AI credits, explained — what the AI office does and what a heavy month costs

Your plan includes a monthly AI allowance. Credit packs exist for the months you lean on it hard. Here's exactly what you're paying for — and what you aren't.

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What the AI office actually does

It does staff work, not chatbot work: drafts complete bids in your house style from a plan set, writes the response letter to the county's plan-review comments, compares a new bid section-by-section against your real cost history and flags the underpriced line, reads a stack of receipts into job costs, and researches questions with cited sources. The live demo has finished examples of each — open the AI Workspace and read them.

Your plan includes a monthly allowance

Your plan includes $25/month of AI usage — metered at true provider cost, with no markup inside the allowance. A live meter in the app shows exactly what's left. For scale: a bid-vs-cost-history check runs about $0.18; a drafted county-letter reply, around a dollar. At those rates the allowance covers well over a hundred bid checks a month.

Credit packs are for the heavy months

Bidding season, a big permit fight, deep research on a new market — some months burn more. Packs stack on top of your allowance, get spent only after the allowance is used, and are good through the end of the month you buy them — buy what the month needs, when it needs it. No subscription change, no plan upgrade required.

How buying works

Request a pack in the app; we confirm by email and add the credits once it is paid. There are no card forms inside the product and nothing auto-purchases — you always ask first.

Current pack pricing

These prices come from the same pricing engine the app uses.

Questions builders ask

When do credits expire?

AI pack credits are for the month you buy them — they're spent after your included allowance and reset with the new month. Buy for the month you're in, not for a stockpile.

What happens if I run out mid-month?

AI features pause with a clear message and a one-click request for more — nothing else in the system is affected. Estimating, scheduling, books, and portals never depend on AI credits.

Is my data used to train AI models?

No. Your documents are processed only to produce the outputs you request — not sold, and not used to train third-party models.

See it working right now

The live demo is a fictional construction company you can click through end to end — including a working client portal — the whole product, running. Pricing is published on the site: $299/mo per company, before sales tax, with unlimited users and 50 GB of storage included.

Opens a short form. Nothing is paid here; a person sets up your company, usually within one business day.

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