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EchoByld

Name: EchoByld
Address: 12A Lower Main Street, Dublin, K78X5P8, IE
Telephone: +353877601821

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EchoByld exists to help people make better construction decisions before building starts. For homeowners, this means clarity and cost confidence.

For builders and professionals, this means better scope, better pricing, and reduced risk.

04/11/2026

The tender goes out Friday. The drawings landed Tuesday. Nobody has time for a proper take-off.

So the gaps get assumed. A provisional sum here, an "as per spec" there, a drawing revision nobody reconciled. Each one is a small judgement call at 9pm. Together they are how a £1M project ends up carrying £200K of scope-driven overruns that better pre-construction visibility could have avoided.

EchoByld, currently in its first pilot cohort, reads the drawings and specs and returns an editable BoQ with source references and a gap list. Uncertain items are flagged for your review. The judgement stays yours.

See how it works, https://www.echobyld.com/ -it-works

02/11/2026

The framework invitation lands on Monday. The submission is due Wednesday. And the drawings still don't match the spec.

Forty-eight hours doesn't allow a full manual take-off, so teams price what they can see and assume the rest. The difference between a winning submission and a losing one is often a gap nobody had time to find.

EchoByld reads the drawings and specs into an editable BoQ with a source reference on every line, plus a gap and risk list. Anything uncertain is flagged for your review. We're in our first pilot cohort, and the judgement stays with your team.

See how it works, https://www.echobyld.com/ -it-works

23/10/2026

Two tenders. One estimating team. Both due on Friday.

Something has to give, and it's usually the scope check. The take-offs get done and the subcontractor enquiries go out, but nobody has time to read the spec against the drawings. That's where the variations come from later.

EchoByld reads the drawings and specs and produces an editable BoQ with source references and a gap and risk list. Anything it isn't sure about is marked for your review. We're in our first pilot cohort, so run it in parallel and keep whichever you trust.

See how it works, https://www.echobyld.com/ -it-works

21/10/2026

The estimator has resigned. Their notice is running. Pricing is due next week.

What walks out isn't in the documents: which subbies hold their rates, which spec clauses always turn into variations, what the last similar scheme really cost. Whoever inherits the take-off gets the drawings, not the judgement behind them.

EchoByld can't replace that judgement. It does the part that is in the documents: a source-referenced BoQ and a gap list, so the remaining time goes on pricing decisions. It's in its first pilot cohort, and your team reviews every line.

When an estimator leaves mid-tender, what do you wish had been written down?

20/10/2026

The client rings on Thursday. They want to move one wall. They need to know what it does to the price by Monday.

On most schemes, that question used to cost a week. Someone reopens the drawings, re-measures by hand, checks the spec for what else changed, and chases subbies for a revised number. Then someone wonders whether the first BoQ missed anything too.

EchoByld turns the drawings and spec into an editable BoQ where every line carries its source reference, and flags missing or contradictory items for your team to review. The next change starts from a structured baseline. It's in its first pilot cohort, and the judgement stays with your team.

See how it works, https://www.echobyld.com/ -it-works

19/10/2026

The tender landed this morning. Two estimators are on annual leave. The third is already pricing a different bid.

The closing date is not moving, and nobody has the hours for a proper take-off. So the scope gets skimmed, the gaps get priced as assumptions, and the risk sits quietly in the number until a variation turns it into a margin problem.

EchoByld is in its first pilot cohort. It reads the drawings and specs into an editable BoQ with source references and a gap list. Anything it is unsure of is marked for review. The judgement stays with your team.

See how it works, https://www.echobyld.com/ -it-works

12/10/2026

Revision C lands at 4:40pm on Friday. The tender closes Wednesday. And your estimator had plans for the weekend.

Every revision sends someone back through the drawings to find what moved, what didn't, and whether the spec still matches. Done by hand, that is Saturday gone, and you still can't be certain you caught every change before pricing.

EchoByld is in its first pilot cohort. It reads the revised drawings and spec, flags missing, ambiguous or contradictory items, and ties every BoQ line to its source document. Your team reviews and approves. The judgement stays yours.

See how it works, https://www.echobyld.com/ -it-works

07/10/2026

Tender packs go out in Q4, and the first-pass take-off is often done after hours.

Q4 started on 1 October. Incomplete scopes priced in a rush are what come back as variations later, and commencement notices are not slowing down: 18,974 new homes commenced in 2026 up to July, 152% ahead of the same period last year (Department of Housing).

EchoByld now offers a drawings-to-draft-BoQ first pass with gap-checking, built around how contractors and QS teams already work. You review, correct and approve everything.

Is your first pass still an after-hours job?

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01/10/2026

The subcontractor priced it. Just not the same thing you thought.

Subcontractor packages go out with drawings attached and a scope of works that everyone assumes matches. It rarely does completely. The result is a return that looks competitive until you read the exclusions, and by then you've spent three weeks in tender and the programme won't allow you to go again. Commercial teams absorb the gap or argue about it later.

EchoByld produces a defined, source-referenced scope for each subcontractor package before it goes out, drawn from your actual documents, not assumptions.

Book a discussion to see how we can help generate your subcontract packages, https://calendly.com/john-echobyld/30min

25/09/2026

Four tender returns. Four different scopes priced.

Every bidder read the same documents and came back with a different interpretation — because the tender pack didn't define the scope clearly enough to rule out other readings. Comparing those returns takes longer than the tender period allowed, and the client is already asking questions. Most teams pick the number closest to budget and manage the risk later.

EchoByld produces a structured, source-referenced BoQ from your documents before tender goes out — so every bidder prices the same defined scope and returns are comparable on receipt.

Join the pilot — https://www.echobyld.com/

Address

12A Lower Main Street
Dublin
K78X5P8

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	7am - 4pm
Saturday	9am - 2pm

Telephone

+353877601821

Website

http://www.echobyld.com/

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