Solutions · Preconstruction · 06 / 06Construction Operating System
One preconstruction record.
A controlled path to award.
Connect plan review, quantity takeoff, estimating, cost history, bid packages, bid leveling, buyout, and GMP development—then carry the awarded scope and financial basis directly into the live project.
The tools · Preconstruction
Six preconstruction tools. One carry.
One estimate telling one story — the curtain-wall scope you read here becomes a takeoff quantity, a priced line, a trade package and a number in the GMP. Same set. Same carry.
ILLUSTRATIVE MOCKUP — NOT CUSTOMER DATA
AI Plan Reader
- · Scope Detection
- · Assemblies
- · Sheet Index
- · Plan Set
Read the set, not the room.
Upload the plan set and the AI identifies scopes, assemblies and sheets — the reading an estimator does first, done against the drawings you actually bid.
Quantity Takeoff
- · By Trade
- · Cost Codes
- · Measured
- · Traceable
Quantities, traceable to the sheet.
Measured quantities by trade and cost code — every number traceable back to the sheet it came from, not a spreadsheet nobody else can audit.
Cost Database
- · Historical Costs
- · Vendor Quotes
- · Unit Pricing
- · Your Data
Priced from your own history.
Line items priced against your own historical costs and current vendor quotes — the number is defensible because it is yours, not a regional average.
Trade Packages
- · Bid-Ready
- · Scopes
- · Award
- · Subcontracts
Packages that carry to award.
Bid-ready trade packages — drawings, scopes and quantities assembled — that carry straight to award as subcontracts, with nothing rekeyed.
Conceptual Estimating
- · $/SF History
- · Assemblies
- · Allowances
- · Early Budget
A number before the drawings are done.
Conceptual estimates from $/SF history and assemblies — a defensible budget before the construction documents exist, so the decision doesn't wait on the set.
GMP Forecasting
- · GMP
- · Contingency
- · Carried to Budget
- · Financial Management
The winning number, carried to the budget.
Forecast the GMP and carry it straight into Financial Management as the budget — the number you win the job on becomes the number you build to.
The estimate · carried forward
Watch the number carry to the budget.
Six preconstruction tools, one carry. Plans read, then quantities, then price — packaged, estimated and forecast into a GMP that becomes the budget you build to.
ILLUSTRATIVE MOCKUP — NOT CUSTOMER DATA
Trades
38 taken off
Packages
12 ready
Estimate
conceptual set
Last write
GMP → budget
AI Plan Reader
Plans read · scopes identified
The set is read — scopes, assemblies and sheets identified from the drawings you bid.
Quantity Takeoff
38 trades taken off
Measured quantities by trade and cost code, each traceable back to the sheet.
Cost Database
Priced from cost history
Priced against your own historical costs and current vendor quotes — not a regional average.
Trade Packages
12 trade packages built
Bid-ready packages that carry to award as subcontracts — nothing rekeyed.
Conceptual Estimating
Conceptual estimate set
A defensible number before the construction drawings are done.
GMP Forecasting
GMP carried to budget
The winning number carried straight into Financial Management as the budget.
Estimated before the ground breaks — carried onto the project
Why an operating system
By the time you win, the estimate is already the budget.
Legacy preconstruction is a stack of apps that don't speak: takeoff in one, pricing in a spreadsheet, packages in email, the GMP rekeyed into accounting. The Construction Operating System keeps one number — the scope you read, the quantity you took off, the price from your history, the GMP you won — carried straight into Financial Management as the budget, with nothing retyped.
Workflows
Preconstruction Workflows
The number you win the job on — the number you build to
How Syntecton helps · Preconstruction
Every Estimate. One Carry.
Legacy preconstruction scatters the estimate across takeoff apps, pricing spreadsheets and email — and the GMP is rekeyed into accounting once the job is won.
The Construction Operating System keeps the estimate on one number — the scope, the quantity, the price, the package, the GMP — carried straight into Financial Management as the budget.
Preconstruction is where the number you win the job on becomes the number you build to — on the project the team will run.
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