What does Arched actually do?

Arched is an AI platform built for AEC firms. Today it does the work of pursuit: reading tenders, drafting methodologies, comparing every opportunity against your firm's past work, surfacing risk before it costs you. Think of it as the AI a senior estimator would build, if they were going to build the firm's AI themselves.

How is this different from a general-purpose AI tool?

Most AI tools read documents the way a search engine reads web pages: they tokenize the text, build an index, generate a summary. That's enough for a journalist. It's not enough for a 4,000-line BOQ where a single misread clause is a 2% margin error. Arched was built for the artifacts of AEC work specifically. For what a tender, BOQ, methodology, and contract actually are, not what they look like to a general-purpose model.

What happens to our data?

It stays yours. We never train shared models on your data. Per-tenant isolation means no cross-customer visibility, ever. Encryption at rest and in transit. The standard enterprise controls are in place: SSO, role-based access, audit logging. Data sovereignty options when your contracts call for it.

How long does it take to get value?

First matches show up in week one. Real adoption happens by week two. The 14-day rollout is structured around the documents you already have and a single 45-minute team walkthrough. The longest part of onboarding is your team telling Arched what is wrong with the matches in the first few days. That is also the part where the system gets sharpest.

How big does our firm need to be?

Arched works best inside firms big enough to pursue serious work. There is no hard minimum. The math starts to favor the platform when your team has more active bids than your senior people can read carefully. Above that, Arched is the thing that lets the firm scale without hiring proportionally.

Platform

The AI platform built for AEC firms.

Today, Arched takes on the work of pursuit: reading the tenders, drafting the methodologies, surfacing the risk, comparing every new project against the ones the firm has already done.

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What Arched does

The work an experienced estimator does, on every tender, in minutes.

When a tender lands on a senior estimator’s desk, they do roughly four things before they decide whether the firm should bid. They read it. They reconcile it against what the firm actually does. They sketch the response. They flag the risk. Most firms can only afford to do this on the tenders that look promising, which means the rest go un-investigated. Arched does it for every tender that lands.

Reads the document.

Most tenders run from 800 to 2,000 pages across the main document and three or four addenda. Arched reads them as tenders, not as text. Eligibility criteria come out as eligibility criteria. Technical scoring rubrics come out as scoring rubrics. BOQ line items get pulled out structured. The contradictions buried between the main document and the addenda surface as flags rather than as text someone has to search through. By the time a senior estimator opens the file, the document has been read.

Reconciles against the firm.

Your credentials, past projects, registrations, sector experience, financial capacity. Most of this sits across a dozen spreadsheets and a few people’s memories. Arched builds it into a structured profile and evaluates every new tender against it. The match is real eligibility reconciliation, not keyword overlap. It tells you what you can bid on, what you can bid on with the right partner, and what you should walk away from before the pricing meeting starts.

Drafts the response.

Methodology sections, technical writeups, executive summaries. Arched drafts them from your firm’s own library. Past proposals become real-time references. The system writes in your firm’s voice because it has been trained on your firm’s voice. The first draft is good enough that a proposal lead is editing rather than writing.

Flags the risk.

Every tender has lines that should make you pause. Clauses that shift risk in unusual directions. Scoring rubrics that contradict the addenda. Scope assumptions that don’t match the BOQ. Arched surfaces them before you have priced the work. The risk you would have caught two weeks into the bid lands in the first hour.

How it works

Read. Reconcile. Draft. Learn.

The platform runs a loop. Every project, every pursuit, every bid the firm touches feeds back into how Arched reads the next one. The system gets better at reading your firm’s work because it has seen more of your firm’s work.

Read

Tenders, contracts, RFIs, past projects, BOQs, methodologies. Every document the firm has ever produced or received gets read, structured, and indexed as the artifacts of the work — not as generic text.

Reconcile

Every new opportunity is evaluated against what your firm can actually do. Credentials, capacity, sector experience, financial standing. The matching is structured eligibility, not keyword overlap.

Draft

Arched does the spadework. Methodology drafts, risk briefs, scope reconciliation, comparison against past work. The team picks up where Arched leaves off, on the decisions worth their judgment.

Learn

Every won bid, every lost bid, every project that went well, every one that did not. Outcomes feed back. The next read is sharper because the last one had an outcome attached.

Inside the firm

What changes for the people who carry the firm.

For the BD lead.

