About Hank
Work leaves a trail long before it becomes a bid.
A public job starts as a budget line, a capital plan, a line in a board packet. A commercial job starts as a site plan and a permit. Both are on the record months before anyone is invited to price them, scattered across thousands of places nobody has time to read.
Hank was built to read that trail every day and hand your team the jobs that fit, with the person to call already named. The rest of this site covers what Hank does. This page covers how it operates.
How we operate
Five rules the product is held to.
- 01
Every claim carries its source.
Nothing enters your feed without a dated record behind it. If Hank says a district approved a roof replacement, the board minutes that say so are attached. You can check the work before you stake a bid on it.
- 02
People check the record — and the contacts.
Researchers confirm each commercial project and re-check it as it moves from pre-design through permitting and bidding. On both the public and commercial side, the decision-maker contacts attached to a job are verified by people rather than pulled off a list. Scope, timing, stage, and contacts get corrected as the job changes rather than left to age.
- 03
Early beats complete.
A job named in a capital plan is worth more to you than a flawless summary of a bid that closes Friday. Hank is built to surface the record at the point where the decision is still open, then fill in detail as the job takes shape.
- 04
The record stays yours.
Your knowledge base, pursuit records, and drafts stay in your workspace. Your data stays yours, and your team can take its own material out at any time.
- 05
Hank drafts, you decide.
Hank reads, matches, names contacts, and writes a first pass. Nothing lands on the working record — a status change, a note, a saved contact, an outreach draft — until someone on your team approves it.
Held together, these are why teams trust what shows up in the feed enough to move an estimator on it.
What that produces
The numbers those rules are measured against.
- 50,000+
- public sources read every day
- 2,500+
- new commercial projects a month
- 98 days
- average head start, 577 confirmed cases
- 6–7 hrs
- back per person, every week
“Every job starts as a sentence in a public document or a permit file. We built Hank to read all of it, so the people who do the work can show up first.”
Start here.
All guides →How to read a capital improvement plan →
A CIP is a public multi-year list of what an agency will build and when. Here is how to find one, read it, and turn it into a pursuit list.
Who to call at an agency before the bid posts →
The roles that shape public projects, when contact is allowed, and what to say — a practical guide to pre-solicitation business development.
How to find commercial construction projects early →
Where private commercial projects surface before they go out to bid, which records to watch at each stage, and who to call once you find one.
Questions.
A bid board starts at the posting. Hank starts months earlier — at the budget line, the capital plan, the board packet, the site plan, the permit — and follows that same job forward until it is out for bid. You also get the decision-maker contacts and a fit call on whether the job is worth your estimator's time, not just the notice.
See it on your work
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