Contractors & trades · Capital Region
Albany AI Pros was started by a Capital Region contractor who runs his own company on these systems. We set up AI for the work that eats your nights: takeoffs, bids, pricing requests, proposals and paperwork.
Built by a contractor with about 19 years in the trades
Off your plate
Where the nights go
The office work that piles up after a full day in the field. Every one of them is something we set AI up to handle, with you still making the calls.
Measuring square feet and counting openings off a PDF set, sheet by sheet, after dinner, because the bid is due at 2 PM tomorrow.
The fix Takeoffs measured from your PDF plansChecking state, county, city and school district bid pages one at a time, plus a stack of GC invites in your inbox, and still missing the one that fit your trade.
The fix A ranked bid list every morningTyping the same pricing request to every supplier and sub, then digging through replies to see who answered, who didn't and whose price runs out Friday.
The fix Supplier and sub pricing requestsYou told the GC you'd have a number by Friday. The scope, the exclusions and the schedule of values all get typed from scratch, late at night.
The fix Proposals, SOVs and pay apps from your notesThe GC wants a COI and a prequal packet. Job photos sit in your camera roll, receipts ride around in the truck, and the pay app waits for a free Saturday.
The fix COIs, prequals and daily reportsSound familiar?
A free visit at your shop or job site is the fastest way to find the one to hand off first.
Who builds it
Founder, Albany AI Pros · Owner, The Dom Construction Group
Meets you at the shop, the office or the job site
Most contractors Dom knows don’t have an office problem. They have a nights-and-weekends problem. The field work gets done. Then the takeoff, the pricing requests, the proposal, the COI and the pay app all wait until the kids are asleep.
Albany AI Pros started with Dom’s own company. He owns The Dom Construction Group here in Albany and has spent his career in masonry, stucco and EIFS, coatings, concrete and restoration. He still bids work and runs jobs, and he built these systems because he needed them:
We aren’t reselling an app we read about. We set up the same kind of system we use on real bids, on your own accounts, and show you and your office person how it works. If Polish is easier for you or your crew, Dom speaks it.
What stays the same: you. AI measures, drafts and fills out forms. You approve every price, proposal and form before it leaves. Nothing goes to a GC, a supplier or a homeowner without your OK.
What changes: the work stops waiting for Saturday. The missed call from the job site gets answered and booked. The county bid you would have missed shows up in the morning list. The daily report gets drafted from the photos you already take.
This is built for subs, specialty trades and small crews across the Capital Region, from public work for school districts and state agencies to a homeowner’s front steps. Start with the one task that costs you the most nights. Read 7 ways Capital Region contractors are using AI, or call or text us and we’ll meet you at the shop or the job site.
What we set up
Built on the accounts you already have. AI measures, drafts and fills in. You check it and send it, and you own every account and file.
Estimating & Takeoff Automation
AI reads the drawing set and measures the areas and counts you price. Two more AI models do their own count to cross-check it. Every sheet comes back marked up so you can check the work, and anything nobody could measure is flagged, not guessed.
How it works: Estimating & Takeoff AutomationWhat’s included
Works with
Bid Finding & Tracking
Every weekday morning it checks your inbox for GC invites and the New York public bid pages you care about, scores each job against your trades and area, and sends a short ranked list. You decide what to chase.
How it works: Bid Finding & TrackingWhat’s included
Works with
Supplier & Sub Pricing Requests
Pick the job and the list. AI drafts a personal pricing request for each supplier and sub with the right drawings and due date, holds them for your OK, and keeps track of who answered.
How it works: Supplier & Sub Pricing RequestsWhat’s included
Works with
Proposals, SOVs & Submittals
Talk through the scope on the drive back. AI turns it into a proposal with your exclusions and terms, a schedule of values and, later, the monthly pay app and invoice. You review and send.
How it works: Proposals, SOVs & SubmittalsWhat’s included
Works with
Compliance Paperwork
Your company facts are saved once. COI requests, prequal packets and vendor forms get filled from them, and the day's job photos turn into a dated daily report with your notes.
How it works: Compliance PaperworkWhat’s included
Works with
Not sure which one comes first?
Most shops start with the job that eats the most evenings. The AI Workflow Audit ranks them for you, and its fee is credited toward any build.
See it work
A photo quote and a morning bid list, running right here in your browser with sample data. Click through them like you would on a real job.
Photo → Estimate. Pick a job photo. The AI lists what it sees, writes a scope and drafts a line-item estimate.
Pick a job photo
Like the ones customers text you from the driveway.
Pick a photo above to start
It runs right here in your browser on sample data.
Working on it
What you get back
Draft estimate
Sample pricing — not a quote| Item | Qty | Unit | Unit price | Total |
|---|
Sample pricing — not a quote. The real version uses your own price list and markups.
