Elevator Agents is your fractional bid desk. Every spec read against decades of trade knowledge, every risk flagged while you can still price it, every bid out on time. Win more of the right work without adding headcount. The first review is free.
Every bid starts with a spec nobody has time to read. 30 to 80 pages, squeezed in between site visits, pricing, and submittals. Something gets missed, and at a 6.9% net margin one missed scope item can wipe out the profit on the whole job.
So we read it for you. Every page, checked against decades of elevator trade knowledge. Each finding comes back with a page number, the potential risk, and what to do about it.
Nothing to install and nothing to learn. You send an email. You get a report.
WIN MORE WORK
More bids out the door with the same team.
PROTECT YOUR MARGINS
Scope gaps caught before you price the job.
SEE RISK EARLY
Flagged while you can still price it or walk away.
EVERY BID ON TIME
Submitted with clarity and confidence.
We come from this trade. Three generations of it. Everything we build follows three ideas.
Keep the knowledge in the building.
41% of the construction workforce retires by 2031. We wrote down what the veterans know, and every finding comes back with that context: what it means, why it matters, what to do next. New hires build domain knowledge faster. People retire. Knowledge doesn't have to.
Take the back office off your plate.
Your sales reps carry the bids on top of everything else. We handle the admin behind the bid so they stay in front of customers. The margin gap between average and best-run shops is worth $250,000 a year on a $5 million book. We catch what leaks it.
Work with what you already have.
No new software, no dashboards, no process change. You send documents the way you already send them, and results come back to your inbox. Your systems stay your systems.
01Send us a bid
FREE
Forward the spec from a live bid. Full findings report in 24 hours, on your own project, not a demo.
02We run your bid desk
$2,500/MO PER BRANCH
We work every bid with you, pre-bid through submittal. Unlimited reviews, addenda tracked, risk flagged while you can still price it. No meters, no per-report counting.
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03Founding design partner
$500/MO PER BRANCH
The same desk at a fifth of the price. In return, real field feedback that pushes the product forward, and a case study together after the first 90 days.
CLAIM A FOUNDING SPOTWhat this replaces
Today that work lands on your best people. An afternoon of reading before pricing starts, scope questions chasing your superintendent, contract re-reads on a Sunday night. Budget us like a part-time hire, not like software. That is what we replace.
MODERNIZATION
50-Unit Hotel
Findings
129
Pages read
89
Contract traps, equipment lock-in, buried material callouts, scope gaps across 24 critical risk items.
SERVICE
250+ Unit Portfolio
Findings
69
Pages read
42
Incumbent termination trap, one-way pricing, unlimited replacement liability on equipment back to 1963.
NEW INSTALL
12-Unit Hotel MRL
Findings
47
Pages read
56
MRL coordination gaps, seismic scope omissions, undefined finish allowances, unpriced HVAC scope.
These examples are from elevator projects.
One report per bid, built the way an estimator works through a package. Read first, price from, finish with. Every line cites the document and the page it came from.
The brief
What this job is, the biggest exposures, the decision, what to ask before pricing, what to confirm on site. Five headings, plain words.
Bid risks
Every clause that changes whether you bid or what the number is, graded critical or high, grouped by the car it applies to.
RFIs
The questions to send, drafted and ready. Conflicts between documents reported as both sides, never reconciled for you.
Take-off
Every component the spec touches, per car. New, retained, refurbished, and the requirement behind it.
Bid language
Inclusions, exclusions, clarifications, and qualifications in your voice, each tied to the clause it came from.
Evidence
Every clause the engine pulled, one per paragraph, cited to file and page. Search it, or ask it a question.
ASK THE REPORT
Ask it anything, in plain words.
The answer comes from the bid documents only, with the clauses it came from underneath so you can read them yourself. If the documents don't say, it says so.
This team comes from a family that has been in the elevator trades for multiple generations. My grandfather installed elevators for over 30 years. My dad is still a superintendent after 30 years in the field. I started my career selling elevator modernization and service contracts.
I was the sales rep trying to get through four bid RFPs in a week without being able to afford a mistake. The best people at every company I worked with were buried in work that wasn't the work they were hired to do.
After the trade, I spent years building data infrastructure and production systems. Elevator trade experience and the ability to build the work around it. That is what Elevator Agents is.
I started with spec review because that is where the money hides. One missed clause on page 47 can wipe out the profit on a job. If you want to see what it looks like on your next bid, send us a spec. First one is free. Or just tell me what is eating your team's time.
We work with elevator contractors one branch at a time, the way you would staff a bid desk, at a fraction of the cost of a full head. The first review is free. Then $2,500 a month per branch, or $500 a month as a founding design partner. If the first report does not surface a risk your team missed, the first month is free.
Run your own numbers, or book a call and we will walk through them together.
THE MATH
A full-time hire
One person, months to find
$106,500/yr
Your bid desk
Every bid covered, live in weeks
$30,000/yr
About a quarter of the cost of a loaded head. One caught exclusion, $15K to $75K, can cover the year on its own.
The GCs you bid to are already running AI on your proposals. Full findings report in 24 hours, on your actual project, not a demo.
Your documents stay between us. We never share them.
Or email jake@elevatoragents.com directly.