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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.

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/

21/09/2026

The spec said one thing. The drawing said another.

Document conflicts are the most common source of tender ambiguity — and the hardest to catch manually when a pack runs to 400 pages across a dozen drawing sets. Estimators do their best, but sequential review means something always slips through. When it does, it becomes a clarification during tender or a variation during the build, depending on who finds it first.

EchoByld cross-references your full document set and produces a conflict report before the pack goes to tenderers — every contradiction identified, every ambiguity flagged for resolution.

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

17/09/2026

The tender pack was issued. The scope wasn't defined.

Drawings and a specification isn't a tender pack — it's material for building one. The pack that gets priced consistently is the one that tells every tenderer exactly what to include, what to exclude, and where each item is referenced in the documents. Without that structure, you're issuing an open brief and hoping the returns align. They won't.

EchoByld turns your drawings and specification into a structured, itemised tender pack with source references — so tenderers price what you intended, not what they assumed.

Book a Pilot Discussion — https://calendly.com/john-echobyld/30min

21/08/2026

Provisional sums are where projects lose money quietly.

They sit in the BoQ as placeholders — reasonable at tender, rarely revisited until they're instructed. By then, the original assumption has no documentation behind it, the subcontractor has priced something different, and the gap between the two becomes a variation the commercial team has to fight. Most provisional sums expand because the scope behind them was never properly defined in the first place.

EchoByld identifies every provisional sum in your tender documents and traces what the drawings and spec actually say about that scope — so you go into contract knowing what's solid and what's exposed.

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

17/08/2026

The project finished. The margin didn't survive.

Post-contract reviews almost always find the same thing: the overrun was visible in the documents before tender. A scope item described differently across three drawing revisions. A specification clause that contradicted the bill. A provisional sum that grew because the original assumption was never tested against the drawings. The information was there. Nobody had time to find it.

EchoByld gives commercial teams a structured gap report before the price is set — every ambiguous item flagged, every contradiction surfaced, every missing trade identified.

Book a Pilot Discussion — https://calendly.com/john-echobyld/30min

13/08/2026

Margin erosion rarely starts on site. It starts at pricing.

A contractor prices on drawings that don't reflect the latest specification. A subcontractor excludes provisional sums that the main contractor assumed were included. A trade gets missed entirely because it spans two sections of a spec nobody cross-referenced. None of these are negligence — they're what happens when documents are reviewed sequentially rather than together.

EchoByld processes your full document set simultaneously, producing a structured BoQ where every line traces back to its source. The gaps show up before the price goes in, not after it comes out.

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

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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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