in testingElectrical estimating
Counting 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.
See how it was done
Technology
We build any kind of coded product. And hardware too.
Websites, apps, AI assistants, automations, 3D and firmware, plus the servers, networks, field tablets and small devices they run on.
- Cloud platforms
- Accounting systems
- Payment processors
- Messaging tools
- Spreadsheets
Software we build
Thirteen kinds of software, one team.
Each one is real, built by our team, and has a story. Meet the character behind it.
- 01
Pinnacle Precon desk
One program for the whole electrical shop: 13 parts behind one sign-in.
Read the story - 02
Takeoff Desk
Open the plans, click to count and measure, and the estimate builds itself.
Read the story - 03
- 04
Hours, Payroll and dispatch
A phone time card for the crew, a payroll screen and a who's-where board.
Read the story - 05
- 06
- 07
- 08
- 09
Pinnacle Connect
Sign in, click once, and the office desktop appears at home. It even prints.
Read the story - 10
- 11
The bot team
More than 90 helpers with clear jobs, shared rules and Michael's OK on key steps.
Read the story - 12
- 13
And any other kind of software, for any industry.
Hover or tap a card to see three uses and where we're taking it.
Websites and online stores
Fast sites that look established, are easy to update, and are built to be found on Google, with a store when you sell online.
Hover or tap to see uses
Websites and online stores
Three uses, three industries
- A contractor's site that turns visitors into bid requests
- A bakery's store with pickup times
- A clinic's site with forms patients can fill in before a visit
Where we're taking it
One store engine that runs several branded shops, each with its own catalog.
Web apps and dashboards
Software that runs in the browser: sign in, do the work, see the numbers. No installs to manage.
Hover or tap to see uses
Web apps and dashboards
Three uses, three industries
- Job cost and billing for a contractor
- Case tracking for a small law office
- Inventory and orders for a warehouse
Where we're taking it
A whole office on one sign-in, with each module switched on only when the shop needs it.
Phone and tablet apps
Apps for the people who aren't at a desk: crews, drivers, inspectors and techs.
Hover or tap to see uses
Phone and tablet apps
Three uses, three industries
- Crew time cards from the job site
- Delivery photos and signatures for a courier
- Room checklists for a cleaning company
Where we're taking it
Hours logged by voice from the truck, straight into payroll.
Desktop software
Programs that run on office PCs when the work needs big screens, local files or no internet.
Hover or tap to see uses
Desktop software
Three uses, three industries
- A plan-reading desk for estimators
- A label and packing station for a shop
- A scheduling board for a print shop
Where we're taking it
Desktop tools that sync with the web app, so the office and the field see the same job.
AI assistants and chatbots
Helpers that answer questions, draft documents and look things up in your own records.
Hover or tap to see uses
AI assistants and chatbots
Three uses, three industries
- An estimator's helper that drafts proposals
- A front-desk bot that answers common customer questions
- A policy helper for an HR team
Where we're taking it
A private AI crew on your own server, so your data never leaves the building.
Voice assistants
Talk instead of type: speech to text, text to speech, and voices for videos and phones.
Hover or tap to see uses
Voice assistants
Three uses, three industries
- A foreman logging hours out loud
- Narrated training videos for new hires
- A phone menu that understands plain speech
Where we're taking it
Say "four hours on the panel, two boxes of wire" and it's logged.
Automations and integrations
Connect the tools you already use so the copying, sorting and reminding happens on its own.
Hover or tap to see uses
Automations and integrations
Three uses, three industries
- Bid emails filed into the right job folder
- Invoices from email into the accounting system
- Appointment reminders for a dental office
Where we're taking it
An inbox that reads each bid request and starts the estimate for you.
APIs and back ends
The engine behind the screens: databases, sign-in, files and the links between systems.
Hover or tap to see uses
APIs and back ends
Three uses, three industries
- One database behind a web app and a phone app
- A parts catalog other shops can query
- A secure file store for a design firm
Where we're taking it
Every product we build shares one back end, so new modules plug straight in.
Data and reporting
Turn records into clear reports: what made money, what's late, and what's next.
Hover or tap to see uses
Data and reporting
Three uses, three industries
- Job profit and WIP for a contractor
- Sales by store for a retailer
- Grant spending for a nonprofit
Where we're taking it
Reports that check themselves against the old system before anyone relies on them.
