Every engagement is a dedicated workstream mapped to an operational challenge, with a scoped outcome, that we deliver against every month.
The challenges below are the ones we see most consistently across general contractors and subcontractors. They're a starting point, not a ceiling. If your problem isn't listed, don't worry, we have the engineering chops to find a solution. Click a challenge in the navigation to see what we deliver.
Thin crews and hard-to-find talent push administrative work onto your most valuable people. Estimators spend hours on cleanup instead of bidding. Superintendents carry paperwork instead of running the job. Foremen fill out forms instead of directing work.
We build the tools, workflows, and automations that multiply what your existing team can do, without adding headcount.
Your project data exists. It's in your ERP, your PM platform, your BIM model, your field photos, and your accounting system. The problem is none of them talk to each other. Reconciliation happens in spreadsheets. Reporting takes days. Decisions get made on yesterday's numbers.
We build the data path, connect the systems, and create the structure that makes everything downstream — reporting, analytics, and AI — actually work.
The gap between what you bid and what you keep rarely comes from one catastrophic failure. It comes from small leaks, a cost model built on memory instead of history, a change order process that runs two weeks behind, a forecast that doesn't reflect what the field is actually telling you.
We close those leaks with systems that connect field actuals to office forecasts and give you real numbers before the job goes sideways.
Late pay-apps, missing documentation, and payment holds are a tax on every job. For subcontractors especially, the gap between work completed and payment received is a cash-flow problem that compounds every month it isn't fixed.
We build the workflows that get clean submittals out faster, documentation in order before it's asked for, and payment moving sooner.
Punch lists that never close. Certifications that go missing mid-project. Quality records that exist on paper and nowhere else. When something goes wrong, the documentation isn't there. When an audit happens, someone spends a week pulling folders.
We build the systems that make compliance auditable, quality trackable, and coordination visible across every tier of the project.
You're paying for software your team isn't using. Procore licenses that never left the office. A BIM model that the field ignores. An accounting integration that someone turned off because it was easier to re-enter manually. The tools aren't always the problem, the workflow around them is.
We find out what broke, fix the workflow, instrument the adoption, and retire the shadow spreadsheets that replaced the tool nobody used.
Not every problem fits a category. Construction operations are complex enough that the real issue is sometimes a combination of challenges, or something that doesn't have a name yet but is clearly costing you time or money every month.
If you read through the challenges above and didn't see yourself, or if you saw yourself in all of them and don't know where to start, that's exactly the conversation we're built for.
Tell us what's broken. We'll tell you what we can move on and how.
Every Engagement ships five things: an Engagement Charter that defines the outcome, a baseline that puts a number on the current-state problem, a working artifact that lives in your operation, an operating cadence with weekly sessions and monthly reviews, and a runbook that makes sure your team can actually use what we built.
We staff each Engagement internally across cost, data, software, and AI engineering. A single Red Grey Principal Advisor decides internally which team or engineering resources are required, manages them and functions as your primary contact. You don't have to manage the team. Your role is to approve the outcomes and the success metrics.
Before any retainer begins, we run a 30-day Discovery Engagement. It produces a written findings report that documents the current state, identifies the gaps, and becomes the foundation of your SOW. Discovery is priced as month one of whichever package you choose, there is no separate onboarding fee.
30-day assessment of core areas you may be losing margin like estimating & baseline scope accuracy, labor & productivity variance, procurement & material cost overruns, or change order & scope creep management. Delivers a written findings report with identified margin gaps and a prioritized recovery roadmap.
30-day inventory and audit of your project, operations and financial data environment. Delivers a written findings report mapping how your data is managed, secured, and used, identifying gaps and quality issues, and outlining the pipeline architecture needed to support modern reporting and AI.
30-day assessment of your current platform technology stack and how the information and work flows between non-integrated systems. Delivers a written findings report identifying integration gaps, manual re-entry points, and a prioritized connection roadmap.
30-day assessment of your technology stack against modern construction industry best practices. Delivers a written findings report with a gap analysis, platform recommendations, and a phased modernization roadmap.
30-day assessment of your current workflows and tooling to identify where purpose-built software would eliminate friction, reduce manual work, reduce cost, or close a capability gap. Delivers a written findings report with scoped development recommendations.
30-day assessment of your data readiness, infrastructure, and workflow candidates for AI deployment. Delivers a written findings report identifying where AI can move the needle, what infrastructure is required, and a sequenced deployment plan.
Engagements are priced as a monthly retainer. Term is determined by scope and typically starts at six months. Multi-engagement packages include built-in pricing discounts, the more concurrent workstreams you run, the more efficiently shared capability gets built and reused across them.
Best for organizations addressing one known gap, or validating a modernization strategy before expanding. Weekly business value delivery and monthly progress reporting.
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Best for several related processes or systems that may not be fully integrated. Shared capability gets built once and reused across all scoped workstreams. Built in multi-stream discounts.
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Best for whole organization or simultaneous multi-system changes, custom software builds, or leaving expensive per user license agreements. Best pricing per Engagement.
Get a Quote →Pricing is discussed on the scoping call. Every engagement is scoped to the outcome, and the fee reflects the workstream or workstreams, not a time block. Our fee structure was built for our construction clients. It's the most straight forward, common sense pricing in the industry.
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Most clients start with the challenges that are costing them the most right now. We can help you figure out what makes the most sense.