In construction, the most expensive projects may be the ones a firm never even knew about.

Somewhere a bond has been filed, a site has changed hands and the winner of a nine-figure project is already being decided, months before anyone knows about it.

US-based Cascade, the AI pursuit platform for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms, believes it can bring all of these processes into the open.

“Every firm we work with can point to a project they should have won, but never even had a chance to see,” says Cascade CEO and co-founder Hannia Zia.

“Cascade is built around the bottom line – find the right work early, understand where you have a real advantage and turn that into revenue delivered.”