Overview

The Intelligence Bridge connects the AI agent you already use — Claude or ChatGPT — to a tender inside Estimator+. It is not a separate assistant bolted onto the app. It is a doorway that lets your own agent read a live, real tender: the drawings, the scope of works, the quotes on file.

You will find it under Intelligence Bridge in the rail, at /connector. Admins and users (the estimator seat) can open it and connect their own agent. Viewer seats do not see it — a view-only seat has nothing to connect.

Bring your own agent

The core idea is simple: the intelligence runs on the AI subscription you already pay for, not on Estimator+'s. There are no AI credits to buy, nothing metered inside Estimator+, and no per-tender AI fee. Indexing your drawings so an agent can search them is free, on every plan.

What that means in practice:

• You keep using Claude or ChatGPT the way you already do — same app, same account, same model choices.
• Estimator+ never sees or bills for the AI usage itself. Your agent subscription covers that.
• The only thing Estimator+ controls is what the agent is allowed to see and do inside your company's tenders — covered in Access & control.

What makes it different from just pasting things into a chat

An agent connected through the Intelligence Bridge is not working from a screenshot or a copy-pasted paragraph. It reads the actual tender through your own login: the indexed drawings, the scope lines already in the ledger, the quotes a subcontractor has sent in. Ask it something and it can go and look, rather than guess from whatever you happened to paste in.

That grounding is the point. A generic AI chat can talk about construction in general. An agent connected to a specific tender can tell you what is actually on the drawings for that job, what is already scoped, and what a particular sub has quoted.

Getting set up

Before you connect an agent, index the tender's plans from the plan drawer — this happens automatically on upload and costs nothing (see Upload drawings). Once a tender has indexed drawings, there is something for a connected agent to actually read.

From there, connecting your agent is a short one-time setup covered in Connect an agent, and the Access & control page explains exactly what a connected agent can see and do, and how to change or revoke that at any time.