TFSF Ventures  ×  CITY Construction

Operational Intelligence Proposal for CITY Construction, LLC

Nashville-based general contractor with commercial construction expertise since 1998 — running simultaneous projects across Middle Tennessee on Procore. The platform captures the data. The agents make it work — routing documents automatically, tracking sub compliance continuously, and generating the owner reports Procore won't produce on its own.

Prepared by TFSF Ventures FZ LLC  ·  Confidential  ·  156 Green St, Nashville TN 37210  ·  tfsfventures.com
2014
Founded — Chris Parker, LEED AP
4–8
Active Sites Running Simultaneously
14
Intelligent Agents · 30-Day Deploy

The Operational Intelligence Opportunity

Procore is the project management backbone. QuickBooks handles the books. Between them sits a gap that no platform closes on its own — documents that need routing, sub insurance certs that need monitoring, lien waivers that need collecting, owner reports that need assembling, and cost data that needs reconciling. Right now, those gaps are filled by people. Intelligent agents fill them instead — running on top of the systems CITY already uses, operating continuously across every active site, and never competing with the team for time.

CITY's business runs on subcontractor relationships and referrals. Operational intelligence protects that model. When documents route automatically, compliance stays current, and owner reports go out on time — the reputation that drives new business takes care of itself.


14-Agent Architecture — Built Around How CITY Works

Three operational pillars. Every agent targets a specific gap between what Procore stores and what the business needs to act on — organized by the workflows that matter most to a commercial GC running simultaneous sites.

1Document Operations & Field Management Agents
Document Routing Agent
Classifies every incoming document — submittals, RFIs, drawings, change directives, lien waivers — and routes each to the correct recipient the moment it arrives. Procore centralizes the files; this agent eliminates the manual step between receipt and action across every active project.
Bottleneck #1
RFI Tracking Agent
Monitors every open RFI across all active sites — tracking response deadlines, flagging overdue items, and escalating before they become schedule events. Provides the cross-project visibility that Procore's per-project RFI module doesn't surface in one view.
Document Ops
Owner Report Agent
Pulls schedule status, budget variance, and open items from Procore, formats them into a clean owner-ready deliverable, and distributes on a set cadence — automatically. Zero PM assembly time. No missed reporting cycles regardless of how many sites are running.
Owner Reporting
Daily Field Log Agent
Compiles daily field reports, manpower logs, and weather-delay documentation across all active sites. Eliminates end-of-day reporting overhead so PMs stay focused on productive work instead of assembling logs at shift close.
Field Ops
Submittal Log Agent
Tracks every submittal from receipt through review, approval, and return — monitoring review deadlines, logging design team responses, and flagging overdue items. On commercial and restaurant projects where submittal approval gates procurement, delays here directly compress the schedule.
Document Ops
2Subcontractor Reliability & Compliance Agents
Subcontractor Insurance Tracking Agent
Monitors every active sub's cert status across all projects, flags expirations 30, 60, and 90 days out, and sends renewal requests automatically. Procore stores vendor insurance data — this agent watches it continuously and acts before a lapsed cert reaches a job site.
Compliance
Lien Waiver Management Agent
Manages conditional and unconditional waiver collection across every sub and supplier on every active project — sending collection requests, logging receipts, and flagging missing waivers before pay applications go out. Tennessee lien law requires waivers on every draw. This agent ensures none are missed.
Compliance
Subcontractor Reliability Monitor Agent
Tracks schedule adherence, manpower commitments, and open items by sub across all active projects — surfacing reliability signals before a problem becomes a delay event. Makes sub evaluation continuous across every active job, not just at prequalification.
Sub Reliability
Bid Package Distribution Agent
Distributes bid packages to CITY's qualified sub network by trade scope, tracks acknowledgment and response status, sends deadline reminders, and compiles bid leveling summaries. The team handles bid strategy and pricing decisions. The agent handles the solicitation administration before those decisions get made.
Procurement
3Cost Visibility, Performance & Business Development Agents
Site Performance Dashboard Agent
Compiles a single daily performance view — schedule adherence, budget variance, open items, sub status — across every active project. One consolidated view every morning without manual assembly from multiple Procore projects and spreadsheets.
Visibility
Budget Variance & Cost Tracking Agent
Monitors budget-to-actual across all active projects, drafts PCO and change order documentation when scope changes are identified, and maintains a running cost impact log. Replaces manual spreadsheet reconciliation with a live cost position that bridges the gap between Procore and QuickBooks.
Cost Control
Schedule Coordination Agent
Monitors project schedules across all active sites — flagging lookahead conflicts, tracking critical path float, and generating variance alerts 10–14 days before delays compound into reactive owner conversations.
Scheduling
Referral Pipeline Agent
Tracks post-project touchpoints, automates follow-up with past clients at the right intervals, and surfaces referral opportunities based on project completion timing. Makes CITY's relationship-driven growth systematic without changing the model that works.
BizDev
Procore Data Bridge Agent
Extracts structured cost and commitment data from Procore, formats it for QuickBooks ingestion, and maintains the sync automatically. Eliminates the manual data transfer between project management and accounting — the two systems stay reconciled without spreadsheets in between.
Integration

CITY Construction — Built to Scale

What changes when intelligent agents handle the operational layer between Procore and the outcome — and what stays exactly the same.

