AI agents for specialty trade contractors
Bid prep from GC invitations and drawings. Lien-rights tracking per project per state. The work the office manager never had time for now runs continuously.
Systems of record this works alongside
Starter workflows
GC bid invitation parsing
Inbound bid invitation from a GC. The agent extracts the scope, the schedule, the bid form, the addenda, and the wage rates. Drafts the bid response in the contractor's voice with the historical labor and material data attached.
Lien-rights tracker
Per project per state, the twenty-day notice, intent to lien, and lien deadlines. The agent files the calendar reminders and drafts the notices on time.
Submittal and shop-drawing tracker
Per project, the submittal log lives in the agent's tracker. Inbound feedback from the GC routes to the right person inside the contractor's shop.
Pay-app generation
Monthly, the agent assembles the pay app with the schedule of values, the percent complete, the stored materials, and the lien waivers. Drafts the cover note for the office manager's review.
The bid prep that nobody has time for
A specialty contractor on a busy market wins by bidding more jobs more accurately. The bottleneck is the office manager's time on bid prep, which can run two to four hours per bid for a mid-size job. The agent does the parsing and the historical-data lookup, drafts the response, and the office manager reviews and submits. The contractor bids ten more jobs a quarter without adding headcount.
Frequently asked
Can the agent submit the bid through the GC's portal?
Yes for the major GC portals on the standard adapter. For the long tail, the office manager submits manually with the agent's drafted response in hand.
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