I built Bid Bench because I watched talented General Contractors spend 60-80% of their week acting as data entry clerks instead of building. We evolved from a simple file storage tool into an automated parsing engine once we realized the real nightmare was trying to manually "level" messy PDF proposals in Excel. Now, our platform reads those bids, extracts the line items, and keeps your budget airtight so you can stop typing and get back to the job site.