Asking Biddy to make changes

Biddy isn't just for answering questions — on a proposal page it can actually edit the proposal for you. Tell it what you want changed in plain English, and Biddy proposes the change as a confirmation card. You decide whether it lands. This article covers what Biddy can change, how the confirmation flow works, and how to get the most out of it.

What Biddy can change on a proposal

When you're on a project's proposal page, Biddy can:

• Edit a line item — change the title, description, quantity, unit price, material notes, or "Not included" list on any line. "Take 'tile supplied under separate allowance line' out of the bathroom floor's material notes" rewrites just that wording; "clear the material notes on the shoe mold line" empties them
• Add a line item — "add a $400 dump fee", "add a punch-list line for $250"
• Remove a line item — "drop the niche line, the client doesn't want one"
• Bundle multiple lines — combine related lines into one (waterproofing + prep + thinset → one "shower waterproofing system" line)
• Split a line — break a bundled line back out into its parts
• Edit the scope of work — rewrite or adjust the narrative scope text
• Regenerate the whole proposal — full rebuild with your notes as context
• Draft a change order (after the proposal is signed) — create an amendment for added/modified/removed scope without scrapping the original

You don't need to memorize the list. Just describe what you want.

Fixing measurements before the proposal

You can also ask Biddy to correct project measurements before you build a proposal. On the project page, Biddy knows the current project type and which measurements are still missing — tell it what's wrong and it proposes the update through the same confirmation flow.

[!tip] Try phrases like:

• "Room 2 is a 3-wall tub surround, not all four walls — 5 ft back, two 32-inch ends, 79 in tall"
• "the bathroom floor is actually 6.5 by 10, not 5 by 8"
• "there's no shower niche on this one — set the count to zero"

Confirm the card and Biddy writes the new value as a measurement override; the synthesis dimensions update immediately and the next proposal you generate uses your numbers. If a proposal already exists, Biddy will offer to regenerate it (or, on a signed proposal, propose a change order) so the pricing matches.

Square footage on a Custom project

Most project types come with a fixed measurement list — floor square footage, wall square footage, perimeter, niche count. A Custom project deliberately doesn't, because the whole point is that the job doesn't fit a mould.

You can still just say the number:

[!tip]

• "her bath floor is 145.99 square feet"
• "the shower walls are about 82 square feet"
• "add the entry hall — 60 square feet of floor"

Biddy proposes it against the room you're talking about, and once you confirm it shows up in Project Totals with the rest of that room's surfaces and feeds the pricing on your next build. Name the surface the way you'd say it out loud — "floor", "shower walls", "ceiling" — and it rolls into the project's headline totals. Anything with a name of its own ("half wall behind the toilet") is kept as its own surface so it doesn't quietly inflate a total it isn't part of.

Same thing works on any project type when the geometry is a one-off the standard list doesn't cover.

Working a drawing set with Biddy

When a project was built from a builder's package — a drawing set, a tile schedule, or both — Biddy reads it with you. Ask "what tile goes on the pool bath wainscot?", "which rooms have no area yet?", or "what's still unresolved?" and it answers straight off the documents. Ask to see where a number came from and it pulls up the crop of the sheet.

It can settle things too, all through the same confirmation card:

[!tip]

• "the Laundry Room on the schedule is room 108"
• "merge Bunk Bath and Bath 4 — same room, call it Bath 4"
• "the powder floor is 58 square feet, go with the plan not the schedule"
• "we're not bidding the breeze block partition"
• "sheet 22 is a tile schedule, not a detail — read it"
• "those wall heights look right, take them as they are"
• "don't trim the takeoff — bid the numbers it printed"
• "boys bunk bathroom floor is 46 square feet, I measured it"
• "yeah, the outside corners are mitered — carry the allowance"
• "those lines you worked out across the house look right"

Nearly every quick check the project raises can be answered here, not just on the card. Say "let's go through it" and Biddy takes them one at a time in plain speech rather than listing them all at you. One exception: the check asking which room a wall sheet is for gets answered on the card, where each sheet sits beside its own room picker. Biddy can tell you it's waiting, but it can't place the sheets for you yet.

And a detail that isn't an answer becomes a note. "The slab dips half an inch at the drain in that bathroom" goes onto that room as a real note — same as typing it into the room's Notes box, so it feeds the analysis and the scope like every other note. "No site access before eight" goes onto the job.

Answers about the documents stick: BidCraft honors them the next time it reads the package instead of asking again. A few of them (settling a room, placing schedule rows, pulling a skipped sheet in) kick off a fresh read that takes a minute or two — Biddy says so when it does. Full detail in Reading drawing sets and tile schedules.

The confirmation card

Every change Biddy proposes shows up as an inline confirmation card right in the chat — before it touches your proposal. The card shows:

• A one-line summary of what's changing ("Add line: Dump fee · $400 · pass-through"). It names only what actually changes — if a request wouldn't change anything, the card says so instead of claiming an edit
• Biddy's reason for the change (so you can sanity-check it understood you correctly)
• Two buttons: Confirm change and Reject

Nothing changes until you tap Confirm. Tap Reject and the proposal stays exactly as it was.

