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1. Acceptance of these terms

These terms are an agreement between BlueLine Ventures LLC ("BarryBids", "we", "us") and the company that opens an account ("you", "your shop"). They apply from the moment an account is created or the service is used, whichever happens first.

The agreement is with the company, not with the individual who signed up. Whoever creates the account confirms they are authorised to accept these terms on the company's behalf, and the company is responsible for everything done under its account by anyone it gives access to.

If you do not accept these terms, do not use the service. Continuing to use it after a change to these terms means accepting the changed version. See section 19 for how changes are notified.

2. What the service is

BarryBids is estimating software for the sign trade. It takes a description of a job and produces a priced worksheet using rates, margins, time tables and vendor pricing that each shop configures for itself. It also provides supporting tools: a preliminary sign structure calculator, an electrical load calculator, sign code research, an installation complexity score, and estimate history.

We provide the software. We do not provide estimating services, engineering services, code consulting, or any professional advice, and we are not acting as your engineer, your consultant, or your agent.

The service is offered as-is and evolves. Features may be added, changed or withdrawn. We will not remove something a paying shop materially depends on without reasonable notice, but we do not promise that any particular feature will exist forever.

We are not a party to any contract between your shop and its customers. Nothing produced by the service is an offer, a quote, or a commitment by us to anyone.

3. Accounts and access

Accounts belong to a company, and users belong to that company. A user only sees the estimates, rates and settings belonging to their own company; company data is isolated at the database level.

The first user to sign up for a company becomes its administrator. Administrators can add users, remove users, change roles, and reset passwords. Because they can do all of that, the shop should be deliberate about who holds that role.

You are responsible for keeping credentials secure, for the actions of everyone you give access to, and for removing people promptly when they leave. There is currently no password-reset-by-email in the product: an administrator sets passwords directly and passes them on. Tell us at once if you believe an account has been accessed by someone who should not have it.

Accounts are for your shop's own use. Do not share a single login between people who should have their own, and do not give access to a competitor, a reseller, or anyone evaluating the software on someone else's behalf without telling us.

4. Estimates are yours, and they are estimates

The numbers BarryBids produces are a starting point assembled from the rates, margins, time tables and vendor pricing you entered. They are not quotes, not offers, not professional pricing advice, and not priced by us. What you send a customer, and what you stand behind, is your decision and your responsibility alone.

An estimate is only ever as good as the numbers behind it. Rates, margins, parts pricing, subcontract pricing and time tables are all shop-configurable, and keeping them current is your shop's job. If your labour rate is two years old, every estimate built on it will be wrong, and it will be wrong in a way the software cannot detect.

We do not warrant that any estimate is accurate, complete, competitive, or profitable. We accept no responsibility for a job priced too low, a job priced too high, a bid that was lost, a bid that was won at a loss, a margin that did not hold, or any cost that was not anticipated. Pricing risk sits with the shop that sends the price.

Some inputs are read automatically, from attachments you upload, from the text of a description, or from previous estimates. Automatic reading is convenient and it is not authoritative. Check it.

5. Everything here needs a person to check it

This is the most important clause on the page, so it has its own section.

Every output of BarryBids is a draft for a competent person to review before it is used, sent, relied on, or built. That covers the priced worksheet, the line items, the quantities, the structure calculation, the electrical load, the sign code research, the complexity score, the suggested equipment, the nearest-member lookup, and anything read out of an uploaded file.

The software does not know your site. It has not walked the job, it cannot see what is already in the ground, it does not know that the access road is closed or that this customer always adds scope after award. It works from what it was given.

By using the service you accept that you will apply your own trade judgement to its output before acting on it, and that a qualified person in your shop is accountable for anything that goes out under your name. If an output looks wrong, it is wrong until you have satisfied yourself otherwise. Do not send an estimate you have not read.

We are not responsible for losses arising from output that was used without review.

