Selected work · Custom software / Private AI
Four disconnected tools to one platform, with private AI on site.
Proprietary bid data is never sent to outside AI services. The broader platform build is ongoing.
- The situation
- The company ran estimating, bidding and project delivery across four disconnected tools. Bid invites came through BuildingConnected and Procore, takeoffs happened in Bluebeam, and estimates lived in Excel. Eight years of bids sat in spreadsheets that nobody could query.
- What we did
- The company's president brought us in as fractional CTO, with a development team, to build one platform for the trade. It will run from a bid inbox synced with BuildingConnected and Procore, through estimating, to AIA progress billing. Its AI will read floor plans to fill in takeoffs. We also designed and built a private GPU rack on site, a massive six-figure investment. The rack means bid data is never sent to outside AI services.
- First milestone
- We turned 2,509 historical bids from eight years of spreadsheets into one queryable dataset.
- Where it stands
- The platform launches in 2027. The goal is one connected workflow from bid to billing.
- Who did the work
- A large team: five engineers (one a senior software engineer), two product managers, and UI/UX and iOS design.
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