--- title: "Pelles AI | AI Software for Trade Contractors" description: "Your company’s AI operating system: apps for every workflow, connected to your systems, with agents doing the work. Built for MEP and specialty trades." canonical: https://www.pelles.ai --- BUILT FOR TRADE CONTRACTORS # You built a great company. Now build the AI to run it. Turn your company's knowledge, documents, and workflows into an AI-powered operating system that runs your projects **the way your best people would**. [See Pelles on your project](https://www.pelles.ai/contact) Skip Customers ## Join the trade contractors running 7,000+ projects on Pelles. From the bid set to the field, across the US. [Explore customer stories](https://www.pelles.ai/resource-hub) (Image: Alterman) (Image: Vertical Mechanical Group) (Image: F.G. Haggerty) (Image: DeKalb Mechanical) (Image: Mainelli Mechanical) (Image: The Nelson Stark Company) (Image: Worcester Air) (Image: PHB) (Image: Miller Bonded) (Image: ST Fabrication) (Image: Kidwell) (Image: LA Fuller and Sons) (Image: Kidwell) 70–80% less time reviewing plans and specs, per estimator Pages read, and counting 7,251,769 Up to 120,000 more on a busy day AI tasks completed 129,773 About 700 more every day Hours of work saved\* 50K+ About 25 years of full-time work As of Oct 25, 2026; pages and tasks keep counting at the last 30 days' pace. \*Estimated. ## Your company’s AI operating system, built around how you work. Apps for every workflow, connected to every system you use, with agents doing the work across them. All on Pelles intelligence. **No developers needed.** ### 01 Apps for every workflow Every workflow your team runs becomes an app built around it, running on your data the way your team already works. Describe it in a sentence; **the code behind your apps is yours.** [Pelles Build](https://www.pelles.ai/pelles-build) New app Draft Share **Pelles builder** New app What should we build? ### 02 Connected to every system Your apps share data with each other and with Procore, Autodesk, Trimble, your ERP, Excel, your files and email. Pelles reads from them and writes back what your team asks for, **so nobody re-keys a submittal or a PO again.** [See integrations](https://www.pelles.ai/integrations) (Illustration: Pelles connected to Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Excel, SharePoint, Oracle Primavera P6, Outlook, Box, Microsoft Teams, Sage, OneDrive, Trimble, Quickbase, Bluebeam, Smartsheet, BuildingConnected, Trimble ProjectSight, ConstructConnect, Dropbox, PlanGrid, Google Drive, BuildOps, Acumatica.) ### 03 Agents that do the work Agents work around the clock. When a new schedule lands at 2 AM, they check it against every app and have the follow-up drafted by morning. Text them, message them in Teams or email them, **and they draft the RFI or the change for your team to review.** (Illustration: At 2:14 AM a new GC schedule arrives in the PM agent’s inbox. It checks the change in Procore and Trimble, drafts an RFI in Autodesk Construction Cloud, messages the PM in Teams and texts them in the morning, and sends the RFI once the PM replies yes from their phone.) ### 04 Pelles intelligence built in Underneath it all is a full AI engine. Every page is classified, read and indexed in parallel. Every question is routed to the right model, researched across your documents and systems, and checked against your standards. **Each answer is cited to the page, on infrastructure isolated per project.** (Illustration: The Pelles platform, top to bottom. Your project data, drawings, models, specs, schedules, Excel and email from Procore, Autodesk, Trimble, SharePoint, Box and Outlook. Pelles intelligence: it understands every page (classification, layout on GPU, OCR, tables, sheets and revisions, CSI sections), knows your projects and company (a vector and keyword index per project, plus instructions, skills, standards and memory), and reasons and acts (model routing, deep research, tools that write back, drafts for your review). What you get: apps, agents, cited answers, deep research, revision compare and checklists, on the web, mobile, Teams, Outlook, Excel, text and MCP. Underneath: permission-aware retrieval, per-project isolation, SSO and roles, SOC 2 Type II, hosted on AWS.) ## Don’t take our word for it. - Watch video 1:12 ### More bids. Same team. Greater confidence. [Explore Pelles Core](https://www.pelles.ai/pelles-core) > “If somebody is considering Pelles, I would say get onboard! Because once you try it there’s no going back. The AI platform is outstanding.” **Tim Jonas** Executive Director of Estimation, Kidwell [Read Kidwell story](https://www.pelles.ai/kidwell-case-study) - Watch video 1:20 ### Keep the process that makes you good. Pelles is built around it. [Explore Pelles Build](https://www.pelles.ai/pelles-build) > “I want a software to figure out how we work and start building unique things for us.” **Dan Stokes** Director of Estimating, Southland Industries Watch Dan’s talk - Watch video 1:17 ### $300,000 his PM had missed. Found in the dailies. [Explore Pelles Build](https://www.pelles.ai/pelles-build) > “I don’t want a tool that’s going to tell me what it thinks I want to hear.” **Dominick Johnson** Director, Central Texas Industrial, Alterman Watch Dominick’s talk In their words - > “Pelles works our way. Instead of changing our process to fit the software, we built tools around how our people already work.” **Paul Mendoza** Chief Operating Officer, Alterman - > “AI made custom software practical for our business. Pelles made it achievable.” **Tim Anderson** CEO, Vertical Mechanical Group - > “It’s the only AI platform built specifically for subcontractors, created by a team with the experience and insight to truly