Disclaimer

InfraBid reads a pricing document, extracts descriptions, units and quantities, and matches each line to the closest item in its library of published Irish schedules of rates. It then multiplies quantity by the visible rate and applies the preliminaries and markup you set. A separate range allowance helps show the uncertainty around the first pass.

It performs arithmetic and pattern matching. It does not exercise judgement, price risk, read a specification, visit a site, or know anything about the job beyond what is written in the document you gave it.

InfraBid uses an AI model, and you are interacting with one whenever you use the AI reader or AI matching. The model is Claude, operated by Anthropic. It does two jobs and no others.

• Reading. It turns a pricing document, including scans, photos and handwriting, into structured bill lines: item reference, description, unit and quantity, with a confidence figure for each.
• Matching. It decides which rate-library item a bill line corresponds to, choosing between candidates the engine shortlists.
• Answering questions. The assistant behind the Ask button answers questions about the product and about estimating practice. It is a general model, not a lookup against your data: it cannot see your estimates, and it is instructed never to state a rate or a price.

The model is never shown a rate and never produces a price. It chooses the item; the deterministic engine supplies the number and does the arithmetic. That is why the same bill against the same library always produces the same total, and why an estimate can be checked line by line against its source.

AI output can be wrong in ways that look entirely convincing. It can misread a smudged figure, merge two columns, or confidently choose an item that reads similarly but means something else commercially. Confidence figures measure textual and dimensional similarity, not commercial correctness.

Every AI-assisted estimate must be reviewed and adopted by a competent estimator before it is used for anything. The software supports your judgement; it does not replace it, and it takes no professional responsibility for the figure.

Using the AI reader sends your document to Anthropic. If that is not acceptable for a particular tender, the on-device reader sends nothing: our privacy policy sets out exactly what goes where.

The rate library is a reference point for an order-of-magnitude first pass. It is not a current supplier quotation, subcontractor return or contractor-specific schedule. It does not know your buying power, programme, crew outputs, site constraints or regional market position.

Every matched rate and every allowance must be reviewed for the job in front of you. A plausible-looking total can still be commercially wrong if the reference rate is not appropriate to the scope, specification, location, access or delivery period.

InfraBid reads the quantities printed in the client’s pricing document. It does not measure, remeasure or verify them against the drawings, and it cannot tell you that a quantity in the bill is wrong. Where a bill is provisional, approximate or subject to remeasurement, that remains entirely a matter for you.

Excel and CSV files are read reliably. PDF is best effort. A PDF carries no table structure (text is recovered from glyph positions), so columns can be merged, split or misread, particularly in scanned or unusually laid-out documents.

InfraBid lists every row it rejected and the reason, and flags lines it could not price. Those reports are an aid, not a guarantee that everything else was read correctly. Check the extracted schedule against the printed bill before relying on the total.

Matching weighs wording, nominal size, depth band, material and unit, and returns a confidence figure for each line. Where the match is not close enough, the line is reported as needing a rate rather than being priced.

This reduces the chance of a wrong rate being applied. It does not eliminate it. A line can be matched confidently and still be matched to the wrong thing, and the confidence figure is a measure of textual and dimensional similarity, not of commercial correctness.

The range shown alongside a total starts with the range allowance you set and widens when the bill has unpriced or lower-confidence matches. It is an indication of uncertainty, not a statistical confidence interval or contingency carried in the headline total. It does not account for market conditions, programme risk, subcontractor availability, currency or inflation.

InfraBid is provided on an “as is” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law we exclude all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, and we give no warranty that the software is error-free or that any estimate it produces is accurate, complete or suitable for any tender.

You must not rely on an InfraBid estimate as the sole basis for submitting a tender, entering a contract, or making any commercial decision. Every estimate must be reviewed and adopted by a competent estimator who takes professional responsibility for the figure. Nothing produced by the software is professional, engineering, quantity surveying, financial or legal advice.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, InfraBid Ltd accepts no liability for loss of profit, loss of contract, loss of opportunity, underbidding, overbidding or any indirect or consequential loss arising from use of the software or reliance on its output. Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Read this disclaimer alongside our privacy policy and data protection notice.