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Construction and architecture.

Where it usually hurts first

Tender packs run to hundreds of pages, and the clause that hurts us is on page ninety.

Where we would start: Tender reader. Reads every page of a tender pack and pulls the quantities, dates, penalties and submission rules into one sheet, flagging the clauses that differ from your usual terms.

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Piling for a new building, the rig running
Piling for a new building, the rig running. Photograph: Shubham Nayak, Unsplash.
Tender reader, with it running

A contractor gets every clause in a subcontract compared with the matching clause in the main contract.

An example, never a client's result

Safe to say yes, in writing.

  1. “I'll pay and nothing will work.”
    It has to pass on your old work before it touches today's.
  2. “The price will creep.”
    One fixed price, in writing, before any work.
  3. “I'll be locked in.”
    Stop any month and keep everything.
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Your week, as it runs today.

Five moments from a typical week.

  1. 01

    A 600 page tender pack lands with ten days to go, and the estimator starts on page one.

  2. 02

    Photos, voice notes and half sentences from six sites arrive on WhatsApp.

  3. 03

    The client asks for a change on site, the foreman agrees, and nobody writes it down.

  4. 04

    Steel quotes from four suppliers come in four different formats.

  5. 05

    Friday's progress report is put together by someone who wasn't on site.

What it costs.

A study, 2005

Tender packs run to hundreds of pages, and the clause that hurts us is on page ninety.

Read the source

And the rest of the week

  1. A study, 2024

    Our projects run late and over budget, and we find out too late to fix it.

    Of 1,902 central government projects worth Rs 150 crore or more, 764 were running late, by 36 months on average, and 443 were over budget. Together they had overrun by Rs 4.92 lakh crore, about 18% above the original estimates (MoSPI monitoring report, February 2024).

    Source
  2. A study, 2018

    Our engineers lose half the day looking for the latest drawing.

    Construction teams spend 35% of their time, over 14 hours a week, hunting for project data, settling disagreements and dealing with rework. Five and a half of those hours go on looking for information (FMI and PlanGrid, August 2018, 600 professionals).

    Source
    Drawn in our report: Nobody can find the latest version
  3. A study, 2021

    Work gets redone because someone built from the wrong version.

    Bad project data may have cost the construction industry worldwide $1.85 trillion in 2020 and caused 14% of all rework (Autodesk and FMI, September 2021, more than 3,900 professionals).

    Source
  4. No number yet

    Changes agreed on site never get written down, and we fight over them at the final bill.

    No figure we can stand behind yet, so we print none.

  5. A study, 2024

    We wait months to be paid for work that's done.

    Delayed payments owed to Indian MSMEs stood at an inflation-adjusted Rs 7.34 lakh crore in March 2024 (GAME, FISME and C2FO, reported in November 2025).

    Source
    Drawn in our report: Paid 90 days after the work
What we would build

Ten systems for construction, under the six offers.

We plan the whole company, then build the first three. The usual first build here is marked, and the window beside the cards shows the one you are reading.

Tender reader, the usual first build here. Shown with sample data.

Win customersLeads wait until Monday. The buyer doesn't.

  1. The usual first buildDocuments

    Tender reader

    Reads every page of a tender pack and pulls the quantities, dates, penalties and submission rules into one sheet, flagging the clauses that differ from your usual terms.

  2. Apps

    Client project room

    Clients see progress photos, the schedule, approvals waiting on them and bills in one link.

  3. Brand

    Renders and walkthroughs

    Lifelike renders and walkthrough films from your drawings, for client approvals, sales launches and your own site.

Get the work doneEverything comes to you. Most of it shouldn't.

  1. Agents

    Bid writer

    Drafts the technical bid and fills the forms from your past projects, certificates and CVs, in the buyer's format, for your tender head to check.

  2. Voice

    Site diary from WhatsApp

    Turns each site's photos, voice notes in any language and messages into the daily log and the weekly report, with delays and risks called out.

  3. Operations

    Change log

    Every change asked for on site is logged with a photo, who asked and a cost placeholder, and the client gets a confirmation to sign.

