ProcurePro

Everyone knows the 80/20 rule. But most AI tools ignore it. They're built for the 20% - the complex, unpredictable questions you didn't see coming. And they make you do the work to get there. Open the tool. Ask the right question. Hope you asked the right thing. But 80% of what a Commercial Manager needs to know is completely predictable. The same signals, week after week. Which trades are at risk? What's sitting in approval? Where's the margin going? Which contracts haven't been signed? That 80% shouldn't require a question. It should just be there. So that's where we're starting with our Digital Assistant - Cover the predictable 80% proactively, through an Insight → Action → Outcome loop. You see the signal. You take the action. The risk is mitigated. The outcome is tracked. No digging. No asking. The signal comes to you. Get that foundation right, and something much more powerful becomes possible... Because once your portfolio's pulse is already being monitored - once the noise is cleared and the data is live and trusted - you can ask it anything. "Summarise letting gains and losses for this trade over the past 12 months." "Where are we most exposed heading into Q2?" "Which subcontractors are we over-reliant on right now?" Questions specific to your organisation, your contracts, your history. Answered instantly. That's the vision. A Digital Assistant that never lets the predictable slip through the cracks - and gives you genuine intelligence on demand when you need to go deeper. Most AI tools started at the wrong end. We're not. The strategy is locked. The name of our digital assistant… less locked - But we're working on it.

Your pricing data is already there. You're just not using it. Every tender you run, every quote you receive, every package you award - that's live pricing intelligence. Most of it disappears into an inbox or a spreadsheet and is never seen again. AI changes that. ProcurePro aggregates your historical tender data into a searchable, always-current benchmark library. So the next time your QS is pricing a concrete package or your commercial director is negotiating with a subbie, they're working from real numbers - not gut feel, not whoever had the strongest opinion in the room. That's where control starts. Not at award - at the moment you're forming a view on price. When your whole team is anchored to the same benchmarks, you get consistent decisions across every project. Fewer surprises at final account. Less margin left on the table because one person estimated conservatively and another didn't. The data was always yours. Now it gives you control over how you buy.

Over the past few years, we've been lucky enough to interview some incredible teams across the construction industry. In every interview, we ask them to describe what procurement 'The Old Way' looks like - and the answer is always the same: 'Fragmented.' 'Labour-intensive.' 'Slow.' 'Clunky.' 'Piecemeal.' 'Nebulous.' That's not a failing of the teams. That's just what happens when procurement lives across Excel, Word, and email, across dozens of projects, trades, and stakeholders all at once. In this video, builders share what procurement looks like when you have full visibility and control 👇 Erilyan, Kori Construction Limited, McNab, Mount Anvil, Clegg Group Limited, Purcell Construction, Legacie, SMD Ltd

Congrats to our own Alastair Blenkin 🏗️ on being named a Rising Star in Supply & Demand Chain Executive's "Pros to Know" Awards These awards recognise outstanding executives whose accomplishments offer a roadmap for other leaders looking to leverage the supply chain for competitive advantage. Great shortlist of leaders to follow if you're looking to stay afloat of the latest news in this space: https://lnkd.in/eE7tRmrv 📸 Alastair entertaining the crowd at last week's 2026 Top Out Event

‘If a CA/QS did their job perfectly, every single job, they’d be working 110 hours a week.’ That’s the reality of a lot of commercial workflows: they only work if people have impossible amounts of time. In this clip from the latest BidLevel podcast, the team talks through why quote comparison still depends on too much manual work, and why users have shifted towards AI-generated comparisons to get a more complete first pass. Watch the full episode: https://lnkd.in/gwhU3HQy

Profit isn't made or lost on-site. It's set long before subbies arrive. The decisions made early, under time pressure, across scope, approvals, and commitments. Those are the ones that dictate your margin. By the time work starts, the commercial outcome is largely written. So ask yourself: right now, across all your live projects, do you actually know where each package sits? Where you're over budget? Where risk is building? For most firms, the answer is sort of. Procurement is scattered across spreadsheets, inboxes, and folders. That's how margin is lost. Quietly. Every day. If you control procurement, you control the outcome. Want to see more? Let's talk: https://lnkd.in/eDZCPQup

It's clear: when procurement is digital and connected, teams can focus on the commercial work that matters. “Time freed up… can now be spent on value-added tasks… rather than chasing admin.” - Tom Whelan, Commercial Director | Purcell Construction Supply Chain Insights helps you keep compliance under control, understand capacity, and track performance - so decisions are made with confidence, before work is awarded. 👉 Speak to an expert about procurement insights: procurepro.co/book-a-demo