Reveal reads your plans, matches every opening to real manufacturer hardware, prices it at contractor rates rather than retail, and generates the four documents every door job needs — same day, not days or weeks.
Three steps, and two of them are ours. What you do is send five pages and look the number over. Everything between those two things is the part that used to cost you the evening.
Not the bid set. The pages that actually carry the openings — a phone photo of each is enough.
Not scanned — read, the way an estimator reads it, against the manufacturers' current books.
Switch an opening off, change the installation window, correct a count — every number moves together, and the documents redraw.
What we need from you
Nobody needs to upload four hundred sheets, and we do not want them. These are the pages that actually carry the openings. A clear phone photo of each one is enough — it does not have to be a PDF and it does not have to be the full drawing set.
| The page | Usually | What we get from it |
|---|---|---|
| Door schedule | A-6.x / A-8.x | Every opening on the job — mark, size, thickness, material, fire rating and which hardware set it carries. This is the sheet the whole package is built from. |
| Hardware schedule | Same sheet, or spec 08 71 00 | What actually hangs on each opening, set by set: locks, closers, hinges, stops, gasketing. Without it we can price the doors and frames but not the hardware. |
| Door types & elevations | Same sheet as the schedule | Leaf configuration, glazing, louvers and panel layout — the difference between a flush door and one with a vision kit. |
| Wall types | A-9.x, partition types | The frame throat. Stud width plus every board layer on both faces. A frame cannot be ordered without it, so if this page is missing the frames stop. |
| Floor plans | A-2.x, the levels with doors on them | The handing. Which way each door swings is read off the plan, never off the schedule. Left hand, right hand, reverse — get it wrong and the door is scrap. |
A 300MB bid set takes longer to upload than it takes us to read the five pages inside it. Pull those sheets out, or photograph them off the screen.
If all you have today is the door schedule, send that. We will price what the schedule supports and list what is still open by opening number — we never invent a throat or a hand.
A phone picture of the schedule taped to the trailer wall works, as long as the opening marks and the columns are readable.
Contractors and subs burn days on takeoffs, pricing, and submittals for jobs they may never win. Win or lose, that time is gone. Reveal makes the cost of bidding almost zero — so you can chase every job, and hand the GC a package that's ready to award on the spot.
| Mark | Size | Door | Frame | Rating | Hardware | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 3'-0" x 7'-0" | Alum / Glass | Alum | — | HW-1 Storefront | 98% |
| 101 | 3'-0" x 7'-0" | SC Wood | HM KD | — | HW-2 ND80PD · 4040XP · 5BB1 | 97% |
| 102–108 | 3'-0" x 7'-0" | SC Wood STC-45 | HM KD | — | HW-3 L9080P + SoundSeal | 96% |
| 109 | 3'-0" x 7'-0" | HM Fire-Rated | HM Welded | 90-min | HW-4 99L-F panic + closer | 95% |
| 110 | Pair 6'-0" | SC Wood | HM KD | — | HW-5 Push/pull + K1050 | 88% — flagged |
Every cell is editable. Anything under 95% confidence gets flagged so a human — you — makes the call.
Tap any hardware item to open its submittal cut sheet — the specified function, finish, and options are highlighted exactly the way they appear in the generated PDF.
The full package: cover page → door schedule → frame schedule → hardware groups by opening → one highlighted cut sheet per item. Formatted the way architects expect, because it's how we submit ours.
Tap any document to see a real sample — generated by Reveal from an actual door schedule.
Your letterhead, scope of work, clarifications, exclusions, one bottom-line price, payment terms, and an e-signature block. Send it the same day you walk the job.
VIEW SAMPLE →Door & frame schedules, hardware groups by opening, and manufacturer cut sheets with the specified finish, function, and lever highlighted — the way architects expect them.
VIEW SAMPLE →A full one-year warranty on material and labor, issued with the package instead of chased down at closeout. Manufacturers' warranties pass through on top of it, and it transfers with the property.
VIEW SAMPLE →The approved submittal, turned into the order. Every line traces back to an opening — part number, finish and quantity already correct. Raise or lower any quantity and the line cost and the job total move with it.
| Part number | Description | Qty | Unit | Extended | Lead |
|---|
Exact part numbers, exact finishes, zero re-typing, near-zero returns. Contractor pricing — the same numbers the job was bid on.
