Reveal Doors was built by somebody who has spent his working life in front of commercial openings — hanging them, hardware-ing them, and losing evenings to the paperwork in front of them.
"Twenty years hanging doors, and the part that cost me my nights was never the doors. It was the take-off, the submittal and the pricing. I built this because nobody was going to build it for us."
Every commercial door job runs the same way. You win the walk, the drawings land, and then an evening disappears into a take-off that pays nothing at all if the job goes to somebody else. Then the submittal. Then chasing the cut sheets. Then the warranty letter the GC asks for at closeout that nobody has ready.
None of that work shows up on an invoice. It happens at night, it happens whether you win or lose, and it is the reason a door company that wants to grow has to hire before it can bid. That is the work Reveal does.
Generic estimating software does not know what a door is. It takes the throat off a nominal wall instead of the stud plus every board layer. It takes handing off a schedule column instead of off the floor plan, where the swing actually is. It treats a lock as a lock, when an ND80PD storeroom and an ND50PD entrance look identical on a schedule and behave nothing alike at the opening.
And it prices off whatever retail page turns up first. A published page quoting $1,350 for a hollow metal frame is retail — the trade does not pay that. Reveal prices every line off the manufacturers' current books at the rate a contractor actually buys at.
Then there is what the drawings do not say. No wall type, no hand, no spec section — generic software fills the gap with an average. Reveal comes back with a question against the opening number instead of a number you have to defend later.
The rules that get a package rejected are the ones only somebody who has stood in front of the opening knows. They are in here. And every number and every spec is still yours to override.
The fastest way to find out whether this works on your drawings is to put a real job through it. The first one is free, and you keep the documents either way.