Foundation Zero | Zero RFI

The whole project. One project brain.

Generic AI has read about a thousand projects. Foundation Zero is a project brain that has been on yours since mobilization.

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FIRST PRINCIPLES

Project-native by design.
People-driven by intention.

Foundation Zero learns from your project to serve your project. That knowledge never leaves your tenant boundary, never retrains a general-purpose model, and never resurfaces as a feature somewhere else. It compounds for you, not for us to sell back to your competitors or anyone else.

Project-native AI governance

Every project is its own tenant. Permissioning, retention, and audit are enforced at the project boundary, not bolted onto a company-wide bucket.

Drawings, not documents

A project is a graph of thousands of cross-referenced documents. We ingest the full set, resolve the links, and make it queryable.

One project brain

Everything Foundation Zero learns from plans, specs, and approved communications goes into one project brain the whole team can query.

HOW THE BRAIN LEARNS

Structured when it arrives. Not guessed at when you ask.

The project brain starts learning the moment a document lands. Tags, schedules, spec sections and decisions become connected memory, so an answer is a lookup with a source, not a guess.

Engines

Bridge

Drawings and specs. Reads every sheet, view, tag and schedule, and sorts specs by CSI MasterFormat.

Messenger

Email, OAC minutes, transcripts and chat. Pulls out decisions, action items and open questions.

Lifecycle

Documents and spaces, from change orders and as-builts to O&M manuals and Revit files.

Project Brain

One memory. The RFI mentioned Tuesday and the RFI logged Wednesday are the same issue.

Pre-built outputs, by function

Plan

Site selection and financial modelingCharterEstimating

Design & buy

Design review and coordinationBid packages and bid levelingProcurement and buyout

Build

SchedulingFinancialsChange management and change order analysisRisk managementSafetyConstruction administrationDaily summaryProductivity

Close & operate

Closeout packageLifecycleFacilities management and capital planning

Operations ModeFoundation Zero interface

Decision ModeMCP → your AI assistant

TWO MODES

Run the job. Make the call.

Same project brain underneath. Pick the mode that fits the moment: hands on the work, or a decision on the table.

via the Foundation Zero interface

Operations Mode

The control room for the people moving the project. Every open item, who owes the answer, how long it's waited, and the sheet it came from.

One board for every RFI, submittal and decision, ranked by what's blocking.
Every item links to its source sheet, spec section or thread.
Load a revised set and see what changed, sheet by sheet.
Skills draft submittal, punch and closeout checks. The PM signs off.

Project managersOwner's repsProject teams

Harbor Point MOB · OperationsSynced

17Open RFIs

3Overdue

9Submittals

4Decisions

INSP-L3Level 3 framing inspection blocked2 open items · next city slot ThursdayBlocked

RFI-00112Header detail at stair 2 openingWith architect · response due in 2 days9d open

SUB-00219Fire-stopping: delivered product doesn't match approvedDelivery ticket DOC-00347 · 9/18Mismatch

DEC-00063L3 slab cure plan, rain on pour dayMessenger asked the superintendentAwaiting reply

REV-07Bulletin 7: 38 sheets changed12 affect open submittalsDiff ready

via MCP, in the AI you already use

Decision Mode

Ask Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot what was decided and why, who disagreed, and what's missing. Answers come back with sources, and gaps get named.

Works in any AI assistant that supports MCP. No new app to learn.
Ask across every project you're on, in plain language.
Access is checked on every request, project by project.
Every question and answer is written to the audit log.

OwnersDevelopersExecutivesCapital program leads

Your AI assistantFoundation Zero connected

What did we decide about the parking structure, and why?

foundation_zero.decision_trace("DEC-00007")

The team chose a surface lot for Phase 1 and deferred the parking structure to Phase 2. A full deck added $11.2M and five months. A partial deck hit poor bearing soils on the east parcel. The surface lot won on cost and schedule, at the price of land reserved for a future clinic.

DecidedDEC-00007 · February 14

DissentFacilities VP preferred the partial deck

GapPhase 2 trigger was never recorded

DEC-00007Geotech DOC-00031Board memo DOC-00029

ClaudeChatGPTMicrosoft Copilot StudioAny MCP client

WHAT A PROJECT BRAIN DOES

One brain per project.
It remembers, connects and answers.

A project brain is more than search across a folder of files. It holds what the team knows about this job, links it together, and hands it back the moment someone needs it.

Remembers everything

Every sheet, spec, RFI, submittal, meeting, email since mobilization, kept as memory instead of buried in a folder no one opens.

Connects the dots

The concern raised in Tuesday’s meeting, the RFI logged Wednesday and the detail on sheet A-501 resolve to the same issue, not three separate threads.

Answers with a source

Ask in plain language and get an answer that cites the sheet, spec section or decision behind it, whether you run the job or own the building.

INSIDE THE BRAIN

Thousands of documents. Every connection, remembered.

Eight project brains to explore, from a 48 MW data center and a 320-bed patient tower to a 78,000-seat stadium and a 750-student elementary school. Each dot is a sheet, spec, code, RFI or email that brain has read. Mint marks where two documents disagree, caught before anyone in the field had to ask.

Explore the project graph

Atlanta AI Campus, Building 2 · Project graph

3,135 documents · 176 conflicts