Turn your BuildingConnected Bid Board into an API

What you can build on BuildingConnected

• Get bids on the Bid Board

  Build this

  Reads the Bid Board for the bids in one status, such as Undecided or Accepted, with each bid's general contractor, due date, location and assignee.

  Takes

  Status (optional), due after (optional)

  Returns

  Bid name, general contractor, due date, location, trade, status, assigned to

• Get one bid's details and file list

  Build this

  Opens a bid and reads its Overview tab, the project details, due date and general contractor contact, then the names of the documents on its Files tab.

  Takes

  Bid name or link

  Returns

  Bid name, general contractor, contact, due date, location, project size, market sector, file names

• Check outcomes of submitted bids

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  Reads the Bid Board for bids in Submitted, Won, Lost or Other status, so you see which proposals were awarded and which are still open.

  Takes

  Status (optional), due since (optional)

  Returns

  Bid name, general contractor, due date, status, Other reason

• Accept or decline a bid invitation

  Build this

  Opens an Undecided bid and accepts it, with an optional Priority, or declines it, which moves it to the Archived folder.

  Takes

  Bid name or link, accept or decline, priority (optional)

  Returns

  Bid name, new status, general contractor, due date

Automate BuildingConnected with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• New invitations to bid, every morning

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:00

  Step 1

  Get the bids on the Bid Board with status Undecided.

  Step 2

  Keep the bids that were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you each one with its general contractor, due date, location and trade.

• Due dates that moved on accepted bids

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 12:00

  Step 1

  Get the bids on the Bid Board with status Accepted.

  Step 2

  Keep the bids whose due date changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Post each one, with its old and new due date, to your Slack or estimating system webhook.

• Weekly won and lost report

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  Check the outcomes of bids due in the last 7 days with status Submitted, Won or Lost.

  Step 2

  Keep the bids whose status changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Group them by general contractor with an AI step and email you the report.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get bids on the Bid Board” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "app.buildingconnected.com/get_bids",
    "input": {
      "status": "Undecided",
      "due_after": "2026-11-12"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "status": "Undecided",
    "bids": [
      {
        "name": "Northwind Distribution Center, Phase 2",
        "general_contractor": "Acme Builders",
        "due_date": "2026-11-20T14:00:00-06:00",
        "location": "Dallas, TX",
        "trade": "Electrical",
        "status": "Undecided",
        "assigned_to": null
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

BuildingConnected’s own options

Autodesk offers a BuildingConnected API on Autodesk Platform Services that covers opportunities, bids, invites, projects, bid packages, bid forms and contacts. It is for offices with a paid BuildingConnected Pro or Bid Board Pro subscription, and webhooks are available to the same plans. Other users work on the Bid Board in the browser.

Read on November 12, 2026: BuildingConnected API joins the APS family, How to integrate Bid Board with your CRM, BuildingConnected release notes.

Signing in to BuildingConnected

BuildingConnected signs you in with an Autodesk ID linked to your account, and the Autodesk ID uses two-factor authentication. Companies on BC Pro can add Autodesk SSO with their own single sign-on application. With Fous you sign in once through BuildingConnected's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, and code and AI agents never see it.

Worth knowing

Declining a bid archives it

A declined bid moves to the Archived folder. Bids you logged outside BuildingConnected can only be set to Undecided, Accepted or Declined.

Due dates change after you accept

The general contractor can move a bid's due date. Bid Board Pro updates the date in your calendar when that happens, so a check of due dates is worth running every day.

API access belongs to the office

Subscriptions are assigned per office, not per user. A user in an office without one can call only the users endpoint. New and renewed subscriptions are managed in Autodesk Forma.

Download All stops at 4.5 GB

Download All on the Files tab saves a bid's files as one zip, up to 4.5 GB at a time. Larger sets have to be downloaded in smaller batches.

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