A commercial construction sales engine reads permits, zoning approvals, financing closings, and GC awards, profiles which owner or GC is assembling a bid list, and gets your firm shortlisted before the list closes. At a $240,000 average project, one lost project a quarter is nearly a million dollars a year.
Request a briefingEvery point is $8,000 of annual leak, orbiting at the speed this industry's inquiries cool (window: 72 hours). The flash is a buying signal firing, caught or missed. Full table: the Bottleneck Index · Feel it: the window game
| Metric · Commercial Construction | Representative value |
|---|---|
| Average deal value | $240,000 |
| Typical sales cycle | 60 to 180 days |
| Window before an inquiry cools | 3 business days |
| Winnable deals lost per quarter (typical) | 1 |
| Annual cost of the bottleneck | $960,000 |
JSU Bottleneck Index · representative values from deal-pattern work since 2009 · your briefing runs your real numbers
The engine opens conversations before the RFP exists. In commercial construction, the four signals that matter most:
Signal finds the buyer in motion. Profile reads what they need to believe, using AI.DA models in production since 2012, three years before OpenAI existed. Message aims every word and follows up around the clock. Revenue is the only scoreboard: pipeline created, deals closed, ROI you can audit.
At a $240,000 average project, one missed shortlist per quarter is $960,000 a year. The list usually closes before the project is public knowledge.
Zoning approvals, financing closings, permit sequences, and GC awards. Each appears weeks or months before bid invitations.
Yes. GCs chase owners and approvals; subs chase GC awards. Same engine, different signal map.
Owners buy certainty, GCs buy reliability, facility managers buy quiet. Three buyers, three proofs, one engine that knows which is reading.