What does AI construction software do for a Canadian contractor?

It reads the drawings, specifications, bid package and contract of a project and runs one workflow on them at a time: takeoff, estimating, bid comparison, revision comparison, change orders and progress draws. Every result keeps its source, and your team approves it.

Which North American contractors use Mirage?

Clients include Flatiron Dragados, Demathieu Bard Construction and Green Infrastructure Partners. Their deployments are not published as case studies; the published results come from John Cockerill, OCBM and Rouandi.

Does Mirage read CCDC contracts?

Yes. CCDC standard forms and their supplementary conditions are read as contracts: change provisions, notice periods and payment terms come out with their clause references, and each change order or change directive is linked to the documents behind it.

Does it work with MasterFormat specifications?

Yes. Requirements are filed by MasterFormat division and section, each cited to its page in the project manual, so estimators and subtrades see the requirements that apply to their scope.

Can it read documents in French?

Yes. Documents in English and in French are read the same way, including packages that mix both.

Can our data stay in Canada?

Yes. Mirage is deployed in your infrastructure or your cloud, with your keys and your logs, so the data stays where you host it. Mirage's access can be limited or removed.

How long until a first workflow is live?

A proof of concept one week after the first meeting, then the first workflow in production in 4 to 6 weeks: your rules and document conventions first, then a pilot on one live project.

How much does it cost?

A fixed-price pilot on one real project, which you can stop after, then an annual subscription priced by volume. Prices start at $10,000 to launch and $1,000 a month; the exact amount is quoted in the first conversation.

CONSTRUCTION INTELLIGENCE / CANADA

AI construction software for Canadian contractors and infrastructure teams

Mirage reads drawings, specifications, bid packages, contracts and project records, then runs source-traceable workflows across takeoff, estimating, revisions, changes and progress draws, in English and in French, inside the systems your teams already use.

Workflows Canadian practice FAQ

North American clients include Flatiron Dragados, Demathieu Bard Construction and Green Infrastructure Partners.

Canadian estimators measure and price large bid packages to a closing date, then keep changes, progress draws and holdback in step with the scope by hand.

Start with one workflow, then extend it

Most teams start with takeoff, estimating or bid package review. Once Mirage knows your drawings, cost codes and systems, the same project data serves revisions, changes and progress draws.

Preconstruction

Takeoff and estimating: Complete drawing sets measured into counts, lengths, areas and volumes, organised by your trades and cost codes, each quantity tied to its drawing and revision.
Bid package review: Drawings, specifications, addenda and supplementary conditions read together: scope gaps, requirements and questions listed before bid closing.
Bid comparison: Subtrade quotations read in the format they arrive and compared line by line against your scope: exclusions, missing scope, quantity differences.

Revisions and project documents

Drawing revision comparison: Two issues of a drawing set compared: what was added, removed or changed, and the quantity difference.
Specifications by MasterFormat section: Requirements pulled from the project manual and filed by MasterFormat division and section, each cited to its page.
RFIs and submittals: RFIs prepared from what the documents already say, submittals checked against the specification, every answer tied to its source.

Changes and payment

Change orders and change directives: Each change tied back to the drawings, specification and contract scope it alters, with its quantity impact.
Progress draws and holdback: Progress claims and subtrade invoices checked against measured work, the contract and approved changes; holdback tracked per contract and per subtrade.
Progress reporting: Site reports and project records turned into structured progress data, without re-keying.

Built around Canadian practice

Specifications: Project manuals organised by MasterFormat, the division and section structure published by CSI and Construction Specifications Canada.
Contracts: CCDC standard contracts and their supplementary conditions read as contracts: change provisions, notice periods and payment terms extracted with their clause references.
Changes: Change orders and change directives, each linked to the documents behind it and to its cost and quantity impact.
Payment: Monthly progress claims built from measured work and approved changes, with holdback amounts tracked per contract.
Languages: Documents in English and in French read the same way, including mixed packages.

Every number can be checked

An estimator cannot use a quantity they cannot verify. Mirage keeps the source attached to every result:

Drawing
Sheet
Detail
Revision
Specification section
Contract clause

Estimators and project engineers check each result against the original before it reaches a bid, a cost system or a progress claim.

Configured to how your company works

A forward deployed engineer works with your estimators, project managers and project controls team to set Mirage up on your own rules:

Measurement rules
Trade and cost-code structures
Document conventions
Review checklists
Approval routes
Exceptions
Existing systems

Corrections your team makes on one project become rules reused on the next.

See how forward deployment works

Results from production deployments

Flatiron Dragados, Demathieu Bard Construction and Green Infrastructure Partners are Mirage clients; their projects are not published. The figures below come from published case studies.

John Cockerill

80-90% reduction in measurement time, from 3-4 days down to a few hours

1 month → a few clicks for a manufacturing bill of materials

3 engineering disciplines running on the same platform

See the case study

OCBM

100% of extracted quantities traceable to a source drawing

3 agents in production, from measurement through to pricing

Dedicated agent cross-checks drawing revisions to surface discrepancies as they occur

See the case study

Rouandi

A civil engineering and construction firm

One estimating workflow inside the estimating process, not beside it

Every output reviewed by the team; five or more team members trained

See the case study

Works with the systems you already use

Your systems stay the record. Mirage reads from them and writes results back; where no standard connector exists, our engineers build it during deployment.

Procore
Autodesk Construction Cloud
Revit
Bluebeam
Microsoft SharePoint
Sage
Oracle
SAP
Internal systems

See your own drawings measured

Send us a real, active plan set or bid package, and we'll show you exactly what the quantities and the flagged points look like.

How a deployment runs: Observe, Map, Build, Run, Expand. See the method

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