Capture cost overrun on design-related issues
CIM reads drawings, specs and schedules on every revision, checked against what estimating priced and assumed. One source of truth, from bid through to closeout. Built for design-build contractors.
Trusted by leading design-build contractors
The handoff problem
Design-build has a massive problem
An estimator prices the bid set, writes the assumptions and exclusions, and hands the job off in a one-hour meeting. From then on the job lives in a SharePoint folder - bid drawings, the estimate, sub quotes, addenda 1 through 6 - and in email threads scattered across the team. No single source of truth, and it's the assumptions that go missing first.
Where it costs you
Margin erosion, project by project
Scope creep between revisions doesn't get picked up
Document review is prone to human error
Introducing CIM
One source of truth - risks and assumptions created at bid, live through delivery
01
At bid
The estimator prices in the risk and flags it as an issue to investigate after bid day.
02
At handoff
Operations teams keep a record of every existing risk and identify them immediately.
03
On every revision
Every change is tracked - scope changes and claimable change orders surface immediately.
One source of truth
Drawings, revisions and emails, pulled from the tools you already run
Procore
Aconex
Autodesk
Outlook
Excel
Word
SharePoint
The bottleneck to review is human capacity. Start reviewing more with AI.
Your estimating, design and delivery teams get a team of AI reviewers working alongside them, checking the full set against the specs and the Owner's Project Requirements, showing what changed, accelerating procurement.
With CIM Build
Margin protected, project by project
CIM.BUILDDesign risk register
3 gaps · trades not yet bought outDR-102Awning steel shown on arch, absent from structural setSteelworkRFI before award
DR-108Kitchen exhaust riser undocumented above L2MechanicalScope gap flagged
DR-115Guardrail fixing detail missing - added to package scopeFacadeScoped into package
Every gap lands in the register before procurement - qualified, RFI'd or scoped into the package.
Outcomes
Your commercial position stops depending on who remembered to check.
Every set risk-screened before you price it
Every revision compared, every change cited to its sheet
Drawings checked against what you're contracted to deliver
Changes flagged within hours, while the notice window is open
What the industry says
“CIM Build pointed to new opportunities to de-risk project documentation and procurement. It's pleasing to see how the transformation of construction is accelerating now that the serious players have embraced what good looks like. The days of starting projects with only part documentation are now in the rear view mirror.”
David Chandler OAM
Former NSW Building Commissioner
Why we built CIM
“I've sat through too many design meetings where everyone assumed someone else had checked it. Drawings were technically ‘issued’, procurement moved and the risk only showed up once money was already committed. CIM exists to identify those risks early - before they turn into arguments, delays, or margin erosion.”
Kevin Le
Co-Founder of CIM Build · a decade managing construction projects