It’s not you. The bids genuinely don’t match.
Contractors write bids to describe their own work, in their own order, at their own level of detail. Nobody writes them to be compared. Three bids on one kitchen can share no line items at all.
For homeowners renovating
Three bids. None of them say the same thing.
One is four pages. One is a photo of a legal pad. One arrived as a text message. You are trying to work out which is the better deal, and there is nothing to line up.
RehabRocket puts them in one table, shows you what each one leaves out, and writes the questions to ask.
One project. $99. No subscription — this is not something you’ll forget to cancel.
Whole-house rehab — 1408 Sycamore St3 bids
Questions to ask Vance Remodeling
- Your bid does not mention permits. Are you pulling them, or am I — and is the fee inside your $48,900?
- Who supplies and pays for the dumpsters and debris hauling?
- "Appliances by owner" — does that cover the range hood and the microwave, or just the big four?
| Scope | DelgadoDelgado Construction2questions | VanceVance Remodeling4questions | KowalskiKowalski & Sons1question |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixtures & appliances | $2,400 | excluded | $3,900 |
| Permits & fees | $1,850 | not mentioned | $2,100 |
| Dumpster & haul-away | $1,650 | not mentioned | $1,900 |
Written from your bids, addressed to the contractor who wrote each one. Read them off the screen.
The part people actually use
The questions you didn’t know to ask.
Most people’s real worry isn’t the money. It’s getting on the phone with a contractor and not knowing enough to push back.
Every gap between two bids is a question, and RehabRocket writes them out per contractor — with the numbers in them, so you are not asking vaguely whether something is included.
See real questions on real bidsQuestions from an actual comparison
- Your bid doesn’t mention permits. Are you pulling them, or am I — and is the fee inside your price?
- Who supplies and pays for the dumpsters and debris hauling?
- Is the $2,400 tile line a price or an allowance? What per square foot does it assume?
- Your flooring is $6,800 against another bid’s $11,200. Same square footage, or a different material?
- Are ceilings included in the interior paint, or priced separately?
You’re not being paranoid
Three things worth knowing before you sign anything.
You get the questions, written out.
Not a generic checklist — questions built from what your bids do and don’t say, addressed to the specific contractor who wrote each one. Read them off the screen.
Your contractors never know.
No invitations, no portal, no email to them. They never see RehabRocket. You are working from the bids they already sent you.
“$99 feels like a lot for one renovation.”
Fair. So here is the comparison that matters: one permit line nobody priced runs $800–2,000. A second dumpster is $500–700. A tile allowance set at $4 per square foot when you have already fallen for the $11 tile is $2,800 on an average bathroom and a half.
Any one of those is ten to thirty times the price of finding out about it now instead of in week three.
And it is once. One property, no subscription, nothing recurring.
Free, no account
Don’t have all the bids yet?
Start with these. Both are free, neither asks for anything, and using them before the bids come back makes the bids easier to compare when they do.
What should this bid include?
Pick the trades in your job and see the line items a complete bid covers — plus the ones that quietly go unmentioned.
Open the toolQuestions to ask your contractor
Pick your trades and get a printable list of questions to ask before you sign — payment, permits, allowances, and who is actually on site.
Open the toolQuestions
What homeowners ask.
Is this a subscription?
No. It is $99 once, per property. If you never flip another house, you never pay again.
What can I upload?
PDFs, photos of a paper quote, spreadsheets, or text pasted straight out of an email or a text message. If a contractor gave you the number verbally, paste what they said.
Do my contractors have to be involved?
No. They never see RehabRocket, never get an invite, and never know you used it. You work from the bids they already sent you.
Is my data used to train AI models?
No. Your bids are sent to Anthropic’s API to be read and are not used to train models. They are not sold, and they are not pooled into a dataset.
Does this replace getting a professional opinion?
No. It replaces the spreadsheet you were about to build at 11pm. Structural questions, code questions, and anything an inspector should look at still need a person.
Will it tell me what my renovation should cost?
No. It reads the bids you already have. It is not an estimator, and it does not produce a number you can take to a contractor.
Read the bids properly before you sign one.
The demo is three real bids, already loaded. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.