For Beck Building Company — Pilot Program
EstimateIntel is a software application. The reconciliation logic, classification engine, and reporting are all built into the software itself. When Beck uses the platform, the software runs on its own coded logic — the same way Sage runs your accounting or Procore runs your project management.
How we built the software: We use Anthropic's Claude as a software engineering tool through Visual Studio Code, which is a professional development environment used by software engineers worldwide. Claude writes code under the direction of our software engineering team, who reviews and approves all code before it enters production. This is our development process — it does not involve your data. By the time Beck uses the product, the software is already built and running. Even at this stage, all development runs through Anthropic's secure API, which does not use any inputs or outputs for model training. (See Anthropic's published privacy policy below for full details.)
The one place a secure API is involved in production: When a subcontractor bid comes in as a PDF, the software needs to read that document and extract the vendor name, trade, amounts, and line items into structured data. This document parsing step uses a secure API call. Every major document parsing tool on the market works the same way:
Our document parsing runs through the same type of secure API call these tools use. The PDF goes in, structured data comes out, and the result is stored in Beck's private database. Nothing is retained by the API provider beyond a short safety monitoring window.
Data is extracted at the line item level and organized into a universal construction language: Division > Subcategory > Description. This structure enables precision benchmarks while maintaining complete anonymity.
For comparison — here is how the tools Beck already uses handle your data:
Other industry-leading construction platforms:
Our data handling policy is stricter than all of the platforms listed above. The software application runs on its own logic. The only API involvement is document parsing — the same function every PDF tool performs — and nothing is retained or used for training.
Looking ahead: The only scenario in which EstimateIntel would ever build its own proprietary model is when the anonymized aggregate data pool across the country is large enough to warrant a dedicated software assistant for estimators. If and when that happens, that model would be trained exclusively on anonymized regional benchmark data — statistical averages, ranges, and percentiles that contain no identifying information. No individual company's raw project data, sub pricing, or project details would ever be used to train any model. Beck would be notified in advance of any change to the processing approach, consistent with the terms in the data processing agreement.
Your specific numbers, client names, and project details are never visible to anyone outside your account — including us.
No external system can request or receive benchmark data. Benchmarks are rendered inside the application only. All published values include built-in statistical variance protection.