# Struvia **Type:** venture **Status:** Draft **Confidence:** Low **Tier:** F **Focus:** AI construction takeoff, estimating, subcontractor bid solicitation and leveling **Domain:** materials-mfg, computing **Primary Location:** Utah County, UT **Utah Location:** Utah County, UT **Region:** Utah County **Website:** https://struvia.co/ **Ownership:** founder-led private **Updated:** 2026-08-12 **Needs-reviewed:** 2026-08-12 ## Summary Struvia builds AI estimating and bid-management software for general contractors: upload a set of plans, and the system produces a takeoff and an itemized estimate, then solicits and levels subcontractor bids against it. The pitch is cycle time — **two days from plans to bids** rather than two weeks ([official website](struvia-official-website.md)). **This company was previously named Bidi Contracting, and this page was previously filed under that name.** The old domain `bidicontracting.com` now redirects to `struvia.co`, and Struvia's own blog still bylines its CEO as "Co-founder, Bidi Contracting" — which is what establishes the two names as one company rather than two entries. The distinguishing technical claim is that estimates are calibrated to **a contractor's own subcontractors' bid history** instead of a national cost database. That is a real design difference from conventional takeoff software, and it is also the claim with the least evidence behind it. ## Impact Estimating and subcontractor outreach are the coordination bottleneck for small and midsize general contractors, and Struvia's bet is that automating both together lets a contractor bid more jobs with the same staff. The product is live, actively developed, and specific about what it does, which is more than can be said for most software at this stage. **What is not established is any of it.** Every figure the company publishes — 10,000+ contractors in its network, $20,000 average savings per project, "trusted by industry leaders nationwide" — is an unattributed vendor claim with no named customer, no method, and no date. No funding record, corporate registration, third-party review, or customer reference has been located. A trade blog covered the product in July 2026, but in a register close enough to the company's own marketing that it does not function as independent verification. So: a working product from identifiable founders, and essentially no external evidence about whether it works at the scale claimed. **Confidence on this page is Low, and it should stay there until an independent record turns up.** ## Utah Context Struvia's own site places its CEO in **Utah County** and identifies both founders as BYU graduates — Baylor Jeppsen (CEO, Information Systems) and Weston Burnett (CTO, Finance). The company publishes contractor directories for Utah markets. Its Utah significance is as a **BYU-originated software company aimed at the construction industry**, which is a pairing the state has more of than most: Utah has both a large residential and commercial construction sector and a university pipeline producing software founders, and Struvia sits at the join. The founders' stated route in — the university's Sandbox entrepreneurship program, per the company's own public author page — is the same route several other entries in this corpus took. The location is the company's own claim about itself. **No corporate registration confirming a Utah domicile has been located**, so whether Utah County is the legal headquarters or the founders' base remains open. ## What They Need Now No public hiring page was located. The company solicits general contractors and subcontractors to join its bidding network, which is the participation it asks for. What it most needs from this wiki's perspective is **anything checkable**: a named customer, a registration, a funding record, or a third party willing to say the estimates hold up. The product claims are strong and the evidence base is entirely self-supplied. ## Open Questions - **Is there any independent public record of this company?** None was located — no SEC filing under either name, no corporate registration, no funding announcement, no named customer, no substantive press. This is the question that governs the page's Confidence. - **When and why did Bidi Contracting become Struvia**, and did anything change besides the name? The redirect and the stale byline establish that it happened; nothing located says when. - **Are the "10,000+ contractors" real users or a directory?** The distinction is the whole difference between a network and a scraped list, and the site does not draw it. - **How is "$20,000 average savings" computed, across how many projects?** No method is given. - **How much of an estimate is generated automatically and how much needs human review?** The company claims automation across all major trades; nothing establishes the accuracy in practice. - **Is Utah County the legal headquarters or the founders' current base?** - **Beware the name collision:** at least one unrelated venture also used the name "Bidi" in the same period and market-adjacent space. Anything attributed to "Bidi" should be checked against the construction product specifically before being added here. ## Evidence - [Source: Struvia official website](struvia-official-website.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/struvia-official-website.md · https://struvia.co/ — product scope, the two-day claim, the network and savings figures, founder identities, and the Bidi Contracting byline that ties the two names together ## See Also - [Brigham Young University — Rollins Center](brigham-young-university-byu-rollins-center.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/brigham-young-university-byu-rollins-center.md — the BYU entrepreneurship program the founders came through