Proposal ready
Brick wall crack repair
For Sample Homeowner · from Your Company Name · sample total
In the real version it’s your logo, your prices and your terms. You look it over and hit send.
Live demo with sample data. We build the real version on your own accounts.
Want estimates like this, priced your way?Bid Radar. A morning sweep of public bid listings and GC invites, ranked by how well each one fits you.
Your trade
Change it any time. The list re-ranks on the spot.
Albany in the middle, rings at 10, 25 and 50 miles. Each quarter is one kind of source.
This morning's list
Sample listings · not real bidsPick your trade and run the sweep. In the real version it runs on its own before you're up, and the ranked list is waiting in your inbox.
Morning summary
This list, in your inbox by 6:00 AM.
We set it up on your email and the bid sites you already check. It scores every new listing for your trade and keeps a running log of what you bid and what you passed on.
Live demo with sample data. We build the real version on your own accounts.
Want this on your own accounts?Real work
Built for The Dom Construction Group and used on real bids, jobs and books. The previews use made-up sample data, never real jobs or clients.
Drawing sets measured, priced and cross-checked by three AI models, then turned into the estimate workbook, proposal and marked-up sheets.
Every weekday morning it reads our inbox and New York's public bid sites, scores each opportunity for fit and sends one ranked report.
A personal pricing-request email for every supplier and sub on the list, drafted in one go, sent one at a time, with replies and follow-ups tracked.
Certificates of insurance, vendor forms, registrations and prequal packets filled from one saved company file, then checked by a person.
A year of bank statements and platform reports turned into an accountant-ready workbook with a P&L, balance sheet, ledger and reconciliations.
One page that updates itself: open bids, active jobs, who is waiting on a call back and what needs doing today.
A day with AI
A sample day for an owner-run shop. Your jobs and times will be different, but the idea holds: the office work keeps moving while you’re on the scaffold.
Day planner
A sample Tuesday
Coffee in the truck. The morning bid list is already in your inbox: a school district masonry job and a GC invite match your trades. You flag both.
Bid Finding & TrackingYou're up on the scaffold when a homeowner calls. The AI answers, gets the address and a few photos by text, and books a look for Thursday.
AI ReceptionistThe GC asks for a COI and the prequal by end of day. Both are filled from your saved company info and waiting for your OK.
Compliance PaperworkLunch on the tailgate. You approve pricing requests for the stucco job. They go out to your supplier list with the right sheets attached.
Supplier & Sub Pricing RequestsLast photos of the day. They land in a dated daily report with your notes, ready for the GC and the owner.
Compliance PaperworkHome for dinner. The takeoff for Friday's bid is measured and marked up. You check the sheets and the flagged items instead of starting from a blank set.
Estimating & Takeoff AutomationQuestions
Have a different one? Call or text (518) 704-3125.
More questions and answersNo. Most of what we set up is for owner-run shops where the owner is also the estimator, the project manager and the bookkeeper. We start with the job that eats the most of your evenings and build from there.
It can, which is why it never works alone. Every quantity is marked on the drawings so you can see exactly what was measured, anything it couldn't read is flagged, and you check the numbers before they go in a bid. On our own jobs we treat it like a fast junior estimator: helpful, and always checked.
Usually, yes. We build around what you have: Bluebeam or plain PDFs, Excel or Google Sheets, QuickBooks, Gmail or Outlook. If your bid invites come through Procore or BuildingConnected, we work from the emails and files they already send you.
The first visit is free. Most contractor systems, like takeoffs, the Bid Radar or pricing requests, are an Automation Build starting at $3,500 per workflow. If you want a plan first, the AI Workflow Audit starts at $500 and its fee is credited toward any build. You get the final price in writing before any work begins, and software is billed to you by the vendor, with no markup from us.
Yes. The Bid Radar can watch the New York public bid pages you choose, from state agencies to counties, towns and school districts, and flag what can sink a bid: mandatory pre-bid meetings, bond size, apprenticeship rules and project labor agreements. Prevailing wage paperwork gets organized per job, and certified payroll drafts are always checked and signed by your own person.
Yes. Everything is set up on accounts in your company’s name, using the business version of each tool with training on your data turned off wherever the vendor allows it. Your past bids and unit prices stay in your own files, and we’ll sign an NDA before we look at them if you ask. Our AI and data policy has the details.
Tak. Dom is fluent in Polish, so the visit, the training and the follow-up can all happen in Polish. That helps family companies and crews where Polish comes first.
Free intro visit
Tell us where to call. We’ll meet you at your shop, office or job site for a free visit, or set up a quick call if that’s easier.
We come to you anywhere in the Capital Region. Our office at 401 New Karner Road, Albany is open by appointment only. Mówimy po polsku.
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Two fields. A real person calls back, usually the same business day.
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