Frequently Asked Questions
Bid management for specialty contractors. ITBs, proposals, inclusions/exclusions, GC relationships, bid analytics — one system, cloud-based. Built for teams bidding with volume, not for one-off projects.
Specialty subs — electrical, mechanical, plumbing, drywall, glass, finishes, masonry. If your estimating team bids dozens of projects a year and you’re still stitching together Excel, Word, and email, this is what replaces that.
No. BuildingConnected is where GCs send you the invite. RhinoDox is where your team builds the response. Most of our clients use BuildingConnected — RhinoDox picks up where it leaves off.
LARRY is the AI intelligence layer built into RhinoDox. Upload your bid package — specs, contracts, addenda, safety manuals, whatever’s in the stack — and LARRY reads all of it. 100+ criteria, 8 categories of risk, up to 10,000 pages in 4 minutes. Every finding cites the exact page so you can go verify it yourself.
Eight categories: go/no-go determinants, commercial and contract risk, scope and technical risk, cost drivers, compliance, schedule and logistics, project types, and stakeholder risk. Real example: one spec section says 2% attic stock, another says 10% — same material, two different numbers. That’s the kind of thing that turns into a $50K argument in the field. LARRY catches it before your team even starts estimating.
You upload your documents. LARRY runs 100+ independent criteria against everything simultaneously — not keyword matching, but searching for synonyms, intent, and variations. Each criterion extracts specific facts, assesses risk against defined thresholds, and cites the exact page, section, and spec number. You don’t get a generic summary. You get findings you can verify.
ChatGPT doesn’t know what phase of the bid you’re in. It doesn’t know if you’re the estimator or the CFO. It doesn’t know which risks are standard for your trade and which ones should make you walk away from the job. LARRY filters by who’s asking, when in the bid, and what kind of risk. It runs a curated criteria library built by estimators, attorneys, and domain experts who’ve seen what gets missed — not a general-purpose AI that treats every document the same.
Up to 10,000 pages. Specs, contracts, addenda, safety manuals, OCIP documents, environmental compliance, manufacturer requirements — it reads everything in the stack. Most packages are a fraction of that, so analysis completes in minutes.
If your projects use CSI-formatted specs and you’re bidding commercial, institutional, or government work, yes. LARRY’s criteria library covers all divisions. The subs using it today include electrical, mechanical, plumbing, drywall, finishes, and glass contractors.
Every finding cites the exact page and section. Click the citation and you’re looking at the source document. We built it this way on purpose — trust but verify. LARRY shows you where the risk is. You decide what to do about it.
No. LARRY doesn’t estimate jobs. It reads what your estimator doesn’t have time to read. A senior estimator knows exactly what to look for — they just can’t look for all of it across a 10,000-page spec package under a bid deadline. LARRY catches the things that get missed when you’re juggling five bids at once.
Two to four weeks. We train your entire team — not just the admin. That training doesn’t end after go-live. We’re available when your team needs help, especially during bid season.
Four things: your GC list with contacts, your architect list, your standard inclusions and exclusions, and a sample proposal. We handle the rest.
Yes. Bring a bid you’re working on right now. We’ll run LARRY on it and show you what it finds — with page citations you can verify yourself. No commitment, no credit card, no demo with fake data. Your documents, your results.
We price based on team size and usage. Best way to find out is to talk to us — we’ll show you the platform live and give you a straight answer. No pricing games.
Your data stays yours. It’s not shared with other companies, not used to train models for competitors, not accessible to anyone outside your organization. Your bid data, your findings, your criteria — all private.
RhinoDox is cloud-based with enterprise-grade security. Your bid documents and analysis results are stored in your organization’s private environment.