Win your next pursuit with the projects you have already done.
Corpus by SalemWise is page-cited AI for civil, structural, geotechnical, environmental, surveying and mining firms. It reads your firm’s archive of past projects, then helps you decide bid or pass on a new RFQ, draft the SOQ with page citations to check, and build the fee. Built for principals and BD leads at consultancies of 20 to 500 people.
Most proposal AI reuses your old proposals. Corpus reads the projects themselves: geotech reports, calc packages, specs, bid tabs and drawings, and its answers and drafts carry citations you can open and check.
A citation shows you where to check; it is not an approval. Your qualified people approve the work.
Start here by role
- Chief executive or president: Pilot terms
- IT director or manager: Data handling · Capability status
- Director of engineering: Capability status · Review process
- Principal staff engineer: Live demo
- Junior staff engineer: Live demo · Review process
- Chief financial officer or finance director: Pilot terms
From the live demo: a fictional sample firm built from real public engineering documents.
Engineering firms and public infrastructure owners, side by side.
Work you can back with your own records
Fixed price, one real pursuit, about 2 to 3 weeks. Credited toward setup if you sign a deployment within 60 days of the pilot's end.
Find what your past projects already show, and let your engineers confirm it still applies before it goes into new work.
Today
- Current Bid or pass: Corpus suggests six of the nine go/no-go scores from your past work, a person accepts them or changes any of them, and fit, relationship and capacity are scored by people only.
- Current An SOQ draft for RFQ items 1 to 4 with page citations to check, marked GAP or NEEDS INPUT where your records fall short.
- Current A fee build on the WSDOT method that you can check line by line, with rates compared to GSA CALC+ ceiling-rate benchmarks (a snapshot).
- Current A draft contract, stamped DRAFT, made only from a fee the Principal role has approved.
During setup
- Set up for you Setting up each RFQ in Corpus; for the pilot it is inside the $5,000.
- Set up for you Connecting your network drive, SharePoint or ProjectWise. No connector is ready-made; each is built for your archive during setup.
Not built yet
- Proposed: not built yet A design-evidence packet or a calculation-review packet for a technical review.
Current Example: a specification question. Question: What watertightness testing standard and leakage limit apply to the containment concrete structures? Answer: ACI 350.1, Testing Reinforced Concrete Structures for Watertightness. The maximum leakage allowed in the final 24-hour test is 0.05 percent of the test volume, cited to 2020-EV288-STR-Spec, p. 7 (Evergreen Containment Basin). Fictional demo data: the firm, project and file name are invented; the specification behind the file is a real public document.
Current Evidence you get: a source panel with the file name, the real document title, project and category, page, issuing organization, the passage highlighted on the page image, an OCR tag on scanned pages and a link to the original. It does not show revision, approval status or effective date; your named reviewer confirms those and checks each source.
Corpus prepares cited drafts; your qualified people check them and approve the work.
Decisions you can trace to the standard and the record
There is no published price for the owner track. We tell you on the call whether we can work under your standard terms.
Trace a consultant review or a capital-project choice back to the standard and the record page behind it.
Today
- Current Cited search over public standards and plan sets in the demo archive, including the 2014 and 2024 editions of the WSDOT Standard Specifications (M 41-10).
- Current Designed to say “Nothing on file” when nothing in the archive supports an answer.
- Current A restricted project is removed before search for the demo role that cannot open it.
During setup
- Set up for you Your standards, permit conditions and record drawings, loaded as a copy and indexed like any other PDF.
- Set up for you Connecting your document system. No connector is ready-made; each is built for your archive during setup.
Not built yet
- Proposed: not built yet A consultant-review packet that checks a consultant deliverable against your standards and records.
- Proposed: not built yet A fee-support packet that compares a consultant fee proposal with your fee method.
- Proposed: not built yet A permit matrix, a submittal comparison and a completeness review.
Proposed: not built yet Example: an edition check. Ask about a requirement that changed between the 2014 and 2024 editions of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Standard Specifications, M 41-10, and get both editions cited so your reviewer records which one governs. Both editions are in the demo archive; an answer that compares them has not been built or captured yet.
Current Evidence you get: the same source panel for each cited document, and your owner reviewer, the engineer or records lead you name, decides what the record supports.
