Whole-house scopes come out by floor, and they stop coming out empty

Two things changed about drafting scope on a builder's package. One you'd have noticed. One you might not have, and it was the worse of the two.

The one you'd have noticed: it's grouped now

A whole-house scope now comes back grouped by floor — Ground Level, then First Floor, then Exterior, then Second Floor — with a heading above each group and the rooms in plan order underneath. It reads the way you walk the job, and it reads like the proposals you already send.

The grouping follows all the way through. It's there when you review the scope, it's there on the finished proposal, and it's there on the copy your client opens.

Work that spans the house rather than sitting in one room — demo and protection, substrate prep, waterproofing, grout and seal, edge trim, disposal, permits, final clean — comes after the rooms, as ordinary lines with no heading. Those are still one line each for the whole job, not one per room, which is the difference between a proposal somebody reads and a hundred and sixty rows nobody does.

Two things worth knowing. If your plans don't name floors, you get the rooms in plan order with no headings — the honest answer for a job on one level, and better than a heading we'd have had to invent. And the headings are grouping, not a lock: drag a line somewhere else and it groups where you put it.

The one you might not have: the draft is actually thinking now

On a big package the scope draft was quietly running out of room to answer. It would work for a minute and a half, hit its limit mid-sentence, and every word of it got thrown away. What you saw was a line per room with a bare description — which looks like a scope, so there was nothing obviously wrong with it. There just wasn't any judgment in it. Nothing had decided what work each room actually needed.

BidCraft now works through the house a few rooms at a time, all at once, so no single pass ever has more to say than it has room for. On the twenty-one room house we test against, the draft went from twenty-one bare lines to fifty-five real ones in half the time — every tiled room named, every surface accounted for, the whole-job work listed once at the end.

Per-area on a builder's package, whatever your usual style

If your proposal style is set to bundled lines, that's still what you get on your ordinary jobs. But when a builder hands over a drawing set and a forty-row tile schedule, they've already decided the job is priced per area — so a document package drafts per area regardless of the setting. A shower's walls, its pan and the room's floor come out as separate lines, because that's how the schedule prices them and that's how you'll bill them.