Vest gathers your project files into a single source of truth for everyone on the job. It finds issues automatically, and anyone in the trailer or the field can ask about anything across the project.
General chatbots read text well and drawings poorly. Vest reads the schedules, callouts, symbols and notes on every sheet before anyone asks.
When a file lands, Vest checks every claim in it against the rest of the project, without anyone asking. It looks for things like an RFI answer that sends the field to a sheet an earlier RFI already changed, or a submittal approved against the wrong spec section.
Ask in plain words, from the office or the field. Vest answers from the files gathered for that project, from drawings, specs and RFIs to submittals, purchase orders and invoices.
Jobs lose money to rework, change orders, delay and disputes. Much of it starts with an error, a conflict or an old sheet that nobody caught in time.
These are industry findings from published studies, not measurements from a Vest project. The share of rework comes from 32 building projects, where design errors and omissions were 1.5 of 4.6 points of direct field rework (Hwang et al., 2009, in Navigant, 2012).
Your files are spread across drives, inboxes, the trailer and several apps. We pull them together for you, so you don't need a tech person on staff.
We find every place your files live and put them in order, or we sync the folders you choose. Your originals stay where they are.
Callouts link to the details they point to, and a newer revision of a file takes over from the older one.
Each new file is checked against the project, and any issues are marked on the page.
Anyone on the project can ask a question from the office or the field and open the page behind the answer.
Your documents include bid numbers, contracts, and means and methods, some of the most sensitive things your company has. Vest keeps each company's data in its own database, shows people only the projects they are added to, and never uses your documents to train a model.
Who sees what: access is per project today, and finer controls for sensitive folders like contracts and financials arrive with pilot partners. The full picture, including every vendor that touches your data, is on our security page.
Every new file on a project with review turned on. Vest checks each one against the rest of the project without anyone asking. You can also ask questions about all of your project files, including drawings, specs, RFIs, submittals, change orders, purchase orders and invoices.
No. Vest can miss an issue, and it can flag something that turns out to be fine. Each issue shows what the file says and what the project says, with a link to the other page, so a person can check it and decide what to do.
No. Vest doesn't change any document, doesn't send anything to the architect, and doesn't assign issues to people. Your team decides what happens next.
Any AI can, which is why every answer opens the exact page it came from, highlighted, so you can check it. When the documents cannot support an answer, Vest says so.
A general chatbot reads text well and drawings poorly, and most of what a project needs to know is on the sheets. It also starts from zero on every question. Vest processes every page before anyone asks and cites the page each answer came from.
Keep them. Vest works alongside them. It reads all of your project files together, including the ones kept outside those tools, and opens the page each answer came from.
No. Your documents are never used to train any model.
It depends on how many files you have. We run the document processing for you, so your team just signs in and starts asking questions.
Very little. You type a question the way you would type a text, and tap a source number to see the page it came from.
Yes. Vest runs in your phone's browser, and tapping a source opens the page right there, zoomed to the spot.
Not yet. Documents from government and military projects carry legal requirements we have not built the protections for, so they stay out of Vest for now. We scope that work with pilot partners who need it. If that's your work, tell us when you schedule a demo and we'll tell you what it would take.
Vest is built for contractors first, but it answers the same way for anyone working from a set of drawings and specs. If that's you, write to hello@vest.build.
Daniel spent six years as a software engineer at Apple. In 2022 he founded Base16, where he has spent more than four years building computer vision, machine learning and AI products. He did his graduate research at UCLA on real-time biomedical imaging and holds certifications in deep learning and agentic AI.
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Tavana grew up doing construction side projects and joined the laborers' union. He went on to earn a Computer Engineering degree and spent more than five years as a software engineer at Apple, where Daniel was his mentor. In 2022 he left to found his first AI startup, and has since built and led software & AI for startups and large enterprises.
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We work with a small number of general contractors at a time. We gather and organize your files, set up your projects, and work directly with your team from day one.