Tutorials
5 articles · 18 min total

- The scenario
This series follows one construction subcontractor through a full bid lifecycle, building a workspace that ingests an Invitation to Bid, sends a confirmation, tracks invoices, and assembles a transmittal packet.
2 min - Process an Invitation to Bid
Build a template for the Invitation to Bid document, place its key fields, give one extracted field a field-level AI instruction, then point a Gmail automation at it so every incoming ITB lands tagged and extracted without an upload.
4 min - Send a bid confirmation
Build a confirmation template that asks one question only you can answer and reuses the rest from the case, run it to generate the PDF, then compose a Gmail draft you review and send yourself.
3 min - Track the invoices
Build an invoice template, let every fill mold a case, then work the volume in the dashboard: plot job sites on the Map, due dates on the Calendar, dollar totals in Analytics, and archive each invoice once it is paid.
5 min - Assemble the transmittal
A transmittal template stitches the ITB, the confirmation, and the invoices into one packet with source tabs, then carries a computed bid total derived from data already on the case.
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