Pricing

One number. Every month.

No logins to buy, no meter running, no invoice you did not expect. You are priced on the size of your business — the same way your bonding company and the SBA already size you — and that is the number, whether it is a slow February or the busiest bid month you have ever had. Built for the contractors that enterprise construction software has never bothered to serve.

01 / The promise

Your bill does not move.

Usage-based software asks a contractor to sign a contract with no number on the end of it. You carry enough uncapped exposure already — weather, escalation, a sub who folds mid-job. Your back office should not be one of them.

No meter. No seat count. Four estimates this month or forty — the invoice is identical.

Your band is set by annual revenue, revisited once a year in a conversation. Never as a line item you find afterwards.

What that means in practice
No overage billing. There is no surcharge line on an AIC invoice. There is no mechanism for one.
No logins to buy. Put every estimator, PM and superintendent on it. Headcount never changes your bill.
No feature gating. The smallest band gets the same modules as the largest.
No annual lock. Month to month, cancel with 30 days’ notice.
One company, one operation. The price covers your business — not a group of companies under one login.
02 / The platform

Priced the way you are already sized.

General contractors and specialty contractors carry the same complexity at very different revenue. So the bands split — and the top of the range is the federal small-business line, not a number we invented.

Start-up
We know what the first two years do to a contractor. This is built for that. The work is rarely what kills a new company — the cycle is. Feast, then famine, then a drought long enough to break your nerve, then more work than you can staff. Nobody teaches levelling, so it repeats until the will runs out.
 
$250 + 0.75%per month · capped at $1,500i
Recovery
Built and priced for what comes after the plan. You already know the cycle — you borrowed into it. What is closed now is doors: bonding, financing, a network that remembers. Clean books reopen them. You are not being carried here; you are being backed.
 
$250per month · years 1–2i
Standard
GC under $15M · specialty & subcontractors under $7M. An established contractor running real work with a back office that is stretched thin.
$1,500per month
Scale
GC $15M–$45M · specialty & subcontractors $7M–$19M. Multiple crews, a busy bid desk, up to the SBA small-business ceiling.i
$4,000per month

Getting set up.

One-time
Onboarding — pilot membersDiagnostic, cost-code setup, tenant provisioning, data migration$2,500
Onboarding — standardThe same work, at full price$7,000
Onboarding — Start-up and RecoveryiRepaid out of what you collect$0 up front

Onboarding is real labour and does not get waived. For a start-up it is also the hardest cheque to write — so it comes out of what you collect instead.

Ready to start on Standard or Scale?

You do not need the pilot. Tell us which band you are in on the form and we will get you set up — talk to us.

Above the size standard, we are not your answer.

Past $45M as a GC or $19M as a specialty subcontractor you are no longer an SBA small business. You can staff a controller, a safety director, a preconstruction group — and you should.

What we will discuss is tailored agents built to live inside your own systems, on a fixed-price basis, with a service contract after delivery. Your data, your environment, your control. What we will not do is pretend to have the global enterprise systems a $500M builder needs, because we have not built them.

03 / À la carte

Or take one agent.

Six agents run on their own. Drop one into the workflow you already have, close the gap that is costing you, leave the rest alone.

If you have the platform, you already have these.

Every subscription band includes every module. À la carte is for contractors not ready for the whole platform — you are never charged twice.

AgentStart-up / RecoveryStandardScale
MeetContacts, prospects and recruiting — tiered, tracked, and not lost when someone leaves.$95$450$1,200
DecideGo/No-Go on real bid sources — intake, scoring, and the call to chase it or pass.$95$450$1,200
PreConEstimating and proposals — takeoff through a priced, footed proposal ready to send.i$95$450$1,200
PMField operations and project control — superintendent dailies, jobsite timecards, schedule, subs, change events, billings, award through close-out.$95$450$1,200
InspectJob walks, findings and progress reporting from the field, on a phone.$95$450$1,200
SafetyAccident prevention programs, job and activity hazard analyses, daily pre-task plans, training topics, site set-up and auditing.i$95$450$1,200

Pick the ones you want and say so on the call. Pilot members take 30% off these too.

Flat monthly, everyone in the company, no logins to buy. Three or more and take the platform instead — it costs less than the stack and brings the other five modules with it. We will say so rather than let you buy past it.

The roster grows; the platform price does not. Safety is the newest, and more are coming. Platform subscribers get every new agent as it ships, at no extra charge.

04 / Pilot program

The founding offer.

30% off list, held for three years.i

Pilot members take 30% off every price on this page — platform and agents — held for three years from go-live, through any increase in between. Onboarding drops from $7,000 to $2,500 on top. The pilot itself runs three months, then simply continues at your founding rate. Nothing auto-escalates.

Standard, founding$1,050/mo
Scale, founding$2,800/mo
Single agent, Standard$315/mo
Onboarding saving$4,500

Standard band, over the three years: $16,200 off the subscription plus $4,500 off onboarding — $20,700.

The founding rate is not for the Start-up and Recovery bands.

They already sit at $250 against a $1,500 list — deeper than the pilot discount, delivered as a band instead of a concession. Reach the Standard band and you become eligible to join the pilot if the cohort is still open.

Your name stays on it.i

Pilot members are listed as Members on the AIC site and across our social channels, in a standing display that links straight through to your own website. The first contractor in carries the Pathfinder designation. It costs nothing and runs as long as your account is in good standing. Being listed is your choice — stay unnamed if you prefer, at no cost to anything else you get.

Alongside it we publish what members actually say — including the criticism, with what we changed and the member's confirmation that we fixed it.