understand what matters to our industry.” **Joel Schriner** PE, Principal Engineer, Peck Hannaford + Briggs - > “It streamlines workflows, automates repetitive tasks, and enables smarter, faster decisions that help us win more bids with confidence.” **Martin Press** President, Press Mechanical - > “We estimate that we’re saving approximately 70–⁠80% of the time typically spent reviewing plans and specifications.” **Tim Jonas** Executive Director of Estimation, Kidwell - > “The product is backed by a hands-on team willing to work closely with us to deliver solutions that truly work.” **Weldon Campbell** Estimator, L. A. Fuller & Sons Construction - > “Pelles.ai enables our team to review project plans and documentation more effectively by identifying crucial elements and collecting data in a clear, visually engaging format.” **Nick Schneider** Estimator, Kidwell - > “Our documents are ready when we are, allowing us to focus on scope coordination and submitting stronger bids.” **Fabrizio Garcia** Director of Preconstruction, McKenney’s Why not just use ChatGPT? ## AI knows a lot. You know your business. General AI knows the industry. Pelles works from your projects and your standards, and brings your team’s judgment to every project. 1. 01 The industry ### General AI knows the industry It has read every code, standard and manual. What it has never seen is in that box: your projects. - Codes and standards - Industry best practice - Your projects, your process, your standards 2. 02 Your projects ### Your team knows every job Any drawing, spec, RFI or schedule on any job is a question away for anyone on your team, down to one labor number on one sheet. - Every document on every job - Answers you can check at the source - Always the current revision [Pelles Core](https://www.pelles.ai/pelles-core) 3. 03 Your way ### Your experts make the call When your estimator corrects that number, the fix follows your checklist and your people approve it. Nothing changes without them. - Your process and checklists - Your people approve every change - In the tools you already use [Pelles Build](https://www.pelles.ai/pelles-build) 4. 04 Your standards ### Software that learns as you work Each fix your team approves and each job you finish teaches it how you build. The more you work with it, the better it gets. - Corrections become your new standard - Each project starts from the last - No models trained on your data [Read the FAQ](https://www.pelles.ai/faq) ## Your data, your rules, your software. Connected to the tools you already run, with the permissions you already have, and never trained on your content. 1. ### Integrations [](https://www.pelles.ai/integrations "See all integrations") Connects to the tools you already use, with 25+ integrations and more added regularly. Everything you build is connected from day one, with read and write permissions for each source. Your files stay in your systems. (Image: Procore) (Image: Autodesk Construction Cloud) (Image: Trimble) (Image: Sage) (Image: SharePoint) 25+ systems 2. ### Permissions Access mirrors the permissions you already have, from the first day. Security dashboards for oversight, and every answer traces back to its source document. - SSO and SAML - MFA - Audit log 3. ### Data handling We never train or improve our models on your content, and one customer’s content never trains a model that serves another. - AES-256 - TLS 1.2+ - Tenant isolation 4. ### Compliance SOC 2 Type II attested and aligned with CCPA and CPRA. The reports and the subprocessor list are in the [Trust Center](https://trust-center.pelles.ai). **SOC 2 Type II** Attested, 2026 5. ### Deployment and cost Nothing to install, nothing to maintain, no IT overhead. It scales across your teams as they take it up. - Nothing installed - Running in days [Open the Trust Center](https://trust-center.pelles.ai) [Security and trust](https://www.pelles.ai/security) ## Good questions. Straight answers. Questions Ask Pelles Questions Who is it for? Is it a takeoff tool? What do we get, what can we build? Difference between agent & app Do we need to replace our tools? How is it priced? ### Who is Pelles for? ### Is Pelles a takeoff tool? ### What do we get on day one, and what can we build? ### What’s the difference between an agent and an app? ### Do we need to replace our existing software? ### How is Pelles priced? Mechanical, electrical, plumbing and specialty trade contractors. Teams usually start in estimating and preconstruction, then expand to project management, service and back office. No. Pelles reviews drawings, specs and contracts and produces deliverables like RFI lists and contradiction reports. Count & Measure (beta) can check counts against a schedule, but keep your takeoff software. Pelles Core is ready when you log in: DoubleCheck, Compare, Reports and Agents, with the knowledge base and chat. With Pelles Build, your team builds its own apps and agents on the same platform by describing the work in plain words. No developers needed. An agent does one job in the background and hands you the result to approve, like splitting and renaming every sheet in a 250-drawing set. An app is a tool your team opens and works in, built around your standards, like a pipe-matrix app. No. Pelles works alongside Procore, ACC, Trimble and Microsoft 365. By team or company, with unlimited usage. There’s no per-token or usage-based billing. Who is Pelles for? Mechanical, electrical, plumbing and specialty trade contractors. Teams usually start in estimating and preconstruction, then expand to project management, service and back office. Try Do we have to replace Procore or ACC? Do you train AI on our documents? Do we need developers? 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