Signal · The AI-native trade contractor
Spec search, revision diff, submittal triage, RFI cycle modeling — the same workflows we deploy for commercial GCs and trades. Built for the firms who want to stop running on software made for someone else.
Margin in this business doesn't leak in big chunks. It leaks in basis points — the bid you shouldn't have chased, the change order nobody priced, the crew that earned twelve hours of installed work for sixteen hours on the clock. Axiom builds the systems that close those gaps before they hit the WIP.
Commercial GCs, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, civil, and specialty trades all run on the same handful of decisions: what to bid, what to charge for a change, how productive the crew really is, when money is going to land, and what the close-out backlog looks like. Most contractors answer those questions monthly, from a spreadsheet someone updated by hand. The AI-native contractor answers them daily, from systems that read the actual job.
Below are five Signals — interactive models of the workflows we deploy for builders. Each one is a working preview of an Axiom workflow that runs in production for clients.
// Signal 01 — Bid / no-bid confidence
Bid / no-bid confidence score
Past wins, scope fit, GC relationship, schedule, competition. Live score on every RFP that hits the inbox.
Confidence score
68
Pursue with terms
Expected win rate
24%
Calibrated to last 36 mo of bids
Fade risk
5%
Probability final cost > estimate by 5%+
Wired up: the agent reads every incoming RFP, scores it against your historical win/loss data, and posts the verdict to the bid-day Slack channel before anyone touches a takeoff.
// Signal 02 — Change-order margin recovery
Change-order margin recovery
The unbilled CO is the most expensive document in your file cabinet.
Revenue leaked / yr
$164,640
Tickets that never become COs
Margin leaked / yr
$29,635
At the gross margin you set
Avg days to signed CO
34d
Manual ticket → PM → estimator → owner
// Signal 03 — Earned-value labor productivity
Earned-value labor productivity
Planned vs. earned vs. actual hours, by scope. Daily, not monthly.
CPI · cost performance
0.84
Burning faster than earning
SPI · schedule performance
0.87
Behind plan
Hidden burn this week
$19,344
248 unearned hours × $78 burdened
// Signal 04 — Pay-app & lien-waiver exposure
Pay-app & lien-waiver exposure
The cash that's been billed but isn't yet protected by an executed waiver.
Cash exposed (no waiver)
$2,534,400
Owner / lender can challenge release
Carry cost / yr
$27,740
At 8.5% blended LOC rate
Stop-work risk
Moderate
Drives required reserves on bonding line
The agent matches every sub invoice to the corresponding conditional / unconditional waiver, chases the missing ones by tier, and assembles the next G702/G703 with a clean waiver log attached. CFO sees the exposure number drop in real time.
// Signal 05 — Punch-list aging heatmap
Punch-list aging heatmap
Open punch items by trade and age. The dark cells are the ones eating your substantial completion date.
| Trade | 0-7d | 8-14d | 15-30d | 31-60d | 60d+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Electrical | 9 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| Plumbing | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Drywall | 18 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 2 |
| Finishes | 22 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 4 |
| Low-volt | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Open punch items
195
Aged > 30 days
28
The ones that drive the SC date
Predicted SC slip
+11d
Modeled from historical closure velocity
// What we ship for GCs, subs & trade contractors
- → Bid intelligence — past wins, fade analysis, and a fit score on every new RFP.
- → Change-order agents that price T&M tickets and turn field notes into signed COs.
- → Earned-value engines that compare planned, earned, and actual hours per scope, daily.
- → Pay-app builders that assemble AIA G702/G703 from cost-coded labor and committed costs.
- → Lien-waiver chasers — conditional / unconditional, sub & tier, automatically.
- → Punch-list triage that routes by trade, ages tickets, and predicts substantial completion.
- → Daily-log capture from the field (photo + voice) → typed log + cost-coded hours in your ERP.
// The stack we connect into
The contractor who wins the next decade isn't the one with the prettiest spec-search demo. It's the one whose bid desk passes on the wrong work, whose PMs price changes the day they happen, whose crews run at earned-value parity, and whose CFO knows on Monday what the WIP will look like on Friday. That's the firm we build for.
// this is an example, not a product
Your construction stack isn't ours. The build is custom.
Everything above is a working preview of an Axiom engagement — not a SaaS you sign up for, and not a template you bolt on. We've published a handful of industry Signals because those are the verticals we know cold. The actual deliverable is a full custom application built on our engine, wired into your tools, your data, and the way your team already works. If your workflow doesn't look like the one on this page, that's the point.
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