Products & Services

Built Around One Goal.
Recovered Margin.

Three core intelligence products that find the margin, build the infrastructure, and deliver real-time decision visibility, supported by the professional services that execute what they identify.

Tier 1 — Core Products

Find the margin. Build the infrastructure. See the operation in real time.

Four distinct products that form a coherent system, each one delivering a measurable outcome on its own, and each one more powerful when the others are in place.

01

Cost Engineering

Most contractors running 5% net margin have 2–4 points of recoverable profit sitting in operational gaps they can't clearly see. The Margin Protection Audit finds them, validated against your actual job data, quantified in dollars, and delivered with a prioritized roadmap to recover them.

Not a consulting report with generic recommendations. A structured forensic engagement built for contractors in the $10M–$75M revenue range, delivered by people who have operated inside the disciplines they're auditing.

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Book a Findings Review

What You Receive

  • Complete operational audit across every phase of project delivery, from bid selection through final payment
  • Financial impact model translating each identified gap into recoverable margin at your revenue level
  • Prioritized 90-day action roadmap with named owners, specific actions, and measurable leading indicators
  • Discipline-specific implementation playbooks built for the people doing the work, not a shelf document
  • Findings presentation to your owner and operations team, a working session not a readout

Who It's For

  • Principals who know margins are thin but can't pinpoint why across their portfolio
  • COOs and VPs of Operations who have identified problems but need financial ammunition to act on them
  • Firms preparing to scale who want to fix operational discipline before adding revenue on top of it
Before
Thin margins with no clear picture of where profit is going or which gaps to fix first
After
A validated financial model, a prioritized roadmap, and a clear dollar figure on what each gap is worth
01b

Limited Scope Audits

When you already know where the problem is, a full 45-day engagement isn't always the right starting point. Limited Scope Audits focus on a single margin loss area, a 2–3 week review with a targeted financial model and a ready-to-implement playbook.

A faster path to a quantified answer and a specific action plan, without the full engagement timeline.

Discuss a Focused Audit

Available Scope Areas

  • Change order capture and documentation discipline
  • Estimating accuracy and scope gap patterns
  • Buyout cycle management and procurement discipline
  • Billing discipline, AR recovery, and DSO reduction
  • Closeout execution and retainage recovery
  • Labor productivity and cost-to-complete accuracy

What Each Scope Audit Delivers

  • Focused document review and targeted interviews
  • Financial impact model for the specific discipline
  • Implementation playbook with process protocol and ready-to-use templates
Before
A known problem with no financial model behind it and no structured plan to fix it
After
A quantified gap, a specific protocol, and a tool the team can start using immediately
02

AI Readiness & Modernization

Construction is under enormous pressure to modernize. Most contractors don't know where to start, and most technology consultants don't know construction. We sit at the intersection of both.

The most common situation we find: tools purchased and underutilized, AI features that require data foundations the firm doesn't have yet, and a team that's been sold to so many times they've stopped evaluating new technology seriously. The result is money spent, capability unrealized, and a growing gap between how this firm operates and how the most competitive firms in the market operate.

We cut through that, assessing what you have, building the data infrastructure that doesn't exist yet, operationalizing AI tools that compress time on the work that doesn't need human judgment, and for clients ready for it, building a private AI system trained on their own operation.

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Assessment, Roadmap & AI Task Document Library

  • Technology inventory and maturity scoring, what you have, how well it's actually being used, and what the gap between purchased capability and realized value is costing you
  • Data foundation assessment, whether your historical project data is clean, consistent, and structured enough to support AI tools and advanced technology
  • Platform optimization and integrations, Procore, Autodesk ACC, Buildertrend, and connected tools
  • Sequenced AI adoption roadmap built for your operational maturity, not as a result of vendor pitches for tools your processes can't yet support
  • Change management and team adoption planning, because most technology investments fail at implementation, not selection
  • Ready-to-deploy AI instruction sets built for your specific roles, tools, and project types — turning complex, time-consuming tasks into a consistent workflow. The work that used to take 45 minutes takes 8.