What you get
The whole platform on your real work — live bids, live jobs, not a sandbox.
30% off list for three years from go-live.
Member listing on our site and social channels, linked to yours, for as long as your account is in good standing — if you want it.
Onboarding at $2,500 — diagnostic, cost codes, provisioning, migration.
Direct access to the people building it.
Your own tenant. Isolated environment; your data never touches another client's.
What we ask
Run live work through it. A test account teaches us nothing and teaches you less.
Tell us the truth on a set cadence — a 30-minute call every two weeks — about what helps and what doesn't.
Access under NDA to the workflows the agents touch, so we deploy them properly.
Let us cite results anonymously — figures, never your name. Opt out and keep the rate.
A note in writing when you onboard and again at 90 days — what worked and what didn't. You can decline either one.
Patience with an early platform, and credit for shaping a good one.

The rules, plainly.

  1. Your band. Set by annual revenue at signing and revisited once a year. Growing mid-year does not change this year's invoice.
  2. Start-up band. Your first two years, then the band your revenue puts you in.
  3. Recovery band. Runs alongside your plan. Flat for two years; from year three it adds 0.5% of collections, capped at the Standard rate. When the plan closes you move to the Standard rate in force at that time. We will ask for something that shows you qualify — neither band is a discount you can simply request.
  4. Deferred onboarding. Governed by your written agreement. The balance clears at 0.25% of collections until $2,500 is retired or two years pass. Cancel voluntarily inside those two years and the unpaid balance falls due. If the business closes, it is written off — we are not chasing a contractor who did not make it.
  5. Start-up and Recovery are by application. Each is set up under its own written agreement, scoped to your circumstances, and AIC may decline any application. If we do, the à-la-carte agents remain open to you at the same banded pricing.
  6. Testimonials. We ask every member on a concessionary rate — Pathfinder, Pilot, Start-up and Recovery — for a short written note at onboarding and again at 90 days. Either is optional. We choose what to publish, and nothing carrying your name, mark or company goes out without your written approval, in the exact form it will appear. We publish criticism too — what a member told us we got wrong, what we changed, and their confirmation that it was put right. Everything we publish will be factual.
  7. Member recognition runs while your account is in good standing — subscription current, nothing outstanding. You may stay incognito; nothing else changes if you do. It is a listing and a link, not an endorsement of your work, and either side can ask for it to come down at any time.
  8. Term. The pilot runs three months from go-live, then continues month to month at your founding rate. Nothing auto-escalates and nothing auto-upgrades your band.
  9. No lock-in. Cancel any time with 30 days’ written notice. You are billed through the notice period and not beyond it.
  10. Losing the rate. The founding rate belongs to a continuous subscription and runs three years from go-live. Cancel and come back later and you return at list. A missed payment does not cost you the rate on its own — you have 15 days to clear it, and only an uncured default ends it.
  11. One number. The subscription is the whole recurring charge. No usage surcharge, no overage line, no automatic band bump.
  12. Onboarding is not refundable. It is work performed. If you leave, you leave with a configured, exported set of records.
  13. Your data. You own it. Your tenant is isolated. We process it to run your agents and nothing else, you can export it in standard formats at any time including on the way out, and we delete on request.
  14. Confidentiality runs both ways. Your bids, margins and client relationships stay yours. Our unreleased work stays ours.
  15. Human approval. Agents produce the work and hand it to a person for the decision. No autonomous money movement, no signing authority, nothing out over your name without someone on your side approving it.
  16. What we don't promise. Access and effort, not outcomes. Modules still in build are named as such and never sold as available.
05 / Questions

Before you ask.

Why price on revenue instead of users?
Because headcount moves every month and revenue does not. Seat licences also punish exactly what you want — everybody on the system, feeding it. The platform exists to take work off desks, so charging per desk is backwards.
Is there any way this bill gets bigger without me agreeing?
No. There is no usage surcharge and no automatic band change. The only way your recurring number moves is a conversation with you at the annual review.
I am a GC at $16M. Am I really in the same band as a $44M builder?
Yes, and that is the trade for a simple price. If your operation genuinely sits between the two, say so on the call — we would rather size you right than watch you leave in month six.
Do the two revenue lines mean specialty contractors pay more?
The opposite. A specialty contractor doing $6M carries about the same estimating, purchasing and field load as a GC doing $14M, so they land in the same band at less than half the revenue. Splitting the line is what keeps that fair.
Do you only publish the good reviews?
No. We ask every member on a concessionary rate for a written note at onboarding and at 90 days, and we deliberately publish some of the criticism — what we got wrong, what we changed, and the member confirming it was fixed. A wall of praise tells a contractor nothing. And for every person who complains there are several who said nothing, tolerated it, built up resentment and quietly left. We would rather hear it and fix it.
What happens when the pilot ends?
You stop reporting on a schedule and go about your business. Your rate runs on, your data is where you left it. We would welcome the dialogue continuing but we do not require it — and your listing stays up for as long as your account is in good standing.
06 / The long view

What you are buying into.

Our read: commercial and public construction is five to ten years from physical AI on the jobsite, with augmented crews rather than replaced ones. Residential stays a human business — people will keep hiring people to work in their homes. B2B and B2G will not stay the same.

Put the back office on rails now, while the stakes are a subscription rather than a re-tooling. AIC is built to carry you across that line, not to be what you leave behind at it.

Founding cohort

Pick your way in.

Subscribe on Standard or Scale, apply for the founding cohort at 30% for three years, or take a single agent. Tell us where you are and we will tell you straight which band fits.

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