ZANUS FRONT OFFICE FOR ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION
Next-generation AI for Engineering & Construction. Try it free on your own company. No credit card.
Every call answered while your people are on site. Every bid followed up. Every request on the record. ZANUS AI Front Office for Engineering & Construction is the AI receptionist, estimating desk and follow-up desk for general contractors, specialty subs, engineering firms and homebuilders. It answers owners, architects, subs, suppliers and homeowners on phone, website chat, email and web forms — service area, capabilities, the published schedule, delivery windows, how to get on the bid list — books site visits and pre-bid walks into the estimator’s calendar, acknowledges bid invitations the same hour, sends and chases bids, logs RFIs and warranty requests, and sends the COI when the rules allow. Engineering, safety and contract questions go to your people; the routine stops owning the office. Grounded only in the information your company approves: no source, no claim.
Try it free 7 days on your own business · no credit card · per company, never per seat
REAL AI - the whole Front Office is AI, not old software with an AI button. Give it your website: it learns your company, works from your approved knowledge and gets better with every answer you approve.
Live on this site right now — the assistant in the corner is the product · Award-winning AI — CES · ISE · TMCnet
The real Front Office dashboard: today’s numbers, what needs a person, every menu on the left. In the trial it is yours, with your company in it.
FREE TRIAL · 7 DAYS · NO CREDIT CARD
Give us your website. Ten minutes later, your company answers the phone.
“Give us your website. Ten minutes later Zanus has built a private 7-day sandbox around your company: your knowledge, a phone line that answers as you, your website with Lisa on it, your dashboard with your data. Not old software with an AI button — the AI is the software.”
“No card. No setup fee. Per company, never per seat. You decide after you hear it answer as your company.” One trial per company: a working business website and an e-mail on its domain.
- 1Your website. Lisa reads it and proposes your departments and people; she asks only what the site does not say.
- 2Your sandbox, in ten minutes. A phone line in your area code that answers as you and transfers to your real phones, your website with Lisa on it, your dashboard with your data.
- 3Seven days on your business. Day 1 the first call; day 3 a mail “what your callers asked”; day 7 a report.
- 4Keep it or walk away. Buy any solution on any day and the sandbox becomes the account — same number, same knowledge, nothing redone. Walk away and nothing is charged.
How you start
Three steps, in the order you like. Most people skip straight to the second.
Two minutes. The AI presents the Front Office and answers your questions live — the demo is the product.
Your website, your phone line, your dashboard. No card, nothing to install. Start free
Any solution, on any day of the trial — the sandbox becomes your account. Per company, never per seat. See pricing →
Prefer to own your AI on your own premises? See AI Servers — a separate product. The Front Office above needs no server.
One AI Front Office. Every job your office does today between the phone and the paperwork.
The same 31 menus, read through an office manager’s and an estimator’s eyes. Each function below is a page of its own, in your vocabulary — enable what your plan includes, add more when the backlog grows. No IT project, no platform team. Comparing options? See the comparison →
Every morning: last night’s calls, bid invitations received, site visits booked, RFIs and warranty requests filed — and which owner or sub needs a call back today.
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AI PhoneAnswers the office line on your menu, in your voices, 24/7 — takes the estimate request complete, answers the sub from the published schedule, books the walk, transfers the engineering question to your PM with context.
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AI Chat & VoiceWebsite chat and voice that answers service area, capabilities, bid-list and homesite questions from your approved information — and books the site visit or tour in the conversation.
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AI AvatarA lifelike face that greets owners and homebuyers on your site, explains how a project runs with you and walks a first-time client through what happens after the estimate.
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Project WalkthroughsInteractive project walkthroughs: from estimate to contract to schedule to final walkthrough, your capabilities for a developer, a community tour for a homebuyer — narrated by AI, any hour.
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Bid Invitations & LeadsEstimate requests, bid invitations, subcontractor prequalification forms and tour requests worked in minutes — from form to booked visit, with your go/no-go questions asked first.
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Client & Project RecordsThe front-office client and project record: every call, bid, RFI, site visit and document request in one timeline per owner, GC and project. Not the project file — the conversation record.
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AI E-mailBid invitations acknowledged, schedule and delivery questions answered, COI and W-9 sent by rule, RFIs logged and routed to the PM with the thread summarized — drawings attached and all.
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Bids & EstimatesStandard-scope estimates from your real unit prices; the estimator’s bid sent, opened, tracked and chased through the same desk — accepted with one click.
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Bid & Client Follow-upBid follow-up on day 1, 3 and 7, post-project check-ins, the one-year walkthrough invitation, seasonal outreach to past clients and architects — stopped the moment a person should call.
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Site Visits & WalksSite visits, pre-bid walks, design consultations and model-home tours booked into the right estimator or consultant with travel time — calendars synced, the brief written before the drive.
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Office Team TrainingOffice staff, project coordinators and new estimators trained on your scripts, document rules and bid process — and a team assistant the super can ask from the truck.