3D, AR and VR
See buildings, products and places in 3D, on a screen or in a headset.
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3D, AR and VR
Three uses, three industries
- Walk a job site in 3D with notes pinned to the walls
- Show a customer a kitchen before it's built
- Train staff on equipment without the equipment
Where we're taking it
Replay a job walk in 3D and see what was planned next to what was built.
Games and interactive media
Interactive stories, games and animations that teach, sell or just entertain.
Hover or tap to see uses
Games and interactive media
Three uses, three industries
- A safety quiz game for new crews
- An interactive product tour for a store
- A learning game for a classroom
Where we're taking it
The Bots & Bees characters in an interactive show for families.
In-vehicle apps
Screens and apps for trucks and vans: routes, checklists and the day's jobs, safe to use on the road.
Hover or tap to see uses
In-vehicle apps
Three uses, three industries
- A service van's job list and route
- Pre-trip inspection checklists for a fleet
- Delivery stops for a supplier
Where we're taking it
The crew lead's whole day on the dash: jobs, hours and materials.
Smart-device firmware
The code inside devices: sensors, controllers and gadgets that talk to your apps.
Hover or tap to see uses
Smart-device firmware
Three uses, three industries
- A temperature alarm for a walk-in cooler
- A door counter for a store
- A water-leak sensor for a property manager
Where we're taking it
Small sensors on the job that report to the job book on their own.
Hardware we build
The machines it runs on.
Custom servers and storage
A server in your own office, sized for your work, with backups and safe remote access.
Hover or tap to see uses
Custom servers and storage
Three uses, three industries
- A private AI server for a contractor
- File storage and backup for an architecture firm
- A local records server for a clinic
Where we're taking it
Your software and your AI crew running on hardware you own.
Office networks and remote access
Wired and wireless networks that just work, plus secure access from home or the road.
Hover or tap to see uses
Office networks and remote access
Three uses, three industries
- Secure remote desktops for an office team
- Guest Wi-Fi kept apart from business systems
- A network refresh for a growing school
Where we're taking it
Sign in from anywhere with the same security as sitting at your desk.
Rugged field tablets and truck docks
Tough tablets and mounts for trucks and job sites, set up with your apps and locked down.
Hover or tap to see uses
Rugged field tablets and truck docks
Three uses, three industries
- A crew lead's tablet docked in the truck
- Inspection tablets for a property manager
- Order taking on a warehouse floor
Where we're taking it
The office in the truck, ready the moment the engine starts.
Tool and asset tracking tags
QR and smart tags on tools and equipment, so you always know what's where and who has it.
Hover or tap to see uses
Tool and asset tracking tags
Three uses, three industries
- Tools checked out to jobs and crews
- Laptops and devices for an IT team
- Rental gear for an event company
Where we're taking it
Scan a tool on the way out, and the job pays for its time.
Cameras and sensors
Cameras and sensors that watch, count and measure, with the smarts to send only what matters.
Hover or tap to see uses
Cameras and sensors
Three uses, three industries
- Progress photos on a job site
- Shelf and door counts for a store
- Equipment monitoring on a factory floor
Where we're taking it
Site cameras that note progress so the daily report writes itself.
Kiosks and displays
Touch screens and signs for lobbies, counters and shop floors.
Hover or tap to see uses
Kiosks and displays
Three uses, three industries
- A sign-in kiosk for job-site visitors
- A self-order screen for a cafe
- A wayfinding display for a clinic
Where we're taking it
A shop-floor screen showing today's jobs and who's on them.
Small custom devices
Small single-board computers and controllers (Raspberry Pi and Arduino class) built into custom gadgets.
Hover or tap to see uses
Small custom devices
Three uses, three industries
- A job-site weather station
- A label printer station for a shop
- A classroom science kit
Where we're taking it
Purpose-built little devices that do one job and report to your apps.
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
Industry finder
Pick your industry. See what we'd build.
For construction trades, we'd build:
Takeoff, job cost, crew hours and the office, plus the field hardware to run it.
Proof
Built and used by us first.
in testingPinnacle Precon modules
Takeoff, Cost Control, Payroll and Hours, Books, Live Material, Drawing OCR, Teams and an AI helper under one sign-in, switched on per shop.
