Regenerating the proposal

Sometimes the first proposal is 90% right but needs another pass. Maybe you want to bump pricing on a tough demo, maybe the AI missed a complicating factor, maybe you just want a second take. Regenerate full proposal, in the ··· menu on the proposal bar (Bid → ② Proposal), runs BidCraft through Phase 2 again — but it's smart about whether to anchor to what you've already done or start from a clean slate.

What "Regenerate" actually does

When you hit Regenerate, BidCraft re-runs the same pricing pipeline that built the original proposal: it reads your project synthesis (the dimensions, fixtures, and conditions from your photos and notes), applies your pricing strategy, sources materials, and produces a fresh proposal. The materials list, line items, and payment schedule all get refreshed.

But here's the important part: how it treats your previous version depends on whether it thinks you were iterating or resetting.

Anchor mode vs. fresh mode

BidCraft auto-detects which mode you want:

[!tip] The two modes solve different problems. Anchored is for "this is mostly right, refine it." Fresh is for "throw this away and try again from scratch." You almost never want to fight the auto-detect — it gets it right by reading what you've actually done to the proposal.

In anchored mode, BidCraft sees your edits as authoritative. If you bumped the demo line from $1,200 to $1,800, that $1,800 anchors the new pass — the AI works around it rather than overwriting it. Your scope-of-work edits, terms overrides, and payment schedule tweaks also carry through.

In fresh mode, the prior pricing is ignored entirely. You get whatever the AI would produce if you'd just hit "Lock & build proposal" for the first time. Useful when the first draft was structurally wrong and you'd rather start over than patch it.

Both modes still feed the AI your room-level condition scores and existing-material reads from the analysis, so if you corrected a "mortar-bedded ceramic, condition 3" entry between regenerations, the new pass sees the corrected version when sizing demo and abatement scope.

Work you deleted doesn't come back

Fresh mode rebuilds from your project's scope, which used to mean a line you'd deleted could quietly reappear on the next pass. It doesn't anymore. Deleting a line — in the editor, or by asking Biddy to remove it — files that work under the Excluded work chips in Measurements & Scope, and both modes treat those chips as off-limits. To let something back in, tap the × on its chip before you regenerate.

Your hand-set numbers survive

If you typed a price or a crew-day count in yourself, regenerating doesn't overwrite it and doesn't quietly stack anything on top of it. That's true whether you set the number on the scope screen or edited the line after the proposal built — your number is the number.

The same protection covers the finish multipliers. Regenerating never re-applies an adjustment to a rate that already had one, so a line that priced at $75.33/sqft doesn't drift to $105 on the second pass and $146 on the third. Regenerate twice with nothing changed and you get the same numbers both times. If a total does move between passes, it's because something real changed — a measurement, a finish, a note, your pricing settings — not because the math ran again.

Adding edit notes

Whenever you regenerate, there's an optional notes field where you can tell BidCraft what to focus on. This is in addition to whatever edits you've already made:

• "Price the demo higher — this place has asbestos and we need a hazmat sub"
• "Make the waterproofing line more detailed — the client asked specifically about it"
• "Shorten the scope of work to one paragraph"
• "Add a 15% rush charge to every install line — they want it done in two weeks"

Notes get fed into the AI prompt for the regenerate. They're the fastest way to nudge BidCraft without manually editing every affected line.

[!note] Edit notes always trigger anchored mode, even on a clean proposal. The reasoning: if you took the time to write a note, you're iterating, not resetting. If you genuinely want a fresh take with a note attached, edit the project synthesis directly (via voice or text note) and regenerate without a note.

The chat thread logs every regenerate

If you have Biddy's chat panel open on the project, every regenerate posts a small summary message into the thread: total dollar amount, warning count, and which mode was used ("regenerated fresh from synthesis" or "regenerated with your notes" or "regenerated preserving your manual edits"). It's a quick way to see at a glance how the new pass compares to the prior one, and to keep a running history of what you've tried.

[!warning] Regenerating costs real AI credits. It's not a destructive action — you can always edit the new version or regenerate again — but if you're just tweaking a single line price, edit it inline instead of regenerating the whole proposal. Inline edits cost nothing.

[!note] Regenerating after a signature creates internal changes that aren't visible to the homeowner — the version they signed is the locked snapshot, and the regenerated version sits separately on your end. An amber banner above the proposal reminds you of that. If the regenerated changes need to make it to the homeowner, that's a change order: tap Create change order on the banner. See Sending a change order.

When to regenerate vs. when to edit

Use the right tool for the right job:

• Single line price wrong? Edit it inline. Free, instant.
• Single line missing detail? Edit the description inline. Free, instant.
• Whole scope structurally off? Hit Re-scope to go back to Phase 1 (it jumps you to Measurements & Scope), fix the line list, then build again.
• Pricing logic off across the whole proposal? Regenerate with edit notes explaining what's off.
• First draft was a mess, want a clean second try? Hit Regenerate without any edits or notes for fresh mode.

Next steps

For inline editing, see Editing line items and Editing scope text and payment schedule. If you need to rework the underlying list of work rather than just refine pricing, Reviewing the scope of work covers the Re-scope flow.