Forward Deployed Engineer · commercial construction

One Engineer inside your Construction Business — not a platform you log into

We place one Forward Deployed Engineer — also known as an AI Integrator — in your firm to connect Procore, Sage, Foundation, QuickBooks and your spreadsheets, then build the layer on top that shows where your margin is leaking. Capture, then Control, then Intelligence. You are adding a person to your headcount budget, not buying another platform.

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OneForward Deployed Engineer, embedded in your firm
3Stages — Capture, Control, Intelligence, in order
0Actions taken without a person approving them
Sits on top of the systems you already run
Procore Sage 300 CRE Foundation Viewpoint Vista CMiC QuickBooks Autodesk / PlanGrid Excel / Google Sheets
How it fits together

Your systems on the bottom. One layer in the middle. A margin view on top.

The engineer connects what you already run, reconciles it on a schedule, and builds the view that shows where margin is leaking — with a person approving every step.

Illustrative — not a screenshot of a live client · hover to zoom in

The arc

One engagement, three stages, in order.

We do not skip ahead. There is no useful intelligence on data you cannot trust yet.

01 / 05

Capture

Connect project management, accounting, field data and the spreadsheets nobody officially owns, and reconcile them on a schedule. The job-cost report stops being three weeks stale.

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Control

Job costing, labor productivity, subcontractor performance, change-order and RFI cycle time, cash and retainage — measured the same way on every job, updated daily instead of at month-end.

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03 / 05

Intelligence

Ask in plain English. Margin-leak alerts, cost-to-complete forecasts and suggested next steps — each tied back to the source records it came from.

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04 / 05

Advisory, not autonomous

The AI drafts answers, alerts and suggested actions. It does not send email, move money, update your ERP or notify a subcontractor. A named person approves each action first.

How that is enforced
05 / 05

Yours to keep

The connections, data models, documentation and code the FDE builds live in your systems and stay yours. If the engagement ends you keep all of it, with a written handover.

Why an FDE, not a tool

What's costing you most at month-end?

Every firm is bleeding somewhere different. Pick the one that keeps you up and we will show you where the arc closes it.

Four starting points · pick one

Help me trust the job-cost report

Systems reconciled nightly, with the jobs where they disagree surfaced.

Help me see subcontractor risk before it hits the schedule

On-time, rework, change-order volume and default-risk signals per sub.

Help me get a real cash and retainage picture

WIP, over/under billing, retainage held and owed, and a forward view.

Help me stop finding out what a job made at month-end

Cost-to-complete daily, with a one-page packet before the owner meeting.
Where we are

No client references yet. Here is what is real instead.

We are pre-pilot. No figures, no case study and no testimonial will appear on this site until a named contractor has approved the wording. Any site showing you those numbers this early is showing you numbers it made up.
What is real today The method, the sequence it runs in, and a written statement of stage on the Proof page.

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6% → 7%One point of net margin, on a contractor running a typical book
+17%Is what that one point does to the year — on the same revenue
$600kIs what it is worth on $60M of volume

Arithmetic, not a promise · we have not produced this for a client yet

Security & data — stated plainly

Construction data is payroll data. We treat it that way — and we say which controls are real today and which are design intent, because there is no client yet.

No SOC 2 yet Per-firm isolation — design Least-privilege access Encrypted in transit & at rest No internal use of client data Data returned on exit
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Why an FDE, not a tool

The alternatives are a software subscription, a big-integrator project, or a spreadsheet. Here is the honest difference.

 FDEA tool
Learns how your firm actually runs✓—
Every figure traces to a source record✓—
A person approves before anything moves✓—
Another login and a support queue—✓
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Notes

Field notes — nothing published yet.

Short, practical writeups on job costing, WIP, retainage and margin fade. These are the topics planned; when the first one is written it goes on the Notes page.

Planned

What breaks when you sync Vista and Procore

The real failure modes — cost-code drift, vendor duplicates, retainage mismatches — and how the FDE reconciles each one instead of pretending it does not happen.

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Planned

Why your job-cost report is three weeks stale

It is rarely accounting. It is the handoff before them.

All planned notes
Planned

Reading a WIP schedule for over/under billing

The two lines that predict a cash squeeze.

All planned notes
Planned

Margin fade: catching it while you can still act

Spotting the jobs fading faster than trend, and tracing the reason to line items.

All planned notes

Bring us your worst month-end.

Tell us the systems you run and where the close hurts most, and we will tell you honestly whether an embedded FDE is the right fix — or not. No deck.

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