Industry 01
AI FORCONSTRUCTION
Estimating, proposals and change orders, without the evening spent in a spreadsheet.
The Problem
Construction runs on documents — takeoffs, estimates, proposals, change orders, submittals — and most of them get assembled by hand, at night, by whoever knows the numbers. That work is repetitive enough to hand to software and expensive enough that handing it over is worth real money.
A normal day
A plan set arrives. Someone measures it, prices it against last year's numbers and a supplier email, writes a proposal, and sends it — usually two days after the client asked. Then the scope changes and the whole thing is redone from memory. Meanwhile a bid that came in this morning is still unanswered, because the person who answers bids is the person doing the estimate.
What We’d Build
The parts worth handing over first.
Estimates and proposals assembled for you
Line items pulled from your own pricing, formatted the way you already send them, ready for you to review and adjust rather than build from a blank page.
Bid invitations answered the same hour
A new invitation gets acknowledged, logged, and the key dates extracted, so nothing sits unread in an inbox for two days.
Change orders written from the change
Describe what changed and get a priced change order document out of it, rather than rebuilding the arithmetic from memory a week later.
Document handling without the retyping
Plans, specs, insurance certificates and supplier quotes read, filed and cross-checked instead of hand-sorted into folders.
Your Existing Tools
Businesses in this industry usually run on some combination of these:
- Buildertrend
- Procore
- QuickBooks
- Sage
- Excel
We build around what you already use rather than asking you to move. What’s possible depends on what each product allows, so we check before promising it — and say so plainly when something can’t be done cleanly.
Why Us For This
This is the trade we know best. We've built and launched sites for Kansas City contractors — Anchor Contracting and Anchor Exteriors among them — and the people behind TrustFlow AI also run a general contracting and plumbing business, which is where the estimating knowledge comes from. We are not learning your workflow from a case study.
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How We’d Do It
The services behind this.
Start Here
The jobs this industry hands over first.
Common Questions
What people in this industry ask.
It can produce a usable first draft from your own pricing, which is where most of the hours go. You still review it and set the final number — an estimate is a commercial judgement, not a calculation. The point is starting from 90% instead of a blank page.
No. That is the normal starting point, and it is usually an advantage — the logic is already written down. We build around your spreadsheet rather than making you move to someone else's system.
We build around the tools you already run on rather than replacing them. What is possible depends on what that specific product exposes, so we check it before promising anything — and tell you plainly if the answer is that it can't be done cleanly.
Usually more so. When the person estimating is also the person selling and running jobs, taking the document work off their plate has a bigger effect than it would at a company with an estimating department.
Next Step
What could you stop doing by hand?
A free consultation — we'll look at where your team's time actually goes and show you exactly what we'd automate first. No pressure, no jargon.
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