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Two weeks ago: 33 states. Today: 45. Oregon, Montana, and Washington all went live this week. Credit to our engineering team for the grind behind it. Step back and look at the map: an enormous amount of work gets let across the country every week, and a lot of margin gets left on the table because the history was never there to price against. We're closing that gap, one state at a time. 5 to go. Bidding DOT work? Let's partner and get those numbers tight.

Another week at Edgevanta. Build in public cuts both ways. You tell us what to build, we ship it. This week, you asked for bid tab exports, so they're live. Every table in Bid Tabulations now exports to CSV or Excel in one click. Pull the data you need, share it with the team, work it however you want. No copying rows, no reformatting, no rebuilding it by hand. The data behind it keeps growing too. We're now live across 43 of the 50 state DOTs, with Rhode Island and Nevada added this week. Also live: a map view of item pricing by geography, a redesigned sensitivity analysis, and state-level views in My Bids. Full changelog in the first comment.

One month of shipping in public. This week: the Owner Funding Report. What an owner plans to spend and what they award can be two different numbers. The awarded dollars are what actually happened, and now they sit on one page. Open the Owner tab for any state you bid: how much was awarded, who keeps winning the work, and where the money is going, county by county, on a map. Click anything and the bids behind it open up. One state or five, the books are finally digestible. Also live: five new state DOTs (Nevada, Vermont, Maine, New Mexico, and Utah) and one-click Excel export on every Bid Tabulations table.

Another week at Edgevanta. This week's headline: Bid Sensitivity Analysis. Slide your bid percentages up or down on any job and see in real time what it does to profit, dollars won, and position against the field. Most contractors only get to ask "what if I had been 2% sharper" after the bid is lost. Now you can ask it before you submit. Also live this week: New Hampshire and Connecticut DOTs, PennDOT owner cost estimates, a rebuilt Competitor Profile with trends and a won-counties map, and a Global Vendor Filter for contractors working across multiple states. Full changelog in the first comment.

Big week at Edgevanta. Four new state DOTs went live: California, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. New York alone brought in 795 contracts and 239,000 rows of historical bid data to forecast against. Post-Bid Recap got rebuilt. Similar Items now pools every matching historical line into one weighted price instead of showing every variant separately. You can duplicate any forecast to spin up a fresh scenario, vendors auto-reorder by forecasted bid amount, and description-based pricing kicks in when item-number matches miss. If you bid civil work and want to see how Edgevanta forecasts your next letting, the full changelog (and the rest) is in the first comment.

Shipping in public. Starting this week, we’re publishing what changed at Edgevanta every Friday - the wins, the small fixes, and what we’re learning along the way. This week’s headline: Post Bid Recap. After a bid closes, estimators can line up their forecast against the actuals in one view: What you thought it would cost What it actually cost Where the gap came from The goal: win more, leave less on the table next time. Civil bidding is decided on the margins. Most teams find out months later, buried in a spreadsheet nobody opens. We wanted that loop tighter. Full changelog in the first comment.

Mason Earl has actually built the work. That's why he's joining Edgevanta as our founding Customer Success Manager. He spent the last eight years in construction - starting as a laborer in Salt Lake City and working his way up through estimating and project management. Along the way, he got frustrated enough with how takeoff and estimation get done that he built his own software to fix it. That's how we found each other. He was solving the same problem we are, from the contractor side. Mason will be working directly with the highway contractors who trust us with their bid data - bringing a perspective to that work you can't fake. Welcome to the team, Mason.