Walk the job with your phone and get a draft bid back. The Conduit app offers two ways to capture a job: a walkthrough, where you film the work area and say what needs doing, and a room scan, where an iPhone Pro measures the room with LiDAR. Both become an estimate proposal you check line by line before it becomes a bid. The phone screens below are recordings from the app; the review lessons use the real web review page with sample data.
Bids & Takeoff
Estimates from your phone
Record a narrated video walkthrough or scan a room with LiDAR in the Conduit app, then review the drafted estimate and turn it into a bid.
Lessons in this guide
Start01Record a walkthrough
Open the project and tap Walkthrough estimate, or start a new bid and choose Walkthrough estimate. Tap Record video and film the work area while you describe the job in your own words: what comes out, what goes in, and any counts or measurements you know. Your words appear under the video as you speak, and a video can run up to 2 minutes. Tap Stop, then Use this video, or Re-record to try again.
You can also record narration on its own and add up to six photos from the camera or library, in any order. Say numbers out loud when you know them (“two windows”, “forty feet of trench”): a spoken quantity is used as said, while one read off the video is marked as a guess.
02Create the estimate
Tap Create estimate. The video, narration and photos upload, then Conduit reads your narration against the frames and your pricebook. Writing your estimate… shows while it works, usually under a minute, and the proposal opens on its own when it is ready.
03Review and price the lines
The proposal starts with notes on anything to check before you send it (access, permits, a line that still needs a pricebook item or price), then one line per piece of work. Each line shows its quantity, how sure the estimate is, the words you said and the photos it came from. On the phone, type a Unit price on any line, use Change item to pick a pricebook item, or Reject a line you do not want; a rejected line stays visible, struck through.
Make changes by talking
Tap Make changes beside Create bid and say what to change: “Romex should be 40 feet, drop the conduit, add a GFCI by the sink.” The lines update in place and each changed line is highlighted: new lines are marked added, changed lines show what they were, and dropped lines are struck through so you can bring them back. Prices and quantities you typed yourself stay as they are unless you name that line. Make changes does not count toward your monthly walkthroughs.
04Create the bid
Tap Create bid. The kept lines become a draft bid on the project, marked AI Generated, ready to send, edit or download as a PDF like any other bid. A line mapped to a pricebook item takes that item’s name and price, a kit opens into its components, and a line with no price comes in at $0 for you to fill in.
Troubleshooting
Each company can record 100 walkthroughs a month. If you reach that, the app says “You’ve hit your walkthrough limit for this month”; reach out to us and we will raise it. If an estimate fails, the status screen says why; record again or scan again from the same screen. If a room scan upload drops, tap Retry: the scan stays on the phone until Conduit has it. If a line’s quantity looks wrong, it was probably read off the video rather than said out loud; measure on site and change it before you create the bid.
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