Industries · Excavation & earthwork contractors

Your bids live in a spreadsheet and your dirt lives in your head. That's a margin leak.

Fixed-fee AI & automation for excavation and earthwork crews. We turn your takeoffs, haul tickets, and equipment hours into numbers you can see before the job loses money — not after.

Sound familiar?

What's slowing down excavation & earthwork contractors.

  • Takeoffs and cut/fill estimates done by hand, 16–40 hours each
  • Haul tickets and equipment hours tracked on paper, reconciled late
  • Bid-hit ratio stuck at 15–25% with no time to chase more
  • 3–8% net margin — one bad estimate eats the whole job

The fix

What we'd deploy.

Mapped from this lane's bottlenecks to the specific systems that remove them — every one live or in honest beta, scoped precisely by the audit.

LIVE

Pilot Build

$7,500–$20,000
  • Single-workflow proof$7,500
  • Multi-system pilot$20,000

Custom, bespoke work — not a regular catalog item. Where the productized menu doesn't have a fix, the Pilot builds one, scoped to the single biggest money leak your Operations Audit quantified. The A-series singles and the SaaS ladder are off-the-shelf: fixed recipe, fixed price, for problems every business has. The Pilot is the opposite — engineered for your operation, for the specific leak that doesn't have a $750 product because it's unique to how you run: the quotes that take three days, the invoices that age out, the handoff between two systems that keeps dropping jobs. We build that automation end to end — live, monitored, and measured against your audit's baseline — in weeks, not quarters, and you own the result whether or not you build anything else with us. Two scopes — a single custom workflow targeting your biggest quantified leak, or a multi-system build (2–3 connected workflows) with an evaluation harness that proves the ROI. Where you land depends on scope, not a price list. Every dollar is credited toward a full vertical system or Aegis if you climb — so the Pilot is a proof, never money wasted. Requires a completed Operations Audit; we scope it from what that audit finds.

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LIVE

Drakon Custom

quoted per scope

A combo built to your operation when the standard ladder doesn't fit — priced from the same components, computed at quote.

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LIVE

Managed Automation Retainer

from $2,000/mo
  • Tier 1$2,000/mo
  • Tier 2$4,000/mo
  • Tier 3$6,000/mo

Not a build you buy off the menu — the ongoing service that runs everything we've already built for you. This is the after: once your automations, systems, or agents are live, the retainer is Drakon running, monitoring, and continuously improving them so you never touch them. Health monitoring and alerting on every live automation, every call auto-summarized into your CRM, proactive monthly improvements, and a plain-English report of what ran, what it caught, and what it saved. It replaces in-house maintenance, ad-hoc freelancers, or a fractional automation lead. Three tiers scale with scope — Essential, Growth, and Scale — from monitoring and monthly reporting up to weekly reviews, dedicated build sprints, and a named account lead. Three-month minimum, then month-to-month — no retainer trap. Requires at least one Drakon build already deployed.

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Who we serve

Honest about fit — on both sides.

We'd rather tell you no than waste your money.

Best fit

  • $1M–$25M annual revenue
  • Founder-led, lean back office
  • Tired of doing the same things by hand
  • Already paying for the right tools, not using them fully
  • Texas, Idaho, Mountain West, Southwest

Wrong fit

  • Under $500K revenue — too early for automation ROI
  • Want a full CRM rip-and-replace
  • Looking to outsource everything to a chatbot
  • Need it free or yesterday
  • Not willing to change a single workflow

First step

Book your $2,500 audit.

See exactly where your excavation & earthwork contractors operation leaks hours and margin.

Two weeks inside your operation, a prioritized automation plan built around this lane's workflow — yours to keep whether or not you build with us.