Built with TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL
Read the case study
in developmentJob Walk 3D
Walk a building in 3D in the browser, drop pins on walls and floors, and attach notes and photos. Pins save to a file you keep.
Built with React, three.js, TypeScript
See the technology card
in developmentTool Watch
QR tags on tools and equipment: check out to a job or crew, check back in, see what's overdue, and report charges by job.
Built with TypeScript, React, QR codes
See the technology card- coming soon
Truck Office
The office in the truck: a field tablet and dock for the crew lead. Details when it's ready to show.
See the technology card
Case studies built with this technology
liveIT and remote workThe 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.
See how it was done
liveMarketing and mediaShort videos that explain
Explainer video pipeline
Contractors don't read long pages. We needed short videos that explain what we do.
See how it was done
Our companies
Our own companies are our first partners.
ibuildyouwin is the parent brand. Everything below is built on the technology on this page.
Own site coming soonPinnacle Precon™
Pinnacle Construction Software: Precon and Takeoff for contractors, in modules you pick and choose.
Visit Pinnacle Precon
Own site coming soonBots & Bees™ Productions
Our characters, the animated show and ready-made AI helpers.
Visit Bots & Bees Productions
Coming soonThe Tool Store sites
Several branded shops on one store engine, starting with tools and electrical gear.
Visit The Tool Store sites
The technology we build with
Technologies we build with
The kinds of systems we build with and connect to.
Our vision
Our vision, powered by NVIDIA
Our bots and bees are your guides. Each one explains a technology we build with: what it is, what we can build with it, and a real example from our plans.
NVIDIA technology
NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs
Workstation and server graphics cards built for AI.
What we can build with it
- A private AI server in a contractor's office
- Local AI for clinics and law offices that can't send data out
- 3D rendering and video for studios and schools
- Fast model testing before anything goes to the cloud
Example: The AI crew runs on a server in the contractor's own office, so job data never leaves the building.
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NVIDIA technology
CUDA
The way software uses the GPU for heavy math.
What we can build with it
- Reading plan sets and counting devices in minutes
- Scanning thousands of documents or invoices at once
- Image checks for retail shelves and stockrooms
- Speeding up reports that used to run overnight
Example: Count every outlet and light on a full plan set in minutes instead of a day.
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NVIDIA technology
NVIDIA NIM
Ready-to-run AI models in a box.
What we can build with it
- Packaged assistants each customer runs on their own hardware
- Search across a company's own files
- Front-desk and help-desk assistants
- Quick pilots without building a model from scratch
Example: Each customer gets the same estimating assistant, installed on their own server.
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NVIDIA technology
TensorRT-LLM
Makes language models answer faster on NVIDIA GPUs.
What we can build with it
- Quick answers from an on-site AI crew
- More users per server at the same cost
- Live chat that doesn't lag
- Drafting emails and reports in seconds
Example: A foreman asks a question on site and gets the answer before the phone goes back in a pocket.
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NVIDIA technology
NVIDIA NeMo
Tools to train and tune AI models for one field.
What we can build with it
- An assistant that knows estimating, job cost and change orders
- A model that speaks a clinic's or a school's language
- Safe answers with guardrails
- Models that improve from a company's own history
Example: An assistant that reads a change order and knows what it does to the job's cost.
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NVIDIA technology
NeMo Agent Toolkit and agent blueprints
Building blocks for AI helpers that work as a team.
What we can build with it
- A crew of bots and bees that hand work to each other
- Office helpers that file, check and follow up
- Store helpers that answer, pack and ship
- Teaching helpers that quiz and coach
Example: One bot reads the plans, another prices them, and a third checks the math before anyone sees it.
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NVIDIA technology
NVIDIA Riva
Speech to text and text to speech.
What we can build with it
- Hands-free logging of hours, materials and change orders
- Voice notes that turn into reports
- Phone and kiosk assistants
- Captions for training videos
Example: A foreman says "four hours on the panel, two boxes of wire" and it's logged.
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NVIDIA technology
NVIDIA Omniverse
A platform for shared 3D worlds and digital twins.
What we can build with it
- Job Walk 3D replays of the site
- Digital twins that compare planned vs built
- 3D training rooms for new workers
- Virtual stores and showrooms
Example: Replay a job walk in 3D and see what was planned next to what was built.
