We built Gradian because good opportunities shouldn’t be lost to the clock.
I’ve watched capable contractors walk away from projects they could have won. Not because they lacked the expertise, resources, or ambition, but because they simply ran out of time to bid.
That’s a problem worth solving.
We built Gradian to change the equation. By turning time-consuming preliminary design work into a faster, more efficient process, Gradian helps contractors develop competitive, technically grounded bids in a fraction of the time.
More bids. More opportunities. More chances to win.
Because the deadline should never be the reason you lose a job you could have won.
Ready to put one of your own bids to the test?
Gradian is how the deadline
stops deciding for you.
Upload your bid package, including boring logs, drawings, and specifications, directly to Gradian. Individual tasks that once took days now take hours, and your bid design comes back in 1 to 2 days.
Gradian transforms your project data into preliminary bid designs for aggregate piers and other specialty geostructural systems.
Built on Dr. Ed Garbin’s decades of geotechnical expertise and proven design methodologies, Gradian gives you the speed to pursue more opportunities and the technical foundation to bid with confidence.
More bids. Less time. More opportunities to win.
See below the ground before you price the job.
Your bid documents. One place. Upload your boring logs, drawings, specifications, and supporting files directly to Gradian. PDF, Word, Excel, images, and raw CPT files.
Gradian checks your submissions and identifies what’s missing, so you can spend less time chasing documents and more time preparing your bid.
Turn subsurface data into actionable intelligence. Gradian brings your site’s borings and soil layers together into a unified subsurface model, incorporating regional geotechnical conditions.
Understand what’s beneath the site before you commit to what’s above it.
Your project. A whole new perspective. Explore your site’s subsurface conditions in 3D. Compare borings, visualize soil layers, and identify variations across the project area.
Get a clearer picture of the ground without spending hours manually drawing sections or reentering data.
Set it up once. Bid smarter every time. Save your rigs, tooling, equipment, and crew configurations in Gradian. Reuse them across future projects instead of rebuilding the same information with every bid.
Less repetitive work. More time to compete and win.
From a week of work to a matter of hours.
Every day spent preparing a preliminary design is another day off the bid clock.
Traditionally, developing a preliminary foundation design meant manually reviewing boring logs, interpreting soil conditions, building subsurface models, counting foundations, evaluating design alternatives, and preparing quantities for pricing. It was a labor-intensive process that can take a week or longer, especially on complex projects.
Gradian changes the timeline.
Using the same project drawings, boring logs, and specifications, Gradian automates much of that preliminary work, producing soil models, foundation takeoffs, and preliminary designs in hours instead of days.
Backed with engineering expertise from Garbin GeoStructural Group, contractors can move from project documents to actionable bid information faster, with documented assumptions and greater confidence in their numbers.
Drag the slider to compare. Same drawings, logs, and specs; same expert analyses.
Foundation Takeoff · Soil Model · Iterative Bid Design · Pricing & Scheduling Estimation · about a week
All in hours · Engineer reviewed · Verified · 1 to 2 days
Same engineering principles. A fraction of the time.
More opportunities to compete and win.
Questions your team is probably asking.
Gradian turns your bid documents into a preliminary design: a structured soil model of the site, the takeoff from your structural drawings, and a preliminary bid design for aggregate piers and other specialty geostructural systems, built on Dr. Garbin’s proven methodology and reviewed by Garbin GeoStructural Group’s engineers. The portal tracks what has been received and what is still needed, so nothing delays your bid.
Gradian does the first pass. Experienced geostructural engineers at Garbin GeoStructural Group review every design before it reaches you. Now you can bid with confidence.
No. Gradian aligns with the bid workflow you already run. You upload your documents and Gradian does the rest.
Every model is built on the methodology of Dr. Garbin, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, developed over a 40-year career in construction and engineering. Gradian has been rigorously tested against thousands of real data points, and the firm’s experienced engineers review every output.
Yes. Your logs and project data stay private to your firm.
We always begin with listening. We’d like to hear about a job you’re bidding, and then we can run your real data through Gradian and show you what comes back.
See what Gradian can do with your next bid.
Every project is different. That’s why we’d rather show you what Gradian can do with your actual project data than give you another software presentation.
Tell us about a project you’re bidding. We’ll walk you through how Gradian can streamline the preliminary design process, reduce turnaround time, and help you pursue more opportunities.
Your project. Your data. Real results.
The next opportunity is already on its way.
Will you be ready?
Stop letting preliminary design timelines determine which projects you can pursue.