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. Ground Reality 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. Every bid leaves the desk fully read, 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. GR 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.
GR Brain works from your bids, your installed costs and your outcomes — never pooled with anyone else’s record. 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 this tender carries liquidated damages at $21,500 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.
MEASURED RATES · 3 JOBS · 2024–25 - MARGIN03 / 03
This owner's last three jobs realised 0.61× of the margin they were bid at. At 4.5% markup the work still clears your margin floor — the wins were never the problem.
MARGIN BID VS REALISED · 3 JOBS
Nothing goes out priced on a page nobody opened.
Measured in the trade
What the proof is worth.
40–60%
Of project cost is materials · SRC EAA
100%
Tender pages read before pricing
100%
Flags cited to their page
0
Clauses priced off an unopened page