TARGET VALUE DESIGN
Great design means building to a budget.
Buildonto is an expert system built for Target Value Design — it holds the number from first concept through buyout, so cost stays a design input from day one.
Bidding is a high-risk bet — price one job wrong and it can swing the whole year. Target Value Design trades that gamble for disciplined convergence on a number you can defend: every line sourced, ranged, and yours to approve.
It narrows the cone of uncertainty — the range every early estimate carries — early and on purpose.
WHAT BUILDONTO DOES
A priced estimate you can defend.
Buildonto ingests your drawings, specs, and cost history and returns a priced, traceable estimate — every number sourced, ranged, and yours to approve. The fleet does the grind; your estimators approve numbers, flag risks, and confirm quantities. We don't make LLM calls in the app, so your data stays private and your numbers stay defensible, with provenance and audit logs behind every line.
High-risk work demands humans in control and answers that hold up in claims. We know where AI fails, so we built for human control — your people win the bid and build the job. Provenance is the moat: it protects truth and human authorship.
Price with provenance
Every line sourced and ranged. Bid at your defensible best and protect the team from claims.
Narrow the cone of uncertainty
Forecast cost and overrun risk from concept to GMP, and carry risk deliberately.
A first number in minutes
Automated takeoff and first-pass pricing put estimators on approval, so you bid more work with the same team.
Auditable and defensible
Every number stays sourced and yours to approve — defensibility that holds up in audit and claims.
Command the build
Level GC bids; carry holds, ranges, and risks; manage change orders; forecast burn by system; and generate a 3D prototype in minutes (digital-twin CSV export).
Secure and yours
No LLM calls in the app; runs AWS-encrypted or on-prem; architected for FedRAMP / SOC 2-style controls.
BUILT FOR
- Specialty trades & self-perform
- ENR Top-25 general contractors
- Data-center & critical infrastructure
WHY NOW
Built by operators who've deployed AI across $100B+ of global construction — alumni of Alice Technologies, Built Robotics, and Suffolk Construction, and Stanford d.school. We know AI intimately — and we kept the black box out of your cost model.
DESIGN TO A BUDGET