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Your Subs Bid
What They Want.
You Pay for the Rest.

Sub scope gaps don't show up at bid time. They show up three months into the job as change order disputes — after you've already signed the contract that holds you responsible for everything. Vernier Mode F eliminates that exposure before you award a single subcontract.

$1.1M
Annual sub scope gap exposure for a typical $12M GC — before Mode F
−73%
Reduction in gap exposure in Case Study 3 after deploying Mode F
+41pts
Win rate improvement on VE-heavy design-build bids after Mode E
Mode F Pays for Itself
on One Sub Package
Run the math. How much did your last scope gap dispute cost you? That's your payback on the first run.
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What We See in GC Businesses

Good at Building.
Exposed in the Office.

GCs typically have the strongest field execution and the weakest estimating documentation in commercial construction. The four problems below explain why margin built in the field gets lost in the office.

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Sub leveling by gut feel, not by scope analysis
Most GCs compare sub bids by total number. That's not leveling — that's ranking. Real leveling normalizes each bid to a common scope baseline and quantifies what's missing from every number below the high bid. The low sub isn't always the cheapest when you price the gaps.
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VE requests you can't analyze in the time you have
Owner asks for a $120K VE package by Thursday. Your PM spends two days pulling numbers together that might be right. Vernier Mode E generates a formal VE analysis with delta costs, risk assessments, and owner-facing justification language in about two hours — with documentation you can stand behind.
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Coordination conflicts discovered mid-job, not pre-bid
Structural steel conflicts with ductwork. Sprinkler heads conflict with light fixtures. Every one of these discovered during construction is a change order dispute, a schedule delay, or a margin hit absorbed to protect the relationship. Mode D catches coordination conflicts before your bid goes out.
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Design-build scope defined verbally, not in writing
Design-build GCs are constantly pricing from incomplete documents and owner narratives. Without a formal scope letter that documents every assumption, every ambiguity gets resolved against you. The contractor who generates the first written scope document in a design-build conversation controls the scope definition.
Vernier for General Contractors

Three Modes That
Pay for Themselves.

F
Primary Mode · Sub Leveling — The GC Killer App
Formal bid leveling with scope gap analysis and award recommendation
Upload your competing sub bids. Vernier normalizes them to a common scope baseline, identifies scope gaps and exposure flags in each bid, and returns a documented award recommendation with written rationale. A $297K scope gap exposure finding on one electrical package pays for a year of Vernier.
E
Primary Mode · VE Analysis
VE exhibits that win design-build and public bids
Mode E generates a formal VE analysis with delta costs for each opportunity and owner-facing justification language that you can submit as a professional exhibit with your bid. GCs who submit formal VE analysis with their proposals see 3–4x higher win rates on VE-heavy public and design-build projects.
D
Primary Mode · Plan Review
Catch coordination conflicts and code issues before the bid
Mode D reviews uploaded drawings for trade coordination conflicts, code compliance issues, and RFI candidates — before you submit your bid and before your subs start calling with problems. Each RFI caught pre-bid is a potential change order dispute avoided during construction.
A
Supporting Mode · Self-Perform Scope
Full bid packages for scope you self-perform
For GCs who self-perform concrete, framing, or sitework — Mode A generates a full tiered proposal for your direct scope with the same quality as your specialty sub bids.
Sub scope gap exposure — actual GC data
$1.1M → $297K
A $14M commercial GC was absorbing $1.1 million per year in sub scope gap exposure — scope that was in their contract but not in their subs' bids, recovered through change order disputes or absorbed as margin erosion.

After deploying Vernier Mode F on every sub package over $50K, gap exposure dropped to $297K — a 73% reduction in one year. That's $803K in annual value recovered.
Case Study · Commercial GC · Western WA · Both Products
"We were good at construction and bad at running a construction business. That's a pretty common combination. Vernier fixed how we bid — the proposals are better, the sub leveling is documented, the VE is formal. The consulting fixed how we run."
M. Calloway · Principal · Commercial GC · Western Washington
GP improved from 16% to 22% · VE win rate from 21% to 62% · Sub gap exposure −73%
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GC Benchmarks · Before and After Vernier

The Numbers from Case Study 3.

Gross profit margin — before
16%
Starting GP margin
Gross profit margin — after
22%
18 months with Vernier + consulting
VE bid win rate — before
21%
Without formal VE analysis
VE bid win rate — after
62%
With Mode E VE exhibits on every VE bid

The Scope Gap Happened Before You Signed the Contract.

Every sub scope gap that costs you money in the field was visible at the bid stage if someone had looked for it. Vernier Mode F looks for it — on every package, every time, in two hours.

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