Data Engineering & Management

  • Data infrastructure design, connecting disparate systems and normalizing historical project data into a clean, queryable foundation
  • Pipeline development that feeds AI tools with structured, reliable inputs rather than fragmented spreadsheet exports
  • Historical data recovery and standardization, turning years of job cost, estimating, and operational records into a usable proprietary dataset
  • Ongoing data management and quality assurance to keep the foundation current as the operation evolves

Private AI Systems

  • Private LLM deployment, a purpose-built AI system running entirely on your infrastructure, with no data leaving your network and no dependency on cloud AI providers
  • RAG development, connecting your AI to your firm's operational knowledge: cost history, estimating records, subcontract templates, project documentation, and internal processes. The system retrieves and applies your specific data at the point of every query
  • Knowledge base build-out, ingesting, structuring, and indexing your existing documents and records so the system reflects how your operation actually works, not generic construction assumptions
  • Prompt engineering and workflow configuration, building the instruction sets and query templates your team uses daily, tuned to your roles, project types, and operational language
  • Available as a build engagement (you operate) or build-and-manage (we maintain the knowledge base, refine the system, and add new workflows on your behalf)
Before
Tools purchased but underutilized, no data foundation, team skeptical, capability bought but never realized
After
Clean data infrastructure, a working AI task library, and a private AI system that knows your operation specifically
04

Training & Development

Construction firms don't have a training problem, they have an execution consistency problem. The PM who loses change orders does it the same way every time. The superintendent who can't produce a defensible cost-to-complete, learned that from someone who couldn't either. Generic training doesn't fix it because generic training wasn't built for your process.

Red Grey builds custom digital training assets around your firm's actual workflows, systems, and project types. Training is designed to reduce the specific operational gaps costing you margin, and delivered in formats your team will actually use on a job site or in a field trailer.

Discuss a Training Build

Operational Discipline Tracks

  • Change order capture — timing protocols, documentation standards, pricing discipline, and owner communication. Built to reduce the percentage of eligible change orders that go uncaptured at your firm
  • Cost-to-complete accuracy — how to build, update, and defend a cost-to-complete at the PM level, tied to your cost code structure and job cost system
  • Field reporting standards — daily report discipline, manpower tracking, rework documentation, and cost code consistency across all superintendents on all projects
  • Estimating and scope control — bid structure, scope gap identification, subcontractor bid leveling, and the bid-to-actual feedback loop that makes the next estimate more accurate
  • Billing discipline and AR — schedule of values strategy, draw preparation, retainage tracking, and collections protocol tied to your contract terms
  • AI adoption and data literacy — how to use your firm's AI task library, interpret AI-generated outputs, and maintain the data hygiene that keeps the system reliable

What Each Module Delivers

  • Mobile-first, visual content built for the job site — bite-sized modules under five minutes, designed for the field trailer not the conference room
  • Instruction built around your firm's actual process — your forms, your systems, your cost codes, your project types. Not generic construction theory your PMs have heard before
  • Pre- and post-training assessment framework tied to measurable field outcomes — not course completion rates, but observable changes in execution discipline
  • Supervisor evaluation templates that let operations leadership verify whether the training is changing behavior, not just whether it was watched
  • SCORM-ready package for any existing LMS, standalone web export for SharePoint or Teams, and PDF reference for offline use — deployable immediately with no new infrastructure required
  • Fully owned deliverable — Red Grey builds it, your firm owns and deploys it
Before
Inconsistent execution across PMs, operational gaps that repeat job after job, and new hires who learn by watching whoever trained them
After
A measurable reduction in the specific execution gaps the training targets — documented, deployable, and owned by your firm
Tier 2 — Construction Support Services

The execution layer for what the core products identify.

Professional service areas that address what the core products find, build and maintain the systems they run on, and provide the operational capacity modern construction firms need when they need it.

