Award letter Tuesday. Mobilisation Monday. Three weeks of spec re-do in between.
Post-award is the most under-systematised phase in construction. The bid info and the delivery info don’t connect. Specifications get re-typed. Supplier packs miss awarded scope. Long-leads surface in week four. The delivery team starts behind before the first trade walks on site.
Four stages feed the Green Light gate. Nobody mobilises on a maybe.
Click any stage to expand · inputs / outputs / time / human role
Day One
Award log, contract reconciliation, project workspace stood up the day the contract drops. Programme baseline locked.
- COLLAPSEFine Print
Project specification produced from contract docs and tender clarifications. Source-traced clauses, no invented spec content.
+ EXPANDMarket Day
Awarded scope broken into discrete work packages with full supplier enquiry packs. Long-leads flagged at week one.
+ EXPANDThe Ledger
Unpriced BoQ + live procurement tracker. Quantified line-by-line, ready for pricing rounds. Tracker covers every package.
+ EXPANDGreen Light
Project Delivery Plan + 52-point pre-mob QA checklist. Sign-off gate before delivery team takes over.
+ EXPANDCompetent-person judgement and sign-off — a named person from your firm approves every document.
Pricing judgement — rates, margins and commercial positions are yours, never generated.
Every document carries a named approver from your firm. Nothing is issued unsigned.
Your documents stay confidential — processed by the team you deal with, never training data.
The paperwork is the product. Read it first.
Illustrative award-to-handover walk · Northgate Chambers is fictionalA complete, audit-grade worked example of the Stage 04 ledger — the BoQ extract, procurement dashboard and sign-off record the workflow produces for Northgate Chambers. Read it end to end, then browse the rest of the library.
Worked example — fictional project, real output formatBoQ & procurement ledger
Award to mobilisation, through one green light.
Illustrative pre-con model · worked example (Northgate Chambers)→Mobilisation Plan
→Site Set-up
→Delivery Handover
Scrub the weeks, WK1 to WK8, and the project walks Phase 1 — award, spec, market, ledger — into the Green Light gate, then across to mobilisation. Fifty-two pre-mob checks clear before the delivery team takes over: zero handover gaps.
Fourteen Structured Deliverables. Traceable from award letter to line item.
Three weeks reclaimed. Long-leads in week one.
Zero handover gaps.
Illustrative model · targets, not measured client resultsAward letter to mobilisation, with no spec re-do.
Procurement tracker built day one, exposure surfaces in week one, not week four.
Pre-mobilisation QA gate held every time. Delivery starts running, not reading.
Every clause linked to contract docs, tender clarifications or design intent.
AI can now draft the specification, the supplier enquiry packs and the unpriced bill of quantities directly from the awarded contract, with every clause traced back to its source. The firms that systematise award-to-mobilisation first will start on programme while their competitors are still re-typing the tender.
Every re-typed spec is work you already won — paid for twice.
Built with working pre-construction managers, procurement leads and the delivery PMs who take the handover. Pilot results will be published named, or not at all.
The Pack drafts the pre-con. Your team makes every award.
Pre-construction runs on judgement calls: which supplier gets each package, when the design freezes, what programme commitment the firm signs its name to. The Pack drafts the documents those calls depend on — the specification, the enquiry packs, the unpriced BoQ, the QA gate paperwork — and the calls themselves stay with your pre-construction team.
Reads and structures awarded contract documents, tender packs, drawings, specs and clarifications
Produces first-draft specifications from source documents, never invented, always source-traced
Decomposes awarded scope into discrete work packages with logical interface boundaries
Drafts supplier enquiry packs customised per package, with structured return requirements
Quantifies BoQs from drawings and specifications using consistent measurement rules
Pricing the work, that stays with the QS or specialist subcontractor
Approving specifications or design intent, that’s the design lead / competent person
Commercial decisions on scope, that’s the commercial manager
The procurement conversation with suppliers, that stays human
Sign-off on the QA gate, that’s the project manager
BuiltAI is run by Dominic Hobson, who has spent his career in construction and M&E delivery — the packs exist because he needed them.
Send us the contract that left you scrambling at award.
Thirty minutes. Your awarded contract. We hand back a structured award reconciliation, scope decomposition map, and long-lead register before the kickoff.
Priced as an annual licence by company size, plus usage credits — the pricing page explains the model. How the pack is priced →
You'll deal with Dominic Hobson, Founder, BuiltAI — not a sales team.
Under NDA if you want one. Your document is seen by the team that processes it, is never training data, and is deleted on request.