Put AI to work beside the people who know your business.
Most companies have tried AI. Few have built it into the way their work gets done. Vanno closes that gap, and we start with your people.
The first interview is free. 20 minutes, by phone.Your people know how the work really moves.
A job passes through many hands between the first call and the final invoice. We ask each person where it slows down. Three things come up in almost every company.
Work that waits on information.
An estimate cannot go out until the drawings, the past jobs and the supplier quotes are in one place. The bid sits while someone gathers them.
The bid sits here.Checks that hold up the next step.
A submittal against the spec. An invoice against the contract. Each one has to be right before the job can move, and each one is done by hand, line by line.
Back and forth, one line at a time.Steps that run through two or three people.
A few people know how the company really works, so every job waits its turn with them. The company can take on only as much as they can get to.
Every job waits on these two.AI built into the way your work moves.
We follow a workflow from its first step to its last and put AI where the work slows down. Your people keep every decision.
The estimate today
The bid sits while someone gathers the drawings, the past jobs and the supplier quotes.
The estimate with the build
AI pulls them into one sheet as the invitation arrives. Your estimator prices the job.
The same job at a contractor, from bid invitation to final invoice
Bid invitation
AI reads the bid documents and lists the scope, the dates and what is missing.
Your person decides whether to bid.
Estimate
AI pulls the drawings, past jobs and supplier quotes into one sheet.
Your person prices the job.
Submittals
AI checks each one against the spec and marks what does not match.
Your person approves it or sends it back.
Billing
AI matches the invoice to the contract and the work completed.
Your person signs off and sends it.
The same team produces more, and every build has a return you can measure.
“The drain was gathering scattered information and following up. It was not the decisions themselves.”
From one of our client interviews.
Three things you can hold us to.
The first build is in use within weeks.
We pick one workflow, build AI into it, and put it in the hands of the people who run it now.
Every build has to pay for itself.
Before we start, we put a number on what it costs and what it should return: more bids out, more jobs per manager, invoices sent sooner, fewer errors to fix. Afterward we measure against that number and show you.
We stay.
Your business changes, and what we build has to change with it. We keep it working and build the next one when you are ready.
Read, then build, then run.
The Read
We interview up to ten of your people and study how work moves through the company. You get a written account of where work slows down and a ranked list of what to build first, with the expected return on each.
The Build
We build AI into the first workflow on that list and put it to work beside your people. Each build has a fixed price that you approve before we start.
The Run
We keep what we built working, report the return each month, and build the next one when you say so.
We did this in our own companies first.
Our home is the firms that design, build, supply and operate real estate. We own and run companies in that world, and every method we offer was tried there first.
A property we own and operate
An AI assistant answers the phone. The maintenance crew and the on-site hosts run their day from apps we built with them.
A real estate advisory firm we run
AI researches leads, writes up meetings and assembles field reports that used to take an evening.
A commercial general contractor
We interviewed eleven people across the office and the field, and built a submittal review tool from what they told us.
Where we stand.
AI is a turning point in how companies work. We built our own companies around that belief, and now we help other owners do the same.
AI changes how work gets done.
It is the largest change to the way a company runs since email and the spreadsheet. We do not think it passes, and we do not think any trade is exempt.
A chat window is not the change.
Asking a chatbot a question helps one person for a few minutes. The gain comes when AI is built into the workflow, so the estimate, the submittal and the invoice each move to the next step with your people making the calls.
The sooner a company adapts, the better.
A company that builds AI into its work now learns sooner and takes on more with the team it has. Waiting does not make the change easier, and the distance to the companies that started grows.
We learned it in our own companies first.
We were early to build AI into daily workflows, and we did it in the businesses we own and run. We made our mistakes there. We bring what works to owners who intend to do well in what comes next.
Request your interview.
Tell us who you are and what you do. We study your company and your trade first, so the interviewer calls prepared. It asks about your work: how a job reaches you, what you do with it, where it goes next and where it gets stuck.
Afterward we send you a short written summary of where your work slows down and where AI would pay off. It is free, and there is no meeting unless you want one.
We email you a number to call when your interview is ready.