6. The sign structure calculator

The structure calculator produces preliminary sizing only: wind pressure, an indicative pole section, and an indicative drilled-pier footing, worked to published ASCE 7 and IBC methods, together with an elevation drawing of that result.

It is not an engineered design and it must not be used as the basis for construction. It is not sealed by a professional engineer. It does not account for site-specific soil data, dead loads, ice or snow loads, seismic demand, connection or base-plate design, anchor bolts, reinforcing steel, foundation-to-pole transfer, fatigue, local code amendments, or anything else outside the narrow calculation described on the page.

The drawing is an illustration of the calculated dimensions. It is not a shop drawing, not a permit drawing, and not a construction document, whatever it may resemble.

Anything that gets built must be designed or reviewed and sealed by a professional engineer licensed in the jurisdiction where it is installed. Using these figures for fabrication, permitting or erection without that review is done entirely at your own risk, and you accept full responsibility for doing so.

The same applies to the electrical load calculator: it is a preliminary sizing aid, not an electrical design, and the installation must be designed and performed by a licensed electrician to the code in force where it is installed.

7. Sign code and permit research

The sign code search reads publicly available sources and reports what it found, with links to the pages it used. It is a research aid that saves you the first hour of looking.

It is not a code determination, not legal advice, and not permission to build anything. Municipal sign codes are amended constantly, overlays and special districts change the answer, and the only answer that counts is the one from the authority having jurisdiction. Confirm with the AHJ before you submit, price, fabricate or install.

Research may be incomplete, may cite a superseded version of an ordinance, may identify the wrong jurisdiction for an address, or may miss a requirement entirely. Where it says it could not find or confirm something, take that at face value and go and find out. We do not warrant the accuracy or currency of any code information, and we are not responsible for a permit refused, a sign ordered down, a variance required, a fine levied, or a schedule lost.

8. Complexity scoring and other guidance

The installation complexity score, the risk factors behind it, the suggested equipment, and any contingency markup applied from it are planning aids, not a safety assessment and not a method statement.

A low score does not mean a job is safe. The score reflects only the factors ticked on the estimate, some of which are guessed from the words in a description, and it knows nothing about the site beyond that. Job hazard analysis, competent-person assessment, minimum approach distances to energised conductors, fall protection, traffic control, lift planning and every other safety obligation remain entirely yours and are governed by law and regulation, not by this software.

Any markup percentage applied from a complexity score is a number your shop configured. It is your commercial decision, applied to your estimate, and we make no representation that it is adequate to cover the risk of any particular job.

The nearest-member lookup and any other convenience feature that identifies a third party is informational. We do not endorse, vet, or take responsibility for any third party surfaced by the software, and any dealings you have with them are between you and them.

9. Automated and AI-generated output

Parts of the service use automated systems, including large language models, to interpret what you write, read uploaded documents, and generate estimates and research. You should understand what that means in practice.

• Output is generated, not retrieved from a verified database. It can be wrong, incomplete, or confidently wrong, and being confidently wrong is the failure mode that costs money.
• The same input may produce different output on different runs.
• Figures read out of an uploaded drawing, quote or spreadsheet may be misread. A transposed dimension or a missed line item will not announce itself.
• Content you submit may be sent to third-party model providers to produce a response. Do not submit anything you are not permitted to disclose to a processor outside your shop.

Everything in section 5 applies with particular force here: automated output is a draft for review, every time.

10. Your data

Estimates, rates, parts, vendors, customer details and everything else your shop enters remain your shop's data. We claim no ownership of it. Each company's data is isolated from every other company's at the database level.

We use your data to run the service for you: to produce estimates, to keep your history, to support you when you ask, and to keep the service secure and working. We do not sell it, and we do not share it with other shops.

We may use aggregated, de-identified information about how the service is used to improve it. Nothing published or shared in that form identifies your shop, your customers, or your pricing.

