Get started with CrestBid AI.
Contact us and within 48 hours we'll have CrestBid running correctly in your environment — including for an evaluation. Getting it right on your hardware, with your own documents, takes one short coordination call, and we'd rather use your time once, and well.
From contact to a working system, in four steps.
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Talk to us
Tell us about your bid team and the machine you'd like to run CrestBid on. There is no sign-up — for the evaluation or for a paid licence, the process starts the same way.
- 2
We send you the software and a licence key
A single .zip, and a key that is yours — emailed to you, never a public download link.
- 3
Install it on your own hardware
One command — the installer detects your machine and configures itself — or we do it with you on a short call.
- 4
It runs entirely on your infrastructure
Your documents never leave it.
What the install command looks like
Once you have the package and your key, this is the whole command — the installer detects your machine and configures itself. We'll walk you through it live if you'd rather not run it yourself.
unzip ~/Downloads/CrestBid-Platform-*.zip -d ~/crestbid && cd ~/crestbid
bash install.sh --local-install --license-key "YOUR-KEY"Expand-Archive -Path "$HOME\Downloads\CrestBid-Platform-*.zip" -DestinationPath "$HOME\CrestBid"
cd "$HOME\CrestBid"
.\install.ps1 -LicenseKey "YOUR-KEY"Full per-OS details, including what to do if Docker or WSL2 needs a restart, are in the installation docs.
Know roughly what hardware you'll need
How licensing works
- A signed licence key, verified offline — no account required to run it, and it never contacts a licence server.
- Nothing leaves your network to check the licence, and no usage reporting, on any tier.
- Your key is issued as part of onboarding, and seats can be upgraded any time from Settings › Licence.
Want more detail first?
The docs cover a full first project walkthrough and the install steps for customers who already have the package, and the security page explains exactly what stays on your machine and what (if anything) leaves it.
Contact us to get started.
Full platform functionality on a time-limited evaluation licence, no feature gate. If it doesn't fit your workflow, nothing further happens.