Bravo AI — From Bid to Billing. One Platform.

The Problem

"Where's My Steel?"

Sound familiar? Your estimating lives in a spreadsheet. Production is on a whiteboard. Shipping updates come through group texts. Drawing revisions get buried in email chains. Your erector is calling asking where the steel is, your GC wants a progress update, and you're flipping between 6 apps trying to find the answer. Every handoff — shop to field, fab to erector, you to the GC — is a chance for something to fall through the cracks. And in steel, when something falls through the cracks, it costs real money.

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Estimating in one system

Your bid lives in a spreadsheet that nobody else can access or update in real time.

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Production in another

Shop floor schedules disconnected from estimating and field data. Constant phone calls to sync up.

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Drawings on a shared drive

Version control by filename. "Final_v3_REVISED_USE-THIS.pdf" — and nobody's sure which is current.

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Timesheets on paper

Handwritten hours collected on Friday. Entered Monday. Job costing is always two weeks behind.

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Accounting in QuickBooks

Data manually re-keyed from your PM tool. Invoices disconnected from actual job progress.

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Shipping updates via text

"Hey, did that load leave yet?" — the most common question in structural steel, answered by group text.

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POs created manually — every time

Steel, decking, joists, bolts, paint, gas cylinders, welding rods — someone has to stop what they're doing and write up a PO for every single order. Half the time it doesn't get logged until days later — if it gets logged at all.

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Consumables? Good luck tracking those

Where did that last tank of argon go? When did we last order 7018 rods? How much are we spending on consumables per job? Nobody knows — because nobody's tracking it.

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Man hours tracked on paper — maybe

Field crew fills out timesheets at the end of the week. How many hours were on job 0029 vs 0028? What was the crane downtime? Nobody knows until payroll — if it even gets recorded accurately.

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Daily reports? End-of-day nightmare

Your superintendent finishes a 10-hour day and now has to log into a platform and recreate everything from memory. Equipment used, crew count, work completed, delays, safety notes — all typed up at 7 PM when they're exhausted. Half the details are already forgotten.

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Equipment time? Just guessing

How many hours was the crane on site? How much downtime waiting on deliveries? What's the actual equipment cost per job? Without real-time tracking, you're estimating your costs — not measuring them.

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Compliance? Good luck finding it

Insurance certs, safety docs, equipment maintenance records, fuel logs, crane inspections — scattered across filing cabinets, email attachments, and someone's truck. When the auditor shows up or the GC asks for proof of compliance, it's a scramble every single time.

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The average fab shop uses 5 to 7 disconnected tools to manage a single job. That's not a workflow — it's a workaround.

The Solution

The Full Lifecycle.
One Platform.

Every step of the structural steel lifecycle — connected, automated, and visible to everyone who needs it.

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Bid Dashboard

Pipeline from first call to signed contract.

Track opportunities and manage your pipeline from first call to signed contract. See every active bid, its stage, estimated value, and probability of close — all in one view.

Pipeline trackingWin/loss analyticsFollow-up remindersGC contact management

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Estimating

Material, labor, and equipment — all in one place.

Price the job with confidence. Build estimates from historical data, import tonnage from models, and compare against actuals from past jobs to sharpen your bids over time.

Material takeoffsLabor projectionsHistorical comparisonsMarkup & margin tools

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Drawings & Submittals

Revisions, approvals, always current.

Always know which version is current. Track submittal status per sequence, log RFIs, and keep a full audit trail of every revision — no more "Final_v3_REVISED_USE-THIS.pdf."

Revision trackingSubmittal logsRFI managementApproval workflows

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Purchasing

POs, vendors, and receipts tied to jobs.

Know what's ordered, what's received, and what's outstanding. Track consumables, log receipts by forwarding them to your AI email, and never lose a PO again.

PO creation & trackingVendor managementReceiving logsConsumable tracking

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Production Control

Shop floor scheduling and QC in real time.

Schedule the shop floor. Track fit-up, welding, paint, and QC in real time. Live 3D model viewer auto-synced from Tekla/SDS2 — click any piece to see its full history.

Shop schedulingQC checklists3D model viewerPiece-level tracking

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Shipping & BOLs

Build loads, generate BOLs, track deliveries.

Scan pieces onto a truck, auto-generate the BOL, and notify the erector the moment it rolls out. Every stakeholder sees shipping status in real time.

Load buildingAuto BOL generationDelivery trackingErector notifications

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Field & Erection

Crews, installs, safety, daily reports.

Superintendents can file daily reports by voice note — the AI writes them up. Track crane time, weather delays, and installed piece counts automatically.