Partner with usNVIDIA technology
NVIDIA Cosmos
Models that create and understand the physical world.
What we can build with it
- Simulating site conditions before work starts
- Making training images for vision models
- Testing robots safely in a virtual space
- What-if views for planning
Example: Train a site camera to spot hazards using simulated job sites.
Partner with usNVIDIA technology
NVIDIA Isaac
Tools to build and test robots.
What we can build with it
- Layout robots that mark box and conduit locations
- Drones that scan progress
- Warehouse and stockroom robots
- Robot practice in simulation first
Example: A layout robot marks every box location on the floor straight from the plans.
Partner with usNVIDIA technology
NVIDIA Metropolis and Jetson
Vision AI for cameras, on small edge computers.
What we can build with it
- Site cameras for progress and safety
- Counting deliveries at the gate
- Store traffic and shelf checks
- Parking and entry monitoring
Example: A site camera flags a missing hard hat and logs the day's progress.
Partner with usNVIDIA technology
NVIDIA RAPIDS
GPU-speed data science.
What we can build with it
- Forecasting cost overruns before they happen
- Cash flow outlooks
- Bid win odds
- Sales and inventory forecasts for stores
Example: See which jobs are drifting over budget while there's still time to fix them.
Partner with usNVIDIA technology
Audio2Face and Omniverse animation
Turns a voice track into a talking, animated face.
What we can build with it
- The animated Bots & Bees cartoon
- Friendly guide characters on websites
- Training videos with a presenter
- Family and kids' media
Example: The Bots & Bees characters talk and react in the family cartoon.
Partner with usNVIDIA technology
NVIDIA DGX Spark
A compact desktop AI computer.
What we can build with it
- A small AI box for small contractors
- A private AI desk for a small office
- A classroom AI lab
- Building and testing models at a desk
Example: A two-truck shop gets the same private AI crew on a box that fits on a desk.
Partner with usNVIDIA technology
NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Supported software for running AI at a larger company.
What we can build with it
- Secure, supported setups for larger companies
- AI across many offices
- IT-managed updates and security
- Long-term support for critical systems
Example: A larger contractor runs the AI crew across every office with IT in control.
Partner with usThe platforms around it
The rest of our stack, each with what we can build on it.
Platform
Cloudflare
Network, security and secure tunnels.
What we can build with it
- Secure access to a customer's server with no open ports
- Fast, protected websites
- Blocking attacks before they reach the server
- Small serverless tools at the edge
Example: Reach the office AI server from the job site without opening the office network.
Partner with usPlatform
Stripe
Online payments.
What we can build with it
- Payments for the store and subscriptions
- Invoices that can be paid online
- Course sign-ups
- Donations and memberships
Example: When the store opens, one checkout for modules, bots and courses.
Partner with usPlatform
ElevenLabs
Natural-sounding AI voices.
What we can build with it
- Character voices for bots, bees and the cartoon
- Narration for training and how-to videos
- Spoken answers from an assistant
- Audio versions of written guides
Example: Each bot and bee has its own voice in the cartoon and in the app.
Partner with usPlatform
Resend
Email sending for apps.
What we can build with it
- Receipts and account emails
- Job updates sent to customers
- Newsletters
- Alerts when something needs a person
Example: A daily job summary lands in the owner's inbox each evening.
Partner with usPlatform
PostgreSQL
A proven open-source database.
What we can build with it
- The job, cost and document database
- Customer and order records
- Reports that stay correct over years
- Search over structured data
Example: Every job, cost and document lives in one database the customer owns.
Partner with usPlatform
n8n
Workflow automation you can host yourself.
What we can build with it
- Moving data between apps without copy and paste
- Follow-ups that run on a schedule
- Alerts from forms, email and files
- Glue between the AI crew and office tools
Example: A new bid request gets logged, assigned and acknowledged without anyone touching it.
Partner with usPlatform
ONLYOFFICE
Documents and spreadsheets you can host yourself.
What we can build with it
- Estimate sheets edited in the browser
- Shared documents that stay on the company's server
- Forms and templates
- Reports the AI crew can fill in
Example: Open the estimate spreadsheet in the browser and the AI fills in the counts.
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