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Construction document intelligence · Public work

See every requirement, risk, and deadline before your team burns hours on the bid.

Send one active or recent RFP. Apex Frame returns a human-checked breakdown of the deadlines, requirements, missing items, and source pages your team needs to review. First one is free. No card on file. If a breakdown misses a deadline that's in the documents, it's free.

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One public pursuit. Human-checked. No pitch, no obligation.

Free
first breakdown
72 hr
turnaround
Human
reviewed, every brief
100% of our team has worked in construction.See a public teardown

why we built this

Small firms deserve real systems.
Not enterprise overhead.

The best builders don't always win the work. Too often, the paperwork does. A real system fixes that: we read the dense bid and project documents so you don't have to, and hand back the requirements, risks, and next steps in plain English. A small contractor can go up against far larger firms and win on craftsmanship, not paperwork. A person reviews every breakdown before it reaches you.

how to start

Start with one solicitation.

Name a job you're bidding. We read the front end and send back every deadline, form, bond, and disqualifier, cited to its page. Free, and nothing from you but the project name.

Always free

01Start here

The Front-End Read

Name the job. We pull the package from the portal ourselves and send back what decides the bid: deadlines, required forms, bonds, and the traps that get bids thrown out before anyone reads your number. You send nothing, sign nothing, install nothing.

If a read misses a deadline that's in the documents, it's free.

Get a free front-end read

Cited to the page. Human-checked. Back in 72 hours.

What comes back

Every line cited
  • Bid date and time, to the minutep. 4
  • Mandatory pre-bid and site visitp. 9
  • Bid bond and consent of suretyp. 22
  • Forms that must be in the envelopep. 31
  • What gets bids thrown outp. 48

Reads in five minutes. Saves the weekend.

Where it goes from there.

No document access needed

02Ongoing work

Every Job in Your Trade

Available now. Done by hand.

Your counties, your trade, every week: what posted, who holds the plans, when questions close. Reads on the jobs you're chasing. When an addendum drops, you get what changed, not homework.

What you receive

  • What's bidding this week, in your counties
  • Front-end reads on the jobs you're chasing
  • Addendum alerts with what actually changed
  • Bid results after opening: who bid, and the spread
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In development

03The software

Bid and Proposal Tools

The same work, in your hands.

Upload a package. Get the requirement register, the responsiveness check, and a review-ready packet, every claim traced to its page. Built from the work we do by hand today.

What we're building

  • Requirement register: source-traced deadlines, forms, and risks
  • Compliance matrix generator, first draft in about a minute
  • Addendum impact analyzer
  • Submittal log builder
  • Bid deadline and milestone tracker
Get told when it opens

First read is on us. So is the second.

Founding firms get their first two reads free and locked pricing on ongoing work when it starts. No card, no call, no obligation.

Claim a founding spot

Apex Frame Studio

Make the firm look as good as the work.

Recruiting videos and capability media, built from your real projects and your real crews. Capability statements, project sheets, and the credibility assets GCs ask for at prequal.

For the owner, not the estimator. A different kind of work, under the same roof.

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questions

Questions before you start.

The fastest next step: tell us the kind of public work you bid, or send a public RFP you're already eyeing, for a free breakdown.

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Small-to-mid construction and civil contractors who don't have a dedicated proposal or document-control person in-house. Common first uses: sitework, paving, utility, excavation, bridge, heavy highway, demolition, and civil GCs bidding public work. Most of our work so far has been PA, MD, DE, and NJ public bids, so we know those agencies' forms and addenda habits. The breakdown itself works anywhere the solicitation is public: everything is delivered by email.

Start with one public bid. Stay in control.

Send a live public bid you're eyeing, or tell us the kind of public work you bid and we'll grab one to break down. You get the requirements, risks, missing inputs, and next steps, human-checked. No private files needed.

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