03

Profit-Driven Construction Intelligence

The Margin Protection Audit finds where margin went. AI Modernization builds the infrastructure to prevent it from recurring. Profit-Driven Construction Intelligence is what comes next, a live system that watches your operation, combines internal performance data with external market signals, and surfaces the insights that inform decisions before they need to be made.

Not a dashboard. Not a monthly report. A real-time decision intelligence capability, available as a self-managed system we build and hand off, or as a Red Grey managed service where we build, operate, and continuously develop it on your behalf.

Discuss the Intelligence Platform

Internal Intelligence Layer

  • Revenue per employee by role, project type, and phase, surfacing where capacity is generating return and where it isn't
  • Equipment utilization and cost per revenue dollar, identifying underperforming assets and deployment patterns that erode margin
  • Project-associated cost tracking beyond direct labor and material, overhead allocation, PM burden, administrative cost per project type
  • Margin trajectory by project phase, identifying where jobs are won and where they're lost after contract execution
  • Estimating accuracy patterns by scope type, trade, and project size, building the historical record that makes future bids more accurate

External Intelligence Layer

  • Material cost index tracking for the commodities most relevant to your project mix, surfacing escalation pressure before it hits the next bid
  • Labor market conditions by trade and region, wage trend data, and subcontractor capacity signals that affect project cost and schedule risk
  • Regional construction volume and permit activity, market demand signals that inform bid strategy and pipeline prioritization
  • Competitive landscape indicators and owner activity patterns in your target markets

Delivery Options

  • Self-Managed: We design and build the intelligence system to your specification and hand it off to your team to operate, with documentation and initial training included
  • Red Grey Managed: We design, build, and operate the system on an ongoing basis, including data pipeline maintenance, model updates, insight curation, and quarterly strategic reviews
Before
Decisions made on instinct and lagging data, market shifts absorbed after the fact, no systematic view of what drives margin across the portfolio
After
Real-time operational visibility, forward-looking market intelligence, and a proprietary dataset that compounds in value with every project completed
S1

Estimation Services

Accurate, defensible estimates from conceptual budget through IFC bid package. Rapid turnaround built for real bid deadlines, without adding headcount.

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Core Deliverables

  • Complete quantity takeoffs by CSI MasterFormat division
  • Material, labor, equipment, and subcontractor pricing
  • Bid package assembly and review
  • Scope gap analysis and subcontractor bid leveling
  • Conceptual and parametric budgets (AACE Class 3–5)
  • Design development and GMP estimates
  • Addenda tracking and estimate updates
Before
Bids missed or rushed because estimating capacity can't keep pace with the pipeline
After
Every bid opportunity pursued with accurate, defensible pricing, without adding headcount
S2

BIM Management

Intelligent 3D model management, clash detection, quantity extraction, and design coordination. BIM execution capability without the full-time hire.

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Core Deliverables

  • BIM Execution Plan (BEP) development and enforcement
  • Federated model assembly and management (Revit, Navisworks, ACC)
  • Clash detection and coordination issue tracking
  • Model-based quantity extraction for estimating
  • LOD 200–400 model development and review
  • Subcontractor BIM coordination facilitation
  • As-built and record model management
Before
MEP conflicts discovered in the field, tear-out, re-installation, and schedule impact absorbed by the GC
After
Clashes resolved in the model before crews mobilize, at hours of cost, not days of rework
S3

VDC Management

Strategic integration of digital tools across the full project lifecycle, from pre-construction planning to field execution. The upgrade above BIM coordination.

Discuss VDC Services

Core Deliverables

  • VDC strategy and technology roadmap
  • 4D construction sequencing and site logistics simulation
  • Prefabrication and offsite manufacturing coordination
  • Digital twin setup and commissioning support
  • Field technology integration (tablets, AR, scanning workflows)
  • Platform optimization, Procore, Autodesk ACC, Revit
  • Team training and adoption support
Before
Digital tools underutilized, schedule conflicts surfacing late, prefabrication opportunities missed
After
A fully integrated digital delivery strategy from preconstruction through field execution
S4

Custom Application Development

Purpose-built tools for construction workflows and the AI systems that support them. Estimating tools, intelligence dashboards, data pipelines, client portals, and process automation. We build what off-the-shelf software can't do.