Today

Procore centralizes documents — but routing, classification, and distribution to the correct recipient still runs through inboxes and manual handoffs across every active site.

Owner reports require manual assembly — pulling schedule, budget, and open items, formatting them, and delivering to owners competes with active project management on every site.

Sub insurance certs and lien waivers are tracked manually — expirations and missing waivers surface at audit time or at draw, not before.

RFIs, submittals, and change directives are tracked per-project inside Procore — but cross-site visibility into overdue items and response deadlines requires manually checking each project individually.

Subcontractor reliability is managed through individual PM awareness — no systematic cross-site visibility into schedule adherence or manpower commitments by sub.

Costing runs on spreadsheets separate from both Procore and QuickBooks — the integration gap forces manual reconciliation between two systems that don't talk to each other.

Post-project referral follow-up depends on individual memory — CITY's entire growth engine runs on relationships that aren't systematically maintained after project close.

With Operational Intelligence

Documents routed automatically the moment they arrive — every submittal, RFI, lien waiver, and change directive classified and delivered to the correct person across all active sites simultaneously.

Owner reports generated and delivered on schedule — pulled from Procore automatically, formatted, and sent without PM assembly time. Every active site, every reporting cycle.

Sub insurance certificates monitored continuously — expirations flagged 30, 60, and 90 days out, renewal requests sent automatically. No uninsured sub reaches a CITY site unnoticed.

RFIs, submittals, and change directives tracked across every active site in one view — overdue items flagged automatically, escalations triggered before delays hit the schedule.

Sub reliability monitored continuously — schedule adherence, manpower commitments, and open items tracked by sub across every active site. Problems surface before they become delays.

Budget-to-actual monitored daily across all active sites — Procore and QuickBooks bridged automatically. Cost position known without manual spreadsheet reconciliation.

Post-project follow-up automated — referral touchpoints fire on schedule regardless of active project load. CITY's referral-based growth becomes systematic, not dependent on remembering to call.


CITY Construction Operational Intelligence Command Center

Real-time visibility across CITY's active portfolio — document routing status, sub compliance, lien waiver position, cost tracking, and owner report delivery in a single operational view.

CITY Construction  —  Operational Intelligence Command Center
● LIVE
0
Docs Routed Today
0
Sub Certs Monitored
0
Waivers Tracked
0
Active Sites
Active Project Board
Retail Build-Out
Gulch District
Document Routing
● ACTIVE
12
Docs Routed
3
Waivers Due
+1.9%
vs Budget
Restaurant Reno
East Nashville
Sub Reliability
IN PROGRESS
7
Open RFIs
1
Sub Flag
On Sched
Schedule
Office Fit-Out
Brentwood
Owner Report Agent
REPORT DUE
4
Submittals
Thu
Report Due
On Track
Budget
Tenant Build-Out
Green Hills
Lien Waiver Agent
CLOSEOUT
2
Final Waivers
91%
Closeout
+0.8%
vs Budget
14 Agents
LIVE
Document Routing
Submittal #14 → architect
RFI Tracking
RFI #22 — Gulch flagged
Owner Report
Brentwood — Thu delivery
Daily Field Log
4 site logs compiled
Submittal Log
East Nashville — review
Sub Insurance
Plumbing cert — 28 days
Lien Waiver
MEP waiver request sent
Sub Reliability
E. Nashville — 1 flag
Bid Distribution
8 subs — Gulch MEP
Site Performance
4 sites — 1 flag today
Budget Variance
PCO #6 drafted — Gulch
Schedule Agent
Brentwood — on track
Procore Bridge
QB sync complete
Referral Pipeline
Green Hills follow-up sent
Live Operations Feed

Your Investment & Projected Return

Here's what comparable solutions cost, what TFSF's investment looks like, and how quickly it pays for itself.

What Comparable Solutions Cost (Annual)
$150K–$300K+
Boutique Dev Shop
Custom automation built from scratch at $150–$300/hr. Typically 800–1,500+ hours to architect, build, integrate across Procore and QuickBooks, and deploy. Ongoing maintenance and hosting billed separately. Timeline measured in quarters, not weeks.
$110K–$130K/yr
Additional Project Manager
One person. 40 hours/week. Handles a fraction of what 14 agents cover — no automated document routing, no continuous sub cert monitoring, no systematic lien waiver collection, no auto-generated owner reports. And the position renews every year.
$110,000
Point Solutions ▲ COMPOUNDING
Separate tools for lien waiver tracking, sub insurance monitoring, owner reporting, and document management — each with its own license, renewal, and annual price increase. Every tool added increases the total. Nothing integrates.
TFSF Investment — Custom-Built for CITY Construction
Core
5 agents
$75,000

Document Routing, Subcontractor Insurance Tracking, Lien Waiver Management, Owner Report, and Site Performance Dashboard. Closes the five highest-impact gaps directly. Full integration with Procore and QuickBooks. 30-day deployment. Training included.