Your logo, on every document. Your company at the top of the proposal, the door schedule, the submittal cover and the warranty — ours nowhere near it. The package goes out as yours. Press through the four documents below to see where it sits. Load your logo when you send your plans →
Once the architect stamps the submittal, every part number, finish and quantity on the job has been agreed in writing. Somebody then re-types all of it into an order and gets a count wrong. That step should not exist — so here it does not.
The architect stamps it. Part numbers, functions and finishes are now agreed in writing by everyone who has to sign off.
Nothing to build. The order is the same take-off, priced at your contract pricing, with every line traced back to an opening.
Every quantity is a dropdown. Fix one and the order and the job total move together, before anything is sent anywhere.
To the manufacturer direct or to your own distributor, with the job, the delivery address and the required-on-site date filled in.
Generic estimating software does not know what a door is. It gets these five things wrong, every time.
Guesses the frame off a nominal wall.
A 3-5/8 stud with 5/8 board each side is a 4-7/8 throat. Order it wrong and the frame does not fit the wall.
Takes whatever the schedule column says.
The plan is where the swing actually is. Left hand, right hand, reverse — get it wrong and the door is scrap, not a return.
One line item, one price.
ND80PD storeroom and ND50PD entrance look identical on a schedule and behave nothing alike at the door. The finish matters too — 652 and 626 are not the same part or the same money.
Whatever the first search result says.
A published page quoting $1,350 for a hollow metal frame is retail. That same frame buys at $500. Every line is priced at what the trade pays, checked fresh for the job.
Prices what it does not know.
No wall type, no hand, no spec section — it comes back as a question against the opening number instead of a number you have to defend later.
For the owner
Take-offs, submittals and pricing are the hours that do not show up on any invoice. They happen at night, they happen whether you win the job or not, and they are the reason a door company that wants to grow has to hire before it can bid. Reveal takes that work off the payroll.
The bottleneck on bidding is a person's hours, not the market. Remove the hours and the same office bids everything that crosses the desk — no new estimator, no second salary, no training somebody for six months first.
Right now the take-off knowledge sits with whoever has been doing it longest. When that person is out, on holiday, or leaves, bidding slows to a stop. Here the method is the same every time, and anyone in the office can run it.
An unwon bid used to be a day written off. When a bid costs minutes, you bid everything — and the hit rate takes care of itself on volume.
A wrong hand, a wrong throat, a wrong lever is a door on a truck, a return, a delayed closeout and an unhappy GC. What the drawings do not say comes back as a question instead of a guess.
Your numbers, not ours. A full-time year is taken as 1,800 hours. Reveal is figured at $150 a proposal, twelve months — a job over 150 openings adds $150 for every further 150. You still read the documents and send them — what goes away is the take-off, the typing and the chasing of part numbers.
What it does not do is replace the people who hang doors. It replaces the paperwork in front of the work — the nights, the re-typing, the chasing of part numbers. The crews stay, the field stays, and the office stops being the thing that limits how much of it you can take on.
No monthly fee, no contract, no minimum and nothing to buy in advance. You are charged when you run a job, and not otherwise. Run one this month and forty the next — the price per job does not move.
No card required. Bring a real door schedule from a real project and put Reveal to work. Keep the documents either way.
The rule keeps going as far as the work does — another $150 for every further 150 openings. A four hundred opening hospital is not the same work as a six door suite, and it should not cost the same.
| The job | Openings | Charge |
|---|---|---|
| Retail tenant improvement, Harbor Blvd | 8 | $150 |
| Dental office fit-out | 34 | $150 |
| Elementary school, phase 2 | 96 | $150 |
| Hospital tower, floors 3–6 | 240 | $300 |
| Sixteen more jobs, all under 150 openings | — | $2,400 |
| Twenty proposals out the door | $3,150 |
Twenty chances at work for $3,150, and nineteen of them cost less than a tank of fuel for the truck. One awarded job out of the twenty pays for it many times over.
Your month, your job sizes.
$150 a job · 20 proposals that month
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Five pages, not the whole set. If all you have today is a photo of the door schedule, send that — we will tell you what else we need rather than guess at it.
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