Provision

Provision is an AI-native pre-construction platform built for general contractors and construction teams who need to move faster, reduce risk, and make better decisions before a project breaks ground. Pre-construction is where projects are won or lost. Before a single dollar is spent on labor or materials, the decisions made during bidding, scope review, and contract negotiation determine whether a project will be profitable or painful. Missed scope gaps become change order disputes that drag on for months. Unfavorable contract terms erode margin before a shovel hits the ground. Documents that should take hours to review end up consuming days of an estimator's time — time that could be spent winning more work. General contractors have always known this. What they have lacked is the technology to do something about it. Until now, the only solution was to hire more experienced pre-construction staff, read faster, or accept the risk. Provision changes that equation entirely. What Provision Does Provision ingests the documents that define a construction project — contracts, scopes of work, specifications, drawings, addenda, and RFPs — and gives pre-construction teams the tools to understand them quickly, completely, and accurately. Provision's platform includes three core products, each targeting a specific pain point in the pre-construction workflow. Scope Agent is built for estimators. When a scope of work lands, the clock starts. Estimators have to read hundreds of pages of specifications under bid deadline pressure, looking for gaps, ambiguities, work that falls between trades, and items that could become costly surprises in the field. Scope Agent does this analysis automatically, surfacing the issues that matter so estimators can spend their time on judgment calls rather than document reading. What used to take days takes minutes. Chat Agent gives every member of the pre-construction team — estimators, project managers, executives, legal, commercial — the ability to ask questions directly from their project documents and get instant, cited answers. Instead of searching through hundreds of pages to find a specific clause, payment term, or specification requirement, they simply ask. Chat Agent finds the answer, shows the source, and lets the team move on. The result is faster decisions, fewer errors, and a pre-construction team that operates with a level of document intelligence that was previously impossible at scale. Risk Review is built for the moment before signing. Every construction contract contains risk. The question is whether that risk is visible and understood before the contract is executed, or whether it surfaces later as a dispute. Risk Review automatically identifies contractual risks — onerous indemnification clauses, unfavorable payment terms, unreasonable notice requirements, and other provisions that experienced construction lawyers and commercial managers know to look for. It gives GC teams the insight they need to negotiate from a position of knowledge rather than assumption. Who Uses Provision Provision is trusted by pre-construction teams at some of the most sophisticated general contractors in North America, including EllisDon, Ferrovial, Acciona, and Colas. These are companies that build complex, high-value projects and cannot afford to leave risk unidentified or scope gaps unaddressed. They chose Provision because it delivers real, measurable time savings and risk reduction on every project it touches. About Provision Provision was founded in 2021 by Luigi La Corte and Brendan Ardagh, who spent years working in the construction industry before building the tools they wished they had. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and has raised $7 million USD in seed funding from Y Combinator (S22), One Way Ventures, GS Futures, and Cercano Management. Provision's mission is straightforward: eliminate document complexity for everyone in the construction value chain, so that pre-construction teams can focus on winning profitable work and building great projects — not reading contracts.