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The AI email assistant for construction companies

Turn RFQs, subcontractor questions, vendor quotes, and scheduling emails into ready-to-send replies, grounded in your services, rates, and past jobs, right inside Gmail and Outlook.

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Drafting an RFQ reply
Overview

Email built for how construction companies actually run

Construction companies are surprisingly email-heavy. A single small office fields RFQs and bid requests, subcontractor inquiries, vendor quotes, permit questions, invoice requests, and scheduling changes, and most of them follow the same handful of patterns. InboxPilot reads each email, pulls the right context from your services, rate sheets, and past jobs, and drafts an accurate reply in your voice, so your office answers every builder, sub, and vendor fast without hiring an admin.

70%of RFQ, subcontractor, and vendor emails drafted for you
Under 2 minfrom a bid request to a ready-to-send reply
24/7coverage so after-hours RFQs get a fast reply
Challenges

The email that piles up in a construction office

RFQs, subs, vendors, permits, and scheduling all hit the same inbox. InboxPilot drafts the repetitive layer from your own services and rates, so your office answers fast without hiring an admin.

RFQs and bids can't wait

A late reply to a bid request means the GC already moved to the next contractor on the list, and you're out of the running before you quoted.

One small office, endless email

Subs, vendors, permits, invoices, and scheduling changes all land in the same inbox, and there's rarely a dedicated admin to triage them.

The same questions, every job

Lead times, insurance and licensing, service areas, day rates, and 'are you available?' repeat on every project and every crew.

How it helps

What changes when InboxPilot drafts for your office

Instant RFQ responses

Draft a reply the moment a bid request lands, confirm the scope, and ask for the plans, specs, and due date so estimating can start.

Sub & vendor answers

Handle subcontractor availability, insurance, and scope questions and vendor quote requests from your own rate sheets and past jobs.

Grounded in your services

Pulls from your capabilities, service areas, and past bids so every answer is accurate, not generic boilerplate.

Routes to the right person

Sends estimating, accounting, and scheduling emails to the right person with the context already attached.

Written in your voice

Learns how your office writes to clients, subs, and vendors, so every message sounds like your company.

You approve before it sends

Drafts wait in the inbox, and unusual project questions are flagged for a person instead of answered automatically.

Use cases

Built for the emails a construction office gets most

RFQs & bid requests

Acknowledge the request, confirm scope and service area, and collect the plans, specs, and timeline estimating needs.

Subcontractor inquiries

Answer availability, insurance, and scope questions and route qualified subs to the project manager.

Vendor & material quotes

Reply to quote requests and supplier questions from your rate sheets and purchase history.

Scheduling & permits

Handle schedule changes, site access, and permit-status questions and keep the client, sub, and crew updated.

One inbox, every request

The email a construction office gets, all day

RFQs, subs, vendors, permits, invoices, and schedule changes hit the same inbox. InboxPilot drafts the repetitive layer so nothing sits.

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How it works

Set up once, live the same afternoon

No new software for the crew to learn and no change for your clients, subs, or vendors. InboxPilot works inside the inbox your office already uses.

1

Connect your inbox

Link Gmail or Outlook in one click. Nothing changes for the clients, subs, and vendors emailing you.

2

Add your services & rates

Upload your capabilities, service areas, rate sheets, insurance and licensing, and past bids.

3

Review the drafts

Every RFQ, subcontractor, and vendor email gets a reply grounded in your materials. Approve, edit, or send.

Example replies

Drafts your clients, subs, and vendors actually receive

Answers pulled from your services, rate sheets, and past jobs. Not generic email off the web.

Incoming email

DA

Dan Rivera

RFQ - Oakdale site excavation & grading

We're bidding the Oakdale project and need an excavation and grading number. Are you available to start in September, and what do you need from us to put a quote together?

InboxPilot draft Ready to send

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the invite to bid Oakdale. We're open in September and this is squarely in our wheelhouse.

To get you an accurate number, can you send the site plans, the grading and drainage spec, and the bid due date? A quick note on haul-off and any dewatering would help too.

I'll get this to our estimator today and we'll have a proposal back to you well before the deadline.

Ray

  • Services & Capabilities
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Before & after

Your office inbox before and after InboxPilot

Builders, contractors, and excavation crews use the hours they save to bid more work and stay on top of jobs, not to catch up on email after the crew goes home.

TaskBefore InboxPilotAfter InboxPilot
RFQs and bid requestsSit until someone in the office has a free minute
Acknowledged in seconds, scope confirmed, routed to estimating
Subcontractor questionsAnswered late, if at all
Drafted from your rate sheet and insurance requirements
Vendor and material quotesBuried under project email
Replied from your purchase history and rate sheets
Scheduling changesPhone tag and missed updates
Draft update ready for the client, sub, and PM
After-hours and weekend emailBacklog before the crew starts Monday
Drafts ready by morning
Weekly office email timeHours retyping the same answers
Minutes reviewing ready-to-send drafts
Pricing

Answer every RFQ and sub without hiring office staff

A part-time office admin runs $3,000 and up a month. InboxPilot handles the repetitive RFQ, subcontractor, and vendor email layer for a fraction of that.

Part-time office admin

$3,000+/mo

Hiring, training, inconsistent replies

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Email workflows

Turn a sentence into automated actions

Describe what should happen in plain English and InboxPilot builds the workflow: a trigger, an AI decision, and the actions that run on their own. No flowcharts, no rules engine.

Describe your workflowPlain English
When a GC emails an RFQ, acknowledge it, confirm the scope and site address, ask for the plans and bid due date, and flag it for estimating.
Build workflow
InboxPilot builds
TriggerNew email · RFQ / bid request
AI DecisionReads the scope & service area
Actions
  • Draft an RFQ acknowledgement
  • Request plans & due date
  • Route to estimating
RFQs and subcontractor emails used to sit until someone in the office had a minute. Now a solid draft is waiting the moment they land, and we haven't missed a bid deadline since.

Ray Coleman

Owner, civil & excavation contractor

Construction email automation: frequently asked questions

Yes. It detects RFQs, drafts an acknowledgement that confirms scope and service area, asks for the plans, specs, and bid due date, and routes the thread to estimating so nothing sits in the inbox.

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