Hardside

AI agents for contractors

The bid goes out. The mistakes don't.

Hardside builds and runs an AI agent for your contracting business. It files the plans, runs the takeoffs, writes the RFIs, and keeps the billing straight. You text it like you'd text someone in the office.

Read Pablo's email Talk to Austin
Agent / on the job for a general engineering contractor

What one contractor's agent handles today

Unedited, from a customer's agent

We could write the pitch. Pablo already did.

Pablo is the AI agent Hardside built for Chris Cox at Cox General Engineering. Chris wanted to pass our name along to a couple of contractors. Instead of writing the email, Chris handed the job to Pablo.

This is what Pablo sent.

From
Pablo · CGE AI Assistant
To
Two contractors Chris knows

I'm Pablo, the AI assistant for Chris at Cox General Engineering. Chris asked me to send you the link to Austin's company, Hardside: https://www.hardside.ai/

Here's a quick look at what I do for Chris:

  1. Pull plans and specs from email and file them in the right job folder
  2. Run takeoffs and build bids from his pricing
  3. Write RFIs and help answer emails from GCs and suppliers
  4. Catch mistakes before a bid goes out, like plans that don't match the specs
  5. Make packets for his foremen
  6. Keep track of invoices and billing

Chris talks to me by text, the same way he'd talk to someone in the office.

If you have questions, reach out to Chris.

-Pablo
CGE AI Assistant

Only the greeting was removed. Everything else is exactly as Pablo wrote it.

Six jobs off your plate

Text it like the office.

No app to learn and no prompts to write. You text your agent the way you'd text someone in the office, and it texts back when the work is done.

  1. 01

    Plans and specs land in the right job folder.

    When a GC emails a plan set, an addendum, or a spec book, your agent pulls it, names it, and files it where your crew expects to find it.

    Did the new plan set for Lincoln Ave come in?

    Yes. 38 sheets plus specs and Addendum 2, filed in Lincoln Ave / Bid Docs.

    Filed job folder
  2. 02

    Takeoffs and bids, priced your way.

    It takes off quantities from the plans and builds the bid from your own pricing, not some national average.

    Take off the curb and gutter and price it with our numbers.

    1,240 LF of Type A curb and gutter at your rate. Bid draft is in the job folder.

    Takeoff + bid draft
  3. 03

    RFIs written. GC emails answered.

    It drafts RFIs when the documents conflict, and helps answer the GCs and suppliers who keep filling your inbox.

    GC wants to know if we included traffic control. Write back.

    Reply drafted: excluded, per line 14 of our proposal. Ready for your OK.

    RFI + email drafts
  4. 04

    Mistakes caught before the bid goes out.

    Plans that don't match the specs. A missing addendum. A quantity that doesn't add up. Your agent checks before you sign, and shows you the sheet.

    Anything off before this bid goes out?

    Sheet C-3 shows 6" base. Spec 32 11 23 calls for 8". Flagged in the bid notes.

    Plan-vs-spec check
  5. 05

    Packets your foremen can actually use.

    Plans, details, quantities, and the day's notes, pulled into one packet for the crew.

    Make the foreman packet for Monday's pour.

    Plans, cut sheets, and pour quantities in one PDF. Sent to the foreman.

    Foreman packet
  6. 06

    Invoices and billing, tracked.

    It keeps track of what's been billed, what's been paid, and what's still out.

    Who still owes us from last month?

    Three open invoices, $48,200 total. Reminders drafted for your OK.

    Billing status

Why Hardside

Built by an estimator.
Not an app company.

Hardside is run by Austin, who came up in utility construction and estimating. Your agent is built around how bids, plans, and billing actually move through a contractor's office, because that's the office Austin worked in.

01

Knows the documents

Plan sets, spec books, addenda, bid forms, and schedules of values.

02

Learns your shop

Your pricing, your job folders, your crews, and the way you write a bid.

03

Shows its work

Every flag points back to the sheet, spec section, or email it came from.

We run the machinery

Built for your shop.
Run by ours.

No setup weekend and no software to babysit. Hardside builds your agent, connects it to your email and files, and keeps it working.

01

We learn your shop.

Walk us through one job: where the plans come in, how you price it, and how the billing goes out.

02

We build your agent.

Your pricing, your folders, your email. It gets only the access the work requires.

03

We keep it sharp.

Updates, fixes, and tuning are on us. You keep texting the same agent.

Works with what you already use

  • Text messages
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Google Workspace™
  • Dropbox
  • Microsoft OneDrive
  • Microsoft Excel
  • QuickBooks®
  • PDFs & plan sets
THE POINT

You own the relationship. We own the technical bullshit.

Who it's for

For the contractor who is still estimator, PM, and back office.

An agent fits best when the owner is still doing the bids at night, the paperwork keeps piling up, and hiring another office person isn't the obvious answer yet.

  • 01General engineering & site work
  • 02Underground & utility contractors
  • 03Concrete, paving & flatwork
  • 04Specialty subcontractors

Start with one job. Prove it. Expand from there.

What keeps following you home?

Tell us the one job you're tired of doing at night. We'll tell you straight whether an agent can take it. So far every customer has come by word of mouth, so if someone sent you, tell us who.

hello@hardside.ai

Your first job for the agent

Where does the work get stuck?

Pick the closest answer. We'll turn it into a short email you can send to start the conversation.

Choose a workflow