What a BuildAhead pilot proves — on your own documents
A BuildAhead pilot isn't a slideshow. We run the product end to end on a real project and prove two things you can check for yourself — with every claim traceable to the exact sentence on the exact page.
The two things we prove
It does the job, end to end.
Ingestion → submittal register → material requirements → pre-flight → analysis, on real project documents, reliably.
Never silently wrong — or silently incomplete.
Every extracted requirement and every grading verdict is evidence-backed, self-scored for confidence, completeness-checked, and routed to a human when it's unsure. You get the speed of automation with the auditability your QA/QC and contracts teams require.
Built to catch what manual review misses
Risk caught before it costs you — missing submittals, non-compliant values, approvals that went stale after an addendum, and cross-document conflicts, surfaced before they become rework, delay, or a claim.
Time saved and a clean audit trail are the bonus — not the point.
How we run it — measured against your own records
We run the pilot primarily on a closed-out project of yours, so accuracy is measured against ground truth you already trust: your actual submittal register and your historical review outcomes.
The result we aim for: "BuildAhead reproduced your register and your review decisions — and flagged items your process missed."
What we'll ask of you
- One closed project and 1–3 representative spec divisions (e.g. Div 08, 09, or 23), with drawings and at least one addendum or RFI.
- Your actual submittal register and a sample of past review outcomes for those materials (your “answer key”).
- One named reviewer on your side — a PM, submittal coordinator, or QA/QC lead — to adjudicate the output.
- A short baseline of how long the work takes your team today, so the ROI is your own numbers.
What success means
We agree the bar with you up front and validate it on your data before we commit to it. Typical acceptance targets:
of your required submittals found, with clean, correct rows — and every miss enumerated, not hidden.
of AI outputs carrying a citation verified against the real source text.
agreement between BuildAhead's verdicts and your historical review decisions on clear-cut requirements.
- A set of substantiated “saves” — real items your manual process would likely have missed.
- Your reviewer's sign-off that the output is trustworthy, traceable, and would be used in their real workflow.