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Most software in this category asks you to take its word for it. This page is the opposite: what fires overnight and at what hour, what each agent reads and hands back, which model tier runs it and why, and the exact line between what it does alone and what it is never allowed to do without you.

The night shift

Eleven hours between the last truck leaving and the report landing. Nothing here waits for you to open an app.

  1. 18:00ForemanCloses the day. Reconciles what the field said against what the schedule claimed, routes anything unresolved to the right agent, and writes the 5am report.
  2. 19:30LoggerWrites the daily log from the day's photos, voice notes and text threads. Manpower, weather, deliveries, delays, and what actually got installed.
  3. 20:15GuardReads the log for anything that should have been an incident report, keeps the toolbox talk rotation moving, and maintains the OSHA 300 entries.
  4. 21:00DeltaRe-reads the day for scope drift. Anything said on a walk that is not in the contract gets priced and staged as a change order.
  5. 23:40MarshalSweeps every sub on every active job for lapsing COIs, W-9s, licenses and waivers, and chases the ones that are going stale.
  6. 00:50TakeoffRuns the drawing set for cross-discipline clashes on anything issued since the last sweep, and holds the quantity takeoff current.
  7. 01:10ClerkDrafts an RFI for each real clash, with sheet and detail already referenced, and keeps ball-in-court current on everything open.
  8. 02:20LedgerAssembles the pay app against the SOV. Retainage, stored materials, waiver status, and the arithmetic that gets missed at midnight.
  9. 02:50CloserWrites punch from field photos and keeps the closeout book assembling as the job runs rather than after it ends.
  10. 03:30SchedulerPulls the forecast, resequences the three-week look-ahead, and confirms who is needed tomorrow.
  11. 04:30BuyerLevels any bids that came in against the generated scope, flags exclusions, and keeps the sub scorecard current.
  12. 04:45ForemanWrites the 5am report. Exactly one thing is allowed to need you.
  13. 05:10LiaisonDrafts the owner and client replies with the pricing context already attached. Never sends on its own, on any plan, ever.

One certificate of insurance

Follow a single item all the way through.

“It chases things” is a claim. Here are the eleven steps, with the actual text message it sends and the point where it stops texting and dials.

Day 0 · 14:20Marshal

Reads

Ridgeline Framing uploads a COI as an email attachment with no subject line. Marshal opens the PDF, reads the policy dates, the carrier, the limits, and the additional-insured endorsement.

Result

Filed. Expiry logged as 09/14. Additional insured: present. Limits: meet the subcontract.

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The spine

Rough in. Finished work out.

In

  • Drawing sets (PDF)
  • Field photos
  • Sub texts + calls
  • Email attachments
  • Weather
  • Contract + SOV

Held

  • Job context (cached)
  • Sub roster + history
  • Schedule + float
  • Open ball-in-court
  • Every prior decision

Out

  • Drafted RFIs
  • Priced change orders
  • Daily logs
  • Pay app packages
  • Texts + calls to subs
  • The 5am report

The middle column is the part that makes it cheap. The job’s context is held as one stable block and cached, so every agent run reads it at roughly a tenth of normal cost instead of re-reading the whole job from scratch each time.

Why it does not cost a fortune to run

Three tiers, on purpose.

Cheap tier

~60% of runs

Haiku 4.5

Expiry checks, inbound SMS parsing, routing, classification, log formatting, status rollups.

Mechanical work with a right answer. Paying frontier prices for date arithmetic is how these products die.

Middle tier

~30% of runs

Sonnet 5

Schedule resequencing, RFI drafting, daily logs, sub comms, bid leveling, scope generation.

Judgment inside a known frame. This is where most of the product actually lives.

Hard tier

~10% of runs

Opus 5

Cross-discipline clash detection over the drawing set, change-order scoping and pricing, the 5am synthesis.

Open-ended reasoning where being wrong costs real money. Rationed deliberately, not sprayed.

The line

What it does alone, and what it will never do without you.

Does it alone

  • Reads drawings, photos, texts, email
  • Drafts RFIs, logs, scopes, punch lists
  • Chases subs by text and by phone
  • Resequences the look-ahead for weather
  • Files and verifies COIs and waivers

Never without you

  • Sends anything to the owner or architect
  • Issues a change order or a price
  • Signs, submits or certifies anything
  • Commits money or accepts a bid
  • Terminates or replaces a sub

Every cap in the system fails closed. If an agent hits its run limit, its spend limit or its message limit, it stops and tells you. It does not quietly keep going and bill you for it.

Now put it on a job.

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