526,780 entities414,733 relationshipsLiving knowledge graph of U.S. AEC

The RFP is the
last thing to happen.

AEC Brain is a living knowledge graph of U.S. public construction. It surfaces the work before the RFP exists, names the owner behind it, and cites every fact to its source.

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By the time an RFP is public, the owner has spent years deciding what to build.

The incumbent was in the room for all of them.

You are reading the same PDF as every other firm.

That is not a pipeline. That is a lottery with a proposal budget.

What the graph holds.

Entities: 526,780; Owners, programs, projects, firms, people, documents.
Relationships: 414,733; Who funds, owns, hires, bids, wins, and teams with whom.
Owner coverage: Every U.S. public owner; Federal, state, county, city, and special districts.
Contractor coverage: Every California licensed contractor; The complete CSLB registry.

The pre-award timeline

BondGO or facilities bond passes
Capital planCIP line item posts
HiringCapital-delivery roles open
RFQ / RFPProcurement goes public
AwardContract executed

A bond passes.

The owner now has money and a mandate. Nothing is public yet except the ballot language. This is where AEC Brain places its marker.

The capital plan lists it.

Scope, budget, fiscal year: a CIP line item, read the week it posts and tied to the bond that funds it.

The owner starts hiring.

A capital program manager. A construction project lead. Someone is about to buy design and construction services.

The RFQ posts.

Every firm in the market downloads it the same day. The incumbent has been in the room since the bond.

Everyone else enters at the RFP. You enter at the bond.

Three legs. One graph.

A signal without its owner is a rumor. An owner without the firms already circling is a cold call. AEC Brain links all three, so every lead arrives with its context attached.

SignalsDemand, years early

The events that precede procurement, captured as they happen.

Passed GO and facilities bonds
Capital improvement plan line items
Board agendas and procurement notices
Owner-side capital-delivery hiring
EPA coal-ash closure deadlines

OwnersWho is buying

Every public owner, with the budget and cadence behind the work.

Capital budgets and multi-year programs
Procurement cadence and method
Decision-makers and engineers of record
Federal, state, county, city, special districts

CompetitiveWho is already there

The incumbents, their wins, and the ties between them.

Incumbent firms per owner and program
Win history and awarded projects
Firm, owner, and project relationships
Teaming ties across pursuits

Bornsuspicious.If it cannot nameits source, younever see it.

IEvery fact carries a real source URL. Never a search-engine result or an AI-summary redirect. The link goes to the document.
IIUnverified facts are quarantined. They stay out of view until a second source confirms them. They are never shown as fact.
IIIHigh-stakes claims must survive refutation. Incumbency and employment are tested against contradicting evidence before they surface.

Deep, not wide.

Each vertical is built to the depth a pursuit team actually needs: the regulator, the funding cycle, the owner roster, and the firms that keep winning.

Water

Utilities, districts, and agencies with multi-year capital programs, tracked from bond through award.

Treatment, conveyance, storage, resilience

Healthcare

OSHPD/HCAI seismic compliance and hospital construction, where deadlines are regulatory and public.

Seismic retrofit, replacement hospitals, campus expansion

Transportation

Transit, highway, aviation, and port owners with programmed capital plans and recurring procurement.

Transit, highway, aviation, ports

Coal ash / CCR

EPA-mandated coal-ash pond closures with public deadlines, tied to the utilities and engineers of record behind them.

Pond closure, groundwater, beneficial reuse

Fifty miles deep beats fifty states wide.

Enter at the bond.

AEC Brain is available by request. Tell us your market and we will show you what the graph already holds on it.