tap if the builder left something off. Mention the scope under Tell Biddy before it reads (it's in the upload box, under the drop zone, from the moment you open it) — "just the two upstairs baths" — and the read stays on your part of the job.

Full walkthrough: Reading drawing sets and tile schedules.

Auto-assignment of new uploads

This is the part that saves you headaches: whatever room you're currently looking at, that's where new uploads land. Snap a photo while you're scrolled to the master bath section, it goes into the master bath. Switch to the powder room and the next upload lands there.

[!tip] If something landed in the wrong room, you don't have to delete and re-upload. Click into the input and switch which room it's assigned to. The dropdown is right on the note or photo itself.

Deleting a room

Mistakes happen. Maybe you created "Powder Room" but realized the job is just one bath. Hit the trash icon in the room header and BidCraft will confirm before deleting.

[!warning] Deleting a room with photos in it will move those photos to "unassigned," not delete them. But any AI analysis tied to that room gets cleared. You'll need to re-analyze if you put the photos into a different room.

Walkthrough videos and rooms

If you uploaded a single walkthrough video that covers the whole house — master bath, powder room, the works — BidCraft treats that video specially. It lives in a dedicated "Walkthrough" area and the analysis pulls dimensions for everything it sees, not just one room.

That said, if you want clean room-by-room data, it's better to shoot one short video per room. The AI is more accurate when it knows the boundary of each space.

When to bother with rooms

Some rules of thumb:

Next steps

With your rooms organized, you're ready to run analysis. Head to How photo analysis works to see what the AI does with everything you uploaded, or jump to Reviewing the AI findings once an analysis has finished.