BoardBid is the pricing protocol for the corrugated industry. Natural-language quote requests become structured, priced, trackable offers in under a second — through a web app, a mobile client, or directly through our versioned API.
BoardBid was built API-first from day one. Every quote — whether it comes from Noah in a sheet plant, a buyer at a Fortune 500, or a partner's integration — flows through the same versioned pricing layer.
Quote in a sentence. Win more jobs with less back-office. Replace your spreadsheet without replacing your workflow.
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LiveThe same API the web app uses. Parse quotes, price quotes, log everything. Versioned, documented, stable.
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Type or paste a request the way a sales rep already talks. Industry shorthand. Informal phrasing. Fractions. Customer aliases. The AI handles it.
// POST /v1/parse-quote { "text": "RSC 15x10x5 32ECT" " 871 qty for QEP" }
Every field typed. Every value validated. Confidence score. Full trace. If the AI wasn't sure about something, it says so.
{
"parse": {
"type": "RSC",
"length": 15,
"width": 10,
"depth": 5,
"ect": 32,
"quantity": 871,
"customer": "QEP"
},
"confidence": 0.98,
"request_id": "req_lxyz_abc"
}
Feed the parsed quote into the pricing engine. Track every quote with full margin and win-rate reporting. Eventually: route a single buyer request to every qualified plant for competitive bids.
// POST /v1/price-quote { "price_per_piece": 0.47, "total_price": 409.37, "breakdown": { /* ... */ }, "margin_pct": 24.8 }
A quote from a sheet plant typically takes 4–48 hours. The math is done in Excel. The follow-up happens by email. Every plant maintains its own version of the same pricing logic, and every buyer calls three plants to get comparable bids.
This is the last major industry without pricing infrastructure. Clarico and Kiwi Plan sold estimator software to individual plants — useful, but per-seat. BoardBid is the protocol layer above the estimator: one versioned API any plant, buyer, or partner can call, with consistent structured output, full observability, and a marketplace that connects supply to demand in under a minute.
BoardBid is the pricing infrastructure layer for the corrugated packaging industry. It turns natural-language quote requests into structured, priced, trackable offers through a versioned public API. Sheet plants use it to quote faster; buyers use it to get competitive quotes in minutes; developers build on it to integrate corrugated pricing into their own systems.
Those products are estimator software — useful desktop tools for individual sheet plant estimators. BoardBid is API-first infrastructure. The web app is one client; partners, buyers, and other software can all call the same pricing endpoints. This turns pricing from a per-seat tool into a shared protocol. We interoperate with existing estimators rather than replacing them.
The parser accepts any input — industry shorthand like "RSC 15x10x5 32ECT 871 qty for QEP" or natural language like "need a thousand double-wall shippers about a foot square for Henderson." Claude Sonnet 4.5 extracts structured quote fields. A regex validator independently verifies high-precision fields (dimensions, ECT, quantity). Every parse is logged with full trace, confidence score, and latency — logged data becomes the training signal for continuous improvement.
Yes. Authentication uses Bearer tokens with rotatable keys. Database row-level security isolates every tenant's data. All infrastructure runs on Supabase, which is SOC 2 Type II certified. See /security for the full security posture including data retention, authentication model, and compliance roadmap.
Yes. The API is HTTP/JSON and any system that can make web requests can integrate. The parse-quote endpoint normalizes free-text requests; the price-quote endpoint (beta) returns priced offers. Full reference at /docs.
Free tier to start quoting — no credit card required. Paid plans for volume, team features, and marketplace access. See /pricing.
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