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RFIs & RequestsRFIs, warranty items, delivery exceptions, document requests and neighbor complaints filed as tracked requests and routed to the PM, super or office — nights and weekends included.
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Bid & Backlog ForecastBid win probability and backlog signal from what owners actually did — opened the bid, asked about alternates, booked the walk — with the WHY, plus win/loss post-mortems from transcripts.
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Owners, Subs & SuppliersOwners, developers, architects, GCs, subs and suppliers mapped as organizations from real conversations — who invites you, who pays, which GC has quietly stopped calling.
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Add AI to what you haveConnect the project-management, estimating and accounting systems you already run — the AI does the front-office work, and writes it back.
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ProtectionDaily caps on every AI resource: a bot hammering your estimate form in storm season costs a capped, known amount — owners and homeowners see courtesy.
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What happens to every inquiry — in your company
A sub at 6:30 AM before the crew mobilizes, a homeowner at lunch, an owner’s rep with a bid invitation at 4:55 PM Friday, a homebuyer on the community site at 10 PM. Phone, chat, email, form — in any of 40 languages.
Service area, capabilities, hours, how to get on the bid list, the published schedule, delivery windows, the gate code, what a first visit involves — from your approved information only. No source, no claim.
Owner, GC, sub, supplier or homeowner; which project, which PM, which estimator; your go/no-go questions asked in the conversation — project type, size, location, timeline. Engineering, safety and contract questions go to your people.
Book the site visit or pre-bid walk with travel time, log the RFI or warranty item, send the COI by rule, acknowledge the bid invitation, transfer to the PM with the context whispered in, call back the hang-up.
The bid opened but unanswered, the site-visit reminder, the post-project check-in, the one-year walkthrough due, the architect who has gone quiet since the last RFP — on schedule, until done, stopped when a reply arrives.
Every touch on the client’s and the project’s front-office record. Every morning a briefing: what was handled overnight, which owner, sub or homeowner needs a person today.
AI-driven end to end. A person wherever your rules require it. Anything engineering, safety, schedule-changing or contractual, and anything outside your approved information, waits for your estimator, PM or office manager; the routine, the AI handles and reports.
One knowledge base feeds every channel
Websites, uploads, pages and articles, Q&A, battle cards, images and videos — you approve it once, and phone, chat, email, demos and quotes all answer from the same verified source. No source, no claim.
40 languages, one bill, a help drawer over every screen
Languages and website translation, billing with plans, top-ups and alerts, onboarding, users & security, and the help drawer that answers from the platform manual — the plumbing that comes with it.
Private by architecture
Your Front Office runs in a private Cloudflare environment dedicated to your company — your own data-processing container, not a shared pool. Your knowledge stays yours: it never trains global models like GPT or Grok, and it is never shared.
- Private data-processing environment per company
- Grounded only in your knowledge
- Claim guard: no source, no claim
- Private environment option: an isolated environment with enterprise-grade security certifications, on request
Auto-Call — the AI calls your clients
Not only answering. From an automated event (a due date, a ready order, tomorrow’s appointment), a scheduled funnel or a list, the AI calls your registered contacts and announces your message — or talks as an agent: answers the question, moves the appointment, confirms, collects the missing detail. Call window, attempts, voicemail policy and consent rules are yours; every call is transcribed.
- “Hi Mike, this is Summit Builders: the inspector is scheduled for your project tomorrow at 9; please make sure the site is accessible.”
- “Hi Rachel, this is Summit Builders calling to set the walkthrough before your kitchen work starts. Would Thursday afternoon or Friday morning suit you?”
Scheduled Auto-Call comes inside a solution — see pricing; calling back the hang-ups is part of AI Phone. How it works, in the Phone chapter ›
The same Front Office, by job
The jobs a company names most often — each explained in full: what falls through the cracks today, a day with the AI on the job, every function seen from that job.
Questions, answered
Does the AI give engineering, code or safety advice, or commit to a schedule?
No. It answers only from the information your company approves — service area, capabilities, the schedule you publish, unit prices, documents, warranty terms as written. A load-bearing question, a code interpretation, a change to the pour date or a payment dispute is transferred to your engineer, PM or office manager, or taken as a message, with the context attached. Jobsite emergencies follow your approved instructions word for word and go to the on-call person. No source, no claim.
What happens to our bid and client information?
Your Front Office runs on a private data-processing environment dedicated to your company; bids, client conversations and documents never train public models and are never shared. Firms whose public-owner or government contracts require an isolated environment with specific certifications ask for a private environment — available on request.
Does it replace our project-management or estimating software?
No. It sits in front of them: the AI answers, books, files and follows up, then writes contacts, site visits and requests back through Connectors — native calendar sync, webhooks and API. The project file stays in your project-management system, the takeoff stays in your estimating system; the office phone stops owning your day.
Try it free on your own company. 7 days. No credit card.
Give it your website. It learns your company. Then call it, chat with it, e-mail it — and decide. Nothing to install, nothing to cancel.
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