From the estimate to the work schedule
- Length
- 2:42
- Language
- English
- Published
- November 2, 2026
Your priced estimate already knows how many install hours each trade needs. Create the schedule from it, set the crew for each trade and a start and target end, and the AI drafts the phases in order, linked so a slip moves what follows. Nothing is saved until you apply.
The board shows each trade in its own rows and color, with progress fills, late tails, day, week and month zoom and the critical path. The summary line gives completion against your target, progress, crew-days and the next milestone, and warns when a trade is booked beyond its crew or a date lands on a holiday. Click a row to see its hours turned into days, edit its days, hours, links and percent complete, or drag a bar onto the job's working days. Work days sets US federal, Canada statutory or Québec holidays, Saturday work and extra days off. Then the 3-week lookahead, the month calendar, the ledger with the estimate lines behind each phase, and CSV and iCal export.
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Your priced estimate already knows how many install hours each trade needs. Bildrix turns those hours into a work schedule. Create the schedule from the estimate. Pick a start and a target end. Bildrix reads the hours for each trade, and you set the crew: four on general work, two electricians, one mechanical. The AI drafts the phases in order, linked so a slip moves what follows. Nothing is saved until you apply. Every trade gets its own rows, and its own color. Bars fill as the work gets done, and anything running late trails a dotted tail to today. Hover a bar for its dates, hours, crew, float, and what it waits on. Zoom from days to months, and focus the critical path: the chain where any slip moves completion. Click a row, and the inspector shows the arithmetic: fifty-three point six hours, over two electricians at eight hours a day, is three point four. So, four days. Report seventy-five percent, and the bar fills. Let fire alarm start two days after the devices start, instead of after they finish, and the summary line flags it: electrical is booked on overlapping phases. Four people needed, and the crew is two. The crew on site chart marks the same days. Change the hours, and the days follow: ninety-six hours is six days. Drag a bar, and it lands on the job's working days. Dropped on a Saturday, painting starts Monday. Changed your mind? Clear the hand-set start, and it follows its link again. Work days sets the job's calendar. Tick US federal holidays, and Veterans Day and Thanksgiving come off the schedule, so the holiday warnings clear. Crews working Saturdays? One tick pulls completion in. Add a crane delivery day, and every day off is hatched on the board. The three-week lookahead tells each crew what it's doing, day by day, and asks about anything that was due. The month calendar shows the same plan at a glance. The ledger lists every phase with its hours, and the estimate lines behind them. Export it as a spreadsheet, or to any calendar app, with eye-cal. From the estimate, to the schedule, in one place. Bildrix: takeoff, estimating, and scheduling for contractors. Start free at bildrix dot com.