GlazeBid AiQ is the only estimating platform engineered exclusively for commercial glazing contractors — connecting every blueprint to every dollar with precision.
Storefronts. Curtain Walls. Architectural Glass. The math is always perfect.
For too long, commercial glazing contractors have been forced to use generic construction software built for drywallers and painters. Estimating storefronts, curtain walls, and architectural glass demands exact parametric geometry, dynamic labor calculations, and complex vendor quotes.
GlazeBid AiQ was engineered from the ground up to solve this problem. By fusing cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence with a high-performance decoupled architecture, we connect the spatial reality of a blueprint directly to the financial reality of your bid — protecting your margins at every step.
We don't just count boxes. We protect your profit.
The Name Behind the Platform
AiQ is more than a product name — it's a philosophy. A deliberate fusion of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IQ (the measure of intelligence itself), it represents our belief that technology should not replace the expertise of a master glazier — it should amplify it. Your knowledge of the trade, combined with the raw computational power of our AI, produces something greater than either could achieve alone. That's AiQ.
Four specialized modules covering the full lifecycle of a commercial glazing project — from first blueprint to a finished, sellable bid. All live. All synchronized.
The command center for every estimate. With System Cards including — Exterior Storefront, Interior Storefront, Capped Curtainwall, SSG Curtainwall, and more — each with its own parametric labor-hour engine, rate tables, and pricing rules.
A dedicated PDF takeoff canvas engineered for commercial glazing. Load full architectural drawing sets, calibrate to real-world scale, draw frame boundaries directly on the blueprint, and push completed counts to Bid Builder instantly.
A true 2D parametric CAD engine built exclusively for glaziers. Engineer individual frames to exact specifications — system type, bay grid, glass make-up, hardware — and generate a complete BOM in seconds.
Convert your bid data into a professional, submittal-ready drawing package in one click. Reads directly from Bid Builder — no re-entry, no translation errors between what was priced and what gets fabricated.
Quick-access calculators and utilities built for the calculations glaziers run every day — available instantly from any project workspace, no project required.
Deflection, moment, and load analysis for mullions and frames per AAMA/ASTM. Returns a 4-tier verdict: Pass, Add Steel, Upgrade Profile, or Engineer Required.
Bend allowances, flat blank lengths, and material quantities for custom aluminum, galvanized steel, stainless, and copper flashings across standard gauge presets.
Sausage or cartridge count from joint width, depth, and linear footage — with a live SVG cross-section diagram that updates as you type.
Monolithic, IG, laminated, and laminated IGU configurations. Returns PSF and total lite weight with crane and handling class guidance.
Multi-scope fast estimates with unlimited named scope tabs. Apply labor and material rates, roll up a summary, and get a number — in minutes, without a full project.
Configure aluminum door packages for quote and order — swing, stile and rail dimensions, midrail, finish, glass spec, frame type, and hardware prep. Live scaled elevation preview.
Upload a full project spec book — automatically splits by CSI section, scans Division 08 for glazing scope, and flags basis-of-design and risk items. Upload a full drawing set and watch as architectural drawings are sorted automatically. Chat with a glazing-trained AI agent to review and interrogate specs.
Generate a professional branded proposal PDF from bid data — cover letter, scope summary, line-item pricing, payment terms, warranty period, and your company logo.
Real screens. Real data. Built for commercial glazing contractors.
Every decision in our architecture was made with one type of contractor in mind — you.
Whether it's a simple interior storefront or a raked exterior curtain wall, the geometry engine handles every shape and the math is always exact. No approximations. No square-foot guesses.
By separating the high-powered WebGL graphics engine (Studio) from the heavy financial database (Builder), we deliver true desktop-level performance — entirely in the cloud, on any machine.
Every markup, every frame, and every dollar is instantly serialized and backed up to a secure cloud infrastructure. Your team can collaborate in real time from any location, without version conflicts.
GPM tiers auto-scale based on project size and enforce company-wide pricing standards. No junior estimator can accidentally underbid a complex curtain wall job again.
Every day, another generic construction tech company slaps the word “AI” on their website and calls it a day. But drywall software cannot price a raked curtain wall, and generic PDF tools just give you a screen full of colored lines.
We didn’t build GlazeBid AiQ because we wanted to make software. We built it because we were tired of losing bids to bad math, broken spreadsheets, and fragmented workflows. Here is what separates GlazeBid AiQ from every other estimating platform on the market:
In legacy takeoff software, highlighting a storefront on a PDF gives you exactly one thing: a highlighted box. You still have to open a spreadsheet, recreate the grid, and manually calculate the metal and glass.
We believe in the multiplier effect. In GlazeBid AiQ, marking up the drawing builds the frame. When you draw a box over an elevation, our parametric engine instantly generates the daylight openings, glass cut sizes, aluminum linear footage, and exact shop fabrication hours. You do the work once, and the software generates the complete geometric and financial reality in the background. No double entry. No wasted time.
Estimating shouldn’t be a data-entry job. When your team is buried in manual takeoffs and checking formulas, they aren’t doing what actually wins jobs: value-engineering, negotiating, and building relationships with General Contractors.
GlazeBid AiQ accelerates the estimating process so drastically that “we just don’t have the time to bid this” becomes a thing of the past. By automating the tedious geometry and math, your estimators get their time back — meaning more bandwidth to bid the lucrative projects you used to pass on, more time for rigorous follow-ups, and more time to make the phone calls that actually close the deal.
For decades, commercial glazing has relied on the “Triangle of Doom”: a PDF viewer on one screen, a massive Excel workbook on the other, and manufacturer portals buried in browser tabs.
GlazeBid AiQ is your command center. From the moment architectural plans are automatically sorted during intake, to the second your final, margin-protected bid is exported to Salesforce — it all happens here. You draw the frames, input your vendor quotes, and apply your company’s exact Gross Profit rules, all within one unified, lag-free ecosystem.
Most “AI” in construction is a gimmick. Ours is a specialized employee that gets smarter with every single project.
GlazeBid AiQ features a proprietary Background Learning Loop. Over time, GlazeBid trains its vision models specifically on your company’s blueprints and your markup style. Glazing is a niche, complex trade — scanning architectural drawings to detect glazing versus a structural wall is a non-trivial problem that standard OCR and generic computer vision cannot solve. Multi-layer agentic AI agents, each with a dedicated glazing-detection task, work in concert across rule-based, geometric, cross-reference, and model-calibration learning layers. AI agents trained on the GANA Glazing Manual and NCS & AIA architectural standards represent a path that the industry — not the tech giants — has finally begun to understand.
The ultimate goal? Fully autonomous takeoffs. As the AI learns from your team’s expertise, it evolves from a smart assistant into an engine capable of doing the heavy lifting for you — turning your historical data into an unstoppable competitive advantage, not just another auto-count tool.
We aren’t Silicon Valley outsiders guessing at how a building goes together. We know that “the door owns the floor,” we know how to price a shape charge on a raked header, and we know the difference between markup and margin.
Join the glazing contractors who are winning more bids, protecting their margins, and closing projects faster than ever before.