RFI lag, change order leakage, bid capacity ceiling, compliance overhead. None of it shows up in your P&L as a line item. All of it shows up in your margin. LouDNAi deploys ten named agents — purpose-built for Construction — that close the gap in 21 days.
The same ten archetypes get parameterized for each sub-vertical. A $50M GC's RFI Loop and a specialty sub's Schedule Sentinel run on the same backbone — different schemas, different integrations, different volume thresholds.
Every number below is sourced. Every Reddit quote is verbatim. Every dollar bleed is paired to a named agent that owns the recovery. This is the construction dossier in five pages.
Industry average RFI cycle time is 9.7 days. Cost per RFI when escalation, rework, and standby time are included: ~$1,080. Roughly 21.9% of RFIs get no response in the standard cycle. At mid-market scale this bleeds $2.2M – $5.2M/yr across the portfolio. The direct hit on a single $50M GC: ~$117K/yr.
FMI cites $707K/year hidden cost from change order documentation gaps at the mid-market level. Industry average: only 62% of change orders are fully documented at the time of work. Standby cost when delayed change orders block a crew: $800–$3,200/day. This is the single biggest dollar pool in mid-market construction.
Mid-market estimators bid 60–80 jobs per year at full capacity. Average win rate sits at 25%. Labor cost per bid (estimator + PM time + takeoff): $3,200–$12,000. Result: shops that "bid everything" lose 75% of their estimating cost on dead jobs and run out of throughput before they hit revenue targets.
OSHA reporting, prevailing wage filings, lien waivers, certified payroll, insurance certificate tracking. A mid-market GC spends ~$163K/year in administrative overhead managing compliance across active jobs. The cost compounds when violations slip through: average OSHA fine $14,500, repeat violation $145,000.
Average mid-market commercial project runs 14% over schedule. Each week of slip costs the GC $4,500–$8,000 in extended supervision, $800–$3,200/day in standby crew time, and a ~$25,000 reputation cost in future bid rejection from the owner. Most slip is detectable 7–10 days before owners notice — if someone is watching the right signals.
Not "AI assistants." Not generic chatbots. Each agent has a function, a trigger, an output, an integration target, and an owner inside your business. The default Construction Fleet ships with five (RFI Loop, Change Order Capture, Compass, Guardian, Schedule Sentinel) plus your choice of the others as you scale.
Watches every inbound channel — missed calls, web forms, LinkedIn DMs, owner referrals. Classifies, qualifies, routes. Turns ambient inbound into structured opportunities.
Daily briefing for the owner or principal. Pulls insight from every other agent, surfaces the calls only the human can make. The morning coffee conversation, automated.
Vertical-specific rule engine. Watches OSHA, prevailing wage, lien waiver expirations, insurance certificates, certified payroll deadlines. Flags violations before they happen, files automatically where authorized.
Bid throughput expander. Identifies which RFPs are worth bidding (won't beat 25% avg win rate), reactivates dormant owners, runs win-rate analytics, generates first-pass takeoffs.
Owns the request-for-information cycle end to end. Closes the 9.7-day average lag, auto-escalates after 21.9% no-response threshold, drafts responses, tracks resolution.
Sits on the job site (literally — connects to Site Voice and Site Connect). Captures change orders the moment they happen via voice memo, photo, or text. Closes the 38% documentation gap.
Watches the schedule for the early-warning signals owners miss. Detects slip 7–10 days before it shows in owner reports. Flags weather risk, supplier lag, crew availability conflicts.
Answers the phone when your team can't. Owner calling at 7 PM about a finish change. Sub asking about Monday material delivery. Captures, structures, routes.
Photo capture, voice memos, and field observations from the crew, structured into the system of record. Closes the gap between what happened on the job site and what the office knows.
Every conversation, contract, decision, owner request, design change — indexed and retrievable. The single agent that compounds. Two years in, your Helix Memory is irreplaceable.
Enter your numbers, see your recoverable revenue. Conservative assumptions: industry-average RFI/CO/bid figures, no upside on improvements above benchmark. Most customers exceed these projections.
Live calculator launches in v1.1. The DNA Scan replaces these inputs with measurements from your actual systems.
Every Construction Fleet ships under a documented compliance posture. SOC 2 Type 1 in flight. NVIDIA Inception membership verified. Per-tenant data isolation. Procurement teams pull the public compliance page directly.
Trust Services Criteria in scope: Security, Availability, Confidentiality. Target completion Q3 2026. Type 2 in flight Q1 2027.
Read the SOC 2 disclosure →Logical tenant isolation. No shared embeddings, fine-tunes, or retrieval indices across customers. Audit logs on every read.
Read the security posture →Real-time list of every third party that processes customer data on LouDNAi's behalf. 30-day advance notice on changes.
View sub-processor list →Three offers. All fixed-fee or fixed-monthly. The DNA Scan funds itself — credited 100% toward Fleet within 60 days. Eight competitors out of eighteen audited hide their pricing. None of them grew faster for it.
Maps your operational DNA, identifies revenue leaks, quantifies recoverable dollars by workflow.
A single named agent deployed in 14 days. For solo specialty subs or sub-$10M custom builders.
Three to five named agents, deployed in 21 days, monitored continuously. Default for $50M+ GCs.
One firm. Twelve PMs. $50M revenue. Recoverable: ~$580K/year. The DNA Scan tells you exactly which agents recover it — in 21 days, for $9,500, fully credited toward Fleet within 60 days.