For owners, Corpus does not score or select consultants; selection and negotiation stay with authorized people.
Current Works in the product and the public demo today; not independently certified. Set up for you Set up for your archive during setup; not shown in the demo; not yet done for any customer. Proposed: not built yet Not built. We discuss it on the free 30-minute call; scope and price are agreed in writing as paid work.
From RFQ to fee, answered from your own past work.
Bid or pass
Corpus reads a new RFQ, checks it against the work you have actually done and suggests go / no-go scores, each linked to the pages behind it. Fit, relationship and capacity stay your call.
Draft the SOQ
Draft the SOQ from your own relevant projects. Each sentence is written to carry a page citation; open each citation, because the software does not check that every sentence is supported. Your team edits a draft instead of starting from a blank page.
Price it and paper it
Build a cost-plus-fixed-fee estimate; the demo follows WSDOT’s method. The fee math is done by code, not by the AI. Arithmetic done in code is only as good as its inputs and formulas, so a qualified person still checks them. Then start from a draft contract: a draft, not legal advice.
Who sees what
Restricted projects are left out of search for roles that cannot open them; at setup, roles are mapped to your people. Set up for you No connector is ready-made; each is built for your archive during setup.
Ask the archive a plain question. Get sources you can check.
Engineers ask in plain words and get answers with citations they can open and check against the source. If nothing in the archive supports an answer, Corpus is designed to say “Nothing on file” instead of guessing.
Question
What watertightness testing standard and leakage limit apply to the containment concrete structures?
Answer
ACI 350.1, Testing Reinforced Concrete Structures for Watertightness. The maximum leakage allowed in the final 24-hour test is 0.05 percent of the test volume [1]
[1] Source: 2020-EV288-STR-Spec · p. 7 (Evergreen Containment Basin)
Fictional demo data: the firm, the project and the file name are invented. The real public document behind this file is the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) 2024 Special Specification 7024. A past project’s specification does not settle what a new project requires; your engineer confirms the governing standard and its edition.
Question
What liner thickness did we carry for the Harborview digester dome?
Nothing on file.
Question
Which requirements changed between the 2014 and 2024 editions of the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Standard Specifications, M 41-10?
Proposed: not built yet An edition check: an answer that cites both editions side by side, so your reviewer records which one governs. Both editions are in the demo archive; an answer that compares them has not been built or captured yet.
No customer logos yet. Here is what you can check today.
The live demo
57 public engineering documents, filed under a fictional sample firm: DOT plan sets, geotech reports, specs, bid tabs and real public RFQs. Ask it anything.
The page citations
Click a cited project document and its page opens with the passage highlighted. Case-law citations have no page image.
The refusals
Ask about work that is not in the archive and it is designed to say “Nothing on file”.
The permission trim
Switch from the engineer to the principal: the restricted project appears only for the role allowed to open it. Demo roles are illustrative and anyone can switch them.
The fee math
Done by code, line by line, not by the AI. Arithmetic done in code is only as good as its inputs and formulas, so a qualified person still checks them.
The price
$5,000 fixed for the pilot, credited toward setup if you sign a deployment within 60 days of the pilot's end. You judge it on your own RFQ.
Start with one pursuit. Decide after.
Prove it on a real RFQ before you commit to anything larger. Corpus runs on your own hardware (a local NVIDIA GPU on your network) or ours, on an open-weight model with no outside AI service. On-prem, your files never leave your office.
$5,000
Fixed price · about 2–3 weeks
- We load a copy of up to 3 years of your project PDFs
- We run your next real RFQ through Corpus: go/no-go, SOQ draft, fee build
- You judge it on your own pursuit
- No integration work in the pilot
The $5,000 is credited toward setup if you sign a deployment within 60 days of the pilot's end.
Start a $5,000 pilotfrom $21,000 setup
then $1,500–$2,000/mo
- Set up for you Deployed on your archive where it lives. In the browser; your network drive, SharePoint or ProjectWise, and Microsoft Teams connected during setup. No connector is ready-made; each is built for your archive during setup.
- Runs on your own hardware or ours
- Live 6 to 8 weeks after the deployment agreement is signed. No per-user fees
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