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Volve

Volve provides an AI-powered intelligence platform for construction tendering and preconstruction, helping contractors analyze dense document sets to identify risks, ensure compliance, and make informed bid decisions. The platform maps requirements, scope, and risk across contracts, specs, and bid files, enabling coverage checks, deviation flags, and subcontractor bid comparisons. Used on over 2,500 projects, Volve has supported complex tenders involving hundreds of documents and dozens of subcontractor bids.

Traction 10/10
Oslo, Norway · HQ
Founded 2024143K+ followers
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • AI Agents
  • Data & Analytics
  • Construction Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • Software Only
Updated 2 months ago

Funding

Raised to date

$3MRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.

across 1 round

DKJ+1

$3M · Seed

Announced Aug 2026 · from article date

Disclosed cumulative: $3M

Founders

2 founders

Herman Smith

CEO

Alf Dovland

COO

Product

Problem

Construction tendering involves large, complex document sets that must be reviewed under tight deadlines. Manual review processes are time-consuming, fragmented, and prone to missed requirements, compliance gaps, and costly mistakes that weaken bid quality and create problems difficult to fix after contract signing.

Solution

Volve is an AI-powered intelligence platform purpose-built for construction tendering and preconstruction. It reads full documentation—contracts, specs, tenders, and bid files—and converts unstructured information into structured insight that supports go/no-go decisions, pricing, and risk assessment. The platform maps how requirements, scope, and risk connect, enabling coverage checks, compliance verification, and deviation flags. It also supports comparisons across document sets, such as RFP versus bid, standards versus requirements, and bids against each other, while carrying a baseline into project execution to check supplements and changes against the original contract.

Target Audience

Primary customers are contractors and public clients in the construction industry, particularly preconstruction and tendering teams at leading construction firms across the Nordics and expanding into the UK and continental Europe.

Features

  • AI-powered document analysis that reads and structures contracts, specifications, tenders, and bid files
  • Coverage checks and compliance verification to identify missed requirements and gaps
  • Risk and deviation flagging to surface potential issues before commitment
  • Document set comparison capabilities for RFP vs bid, standards vs requirements, and bid vs bid analysis
  • Subcontractor bid comparison and evaluation support
  • Contract baseline that carries into execution for tracking supplements and changes
  • Connected data structure that reuses knowledge across projects and markets
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