Deep Intelligence for the Construction Industry
Your company already knows.
Now you can ask.
Gridline uncovers the knowledge and opportunities hidden across your ERP, estimating, project management, contracts, and email, the kind no single system could ever show you. Often it's something nobody thought to ask.
Built and runby
HingePoint. 25+ years of construction technology and data management, for 200 companies.
Trusted by teams at
WHY CONSTRUCTION DATA STAYS HIDDEN
Your business knows more than any one of your systems can show you.
Your job costs are in the ERP and the schedule's in project management. What you bid sits in estimating. Why any of it turned out the way it did is usually buried somewhere in contracts, change orders, and email.
Getting those systems to share data was the first step, and most firms have taken it. It still leaves the full picture in a dozen places, and in the heads of the few people who've been around long enough to piece it together.
Our systems talk to each other, but it’s just data. There’s no real information being shared or a central location for everybody to work from.
— Gridline Customer
Each system has a piece
Job cost in one place, the bid in another, and the reason behind both in an email nobody can find.
The real answers sit between systems
Whether your estimate assumptions held up, or which subs really hit their dates, only shows when you line several systems up side by side.
Your veterans are retiring
The people who remember how the last twenty years went are getting close to retirement, and most of what they know was never written down.
A company that has completed a thousand jobs should not have to guess at the thousand-and-first.
CONSTRUCTION INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM
One place that understands how
your whole business fits together.
Gridline brings in your ERP, estimating, project management, contracts, documents, and spreadsheets. It also picks up what never made it into a system, like the bid worksheets and proposals sitting on someone's drive and the decisions your people made over email.
Then it works out how it all connects, like which estimates turned into which job costs and which clients you actually make money on. We call that deep intelligence. It's everything your company has learned over the years, finally in one place that understands it.
Your team asks it questions in plain English.
Every answer comes back with the records behind it.
That's a different job from reporting or document search, which show you what you set them up to find. Gridline works across your whole history, including the parts no report or search was ever built around.
Most of the software you own now ships with its own AI, and each one knows its own system well. Gridline is the one that understands how they all relate across the business.
AI RESEARCH ACROSS YOUR CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS
Knowledge that compounds.
Gridline doesn’t stop at the first answer. It follows the relationships behind it and builds context as it goes,
so every question sets up a better one. Here’s how that can play out in each part of the business.
Preconstruction
& estimating
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Which of our open bids carry the most margin risk, and why?”
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Have we built this square footage before, and what did it actually take?”
Operations
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Where is this project drifting from budget, and what is driving it?”
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Which subcontractors have slipped schedule on work like this?”
Leadership
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Should we keep subbing this scope or bring it in-house?
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What would that scope have earned us on our last ten jobs if we’d done it ourselves?
Every discovery opens the door to the next.
See the full list and what comes back ›FASTER STRATEGIC DECISIONS FOR CONTRACTORS
Six months of research.
Seconds
with Gridline.
A large contractor had a decision in front of it that would shape the business for years. Should it keep subcontracting a specialized service, bring the work in-house, or buy a company that already does it?
The CEO and two senior leaders spent six months on it, on top of running the company. They dug through years of project history, subcontractor costs, equipment expenses, profitability, and financials, then built break-even calculations and what-if scenarios for each option.
The old way: 6 months, 3 senior leaders.
With Gridline: seconds.
None of it was in one place. It lived in the ERP, project history, subcontractor costs, equipment records, financial statements, spreadsheets, email, and the heads of people across departments, so every number had to be tracked down and checked by hand.
With that information connected and prepared, Gridline can run the same research and test more what-ifs than anyone would have time to build in a spreadsheet.
MANAGED DATA AND AI SERVICE FOR CONSTRUCTION
The platform is half of it.
Our team is the other half.
Gridline comes as a Managed Intelligence Service, run by HingePoint.
Our team keeps turning your data into knowledge you can trust.
01
Continuous Data Management
Data that moves between systems still shows up half-filled or coded three different ways. Our team cleans, organizes, validates, and enriches it, existing and incoming, so the answers Gridline gives are built on records your team can rely on.
02
Construction Industry Expertise
We know how cost codes roll up and why the same job looks different in accounting than it does in project management. That context shapes what Gridline tells you.
03
Deep Intelligence
Gridline uncovers the knowledge and connections across your business that point to risks and opportunities, and it finds more as your history grows.
04
AI Development and Intelligent Workflows
When Gridline finds something worth acting on, our team builds what acts on it, whether that’s an AI agent, an automated workflow, or a custom tool your people use every day.
Your data stays yours. What Gridline learns from your records belongs to your firm, not to a vendor.
You don’t need a data team of your own.
You have ours.
WHAT AI CAN DO FOR YOUR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
What could your company do with that time back?
Make the big calls sooner
Self-perform or sub it out. Chase a bid or let it go. Those calls get made with your full history in front of you, while there’s still time for it to matter.
Spot the opportunities you’ve been sitting on
It might be a client you’d never have picked as your most profitable, or a kind of work your past jobs say you’re ready to go after.
Get your senior people out of the spreadsheets
They stop spending weeks pulling reports together and put that time into the work only they can do.
BUILT FOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Built for firms with history worth asking about.
Firms with years of finished work behind them and six or more systems that don’t share anything but data.
Mostly general contractors and developers, though it works the same way for the specialty trades around
them, including the ones doing all the site work before anybody starts building.
Not a fit for a company running one or two systems.
There isn’t enough there to connect yet, and we’ll tell you that.
GETTING STARTED WITH GRIDLINE
Your company knows more than
anyone has seen yet. Let’s go find it.
1
Bring one decision
Start small. Pick a bid you’re unsure of, or a bigger call you’re working through.
2
We bring in what it needs
Your systems, plus what never made it into one. Nothing gets replaced or migrated.
3
See what it finds
Answers come back with the records behind them, often with something nobody thought to ask.
4
It keeps building
Our team adds the next systems, agents, and workflows as new questions come up.