  4. Intelligence

    Site safety cameras

    Cameras check helmets, harnesses and no go zones and alert the site in charge, who decides what to do.

  5. Agents

    Supplier and subcontract compare

    Lays steel, cement and subcontract quotes side by side with what each one left out, and tracks prices across your projects.

Get paidYou did the work. The money shouldn't take 90 days.

  1. Documents

    Running bill and claims pack

    Builds each running bill and variation claim with the measurements, photos and approvals behind it, so it's harder to dispute and quicker to pay.

Know your companyOnly one person knows how pricing works.

  1. Knowledge

    Drawing and spec search

    Ask for the latest drawing, a spec or a clause in plain words and get the current revision with the page it's on.

A sample job: four AI agents work through an 84 page tender, then wait for a person to say yes. Shown with sample data.

The same week, with them running.

The five moments from the top of this page, once the first systems do their part. Flip back to see how it runs today.

An example week. It shows how the work changes, never a measured result from a client.

  1. 01

    The tender's quantities, dates, penalties and unusual clauses were in one sheet within the hour.

  2. 02

    Each site's photos and voice notes became the daily log by evening.

  3. 03

    The change is logged with a photo, who asked and a cost placeholder, and the client has a confirmation to sign.

  4. 04

    The supplier quotes sit side by side, with what each one left out.

  5. 05

    The weekly report goes out in your format, with delays and risks called out.

  1. 01

    A 600 page tender pack lands with ten days to go, and the estimator starts on page one.

  2. 02

    Photos, voice notes and half sentences from six sites arrive on WhatsApp.

  3. 03

    The client asks for a change on site, the foreman agrees, and nobody writes it down.

  4. 04

    Steel quotes from four suppliers come in four different formats.

  5. 05

    Friday's progress report is put together by someone who wasn't on site.

The nearest work we have built.

Each piece names the kind of company it was built for. None of them is in your trade yet, and we say so. Ask to see it running.

Signs it is time.

  • Tenders are read by one estimator in the last week.
  • Site updates live in WhatsApp groups that nobody can search.
  • Changes are agreed by word of mouth and argued over at the final bill.
  • Running bills are paid months late or cut.
  • They're bidding for bigger or government projects.

Who decides.

The managing director or promoter of the contracting firm, or the founding partner of a practice, with the head of tenders or projects.

Why this time is different.

AI that was bought and changed nothing.

A tool was bought and nobody owned the job. We take the whole job, test it on your past work, and stay to run it.

What contractors ask first.

Does it read drawings?

It reads the schedules, notes and text on them and finds what you ask for. Engineering judgement, sign off and anything structural stay with your qualified people.

Can it price the bid?

It fills the sheet from your rates and the quantities it found, and shows every sum. Your estimator sets the rates and signs the number. The agent never commits you to a price.

Our sites have poor signal and everything is on WhatsApp.

That's fine. The agent reads what arrives on WhatsApp when it arrives, and the report gets built from it. Nobody on site has to learn a new app.

Who says yes before anything goes out?

The person who owns that job at your company today. You name them when we write the rules with you. Inside those rules the agent acts at once. Anything outside them waits for one tap from the person named, on their phone, ready to approve or to change.

Do we have to change the software we use?

No. We build around the systems you already run, in accounts in your company's name, and we confirm each one before we start.

What does it cost?

There is no price on this page, because it depends on the work. After the session you get a written proposal with the scope, the test it has to pass, who works on it and one fixed price, before any work.

Where we would start for construction: Win customers

Leads wait until Monday. The buyer doesn't.

Every enquiry gets an answer and a price while the buyer still wants one, on the channel they wrote in.

What changes. Enquiries get an answer and a price while the buyer still wants one, and you hear a customer is leaving while you can still act.

What we measure, before and after. Time to a first reply and to a priced quote, quotes that got an answer and customers who came back.

See Win customersAll six

The old way keeps running until the new one has passed on your own work.

The eight problems it answers

What costs your construction business most? Bring us that.

45 minutes on a video call with our founder and the people who live with the problem. Nothing to sign. You leave knowing what we would build first, and why.

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