The service runs on third-party infrastructure providers who process data on our behalf, currently including our hosting, database and AI model providers. named sub-processor list

You can export your own data at any time while the account is active. On cancellation we keep it for retention period so an account can be reinstated, then delete it. You can ask for deletion sooner by writing to us, and we will action it within deletion turnaround, subject to anything we are required to keep by law.

We take reasonable measures to protect your data, but no service can promise perfect security, and we do not.

11. Privacy

We collect: the name, email address and shop details given at signup or on the launch list; the content you enter into the product; and basic technical records such as sign-in times and error logs needed to operate and secure the service.

We use those to provide the service, to contact you about it, and to send launch and product news you have asked for. You can unsubscribe from news at any time; we will still send messages necessary to operate the account, such as security notices.

We do not sell personal information. We share it only with the infrastructure providers described in section 10, and where we are legally required to.

To ask what we hold, to correct it, or to have it deleted, write to [email protected].

12. Acceptable use

Use the service for your own sign business. Do not:

• share a login between people who should each have their own, or let anyone outside your company use your account;
• resell, sublicense, or provide the service to third parties as a service of your own;
• scrape, bulk-export, or systematically extract the reference data, time tables or other content we provide, or use it to build a competing product;
• reverse engineer the software, or attempt to access another company's data;
• submit content you have no right to submit, or anything unlawful;
• place automated load on the service beyond ordinary use, or work around limits we apply.

Some features cost us real money per use. The sign code search in particular runs live research on request. We may apply fair-use limits to those, and we will tell you if we do.

We may suspend an account that is causing harm to the service or to other users, and will restore it as soon as the cause is resolved.

13. Subscriptions and billing

Subscriptions are not open yet / priced as follows. Fees, the billing period, and what is included at each tier are as published at the time you subscribe.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless cancelled before renewal. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not refund the period already paid for, and access continues to the end of that period. Fees are refund policy.

Prices are exclusive of tax unless stated otherwise, and you are responsible for any sales or use tax due. If a payment fails we will retry and contact you; if it stays unpaid we may suspend access after grace period.

We may change prices on notice period notice. A price change never applies to a period you have already paid for.

14. Copyright and intellectual property

Copyright © 2026 BlueLine Ventures LLC. All rights reserved. BarryBids and everything it is made of is an original work, protected by copyright from the moment it was written. Nothing on this page grants you ownership of any of it.

What we own. Without limiting the general statement above, the following are ours and stay ours:

• the software: every page, script, stylesheet and module of the BarryBids application and this website, in source and in compiled or minified form;
• the interface: the layout, the visual design, the icons and the way the product is arranged and navigated;
• the writing: every word of on-screen text, including the field labels, the explanatory notes, the warnings, the standard disclaimers and waivers, and this document;
• Barry: the character, his name, his likeness and everything written in his voice;
• the instructions we give our automated estimating systems, including the prompts, rules and worked examples that decide how a job is priced;
• the reference data we supply and the way it is organised: the manufacturing time tables, the tactic libraries, the complexity scoring model and its factors, the default settings, and the selection, structure and arrangement of all of it;
• the BarryBids name, logo and marks, which are trademarks whether or not they are registered.

What your subscription gives you. A personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the service for your own sign business while your subscription is active. It is a right to use, not a sale, and no other right is granted by implication or otherwise. Any right not expressly granted here is reserved.

What you may not do. Except where the law says otherwise regardless of what this agreement says, you may not: copy, reproduce, republish or redistribute any part of the service; create a derivative or competing product from it; sell, sub-licence, rent or share your access; reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software; strip or obscure any copyright, trademark or ownership notice; or extract our reference data in bulk, whether by scraping, automated collection or systematic manual copying, for any purpose other than running your own estimates inside the product.

What is yours. Everything your shop enters stays yours: your rates, your tactics, your crews, your parts, your customers, your jobs, and the estimates, quotes and documents produced from them. You may use those outputs freely in your business, including sending them to your customers, with no further permission from us and no royalty. Where one of our standard disclaimers or waivers is printed on a document you produce, you may pass that document on with the wording intact; that permission does not extend to lifting the wording for use anywhere else.

