// AI for commercial glazing contractors
AI for commercial glazing contractors, tested on bids and glass orders you already closed.
For glass and glazing subcontractors installing storefront, curtain wall and interior glass on commercial jobs. Start with the bid scope letter your estimator writes from Division 08, or with the glass order your project manager sends to the fabricator. Either one becomes a free AI proof of concept on copies of 20 to 30 bids or orders your team has finished. Nobody opens your estimating, job cost or fabrication system. Your reviewer, the colleague who knows that work best, compares each draft with what your team really did.
- First job
- Bid scope letters, or glass order checks
- From you
- 20 to 30 closed bids or released orders, copied after the NDA
- Never
- A glass make-up chosen or a shop drawing signed off
- Who approves
- Your estimator on scopes, your project manager on orders
- Left out
- Certified payroll
- Price
- A range first, a fixed price before signing
// Jobs we would test
Start at the estimating desk or the glass desk
Glazing bid scopes
A draft scope letter from the Division 08 sections, door and window schedules and addenda: systems named, glass make-ups, performance requirements, testing, and every inclusion or exclusion your estimator has to decide.
See the bid scope pageGlass order checks
Each lite on a fabricator order set against the approved shop drawing and field measurement for size, make-up, tempering, safety marking, coating surface and spacer color, with reorders and lites still waiting on a dimension listed.
See the glass order pageField test reports and closeout
Water test results, label certificates and glass and finish warranties gathered against the spec at turnover, for your project manager to send.
Change order backup
A revised elevation or bulletin read against the glass and metal already bought, listing what has been released and what can still change, for the person pricing the change.
// Why these two first
A scope letter and a glass order both leave an answer on file
One glazing bid draws on several spec sections. The University of Houston's master glazing section, 08 80 00, covers the glass in windows, doors, curtain wall, storefront framing, glazed entrances and interior borrowed lites, while the framing sits in sections of its own. New York State's master spec adds 08 44 23 for four-sided structural-sealant-glazed curtain wall, 08 44 33 for sloped glazing and 08 88 13 for fire-rated glazing. Storefront appears at 08 41 13 with entrances at both of those owners, and at 08 43 13 in other project manuals. An estimator reads them together and writes one letter, and every letter your desk has sent is an answer key.
The size is settled before the oven. The National Glass Association's technical paper FB02-02 describes how heat-treated glass gets made: annealed glass is cut to its final size, the edges are finished and the lite is washed, and only then does it travel on rollers through an oven at about 1150 degrees Fahrenheit. A line that reached the fabricator wrong stays wrong through all of that. Hence the order check, the other place to start: a released order sits beside its approved shop drawing and field notes, and a reorder shows what was missed.
Old specs outlast the programs they name. The University of Houston's glazing section, last revised in 2014, asks for installers certified under the National Glass Association's Certified Glass Installer Program. A notice hosted on the association's site says that program ended and points specifiers to the Architectural Glass and Metal Technician credential for installers and the North American Contractor Certification for contractors, and New York State's 2024 curtain wall section names both. A letter has to say what your company holds, which only happens if someone caught the line.
Energy paperwork names the job address. Seattle's permit Tip 403, updated April 7, 2025, gives each distinct type of site-assembled curtain wall, storefront or ribbon window a unique National Fenestration Rating Council label certificate tied to that product and that address, and wants it on site and shown to the inspector before any of the assembly goes in. Requirements differ by city and code edition, and this page is not legal or engineering advice. Whether your scope carries that certificate is the kind of line a reviewer looks for.
Owners add house rules. Brown University's glazing standard rejects backpainted or film-type spandrel coatings in favor of ceramic frit, wants a written warranty of at least 10 years on insulating glass, and asks for visual identification at eye level on frameless entrances or wall systems, by etching, decal or sandblasting. Rules like these change what gets bought and what gets drafted, and they are what makes a past bid useful: the owner's standard said it, and your team either carried it or excluded it.
Neither test depends on your software. Estimating programs, drawing files and fabricator order forms differ from one shop to the next, so the test runs on copies and exports. It logs in to nothing, submits no bid and releases no order, and the AI never decides a make-up or signs off a drawing.
// How the test runs
One job, one reviewer, one month live
- Step 01
Pick the job and the reviewer
The owner picks the reviewer, usually your chief estimator for scopes or a senior project manager for orders. The success criteria, a price range for the live job and a signed NDA all come before any file moves.
- Step 02
Run it on finished work
Send 20 to 30 closed bids with their Division 08 sections and letters, or 20 to 30 released orders with their shop drawings and field sheets. We call this stage the sandbox: a free test on your own paperwork. Jobs that can't leave the office get look-alikes, built with your reviewer.
- Step 03
After a yes, about 30 days live
New bids or orders go through the same job for roughly 30 days. Your estimator approves each scope before a general contractor sees it, and your project manager releases each order. A next job, if you want one, is a separate decision with its own price.
Priced per job. You get a range before the proof of concept and a fixed price before you sign.
Rob sets the range on the call from three counts: bids your estimators price each month, orders released to fabricators, and how many fabricators you buy from.
// Questions
Questions glazing contractors raise early
Does the test need our estimating or shop drawing software?
Will the AI choose a glass make-up?
We do curtain wall and interior glass. Can both be in one sample?
Do you handle certified payroll?
Can this give us code or engineering answers?
Rob Eason, founder
// Book a proof of concept call
Start with last year's closed bids.
Thirty minutes with Rob about your shop, your role, the job you'd test first and roughly how many bids or orders go out each month. Spec sections, letters and orders stay with you until the NDA is signed.
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