A construction advisory firm, multiplied by an AI engine we built.

The project doesn't wait for you to hire someone.

We step in at the point of need — a bid you don't trust, a schedule that stopped making sense, a PX who left mid-program. An owner's rep, a preconstruction team, a recovery lead: for a project, a quarter, or a phone call. No headcount. No retainer minimum. No long-term obligation unless that's what you want.

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Retained · project-based · interim · fractional.

A phone call

A question answered. No engagement required.

A document review

A bid, a schedule, a contract: read and returned.

A project

Start to finish, one commitment.

A quarter

Sustained attention on a program in motion.

Ongoing

Retained, for as long as it's useful.

THE CREDENTIAL

The table has two sides. David has run both.

Twenty-five years in construction — most of them directing a billion-dollar-scale, owner-side capital program, then President of a general contractor. He knows how the GC builds the schedule, prices the change order, and structures the draw, because he's built the schedule, priced the change order, and structured the draw himself. That's not a claim about the industry. It's work he has actually done, on both sides.

Seven ways we work inside your project.

From owner's representation through project recovery — the same judgment, backed by the same engine, wherever you need it applied.

OWNER'S REPRESENTATION

Owner's Representation & Program Management

Full owner's rep from PX through executive-level portfolio oversight.

PRECONSTRUCTION

Preconstruction & Bid Advisory

Bid leveling, scope-gap analysis, and independent estimate review before you commit a number.

ESTIMATING

Estimating & Quantity Verification

Independent quantity verification and estimate reconciliation, with every number showing its work.

SCHEDULE

Schedule & Delay Analysis

Baseline audits, CPM review, and delay analysis read against the actual documents.

PROJECT RECOVERY

Critical Project Analysis & Recovery

Diagnostics and turnaround for a project that's already in trouble.

FRACTIONAL LEADERSHIP

Fractional, Interim & Retained Leadership

A PX, VP of Operations, or Director of Construction, on your terms.

CUSTOM AI

Custom AI & Construction Technology

Built by someone who has shipped production AI, not bought it.

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THE ENGINE

We didn't buy AI. We encoded a career.

Everyone in this category can now say “we use AI.” Nobody else spent months mapping twenty-five years of construction judgment into a system that expands what one firm can cover.

Twenty-five years of construction judgment, written down.

Every scope gap, every schedule tell, every division read the right way the first time — that judgment lived in one person's head for twenty-five years. Mapping it into a working system took months of deliberate, line-by-line transcription: the division logic, the trade taxonomies, how a scope gap hides in a spec section, what a schedule looks like when it's lying. That's not a subscription to a model someone else trained. It's a career, encoded.

Read everything. Flag what matters. Decide nothing.

A capability map organized the way a real preconstruction department is organized — preconstruction analysis, estimating and quantity verification, schedule forensics, specialty systems review, commercial review, quality assurance — each running deep in its own domain, all cross-referencing the others. Every document on every project, not the ones a human had time for this week.

One principal, with the coverage of a department.

Most firms this size read what one person has time to read. The engine changes that arithmetic: every document on every project gets read, cross-referenced, and flagged — the coverage the largest firms staff a full bench to get. Not more people. An expansion of what one principal can cover, beyond what any one person could do alone — and every flag still comes back through principal review.

A principal checks the work.

The engine flags, cross-references, and surfaces. It doesn't decide, and it isn't presented as a licensed professional. Every recommendation that reaches you carries a principal's judgment behind it — twenty-five years of deciding what actually matters in what gets surfaced.

A force multiplier on judgment. Never a substitute for it.

Here's what we built, and how it's organized.

Each function runs deep in its own domain. All of it reads back through one principal, who checks the work before it reaches you.

One principal

Preconstruction analysis

Estimating & quantities

Schedule forensics

Building systems

Commercial review

Quality & commissioning

Market & procurement intelligence

One principal

Preconstruction analysis

Estimating & quantities

Schedule forensics

Building systems

Commercial review

Quality & commissioning

Market & procurement intelligence

The engine runs seven functions. Every discipline behind them, in depth.See the full capability tree →

“The team behind me is something no one else can bring.”

A competitor brings a person. We bring a person, an engine that reads at department scale, and a shop that can build whatever the engagement requires. The same team handles a phone call or a full program.

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THE PRINCIPAL

David Laramie

Twenty-five years in construction — project manager, project executive, VP of Operations, and president of a $50 million general contractor. He directed a major housing authority's capital program: $200–300 million a year, 185 projects, $1.07 billion in construction value, 125-plus active at once. He delivered a $215 million courthouse three months early and $10 million under budget, through the height of COVID. As president of a general contractor, he held full P&L leadership — restructuring debt, recovering receivables, and rebuilding the firm's estimating, buyout, and delivery processes.

The table has two sides. He's run both.

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THE PRODUCT

We didn't buy AI. We built it — and we sell it.

Bid Intelligence™ is the same engine, productized. It's a fully automated, AI-powered bid advisory service that covers the full bid cycle — from document release through number commitment — for any GC evaluating any bid.

A Bid Strategy Report within hours of document upload. Continuous updates as addenda and RFIs land. A final Pre-Bid Intelligence Report and bid leveling before you submit. One flat price per project, scaled to project size, with a discount on your first project. This is the same engine behind everything on this site — available on its own, for your next bid, without engaging the firm.

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Win More. Lose Less.™

Platform Disclosure

Bid Intelligence™ is an AI-powered decision-support software product. Analyses are generated using artificial intelligence, based on information submitted by the user and publicly available project documents. Outputs are provided for informational purposes only and must be independently validated by the user, using their own professional judgment, before being acted upon. Bid Intelligence™ does not provide legal, engineering, architectural, financial, or construction management advice, and using it does not create an advisory or professional-services relationship between the user and BuildIQ Advisors. Bid Intelligence™'s total liability arising from any analysis is capped at the fees paid for that specific engagement. Full terms at app.buildiqadvisors.com/legal/terms.

WHO WE SERVE

Owners & developers

Independent oversight of your capital program, from a single project to a full portfolio.

Institutions

Housing authorities, healthcare systems, and higher education, where occupied rehabilitation and public accountability both matter.

Lenders & capital partners

Draw review, cost-to-complete validation, and independent reporting on the projects backing your capital.

General contractors

Preconstruction advisory, estimate review, and recovery support from someone who has run a GC's P&L.

Growing construction teams

Fractional or interim leadership when you need the seat filled now, not after a six-month search.

HOW WE ENGAGE

Structured however the work needs to be structured.

Six ways to work with us. None of them come with a published number — every engagement is scoped to the project.

By engagement
By project
By service
By the hour
Weekly / monthly retainer
Interim / fractional leadership

No published rates. Tell us what you're building, or what's gone wrong, and we'll tell you what it takes.

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