You have watched the team chase too many tenders that did not fit and miss the ones that did. Arched does the qualification work before you do. Every tender that lands in the queue has already been read against your firm’s actual eligibility, not against keywords. The mornings get spent on the bids worth chasing.

For the senior estimator.

You are the bottleneck and you know it. Every pricing call pulls you in. Arched lets your reasoning scale. The way you price a project, the assumptions you make about scope, the risks you weight against the rest of the portfolio: it gets applied to every bid. Junior estimators ship work you would have signed off on. You stay in the loop on the decisions where your judgment actually matters.

For the proposal team.

The methodology you wrote last quarter is a real-time reference, not a folder somewhere. Arched drafts from your library, not from ChatGPT’s. The first draft of the technical writeup reads like your firm because it is your firm. You spend the time editing rather than starting from a blank page.

For the partner or principal.

The math changes. More pursuits per estimator. Higher win rate on the work that fits. Junior teams operating closer to the senior level. A firm that gets smarter as it does more work, not one that runs on three people remembering everything.

Where Arched shows up

You don’t need another dashboard to live in.

Matched tenders, drafted methodology, surfaced risk. They show up where your team already is. Daily digest by email. Alerts on Slack or Teams when a high-match tender lands or a deadline tightens. REST API and webhooks for the bid-management tool you already run. CSV and JSON exports on demand, for the days the compliance team asks.

Your data stays yours

The work you put in is the firm’s, not ours.

Per-tenant data isolation. Your data is never used to train shared models. Encryption at rest, encryption in transit. SSO via Google, Microsoft, and SAML. Role-based access for BD, exec, compliance, and read-only. Audit logging on credential changes and bid decisions. Data sovereignty options when the contract calls for it.

Two weeks to first value

How the first fortnight looks.

Most of the work is documents you already have. Most of the rest is conversation about how your team actually pursues work. By day fourteen the platform is in everyday use, and the team has stopped opening tenders cold.

Days 1–2
Profile build
Past projects, registrations, financial documents, sector experience. Most of this is extraction from documents you already have. Minimal data entry on your side.
Days 3–5
Source linking and calibration
Your procurement sources get linked. Sectors and categories get calibrated to how your firm actually pursues work, not to the coarse classifications you would find in any portal.
Days 6–8
First matches
Real tenders, real qualification, in real time. You flag matches that do not fit and misses that should have been caught. The system tunes to your firm's signal.
Days 9–14
Team rollout
Workflow integrations get wired in. The BD team walks through Arched in a single 45-minute working session. By day 14 the platform is in everyday use. A dedicated CSM checks in at day 30.

Common questions

What people ask before they sign up.

01.What does Arched actually do?: Arched is an AI platform built for the work of AEC firms. Today it does the work of pursuit: reading tenders, drafting methodologies, comparing every opportunity against the firm's past work, surfacing risk before it costs the firm anything. Think of it as the AI a senior estimator would build if they were going to build the firm's AI themselves.
02.How is this different from a general-purpose AI tool?: Most AI tools you have been pitched read documents the way a search engine reads web pages. They tokenize the text, build an index, generate a summary. That is enough for a journalist. It is not enough for a 4,000-line BOQ where a single misread clause is a 2% margin error. Arched was built for the artifacts of AEC work specifically. For what a tender, a BOQ, a methodology section, and a contract actually are. Not what they look like to a model trained on the open web.
03.What happens to our data?: It stays the firm's. We never train shared models on your data. Per-tenant isolation means no cross-customer visibility, ever. Encryption at rest and in transit. The standard enterprise controls are in place: SSO, role-based access, audit logging. Data sovereignty options when the contract calls for it.
04.How long does it take to get value?: First matches show up in week one. Real adoption happens by week two. The 14-day rollout is structured around documents you already have and a single 45-minute team walkthrough. The longest part of onboarding is the team telling Arched what is wrong with the matches in the first few days. That is also the part where the system gets sharpest.
05.How big does our firm need to be?: Arched works best inside firms big enough to pursue serious work. There is no hard minimum. The math starts to favor the platform when the team has more active bids than the senior people can read carefully. Below that, the manual approach is fine. Above that, Arched is what lets the firm scale without hiring proportionally.

See it on your work.

A 30-minute working session with one of your live tenders. We read the document, build a working profile against your credentials, surface the risk, and show you the first cut of the response. Not a generic walkthrough. Your actual work.

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