Plandini · Preconstruction, end to end
Read. Study. Develop. Propose.
Close. Turn over. Kick off.
One tool for the whole preconstruction loop — from the first plan read to the turnover package and kickoff. Every document gets an audible study guide your supers and foremen can listen to on the drive in. Estimators, field leadership, PMs — one source of truth.
All 50
CSI divisions covered
Up to 200 MB
Plan set ingest
MSP XML · PDF · CSV
Schedule export
DOCX · PDF
Proposal output
What Plandini does
One loop, end to end — not a tool you bolt onto seven others.
Plandini covers every stage of preconstruction — reading the drawings, studying the specs, developing the bid, writing the proposal, closing the job, assembling the turnover package, and kicking the project off to your PM. One product. One source of truth. Same place every estimator on your team works.
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Read
02
Study
03
Develop
04
Propose
05
Close
06
Turn over
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Kick off
01 · Read
Read the plans. Find the gaps.
Drop in the full plan set. Plandini reads every sheet, extracts the equipment schedule, maps trade scope boundaries, and tells you exactly where the drawings and specs disagree — across all 50 CSI divisions, not just one trade.
- Cross-references equipment schedules against what is actually drawn
- Maps scope boundaries — what is GC vs specialty trade vs design-assist
- Flags equipment shown on drawings but missing from the schedule
- Drafts the RFI text for every flag so you can review and send
4,200 LF · matches Sht M-2
Spec mismatch on Sht P-3
23 panels scheduled · E-1
142 EA · zone count short
Structural coord ✓
02 · Develop & Propose
Your proposal, filled from your template.
Feed Plandini five or ten of your past proposals. It synthesizes a single unified template, learns your voice and your section order, then writes the next proposal for you — scope, schedule, schedule of values, alternates, and turnover package — formatted exactly the way your company writes them.
- Synthesizes a template from any number of past examples
- Pulls cover, schedule, SOV, alternates, and bond letter into one document
- Outputs DOCX you can hand-edit, or a press-ready PDF
- Per-section AI fill — never a single blob you have to untangle
Cover
Mechanical & controls retrofit
Project 2847 · First Federal Plaza
Scope
Auto-filled
Schedule
14-week Gantt
SOV
$ broken out
— Furnish and install rooftop equipment per Sht M-1...
— Coordinate with controls contractor per Sequence M-9...
— Provide complete ductwork system as shown on M-2 through M-6...
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03 · Estimate
Seed the bid from your last twenty similar jobs.
The variant extractor reads your intake notes, walks the historical corpus, and finds the three closest comparable projects you have already built. Then it lays in a numbers-down starting bid — labor, equipment, sub costs — so the estimator opens to a draft, not an empty spreadsheet.
- Variant extractor reads voice / text / meeting intake notes
- Three closest comparables surfaced with similarity scores
- Numbers-down bid seeded from your archive, not RSMeans
- Configurable safe-side bias so the first draft never under-runs
14,200 SF · MEP retrofit · 2023
11,800 SF · full reno · 2024
18,400 SF · controls upgrade · 2023
Numbers-down draft
$284,500
Labor
$612,200
Equipment
$148,700
Sub costs
04 · Close & Turn Over
Chat your archive. Hand over the package.
Every document on every job — bids, RFIs, addenda, walk notes, meeting transcripts — sits in one cited corpus you can ask questions of. When the job closes, the turnover package is already assembled, audio-briefed, and ready to hand to your PM at kickoff.
- Cited chat over every document on every job you have ever bid
- Audible study guide on every doc — supers and foremen walk it on the drive in
- Turnover package auto-assembled when the bid is awarded
- Kickoff hand-off in one click — your PM opens to a ready job
You
What sub did we use for fire sprinkler on the Linde job, and what was the unit price per head?
Plandini
Westport Fire on the Linde Phase II job (2023). Their bid came in at $48.20 per head installed. They were the low of three bids; the other two were Atlas at $54.10 and Northstar at $51.80.
Also included
Everything else preconstruction wants in one place.
Scope-of-work generation
Trade-specific narrative drawn from the plans and specs.
RFI management
Voice or text in, formal RFI out, plan references attached.
Vendor quote import
Drop in vendor PDFs — AI parses and matches to line items.
Bond letter requests
DOCX bond letter to your bonding agent in one click.
Phase-by-phase Gantt + MSP
Multi-select, batch indent, MSP XML and PDF exports.
Insurance gap detection
Upload the COI — AI compares against the job spec.
Audible study guide on every doc
Supers and foremen walk a 200-page spec on the drive in.
Shared document library
Every doc the system generates, in one searchable place.
The shift
Your estimators are spending forty percent of bid time just reading drawings.
That is time not spent pricing, not spent on strategy, not spent on the next bid. Plandini gives that time back.
The old way
- Six to eight hours reviewing plan sets by hand
- Scope gaps discovered in the field
- RFIs written the night before bid day
- Team working off three different drawing revisions
- Equipment schedules rebuilt in Excel from scratch
- Proposals re-typed from last quarter’s Word doc
With Plandini
- Plan set read in minutes, not days
- Every scope gap flagged before you submit
- RFIs drafted in seconds with plan references attached
- Single source of truth across the preconstruction team
- Equipment schedules extracted and formatted automatically
- Proposal filled from your template, every time
Early access · limited availability
Run the whole preconstruction loop
from one place.
Your competitors are still reading plan sets by hand. Get on early and see what running preconstruction end-to-end feels like.