Crew managementInstall trackingVoice daily reportsSafety documentation

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Job Costing & Time Tracking

Clock hours, track margins in real time.

Workers clock in from their phone, hours auto-allocate to cost codes, and you see estimate vs. actual at any point during the job. No more paper timesheets.

Mobile clock-in/outReal-time marginsEstimate vs. actualCost code breakdownsBudget alertsPayroll export

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Accounting-Ready Reports

Export-ready for QuickBooks, Sage, Xero.

Clean, export-ready reports your bookkeeper actually wants. PO summaries, labor costs, job costs, and invoice-ready pay apps. We don't touch your books — we just make sure the numbers are right.

Pay app generationPO summariesLabor cost reportsQuickBooks / Sage / Xero export

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Instant Updates

Welder marks a piece complete — PM sees it on their dashboard immediately. No waiting for end-of-day reports.

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Auto-Notifications

Schedule change? Shipment delayed? Everyone who needs to know gets notified instantly. No more phone tag.

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Live Dashboards

Every report, every metric reflects what's happening right now — not yesterday's data. Real-time visibility across your entire operation.

Your AI Assistant

Meet Your New
Right-Hand Man.

Every Bravo AI subscription includes an AI assistant that knows your shop, your jobs, and your data — inside and out. Ask anything, anytime. By text or voice. Unlimited.

🎤 "What's the status on Cotton Exchange?"

Job 0029 — Cotton Exchange:
67 total pieces • 41 fabricated • 18 shipped • 8 erected
3 POs outstanding ($12,400) • Next shipment: Tuesday AM
Job cost: $142K of $185K budget (76.8%)
⚠️ 4 column bases need to ship by Friday — erector has crane scheduled.

"Log a PO — 50lbs of 7018 rods from Airgas, $340, job 0029"

✅ PO #0029-047 created
50 lbs 7018 welding rods • Airgas • $340.00
Linked to Job 0029 — Cotton Exchange
Job cost updated: $142,340 of $185K budget

Real example. Voice note or text. Instant response.

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Voice or Text — Your Choice

Send a voice note from the shop floor or a text from your desk. The AI understands both. No typing required — just talk to it like you'd talk to your PM.

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Knows Your Shop Inside Out

Your AI knows every job, every piece, every PO, every shipment. Ask it anything — status updates, cost breakdowns, scheduling conflicts. It has the answer in seconds.

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Takes Action — Not Just Answers

The AI doesn't just report — it works. Create POs, generate BOLs, log daily reports, flag delays, notify your erector. Tell it what to do and it's done.

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Proactive Alerts

The AI doesn't wait to be asked. It flags issues before they become problems. "Heads up — you're at 85% budget on job 0029 with 30% of steel still in the shop."

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Unlimited. Included.

No per-query charges. No usage limits. No "you've exceeded your AI plan." The AI assistant is included with every subscription. Ask it 10 times a day or 1,000. Same price.

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Your Data. Only Yours.

Your AI only sees YOUR company's data. Completely isolated from other customers. Your jobs, your costs, your operations — private and secure.

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Snap It, Log It, Done

Take a photo of a receipt, an MTR, a delivery ticket — send it to the AI and it reads it, extracts the data, and logs it to the right job automatically. No typing. No data entry. Just snap and send.

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Daily Reports by Voice

Your super finishes the day and sends a 60-second voice note: crew count, work completed, delays, equipment used. The AI turns it into a formatted daily report — logged, timestamped, and filed to the job. No typing at 7 PM.

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Multiple Channels. One AI Brain.

Set up separate channels for different departments — or keep it all in one. Fully customizable per client.

📋 Office & Estimating

🏭 Shop Floor

🚛 Shipping

🏗️ Field Crew

👔 Management

📊 All-In-One

Each channel is scoped to its role — the shop floor sees production, shipping sees BOLs, management sees margins. Same AI, different views. A 10-person shop can use one channel for everything. A 100-person operation can have separate channels per department. Your structure, your rules.

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Your Own AI Email Address

Every customer gets a dedicated AI email: yourcompany@bravoai.co/forge

Email your AI and it reads, scans, and processes everything automatically:

📄 Receipts & expenses

🔬 MTRs / Mill certs

💰 Invoices

🚛 BOLs

📋 Bid invitations

📐 RFIs & submittals

📝 Addendums

📎 Drawing revisions

Forward a receipt from your phone → AI scans it, logs the expense, links it to the job. Vendor emails an MTR → AI extracts the heat numbers and matches them to your material. GC sends a bid invite → AI creates the opportunity in your bid dashboard. No manual data entry. Just forward the email.

