Solutions · Specialty contractors
You carry the craft.
You bid more work than you win, install work that gets covered by somebody else’s drywall, and chase payment for it two months later. GroundReality gives the trade the two things the record never gave it: every page of every tender read the day it lands, and proof of what was installed before it was hidden.
Where it hurts
Three ways the margin leaves.
Trade contractors lose money in three places: the bid they priced on a skim, the work they cannot prove, and the crew standing in the wrong building. All three are record problems.
Pain
Four tenders on the desk, two estimators, and a Friday deadline. Two of those bids get priced on a skim.
Proof
Bid Intelligence reads the whole package — drawings, specifications, addenda, contract — and returns scope, quantities and buried risk with page-level citations. Firms bid 3.1× the volume from the same desk, and nothing goes out priced on a page nobody opened.
TENDER · 1,240 PP · READ 9 MINBid IntelligencePain
Your rough-in was right. It is behind drywall now, and the pay application says otherwise.
Proof
A 360 walk before cover pins every run, hanger and box to the floor plan, so installed work is dated, located and matched to the line it bills. Retention conversations get shorter when the evidence was captured on the day, at the level, in the frame.
PRE-COVER · L12 · 1,842 PINSGroundPain
Two crews stand idle in one building while another job runs a week short-handed.
Proof
Crew, equipment and material plans sit against production actually observed on site rather than production reported on Friday. The brain forecasts next week’s manpower from the schedule and the capture velocity, so the van leaves loaded for the job that needs it.
CREW · UTILIZATION 91% · 6 JOBSWorkforce
A day in the trade
One shift, from yard to pay app.
A specialty contractor’s day starts in the yard and ends in accounts. Each stop here leaves evidence the next one can use.
05:15
The van loads to plan
Tomorrow’s crews, materials and lifts were set last night against what the site actually finished, not what the lookahead assumed.
Workforce07:40
A tender is read
1,240 pages in; scope, quantities and risk out, each finding carrying the clause and page it came from. Nine minutes, not nine days.
Bid Intelligence10:30
The pre-cover walk
Twelve minutes of 360 on level 12 pins 1,842 hangers, runs and boxes to the plan before the wall closes.
Ground13:20
A conflict is raised
The clash at grid F is raised with the frame attached, and the general contractor answers against the same image.
Project Management16:50
The pay app files with proof
Every billed line carries the frame and date it was installed on. Approval lands about nine days earlier than it used to.
Financials
Enterprise AI Brain
The estimator’s first hour.
Your brain is trained on your bids, your installed costs and your outcomes — never pooled with anyone else’s. It reads the package overnight and projects an estimator’s view of it: the clause that changes the price, the line that is out of step with your own history, and the markup that still wins.
- RISK01 / 03
Section 00 72 13 of the Bluevein tender carries liquidated damages at $18,000 per day with no weather relief — the same clause your 2024 loss carried.
TENDER-4471 · P. 612 · CL. 8.4 - PRICE02 / 03
Ductwork at 1.4M lb prices 6% above your last three data centre jobs. The gap is labour, not material.
COST HISTORY · 3 JOBS · 2024–25 - WIN03 / 03
Win probability is 0.61 at the current markup. At 4.5% it moves to 0.74 and still clears your margin floor.
BID MODEL · 214 PAST BIDS
“The brain found a liquidated-damages clause on page 612 that would have taken the margin off the job. We bid three times the work now, and we read every page of it.”
Measured in the trade
What the proof is worth.
3.1×
Bid volume from the same desk
56H
Saved per PM per month
9D
Faster pay-application approval
0%
Institutional knowledge lost