Verso Plans
Verso Plans is takeoff, pricing and proposals built for drywall and framing contractors. Conditions know what a 358-20 (19mil) at 16"oc is, so quantities come out in the units you buy in. Measure off the PDF, watch the price build as you draw, then issue a bid letter without retyping a thing - and see the walls in 3D before you commit to a number.
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Verso Plans is for the whole front end of a job. A set of plans lands in your inbox, and before you commit to a bid you need to read them - what's the scope, where are the tricky details, roughly how big is it? Verso Plans gets you those answers fast, and then carries you through the takeoff when the job is real.
Open the PDF, calibrate any page to its scale, and start working: measure rooms and runs, count fixtures, mark up details to discuss with the team, and drop notes on anything that needs clarification. Set up conditions and every line you draw becomes quantity - lengths, areas, counts - feeding a priced worksheet where you set the rates and margin. Switch to the model and the walls, ceilings and openings build themselves from what you've drawn, so you can look at what you've priced instead of imagining it. When a revision shows up, compare it against the old set and see exactly what changed before it costs you.
The AI tools read the paperwork so you don't miss the traps: point them at the contract or the spec book and get a checklist review of scope, exclusions, and flags - using your own AI key or running fully local. When the bid moves forward, the proposal writes itself from the job - your letterhead, the scope you took off, your standing exclusions - out to Word or PDF. Export the worksheet to Excel for the office and share a flattened PDF with your markups so everyone's looking at the same thing.
Built by a working drywall and framing subcontractor, for how bidding actually goes.
- Updates come from IT: the Manager pushes a signed package to every desk, offered as a notice or installed at the next start; no desk updates itself when a company server is set
- Every desk takes 1.5.2 by hand once; from then on the Workstations page pushes updates and shows what each desk did with them
- The Manager's dashboard reads at a glance: the figures that need a hand in colour, what needs attention grouped by reason, each estimator as a load against the next two weeks
- Market sectors with a price per square foot: a cover with a building SF gets a rough order of magnitude and an estimate of the hours before anyone starts
- The Manager plans the estimate: days of estimating before the due date on a Schedule view of the calendar and on the Workload page, drawn as one timeline
- A go/no-go score on every opportunity, and on a bid before it is accepted
- Bids found by Verso Bid Radar land on the Opportunities page: score, accept into a filled-in cover sheet, or decline; documents left beside a bid are filed on the opportunity
- Contractors: the public record collected for a general contractor, a reliability score that is fair to a big firm, and a report written by Claude or ChatGPT with your own key
- Takeoff: finish a run by right-click or by a left double-click on the last point, as you prefer under Settings, Takeoff
- Takeoff: a run of several legs breaks into segments from the selection bar, or every run is drawn as segments from the start
- A condition switched off in the panel is gone from the sheet for every purpose: no click, box, snap or cut touches it, on every page and in every job
- Assembly window: the list cells end their edit when the list closes; notes are edited in place by double-click; a changed grid tile size reaches the fills already drawn
- The Properties panel docked right, docked left, or in its own window on a second monitor
- Hints on the sheet can be switched off, and the area tool's caption lost its red
- Create detail only where a detail is: on a callout bubble or over a detail on its sheet, and it names the detail
- Settings dropdowns wide enough to read, in the regular weight
- A desk key for the company file store: reads and writes one container for a year, never deletes, made in the Manager; the account key stays with IT
- The company server itself refuses, for the shared login, a change to who is who, the roles, the audit trail, a pushed update or the bid intake
- Faster: one cover read by its key instead of every cover; the Manager loads only the page on screen; the snap engine works from a page cache; four indexes on the growing tables
- Plans export into Verso Build, and a Build job created from the company server
- Company server on Azure: the Manager creates the database on the Basic tier, and the file store is an Azure container
- Award the job from the bid menu: the sold version frozen, the contract and contractor on the cover, the workflow at Awarded
- Hand to production: a full open copy of the sold bid for buyout and savings, kept here or handed to a colleague
- A job handed to you by the office lands in the header as an amber chip naming who sent it
- Assign carries the Type the office decided, or Undecided when deciding is part of the job
- Sending a proposal locks the bid; Reopen from the bid menu keeps the reason on the record; green and amber padlocks on the project lists
- Items carry a product family, so supplier quotes fold variations of one product into one line
- The cover page of a thousand-sheet set opens at once, with the groups folded
- Settings, About: a support file with every password and key blanked, and the company server's schema version
- Settings, AI: OpenAI or Claude with your own key; the local engine is gone, as offices do not allow it
- Import from other software: a .bbp bid export brings the project, its plan sets, conditions and takeoff
- Excel exports use an open-source library
- Company server schema version 15; Verso Plans never changes the server, the Manager's Create does
