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BuildPass keeps your site safe and compliant. Bolster is the all-in-one platform that helps contractors quote 5× faster, win 20% more jobs, and turn every plan into a priced, client-ready proposal.
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BuildPass starts once you've already won the work — managing the site, the safety and the compliance. Bolster wins the work in the first place. AutoCost prices every line with real, local material and labor costs from 100M+ items, so your quote is accurate the moment you finish it.
Turn any estimate into an interactive, client-ready proposal — with optional items and good/better/best upgrades the customer can add themselves. BuildPass’s All In plan adds takeoff, estimating and branded PDF proposals, but no optional items, upgrades or online payments, so growing the job stays a manual, separate process.
Describe the project and Bolster's Construction Intelligence runs the entire flow — scoping the work, building the estimate, measuring the takeoff, and generating photoreal renderings and options like the one shown. BuildPass's AI summarizes site diaries and logs defects; Bolster's AI builds the work that wins the contract.
Two tools for two jobs. Bolster wins and grows the work; BuildPass runs a safe, compliant site once it starts.
| Feature |  |
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|---|---|---|
| The value | ||
| More jobs won, on average | +20% | —Static PDF proposals |
| Bigger jobs from in-checkout upgrades | +15% | NoneNo optional items or checkout |
| Less time spent quoting | 84% | —Takeoff, no live pricing |
| Sales & estimating | ||
| AI estimating | From an address, photo or prompt | AI cost coding only |
| Material & labor pricing | Live and regional (AutoCost) | Your own rate library |
| Item library & assemblies | Material + labor, linked to takeoff | Rate library only |
| Spreadsheet estimating | Formula-based items & assemblies | All In plan |
| On-screen takeoff | Plans or satellite, linked to items | All In plan |
| Bids & presentations | ||
| Optional & upgradable items in proposals | —Not listed | |
| Sign and pay the deposit in one checkout | No online payments | |
| Visualizations of the finished job | —Not listed | |
| Proposals | Interactive, with checkout | Branded PDF |
| Selections & upgrades | Inside the checkout | Builder-led allowance register |
| E-signatures & approvals | ||
| Get paid | ||
| Same-day payments | No online payments | |
| ACH & card payments | Receipts recorded manually | |
| Business account (wallet) | —Not listed | |
| Progress payments | Automatic as tasks complete | Manual pay apps |
| Project management | ||
| Budget & material list | Automated | Budget only |
| Client portal | With visualizations & scheduling | Read-only portal |
| Scheduling | Automated | AI draft from documents |
| Daily logs | Automated | AI voice and summaries |
| Change orders | Automated from selection changes | All In plan |
| Chat with team, subs and clients | Per project, set up automatically | Messaging and SMS |
| Mobile apps | Field app for crew, management app for office | Admin and worker apps |
| Subcontractors & vendors | ||
| Vendor portal | Free takeoff & bid tools | No-login quote portal |
| Subcontractor payments | Pay apps, no payouts | |
| RFQs & bid management | Automated from the estimate | AI quote parsing |
| Purchasing | Purchase orders | |
| Lien waivers | US, All In plan | |
| Holdbacks & retainage | ||
| Automated vendor document management | Insurances and prequalification | |
| Time tracking | ||
| Item-by-item time tracking | Cost-code timesheets | |
| Geo time tracking | Geofenced sign ons | |
| Marketing & CRM | ||
| CRM & lead management | —Not listed | |
| Lead forms | —Not listed | |
| OpenQuotes: customer self-serve estimating | ||
| Embeddable estimating wizard | ||
| Onboarding & support | ||
| AI template builder | AI form templates | |
| Import items, clients & vendors | Spreadsheet import | |
| Import current jobs | Enterprise migration | |
| 1:1 onboarding | Implementation packages | |
| Integrations | ||
| CompanyCam | —Not listed | |
| Hover | —Not listed | |
| QuickBooks | Live job-cost sync | All In plan |
| Pricing | ||
| Transparent published pricing | Custom quote | |
| No onboarding fee | —Implementation packages, unpriced | |
| Plan price doesn't rise with project volume | Per admin user | |
"Not listed" means the feature does not appear in BuildPass's published feature list as of October 2026; estimating, proposals and finance features require the All In plan (or the Win & Pay add-on).
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