Predict the contract
before the RFP.
Signum is the AI BDR for SMB construction contractors selling to state and local government. What hedge funds did to trading with alt-data, we do to construction. We pipeline 311, DOT lettings, capital plans, IIJA flow-downs, bond measures, and audit findings — predict the contracts that match, then call our customer with the signal, the contact, and the meeting already booked.
We turn public data into a phone call that wins contracts.
Three steps. The first happens 18 months before anything is biddable. The last happens before our customer's first cup of coffee.
We pipeline every signal a contract leaves.
311 reports, weather and incident logs, DOT lettings, capital improvement plans, IIJA and IRA flow-downs, bond ballot measures, council resolutions, audit findings. Every public document, every public feed, read 24/7. Long before an RFP exists, a contract has been authorized, scoped, and shaped — and it leaves a trail.
- Capital improvement plans + bond measures
- Council minutes + budget filings
- Audit findings + sole-source notices
- DOT lettings + IIJA / IRA flow-downs
- 311 + weather + incident reports
We match each signal to the right contractor.
Every onboarded contractor gives us their service area, prequalifications, certifications, bonding capacity, and past performance. Each signal is scored against every onboarded contractor. Most is noise. The few that match are real opportunities — surfaced before any competitor sees the RFP.
- Trade + capability fit
- Geographic service area
- Prequals + bonding capacity
- Certifications · MWBE · 8(a) · DBE
- Past performance with the buyer
Then we run the outbound — from their domain.
We call or text the contractor, walk them through the signal in 60 seconds, and ask one yes-or-no question. On a one-word approval, the AI emails the right public works or engineering contact from their domain, books the meeting, and preps the brief. Their only job is to say yes and show up.
- Outbound email · from your domain
- The right buyer contact, looked up
- Calendar invite booked + confirmed
- Capability brief drafted to the spec
- Pursuit logged in the win/loss tracker
Here's what one of those calls actually sounds like.
↓ The 7:14 AM call
Sixty seconds.
One yes-or-no question.
John runs Macomb Electrical — a mid-size construction contractor outside Detroit. He's in his truck at 7:14 AM. The phone rings.
Pole strike · I-94 N · Mt. Clemens
60-ft transmission pole, 13.2kV feeder, ~340 customers offline. MDOT clearance log + WJBK 7am alert + Macomb DPW dispatch radio chatter.
- One-pager → Director Hayes (PW)
- 15-min capability call · 2:30 PM
- Pursuit logged · win/loss tracker
By Friday, John signs the PO.
Every signal a contract leaves
long before it becomes one.
An RFP doesn't appear out of nowhere. It begins in a capital plan eighteen months earlier, gets authorized by a council vote six months before that, and surfaces as a 311 cluster or audit finding weeks before the spec is even written. We read all four layers. Every other tool only sees the last one.
Three McGill engineers.
Five years building together.
We met in 2021 at McGill — late library nights, weekend builds, shared interview prep. By the time we picked Signum, the working part was a known quantity. Construction came in through the high school friends who run small infrastructure contracting companies and kept losing contracts they should have won.
Engineer at Google. Previously ML at Ericsson. Research with Doina Precup at McGill. Owns ICP, customer development, and go-to-market.
Google · ex-Ericsson MLEngineer at Amazon. Led ML pilots with Apple and Google. One prior exit in healthcare. Owns the data layer and extraction.
Amazon · 1 prior exitData scientist with peer-reviewed publications. Founder of a previous gov-data product with hundreds of MAU. Owns the AI BDR and the contractor product.
Prior gov-data founderPick up the phone.
Win the contract.
Book a pilot. We onboard your prequals, ingest your service area, and call you with the first signal within 14 days. If we don't get you a qualified meeting in the first 30 days, you don't pay.