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Manufacturing · Building products manufacturers

How do AI agents help a building products manufacturer get specified more often?

By getting you into the project before the material list is final: spec-stage signals watched, architects and dealers supported like they buy on it, and the contractors who install your product turned into a repeat channel. Here is exactly what the agents do and what they cost.

The building products leak, specifically

Building products get chosen twice: once at spec, once at substitution. If you are not in front of the architect and the estimator early, you are fighting a substitution battle on price. The projects announce themselves in permits, plans, and bid rooms months ahead; someone has to be watching.

Your channel leaks separately. Dealers and distributors carry a dozen lines and push what is supported. The rep who visits quarterly loses shelf-of-mind to the one whose follow-up never stops, and contractors who liked your product forget it between jobs unless somebody stays in touch.

What the agents actually do

Pursuit agent

Project & Spec Signals

Watches permits, planning filings, and bid rooms in your regions and product categories. Flags projects at the spec stage, matched to the architects and GCs you should be calling.

Pursuit agent

Quote & Submittal Drafting

Turns a project inquiry into a ready-to-review quote and submittal package: specs, drawings, LEED data, pricing. Your inside sales reviews and sends the same day.

Pursuit agent

Dealer & Rep Cadence

Keeps your channel warm: new-product briefs, project leads routed to the right dealer, the follow-up after every counter day. Your line stays top of the bag.

Pursuit agent

Contractor Reactivation

Works the installers who already know your product: the crew that bought twice last year and went quiet, the GC with three of your projects behind them and none ahead.

In productionPursuit agents run in production at GPM today, on the same platform behind deployments at IBM, Tanium, and Cohesity. Read the GPM story →
Example math — run your own numbers

What is one more specified project worth?

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a year in deals you were already quoting, at the settings above.
volume × value × lift, annualized. Illustrative arithmetic, not a promise: your real number is what the $9,500 audit finds.

Questions building products manufacturers ask

How do AI agents get my product specified instead of substituted?

By putting you in the project early. The signals agent watches permits, plans, and bid rooms and flags projects at the spec stage; the drafting agent gets quotes and submittal packages out the same day; and the cadence agents keep architects, dealers, and contractors warm between projects. You compete at spec, where value wins, instead of at substitution, where price does.

What does this cost for a building products manufacturer my size?

Same prices as everyone: the Revenue Leak Audit is $9,500 fixed, guaranteed to find 10× its fee in annual leak or you don’t pay. Agent builds run $25,000 to $75,000 by scope, and the Scoot platform is $100 to $150 per seat per month. Prices are on the pricing page, the same way your price is on every quote you send.

Do I need to replace the software I already run?

No. The agents work alongside the tools you already use. The audit maps how work actually happens in your company before anything gets built.

Who owns the agents when you're done?

You do, for the long term: the agents, your customer conversation history, and the playbook. The monthly platform fee is run-cost, not rent; you own your trucks and still buy fuel. And we train your people to run and extend the system as your AI program grows.

Thirty minutes with Ed. Bring your numbers.

Tell us how you sell today. Leave with where we’d look for the leak in your business and what we’d build first. Prices are posted; no retainers, no surprises.

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