Growth
Recommended
14 agents
$95,000

Everything in Core + RFI Tracking, Daily Field Log, Submittal Log, Sub Reliability Monitor, Bid Package Distribution, Budget Variance & Cost Tracking, Schedule Coordination, Procore-QuickBooks Bridge, and Referral Pipeline. All 14 agents live across every active CITY site. Every gap closed.

Enterprise
14 agents + retainer
$115,000

Everything in Growth + 12-month TFSF optimization retainer, unlimited agent expansions as CITY's project volume grows, quarterly strategy sessions, and priority support as new project types, compliance requirements, or sub network changes come online.

* A separate monthly AI infrastructure fee of ~$500/month applies after deployment — this covers compute, model access, and hosting required to run agents continuously. Billed monthly at cost with no markup.

The return isn't theoretical — it's three categories of real exposure that compound across every active site. Labor recovery alone — 15 hrs/week at $58/hr fully loaded — returns $45,240/year. But the bigger numbers are in compliance: a single uninsured sub on a CITY site is $25K–$100K in direct liability. One missed lien waiver at draw can hold $50K–$500K in payment. One lost referral from a late owner report is a $500K–$2M contract that never materializes. Conservative midpoint: $160,000 in annual value protected. Growth at $95,000 returns 1.7× in year one — and compounds every year after.

The math
Labor Recovery

15 hrs/week × $58/hr × 52 weeks = $45,240/year

Compliance Exposure Eliminated

Sub insurance lapse: $25K–$100K per incident
Missed lien waiver: $50K–$500K delayed payment
Lost referral: $500K–$2M contract value

Tennessee lien law requires conditional waivers on every pay application — agents ensure no waiver is missed at draw. Sub insurance monitoring runs continuously so no lapsed cert reaches a job site. Owner reports deliver on schedule so the referral pipeline that drives all of CITY's new business never stalls. Conservative midpoint of annual value protected: $160,000. Growth at $95,000 = 1.7× return in year one.

1.7×
Growth ROI — Year One Return
$160K
Conservative Annual Value Protected
$0
New Headcount Required
30 days
Kickoff to Full Deployment
No commitment required · Pricing locked for 30 days · Deployment starts within 5 business days

From Kickoff to Live in 30 Days

Once CITY decides to move forward, here's what deployment looks like — built around your project cadence, not ours. No disruption to active jobs. No platform migrations. Agents run alongside your team from day one of each phase.

Days 1–5

Discovery & Workflow Mapping

One 90-minute session with Chris and the CITY team. We document current Procore configuration, QuickBooks setup, document routing workflows, sub network, compliance processes, and owner reporting cadence. One meeting. No ongoing time commitment during the build.

Days 6–12

Agent Architecture & Integration Design

TFSF engineers design all 14 agents, define data flows, and map every integration point to CITY's Procore configuration and QuickBooks setup. The team reviews and approves the full architecture before a single line of code is written.

Days 13–22

Build, Configure & Sandbox Test

All 14 agents built using CITY's actual Procore project structure, sub lists, and document workflows. Full sandboxed testing against CITY's actual project data before anything touches live operations.

Days 23–27

Live Pilot on One Active Project

Deploy Document Routing and Sub Insurance Tracking agents first on a single active site — validate against live Procore data. Refine routing rules and compliance triggers before expanding to all sites.

Days 28–30

Full Deployment & Team Training

All 14 agents live across CITY's active portfolio. Hands-on training for Chris and the team — each session built around the exact agents their role uses. TFSF monitors performance and optimizes continuously. Quarterly strategy sessions ensure agents evolve with CITY's growth.

Ready to Deploy Intelligent Operations
Inside CITY Construction

Review the investment above and schedule your kickoff. Deployment starts within 5 business days. All 14 agents live in 30 days.

No commitment required · Pricing locked for 30 days · Deployment starts within 5 business days
CITY Construction — Kickoff Confirmation
9 questions · under 3 minutes · confirms your kickoff details
1 of 9 — Contact
2 of 9 — Investment Tier
Core — $75,000 · 5 agents
Growth — $95,000 · 14 agents (Recommended)
Enterprise — $115,000 · 14 agents + retainer
Not sure yet — want to discuss
3 of 9 — Timing
Immediately — this week
Within 2 weeks
Within the month
Need to confirm internally first
4 of 9 — Priority Agent
Document Routing — eliminate the #1 bottleneck
Sub Insurance Tracking — close the compliance gap
Lien Waiver Management — protect draws
Owner Report — deliver on the wish list item
5 of 9 — Tech Stack
Procore
QuickBooks Online
QuickBooks Desktop
Microsoft 365 / Outlook
Google Workspace / Gmail
Other
6 of 9 — Active Sites
1–3 sites
4–6 sites
7–8 sites
Varies — confirm at kickoff
7 of 9 — Legal Entity
8 of 9 — Tax ID
9 of 9 — Anything Else

Kickoff Confirmed

Your details have been received. TFSF will contact you within one business day to schedule the 90-minute discovery session and begin the 30-day deployment clock.