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Managed, Maintained & Always Up-to-Date

Your AI runs on our infrastructure — not yours. No servers to manage. No software to install. No patches to apply. When we improve the AI, every customer gets the upgrade automatically. When we add a new feature, it just appears.

We monitor every agent 24/7. If something goes wrong, we know before you do. Your AI reads your live data — no retraining, no syncing, no stale information. It always knows your current status.

Every Subscription Includes

✅ Unlimited AI Assistant

✅ Dedicated AI Email

✅ Voice & Text Support

✅ Shared Dashboard

✅ All Modules

✅ Automatic Updates

It's like having a PM who never sleeps, never forgets, and knows every detail of every job.

Mobile First

Your Phone Is
Your Office.

Everything you need to run your operation — from the shop floor, the field, or the front seat of your truck. No desktop required. No complicated software. Just your phone.

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Everything. From Your Phone.

✓Create POs

✓View cut lists

✓Track production

✓Generate BOLs

✓View 3D models

✓Send RFIs

✓Log daily reports

✓Track man hours

✓Scan QR codes

✓Check job costing

✓Voice commands

✓Submit submittals

If you can send a text, you can run the platform.

No training needed. No IT department required. Works on any phone.

The Ecosystem

The Bridge Between
Fab & Field.

Right now, the fabricator, erector, and GC are all on different islands. Different tools, different data, different timelines. Our platform puts everyone on the same page — literally.

📁 THE JOB

One project. One source of truth. Everyone sees their view.

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Shared Dashboard

Shop Drawings · Erection Drawings · Real-Time 3D Model · RFIs · Schedule · BOLs · Daily Reports · Compliance

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Fabricator

Production status
Material tracking
QC reports
Shipping schedule
Job costing

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Erector

Man hours tracking
Equipment & crane time
Install tracking
Daily reports via voice/text
Safety documentation

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General Contractor

Overall progress
Budget tracking
Sub performance
Schedule visibility
Compliance (COIs, safety, certs)

Same job. Same data. Three different views.

Everyone sees what they need. Nothing gets lost in translation.

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Shared Portal

The fab shop shares production status and shipping schedules. The erector shares install progress and field reports. Everyone sees what's relevant to them.

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One Link, Full Visibility

Share a single link with your erector or fab shop. They log in and see exactly what they need. No setup, no training, no learning curve.

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Kill the Phone Tag

"Where's my steel?" "What shipped?" "When's the crew coming?" — All answered by the dashboard, 24/7. No more chasing people for updates.

Same data. Three lenses. One shared truth. Fabricators and erectors working on the same job finally share one portal. No more disconnected communication.

Always Improving

Software That
Evolves With You.

Most construction software updates once or twice a year. We ship improvements weekly. Because your operation doesn't wait — and neither do we.

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Weekly Updates & Patches

New features, bug fixes, and improvements ship every week — not once a year. Your platform gets better constantly, without you lifting a finger. Updates deploy automatically with zero downtime.

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Your Feedback Drives the Roadmap

Need a tool we haven't built yet? Tell us. Our roadmap is driven by real fabricators and erectors — not a boardroom. If your shop needs it, we build it. Your feedback shapes the product directly.

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Dedicated Support — Real People

No ticket queues. No overseas call centers. When you need help, you talk to people who understand steel. We know the difference between a W14x30 and a W14x34 — because we come from this industry.

"We don't ship software and disappear. We're in this with you — improving, iterating, and building the tools you need to run a better operation. Every week."

— The Bravo AI Team

Our Story

Built by Steel People.

We run a fab shop and erection crew in El Paso, Texas. Like everyone in this industry, we relied on whiteboards, group texts, spreadsheets, and a patchwork of software that never quite fit. Job tracking was chaos. Status updates took hours. The same questions got asked ten times a day.

"We tried every tool on the market. None of them were built for how a steel shop actually runs."

So we built our own. We used AI to create a platform that understands steel terminology, fabrication workflows, and field operations. BOLs generate themselves. QC reports are automated. Every piece, every heat number, every shipment — tracked in real time from one place.

The results were immediate. Administrative overhead dropped. Supervisors went back to supervising. Decisions got faster because the information was always one question away. We scaled output without scaling headaches.

When other fabricators and erectors started asking how we did it, we realized this wasn't just our problem — it's the industry's problem. Every steel company is duct-taping the same broken workflow together. So we founded Bravo AI to bring this platform to every shop that needs it.

Mario Urquidi

Founder & CEO, Bravo AI
Owner, Del Bravo Steel & Del Bravo Erectors

From Bid to Billing.One Platform.