Owen Development Increased Bid Volume by 50%
About Owen Development
Jacksonville based full service contractor providing planning, preparation, and execution for residential and commercial projects. It specializes in underground utilities, earthwork, finished grading, curbs, and asphalt trades, serving across North Florida and beyond.
Challenges Before Beam AI
Before adopting Beam AI, Owen Development faced multiple challenges in their takeoff and bidding process:
- Manual takeoffs consumed 25–30 hours per project, from measurements through proposal creation.
- Heavy reliance on Bluebeam and AGTEK, requiring a lot of manual tracing and verification.
- Difficulty keeping up with county-specific specifications while bidding 3–4 projects at the same time, leading to occasional missed spec items.
- Bid tracking was handled through Excel sheets and a physical bid board, making it harder to keep track of upcoming deadlines and RFIs.
- Limited bandwidth to send more bids, as most of the estimators’ time was spent on time-intensive takeoffs instead of finding more projects.
“Beam AI definitely helps catch those critical specs that we need to make sure we have covered in the proposal.”
Charlie Owen
Owen Development
Owen Development
Breaking Down Key Wins
After adopting Beam AI, Charlie’s estimating workflow began showing clear improvements:
- ~20% time saved per project (around 5 hours per bid), even while still in the learning phase.
- ~50% increase in bids sent in recent weeks, allowing the team to take on more opportunities.
- Higher accuracy on proposals due to auto-detection of specs and keyed-in notes from plans.
- Better organized bidding pipeline through the Bid Dashboard, helping them manage hard-bid deadlines and upcoming due dates more efficiently.
- More time to focus on field support and business development, as repetitive takeoff work reduced.
Business Impact
- More efficient bidding cycles, enabling them to bid more projects than before.
- Greater visibility into the entire bid pipeline, leading to better prioritization and fewer missed deadlines.
- Improved estimator productivity, giving the team more time to find new projects and support the field.
- Directional growth, aligning with company goals to expand the number of estimators, project managers, and overall project volume.
“In the last couple of weeks, we’ve probably increased our bids sent by about 50%. Beam AI helps us stay ahead, especially when multiple bids are due on similar dates.”
Charlie Owen
Owen Development
Owen Development
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