Heavy work, bidwith paper-trail discipline.
Ruh AI puts agents on the work that decides civil margins: takeoffs measured from civil and sitework sets, estimates built on your own production rates, and the audit-grade paper trail that public and DOT work demands. Every quantity carries a source, every assumption is labeled, and your estimator signs the bid.
- ✓Sitework, utilities, and structures measured off the real sheets
- ✓Estimates on your production rates, not book averages
- ✓An audit trail built for public-work scrutiny
The civil crew.
For heavy, sitework, and public contractors where the low bid still has to be the right bid.
From plan holder to responsible bidder.
Pull the set
Civil, sitework, and structure sheets, from the plan room to the pipeline in one step.
Quantities run measured
Earthwork areas, utility runs, and structure counts, with coverage scores per sheet.
Pricing runs on your rates
Your crews, your production rates, your equipment costs, with assumptions labeled.
The bid stands up
Every line traceable to a sheet, which is exactly what public-work scrutiny demands.
The civil bid grind.
Letting calendars do not wait
Public lettings arrive on fixed dates in batches. Whatever the estimating room cannot turn by then simply does not get bid.
Low bid, right bid
Winning public work with a wrong number is worse than losing it. The margin between competitive and catastrophic is the takeoff.
Paper outlives the project
Public and DOT work means documentation scrutiny for years. A bid built on tribal knowledge cannot be defended later.
AI for civil work, explained.
The letting-day math
Civil estimating runs on a calendar you do not control. When lettings cluster, coverage is decided by throughput: the takeoffs your room can turn before the date. A measured first pass at machine speed means the same estimators cover more lettings, and skip fewer jobs they would have won.
Measured against the sheets
Earthwork, utilities, paving, and structures are measured from the real set with per-sheet coverage scores, so you know what portion of the bid is measured versus allowance before committing. On unit-price work, that is the difference between a defensible bid and a hopeful one.
Your production rates are the moat
Civil pricing is production-rate pricing: what your crews and your iron actually produce. Ruh prices on your history, not a national book, and every assumption it makes is written down where your estimator can challenge it.
Built for public scrutiny
The audit trail is not an afterthought; it is the architecture. Every quantity traces to a sheet, every price to a source, every change to a person. When the agency or the auditor asks, the answer exists.
The money side of heavy work
Pay quantities, sub and supplier invoices, and cost codes reconcile on the same record, through Sage, Vista, or the Excel formats your agency submittals demand, so field spend lands against the estimate while the job runs. Bring one letting to a walkthrough and see the takeoff live.
Bids that survive the audit.
Judge it on your own work, not a demo.
Built to work together.
See it on your own work.
A free 30 minute walkthrough on your real work, no card. You decide if you move forward.
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Frequently asked questions
What heavy and public-work contractors ask before a walkthrough.
What civil scopes does it measure?
Sitework and earthwork, utilities, paving, and structures from civil sets, with per-sheet coverage scores. We confirm your typical letting mix on the walkthrough.
Does it price on our production rates?
Can it keep up with letting schedules?
Is the output defensible for public work?
How do we evaluate it?
Cover the next letting without triage.
Bring one civil set to a 30 minute call. We run the measured takeoff live and walk the quantities against your own.