Rev. 2026-03
Your Estimator Agent reads every page before your team prices a thing. Every scope gap, contract trap, and buried cost found and quantified. Not just what they are, but why they matter and how to handle each one in the proposal. Spec review from 6 hours to 20 minutes. Margin exposure from unknown to quantified. Knowledge that stays when people don’t. That’s not a report. That’s a virtual employee at full strength.
3,500+ elevator-specific patterns. No software. No login. No AI to prompt. You email a spec. Your agent sends back what's in it.
Spec Blindness: The gap between what's in the spec and what your team actually catches before bid day.
Three things cause it.
439,000 open construction jobs. Estimators handle 5–15 specs per month with tight turnarounds. Spec review is just one of a dozen things on their plate. They're pricing, coordinating, visiting sites, and managing submittals. Pages get skimmed. Sections get skipped.
53% of the construction workforce exits in the next decade. Decades of pattern recognition walks out the door. What stays behind is scattered across spreadsheets and one person's head.
Specs are getting longer. Contract language is getting more aggressive. Scope-transfer clauses and code-compliance catch-alls are burying risk in sections your estimator was never trained to read.
| LINE ITEM | YOUR REALITY |
|---|---|
| Average unpriced scope per project | $50,000 – $200,000 |
| Cost to catch it after signing | Your entire margin |
| Cost to catch it before signing | A fraction of one miss |
This isn't a skill problem. It's math. Hundreds of requirements across dozens of dense sections. One estimator. 6 hours. Something will get missed.
Your estimator should be on job sites and winning work. Not rereading the same dense spec sections for the third time. Your agent reads every page so they don't have to.
REAL FINDING — ELEVATOR MODERNIZATION
MATERIAL REQUIREMENT — PAGE 48, SECTION 2.02
“All passenger elevator cab finishes shall be satin bronze (CDA Alloy 280).”
Your estimator priced standard stainless steel. The spec requires satin bronze on 12 passenger elevators. Car doors, entrance frames, return panels. Bronze runs 30–50% more per component. That's $15K–$25K hiding in a material callout.
WITHOUT AN AGENT
Priced as stainless. Bronze requirement buried across three spec sections. Caught during submittals. Vendor requotes $22K higher. No change order. It was in the spec.
WITH ESTIMATOR AGENT
Bronze flagged before pricing. Estimator quoted the right material for each elevator group. Correct costs from day one.
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Pre-bid spec review. Reads every page, flags every scope gap, contract trap, and buried cost. 3,500+ elevator-specific patterns. Turns a 6-hour review into 20 minutes with full coverage. Your estimator walks into the bid meeting knowing exactly what's in the spec.
COMING SOON
Contract and bulletin tracking. Catches scope changes, addendum impacts, and coordination gaps after award. Keeps the project on track so nothing slips between bid and install.
COMING SOON
Blitz prep and compliance. Code compliance checks, safety audit prep, and testing requirements. Makes sure nothing gets missed before the inspector shows up.
Each agent costs a fraction of a hire. And your agents never call in sick, never quit, and never forget what they learned.
2 of the top 5 US elevator contractors are already in. 10 spots. Application only.
Every spec you bid, reviewed. Every scope gap found. 24-hour turnaround. A direct line to the founder. We learn your markets and your risk patterns, and build that into a system that gets smarter with every spec we review for you.
That’s what founding partners are building with us.
I'm limiting this to 10 companies because I want to know your business. Your markets. Your estimators. Your risk patterns. The system gets smarter the more I learn. And I learn by working closely with a small group who will push me to build this right.
3,500+ patterns. Elevator only. 24-hour turnaround. The system gets smarter with every spec.
Or deploy your first agent free. No application needed.
One prevented miss pays for the service. Everything after that is margin you keep.
ONE MISSED SCOPE ITEM
$50K–$200K+
Unpriced scope you’re contractually obligated to perform. No change order. Comes directly out of margin.
ONE ESTIMATOR DEPARTURE
$80K–$250K
Recruiting, training, ramp time, and 6–12 months of margin risk while the new hire learns where the traps are. With Elevator Agents, the knowledge stays in the system. Whoever sits in the chair has the same coverage.
MANUAL SPEC REVIEW
4–6 hrs/spec
Per estimator, per spec. At 10 specs/month, that’s $15K–$54K/year in loaded labor cost. Reading pages instead of winning work.
First spec
ROI
20 min/spec
REVIEW TIME
No software
IT SETUP
24 hours
FIRST VALUE
Every spec
GETS SMARTER
Cancel anytime
COMMITMENT
One catch pays for the year. Everything after that is margin you were leaving on the table.
Email a PDF or use the form. No signup, no login, no software to learn.
Your agent checks every page against 3,500+ known cost traps specific to elevator contracts. If it can cost you money, your agent finds it.
Your team walks into the bid knowing exactly what’s in the spec. What it costs, why it matters, and how to handle each item in their proposal. Every finding is a lesson your team keeps. Interactive report, workbook, and pre-bid summary included. Plus a structured data file your team can upload to ChatGPT or Claude to ask questions about the findings.
Our first report found 129 findings on a 50-unit modernization.
Total exposure: $1.2M–$2.5M.
The estimator’s original review caught none of them.
Our report took 20 minutes to review.
Not software.
No login. No dashboard. No training. Each agent is a virtual employee that does a specific job. You email a spec. Your agent sends back findings.
Not generic AI.
ChatGPT reads words. Our agents read elevator specs. 3,500+ trade-specific patterns built by someone who grew up in the industry.
Not a replacement for your estimator.
We're the second set of eyes he doesn't have time to hire. He makes the decisions. Your agent makes sure he has the information.
Not a one-size-fits-all tool.
Elevator only. We went deep in one trade instead of wide across four. Each contract type, its own patterns.
My grandfather installed elevators for over 30 years. My dad spent 15 years in the field and another 10 in operations. He's still a superintendent at TK Elevator. My first job out of college was selling elevator modernization and service contracts at Mitsubishi Electric.
I sat in bid meetings. I watched estimators flip through 300-page specs under deadline. I saw what happens when something gets missed. Not in a case study. In real dollars, on real jobs, to real companies.
I built Elevator Agents because elevator contractors deserve better than generic software that doesn't understand their trade. So I went deep in one trade instead of wide across four. Modernization, service, new install. Each contract type has its own patterns, its own risk profile, its own ways of losing money in a spec.
I'm not building a platform. I'm not building a tool for you to learn. I built virtual employees that read every page of every spec and catch what your team doesn't have time to. And I'm the one making sure they get better with every spec I review.
If you want to see what it looks like, send me a spec. I'll send you back a report. No pitch. No call. Just results.
Send your toughest spec. Or one that burned you. We'll show you what's in it. 24 hours. Free.