FlowManual provides an AI‑powered, all‑in‑one back‑office platform for construction contractors that automates contract review, RFIs, estimating, vendor pricing, submittals, and change orders. The system runs in a container on the contractor’s own hardware, ensuring that contracts, bids, and invoices never leave the premises and remain inaccessible to the vendor. It highlights scope, deadlines, and exclusions directly in documents, helping users catch critical details on the first pass.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Construction contractors often spend extensive manual effort reviewing contracts, estimating bids, managing vendor pricing, and processing submittals and change orders, leading to missed scope items, pricing errors, and delayed project timelines.
Solution
FlowManual offers an AI‑powered back‑office platform that automates the extraction of scope, deadlines, exclusions, and pricing details from construction specifications and contracts. The system highlights relevant clauses with direct links, enabling rapid first‑pass reviews. All processing runs on the contractor’s own hardware—either on‑premise or in a private container—so documents never leave the building. Data is protected with AES‑256‑GCM encryption, zero‑retention text handling, and no telemetry, ensuring confidentiality of margins and vendor relationships. The platform extends beyond contract review to support RFIs, estimating, vendor pricing, submittals, and change orders within a single workbench.
Target Audience
Primary customers are construction contractors, estimators, and project managers who need efficient, secure back‑office tools for contract analysis and bid management.
Features
- First‑Read mode that automatically extracts and color‑codes scope, deadlines, and exclusions with clickable clause references
- End‑to‑end AI workflow covering contract review, RFIs, bid estimation, vendor pricing, submittals, and change orders
- On‑premise or private‑container deployment ensuring files never leave the contractor’s network
- AES‑256‑GCM encryption at rest and SHA‑256 keyed audit digests for secure data storage
- Zero‑retention processing where only plain text is sent to the AI model, with optional local model execution
- No telemetry, remote access, or third‑party data collection; full IT control after installation
- Free tier with daily usage allowance and unlimited projects, plus scalable paid plans and custom on‑premise options for teams