Discuss a Custom Build

What We Build

  • Estimating and scoping tools with automated proposal generation
  • Intelligence dashboards and decision support systems
  • Data pipeline and integration development for AI-ready infrastructure
  • Client and subcontractor portals
  • Data integration connectors between construction platforms
  • Process automation for repetitive workflows
  • Mobile-friendly field tools and inspection apps
Before
Manual workflows, disconnected platforms, and data re-entered three times to get to the right report
After
A purpose-built system that does exactly what the operation needs, connected, automated, and built to last
S5

Reality Capture

3D laser scanning, drone photogrammetry, and point cloud processing to document existing conditions, verify construction progress, and feed accurate as-built data into your BIM and intelligence systems.

Request a Capture Quote

Core Deliverables

  • Terrestrial laser scanning, interior and exterior conditions
  • Drone photogrammetry, site, structure, and progress documentation
  • Point cloud processing and registration
  • Scan-to-BIM model creation (Revit, Navisworks)
  • Progress verification and deviation reporting
  • Orthomosaic maps and 3D site models
Before
Existing conditions assumed from old drawings, errors discovered during construction at full cost
After
Millimeter-accurate site data feeding design, BIM, and intelligence systems before decisions are made
S6

Plan Modification & Revision Services

CAD and BIM-based plan revisions, RFI resolution, sketch-to-drawing conversion, and as-built documentation. Fast, accurate, and formatted to your project standards.

The drafting and documentation layer that keeps BIM, VDC, and field execution moving, without bottlenecking on in-house capacity.

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Core Deliverables

  • CAD redlines and plan revisions (AutoCAD, Civil 3D)
  • BIM model updates and revision coordination
  • RFI sketches to formal drawing conversion
  • As-built documentation from field redlines
  • Shop drawing review and markup
  • Sketch-to-CAD conversion for design modifications
Before
Plan revisions bottlenecked by in-house capacity — field waiting on drawings, schedule slipping
After
Accurate, formatted revisions turned around on project schedule — field keeps moving
S7

Site Research & Reporting

Comprehensive pre-construction research, zoning, utilities, environmental constraints, geotechnical data, and site feasibility reporting for informed project decisions before design dollars are committed.

The project-specific intelligence layer that connects to the broader market and operational data in the Profit-Driven Construction Intelligence platform.

Commission a Site Report

Core Deliverables

  • Zoning and land use research and summary
  • Utility identification and infrastructure mapping
  • Environmental constraint review (wetlands, floodplain, contamination)
  • Geotechnical data review and site condition summary
  • Site feasibility reports for due diligence and financing
  • Comparable project benchmarking by location and type
Before
Site constraints discovered mid-design or during permitting — scope changes and cost overruns absorbed after the fact
After
A complete site picture before design dollars are committed — decisions made on data, not assumptions
S8

Fractional Resources

On-demand project managers, engineers, superintendents, and field leadership. The construction industry's hardest roles to hire, available at the commitment your project actually needs. No full-time risk, no months-long recruiting cycle.

Discuss Your Staffing Need

Available Roles

  • Fractional Project Manager, full project delivery oversight
  • Fractional Project Engineer, RFIs, submittals, schedule, coordination
  • Fractional Superintendent, field execution and trade coordination
  • Fractional Estimator, scaled estimating capacity
  • Fractional BIM Manager, model management and VDC support
  • Fractional VDC Manager, digital delivery strategy and execution
Before
Projects understaffed, key roles unfilled for months, delivery quality inconsistent as a result
After
The right professional in the right role within days, at the commitment the project actually requires

Start with the free Margin Scan.

See where your operation stands across 14 disciplines in 5 minutes — before you commit to anything.

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