liveIT and remote work
The office, from home
Pinnacle Connect: secure remote access
Office staff needed the office desktop apps and printers from home without opening the office network to the internet.
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Case studies
Case studies
Field proof and a labeled product demo. No invented quotes or performance figures.
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The problem, what we built, how we built it and the technology behind it, told by the bees. Honest status on every one.
Live and in use
liveIT infrastructureA real office server
Office server build-out (Server2026)
The business ran on aging PCs, with apps, files and backups spread across machines.
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liveData and backupYears of job files, kept safe
NAS sync and cloud vaults
Years of job files sat on an old network drive with duplicates and no reliable off-site copy.
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liveOperations automationNo lost bug reports
Email intake for testers (jobs@)
Bug reports from testers arrived by email and got lost in a busy inbox.
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liveMarketing and mediaShort videos that explain
Explainer video pipeline
Contractors don't read long pages. We needed short videos that explain what we do.
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liveBrand identityOne look everywhere
Logo and brand rollout
Logos and colors differed across our sites and apps.
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liveWeb and marketingA clear front door
ibuildyouwin.com rebuild
The company needed a clear site that explains what we build and lets contractors ask for a quote.
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liveAI operationsA team of helpers
The bot team and bot library
One person can't run several businesses alone.
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liveProcurementThe best price, found fast
Sourcing bots for electrical gear
Finding the best price on specialty electrical gear took hours of calls and searching.
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liveResearchKeeping up with new ideas
AI workflow research library
New AI tools for contractors come out every week, and it's hard to know which ones matter.
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Built and in testing
in testingElectrical constructionOne desk for the whole electrical shop
Pinnacle Precon: one desk for the whole electrical shop
A commercial electrical contractor in the Philadelphia area ran estimating, job cost, payroll and the office on an aging desktop database plus spreadsheets. Data lived in many places, and only a few people could find anything.
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in testingElectrical estimatingCounting plans on the screen
Precon Takeoff Desk
Estimators counted devices and footage by hand on paper plans and retyped totals into spreadsheets, so bids were slow and errors were easy to make.
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in testingConstruction accountingIs this job making money?
Cost Control: jobs, AP, AR and pay apps
Job costs, vendor bills, change orders and pay applications were tracked in separate tools, so nobody had a live picture of whether a job was making money.
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in testingField workforceCrew hours on a phone
Payroll, Hours and the dispatch board
Crew hours came in on paper and by text, and straight time, overtime and double time had to be sorted by hand before payroll.
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in testingConstruction softwareA helper inside the desk
AI helper inside the desk
Office staff lost time hunting for answers across jobs, codes and old notes.
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in testingElectrical estimatingDrawings that read themselves
Drawing OCR
Panel schedules, sheet titles and notes on drawings had to be read and typed in by hand.
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in testingElectrical supply and biddingFresh prices and every bid in one place
Live Material and Bid Board
Material prices change weekly, and bid invites came in by email with no single place to track them.
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in testingConstruction collaborationEveryone on the same page
Teams: chat, channels, meetings and files
Office and field talked through scattered texts and email, and files got lost.
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in testingBrand and mediaFriendly faces for our brands
Bots & Bees characters and 3D
Our brands needed friendly, memorable faces that could teach and sell.
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Coming soon
coming soonEcommerce (tools and supply)Many tool shops, one engine
The Tool Store: several shops on one engine
We wanted to sell construction tools under several store brands without building a separate store for each one.
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coming soonTraining and templatesReady-made office routines
Si Academy starter packs
Small contractors need ready-made office workflows such as RFIs, bid packs and invoice chasing.
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Product demo
Pinnacle Construction (product demo)
A walkthrough persona for how Electrical Edition fits a construction office desk.
View demo storyCustomer names used publicly only with permission; some proof is anonymized.
Our process
How we build it
Every job follows the same path, from Michael, through the team, and back to Michael.
- 1
Michael
The boss. He decides what to build.
- 2
Milo, the Boss Bee
Writes the jobs and hands them out.
- 3
The AI builders
Outside AI helpers that do the heavy writing and building, only on practice copies and public information.
- 4
The specialist bots
More than 90 helpers, each with one clear job.
- 5
QA: the checkers
They test everything and report pass or fail.
- 6
Michael approves
Only then does the work go live.
- Every project:
- Idea
- Design
- Prototype
- Build
- Test
- Launch