FOR · SPECIALTY TRADES

Your last bid, learning your next.

Deep expertise in one trade means the same hardware sets, glass matrices, and ceiling families repeat across 70% of jobs. Preqonn AI remembers all of it, and applies it on the next bid.

100+ manufacturer price books kept live
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Signed by a senior estimator
THE MEMORY · 01

Same patterns. Same answers.

Three completed bids. Three different jobs. The same HW-12 set shows up in every one. Across 42 bids, this set has appeared 31 times. Preqonn AI has remembered it 31 times.

BID · 001 JAN '24

Mercer Office Fit-out

HW-12 · LCN 4040 · 68942×
HW-04 · L9050 · 62617×
HW-09 · 4111 SCNJ
FR-A · 16ga KD · prime142×
142 openings Won. Margin +11%
BID · 014 SEP '24

Riverside Medical TI

HW-12 · LCN 4040 · 68958×
HW-07 · 99-EO · 32D22×
HW-15 · ICU smoke14×
FR-B · 14ga welded203×
203 openings Won. Margin +9%
BID · 042 MAR '26

Linden School District

HW-12 · LCN 4040 · 68994×
HW-22 · 8200 mortise31×
HW-31 · classroom intruder88×
FR-A · 16ga KD · prime317×
317 openings Bidding. Q2 close

70% of your work repeats. We remember it.

1,247 HW sets · 318 frame types Indexed · cross-referenced · live
WHAT BREAKS · 02

The pain of specialty depth.

Single-discipline expertise should be your moat. Instead, every bid starts from a blank spreadsheet. Four reasons that breaks, and what we fix.

01
PAIN

Blank-page every time.

Same trade, same templates, same vendors. Yet every new RFP starts in a fresh Excel sheet, hand-typed from the spec. The 30th project doesn't feel any faster than the 1st.

PREQONN

Past bids auto-apply.

The AI indexes every prior bid by spec section, opening type, room family, and finish. New job? Matched assemblies land pre-populated. You review, not retype.

02
PAIN

No institutional memory between bids.

The senior estimator carries 30 years of pattern-matching in their head. When they leave, it leaves. Hardware sets, glass matrices, ceiling families live in nine spreadsheets nobody else can read.

PREQONN

Your assemblies, indexed.

Every HW-set, IGU make-up, tile cluster, and grid family you've ever priced becomes a searchable, versioned object. Tribal knowledge becomes firm knowledge.

03
PAIN

100+ price books, no one's job.

Allegion, ASSA ABLOY, Kawneer, Armstrong, USG, Schluter. Monthly price letters, lead-time bulletins, discontinuation notices. Keeping current is a full-time job nobody is hired to do.

PREQONN

Live vendor feeds.

Manufacturer price books and lead times stream in continuously. Every line on your bid carries today's price, today's lead time, and a discontinuation flag the moment a SKU disappears.

04
PAIN

Speed and depth, never both.

Bid fast and miss the spec'd low-E coating surface. Bid careful and watch the deadline pass. Specialty subs live in a margin where one bad assumption eats three good bids.

PREQONN

Single-trade depth, automated.

The AI is tuned to your discipline. NFPA 80 §6.4, ASTM E1300, ASTM E580, NFRC 100. Every spec line cross-checked against the codes your trade actually answers to.

VENDOR DATA · 03

100+ price books.
Always current.

Manufacturer pricing, lead times, finish codes, discontinuations. Every feed indexed. Every bid line traceable to a live SKU.

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Every manufacturer indexed 100+ price books · normalized
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Live pricing on every line Updated continuously · per-SKU
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Lead times tracked per SKU Plant ship dates · channel inventory
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Discontinuations flagged Substitutions suggested · ranked
PREQONN · VENDOR INDEX 102 ACTIVE · 0 FLAGGED
THE WIN · 04

From hours of vendor lookup to minutes of review.

When the patterns are already remembered and the price books are already live, the bid stops being a search problem and starts being a judgment problem. You make the calls. The AI handles the typing.

BEFORE · MANUAL
38hrs

Per mid-size bid. Spec parsing, vendor lookup, price-book cross-walk, schedule reconciliation. Three days of an estimator's week.

AFTER · PREQONN
42min

Pre-populated assemblies, live priced. You review, sign, and ship. Same depth. 54× faster.

FAQ · 05

Specialty questions.

The questions deep-trade estimators ask before they share a single bid.

Your past bids are the training. When the spec is silent or open, the AI applies your preferred set. When the spec is specific, it flags the conflict and shows both your historical choice and the new requirement, side by side. You decide.
Direct integrations where vendors support them, normalized OCR pipelines where they don't. Every price letter and lead-time bulletin is ingested within hours of publication. Discontinuations and substitution suggestions are flagged automatically. You can also upload your distributor's letter and override at the line level.
No. Your assembly library, vendor preferences, and bid history stay private to your firm. The cross-firm signal is the vendor data layer - price books, lead times, discontinuations - which is shared because it's already public. Your patterns are yours.
DFH, glazing, acoustic ceilings, drywall, and flooring are deepest today. Other count-based specialties are covered with the same architecture; if your discipline has a price-book ecosystem and a spec section, we'll have it in your account within two weeks of kickoff.
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