Typing works too: if the card is the last thing in the chat, answering with a plain "yes", "do it" or "go ahead" (typed or spoken) confirms it, exactly like tapping the button. If your reply adds anything — "yes, but make it $11,000" — Biddy treats it as a new request and shows you a fresh card.

[!warning] Biddy will never bypass the confirmation card. If you ever see a proposal change without seeing the card first, that's a bug. Report it.

Asking from the wrong page? Biddy takes you there

You don't have to be on the project's page to ask for one of these changes anymore. Ask from the dashboard or anywhere else — "change the demo line on the Smith proposal to 2 crew days" — and Biddy finds the project and offers to head over. The confirmation card shows the exact request it's carrying (quoted, word for word), and on confirm you land on that page with the same conversation continuing and Biddy already proposing the edit. Works for project templates and services too.

Tell Biddy WHY

The single biggest tip for working with Biddy is to tell it the reason behind a change. Not just what you want different but why.

[!tip] Compare these two messages:

• "bump the demo line to $2,400"
• "bump the demo line to $2,400 — this place was built in the 1950s and looks like it has plaster and asbestos, way more risk than the AI assumed"

Both work for the one-time edit. But the second one teaches Biddy why. On the next 1950s house, Biddy will remember the pattern.

For org-wide rules ("I always charge at least $1,200 for small bath demo", "never quote glass tile patterns at standard difficulty"), Biddy will offer to save the rule to your pricing settings so it applies to every future proposal. See How Biddy learns your pricing.

Regenerate is the heavy hammer

[!steps]

1. Make sure you've told Biddy everything you want different (new constraints, scope changes, missing line items)
2. Ask Biddy to "regenerate the proposal with these notes"
3. Confirm the regenerate card
4. Wait — full regeneration takes 30-60 seconds because the AI is rebuilding everything from your synthesis, your services, and your pricing
5. Review the new proposal; the line items you'd manually edited get preserved when possible

Use this when small edits aren't enough — usually when the scope itself was wrong, not just the pricing on a line or two.

[!note] If you've been making manual edits to the proposal, Biddy will preserve them on regenerate so you don't lose work. If you want a totally fresh proposal that ignores your edits, say so explicitly.

Rebuilding or restructuring a project template

On a project template page, Biddy can do four operations that reshape the template itself — not a single proposal. Each one shows a confirmation card before anything is written.

• Rebuild the whole template — "I want just three lines on a Tub-to-Shower: demo, build the shower, cleanup." Biddy drafts the new line list (homeowner-readable titles + scope blurbs) and shows you the proposed structure. Confirm and the template is overwritten. Heavy hammer — the existing materials and tasks are wiped along with the lines.
• Merge two or more lines — "merge the backer board line into the install line, homeowners don't shop on backer board." Biddy picks the target title, unions and dedupes the materials and tasks from all source lines, and shows you what's being combined.
• Remove a line entirely — "drop the trim line, I never include it on this template." Biddy removes the line plus its materials and tasks.
• Reset to defaults — "start this template over from the BidCraft default." Strong-warning card because you're wiping every customization. The previous version is saved in the template's history before the reset applies, so it's recoverable.

For targeted edits, prefer merge or remove over rebuild — they're surgical and you keep more of your prior work. Reach for rebuild when you genuinely want a fresh start.

Asking Biddy to draft a change order

Once a proposal is signed, the same conversational ask still works — but Biddy routes it through the change-order flow instead of editing the signed doc.

[!tip] Try phrases like:

• "add a $1,800 subfloor repair line — found rotted subfloor under the demo"
• "bump the demo line by $400, ran into asbestos"
• "remove the niche, homeowner cancelled it"
• "upgrade the floor tile from ceramic to porcelain, add $1,200"

When you ask for a change on a signed proposal, Biddy will:

1. Build the change-order line(s) from your description
2. Ask how you want it billed by showing two button options — Roll into milestones or Due on signature. (You can ask for a custom schedule too if those don't fit.)
3. Show the confirmation card with the proposed change and the billing mode you picked
4. On Confirm, the change-order builder opens on your new draft so you can review and send it. If you close it first, the violet button on the proposal bar reads Continue change order and takes you back to it

Full walkthrough at Sending a change order.

Voice input for everything

Every Biddy panel has a mic button next to the text box. Tap it, speak, tap it again. Your speech becomes the message. This is great on a job site or on the phone — describe what you want in the same words you'd use to a foreman.

When Biddy gets confused

If Biddy proposes a change you didn't ask for, reject it and clarify. Biddy is good but not perfect — if it misunderstands, the confirmation card is your safety net. Reject costs nothing.

If it consistently misunderstands a specific kind of ask, send feedback via the lightbulb icon in the Biddy header. That feedback gets reviewed and feeds back into prompt improvements.

Next steps

Now that you know how to direct Biddy on a single proposal, learn how to teach it patterns that apply across every proposal in How Biddy learns your pricing.