Feedback. If you send us feedback or a feature suggestion, we may use it to improve the product without owing you anything for it. We are not obliged to act on it, and you keep the right to use your own idea however you like.

If you think we have infringed yours. Send a notice to the address in section 21 identifying the work, where it appears in our product, and how to reach you. We will look at it and remove or replace anything we should not be using.

What copyright does not cover. Said plainly, because a claim that overreaches is worth less than one that does not: we claim no ownership of the engineering and code standards the product applies, of arithmetic, of the facts of your business, or of the idea of estimating sign work with software. ASCE 7, the International Building Code, AISC 360 and every other published standard belong to their own publishers. What is ours is the particular expression: our code, our words, our design, and our selection and arrangement of the data we ship.

15. Warranties and disclaimers

The service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement.

In particular, and without limiting the above, we do not warrant:

• that any estimate, price, quantity or margin produced by the service is accurate, complete, competitive, or profitable;
• that any structural, electrical, code or permit output is correct, current, or fit to build or submit from;
• that any complexity score, risk factor or contingency is adequate for the job it describes;
• that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at any particular time;
• that defects will be corrected, or that any output will meet your requirements.

No advice or information obtained from us or through the service creates any warranty not expressly stated here.

16. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost business, lost savings, loss of goodwill, loss of data, cost of substitute services, or any loss arising from:

• a bid that was too low, too high, lost, or won unprofitably;
• reliance on any estimate, calculation, drawing, code research, complexity score or other output without the review described in section 5;
• anything designed, fabricated, permitted, installed or removed on the basis of output from the service;
• work stopped, rejected, re-done or removed by an authority having jurisdiction;
• interruption of, or loss of access to, the service.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these terms or the service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, is limited to the amounts you actually paid us in the liability window, e.g. 12 months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim. If you have paid us nothing, our total liability is cap where no fees paid.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

You acknowledge that the fees reflect this allocation of risk, and that we would not provide the service on these terms without it.

17. Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify and hold us harmless against any claim, demand, loss, liability, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) brought by a third party, including your own customers, a property owner, a contractor, an authority having jurisdiction, or an injured person: arising out of:

• estimates, prices or documents you issued, whether or not they were produced with the service;
• signs or structures designed, fabricated, installed, serviced or removed by you or on your behalf;
• your use of any structural, electrical, code or complexity output without the professional review required by sections 5 to 8;
• your breach of these terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

We will tell you promptly about any claim we want covered, and you may control the defence provided you do not settle anything that admits fault on our part or imposes obligations on us without our agreement.

18. Termination

You can stop using the service and cancel at any time from your account or by writing to us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.

We may suspend or terminate an account for material breach of these terms, for non-payment, or where continued use would break the law or endanger the service. Except where the breach is serious or unlawful, we will describe the problem and give a reasonable chance to fix it first.

On termination your right to use the service ends. Your data is handled as described in section 10: export it before you go, and ask us if you need help doing so.

Sections 4 to 9 (the disclaimers on output), 10 (your data), 14 (intellectual property), 15 (warranties), 16 (liability), 17 (indemnity), 20 (governing law) and this sentence survive termination.

19. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product changes. The date at the top of this page always shows when the current version took effect.

Updating this page is the notice for minor changes such as clarifications, typos or a renamed feature. For changes that materially reduce your rights or increase your obligations, we will tell account administrators by email at least notice period before they take effect.

Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means accepting the new version. If you do not accept it, cancel before it takes effect.

20. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of state: Texas expected, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The courts located in county and state have exclusive jurisdiction, and both parties consent to venue there.

If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.

These terms, together with anything expressly incorporated into them, are the entire agreement between us about the service, and replace any earlier understanding on the same subject.

21. Contact

Questions about these terms, requests about your data, or notices under this agreement:

BlueLine Ventures LLC
postal address
[email protected]