Live collaboration

More than one person can have the same tender open at the same time. There is no locking, no checking a project out, and nothing to merge afterwards — everyone is working on the same live version at once.

This holds across the whole tender, not just one screen: the ledger, the drawings and the takeoff canvas, the subcontractor quotes — whatever part of the job someone is in, everyone else sees it the same way.

Seeing each other work

When someone else is in the same tender, you see their cursor move as they work — on the ledger, on the drawings, wherever they are. It is a quiet signal, not an interruption: just enough to know someone else is in there and roughly where.

Edits appear as they happen

A change someone else makes — a new scope line, a quote entered, a measurement taken off a drawing — appears on your screen as it happens, not on refresh. If two estimators are splitting a job by trade, or a director is checking a line while the estimator keeps working, both of you are always looking at the same current state.

Where this matters

This is most useful when a tender is under time pressure and more than one person needs to be in it at once — one person taking measurements off the drawings while another prices trades, for instance. You do not need to coordinate who has it open; everyone just works.

It is also how a director or a second estimator sanity-checks a number without pulling the person doing the work out of what they are doing — open the same tender alongside them, look at what you need to, and step back out.

If you want a record of a particular point in time rather than the constantly-moving live version — to compare what changed between two dates, say — that is what revisions are for. See Revisions.