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RFI Insights · Automated RFI triage
Every RFI: triaged, drafted, and connected.

Automated RFI triage and response drafting.

RFI Insights reads every incoming RFI, retrieves the drawings and submittals that answer it, drafts a response for your engineer to sign off, and clusters the repeats so design gets better across the whole program.

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On a large build, the RFI log sets the pace.

RFIs are how a team resolves the gaps and conflicts in an incomplete design. On a big program they stack up fast, and every one is a project engineer hunting through drawings, specs, and submittals for the detail that settles it. The fields meant to route it are often blank or miscoded, and the same question resurfaces at the next building because nobody connected it to the last.

800
RFIs / project
~8 hrs
to review each
$860K
effort / project
9.7 d
median to respond
22%
never answered

Source: Navigant Construction Forum benchmark of RFI practice.

Slow or missing answers feed rework. Rework, conflicts, and data-hunting run about $177 billion a year in US construction, nearly half traced to poor project information. FMI / PlanGrid, “Construction Disconnected.”

02

From inbox to engineer-ready draft.

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Ingest

Pull every incoming RFI straight from your system.

02

Classify

Tag each by discipline and issue type, even when the submitter fields are blank or wrong.

03

Retrieve & draft

Find the drawings and submittals that answer it, and draft a response. Your engineer reviews and makes the call.

04

Cluster

Group similar RFIs across buildings and campuses, so the same question stops coming back.

03

Most tools answer the RFI. This one stops the next one.

Project management tools store and route RFIs. They don’t classify them, find the answer, or draft the response. Generic AI doesn’t understand construction disciplines or your drawing and submittal set, and your project data often can’t go to public cloud.

RFI Insights turns the RFI log into design intelligence that compounds across a prototypical program, so the same question stops getting re-asked and the same mistake stops repeating building after building.

04

Why RFI Insights.

Triage that doesn’t need clean inputs

Classifies every RFI by discipline and issue type even when the submitter fields are blank or wrong.

Drafts grounded in your documents

Retrieves the relevant drawings and submittals and drafts the response. Your engineer reviews and signs off.

Design intelligence that compounds

Clusters across buildings, campuses, and design partners, with KPIs by discipline, week, building, and contractor, no manual export.

In production

On multi-building programs at a leading North American hyperscale developer.

Hours of record-searching cutRFI-to-response cycle shortenedFewer repeated mistakes across buildingsBetter decisions earlier, when changes are cheapest
Security & deployment

Your project data never leaves your control.

Where you choose

On-prem or in an environment you control. No third-party AI provider touches your project data.

Private models

Open-weight models served on Apolo’s private GPUs. Nothing routes to public cloud.

Landed by people

A forward-deployed engineer connects your RFI workflow and document set and configures it to your disciplines. Live in weeks, not quarters.

ISO 27001SOC 2 Type 2No third-party LLM
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The questions teams ask first.

Our RFIs come in with bad or missing metadata.

That’s the design point. It classifies by discipline and issue type even when the submitter fields are blank or wrong.

Will it answer RFIs on its own?

No. It drafts a response grounded in your drawings and submittals. The engineer reviews and makes the final call.

We work across many design partners.

It clusters similar RFIs across buildings, campuses, and design partners, so you see the patterns and coordinate better.

Where does our project data go?

On-prem or in an environment you control. No third-party AI provider. ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2.

How long to stand up?

Weeks. A forward-deployed engineer connects your RFI system and configures it to your disciplines and document set.

See it on your own RFIs.

Pick one of your live programs. We’ll run RFI Insights against its real RFI log and show you the drafts and the clusters.

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A forward-deployed engineer, your RFI system, live in weeks.