Workbench provides an autonomous AI‑driven back‑office for construction firms, automatically monitoring projects, catching costly errors, and handling job costing, billing, forecasting, and compliance within existing tools like Procore and Sage. The AI crew operates via SMS, proposing actions that are executed only after user approval, and can be deployed in a day without platform migration.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Mid-market construction firms lose 5‑6 percentage points of profit each year due to back‑office inefficiencies such as miscoded costs, delayed work‑in‑progress entries, and compliance gaps. These errors accumulate across projects and are hard to eliminate with traditional staffing because the industry faces a shrinking labor pool.
Solution
Workbench delivers an autonomous AI back‑office that integrates with a contractor’s existing systems (e.g., Procore, Sage, Viewpoint, Acumatica) via OAuth. Named AI crew members continuously monitor project data, identify cost‑coding errors, missing entries, and compliance issues, and propose corrective actions through SMS. Users approve each action, after which the AI writes updates back to the source systems, automating job costing, billing, forecasting, and compliance without requiring platform migrations or extensive training. The solution can be deployed in under an hour, allowing firms to protect margin with minimal change‑management overhead.
Target Audience
Primary customers are mid‑market general contractors and construction firms that use cloud‑based project management and ERP tools and need to improve back‑office efficiency and margin protection.
Features
- AI crew members with distinct roles that monitor project data in real time and flag cost and compliance anomalies
- SMS‑based proposal workflow that requires user approval before any write‑back to connected systems
- One‑time OAuth integration with major construction and ERP platforms, enabling read/write access without data migration
- Automated job costing, billing draft generation, and cash‑flow forecasting based on continuously updated project information
- Compliance document tracking that surfaces missing or outdated records and suggests updates
- Scalable deployment: start with a single crew member for a specific workflow and add additional AI agents as value is demonstrated