Construction operations and material sourcing | Upiphany
Construction & trades

The office side of the job. And the material that goes into it.

Upiphany works inside construction businesses: bid intake and submissions, administration after a job is awarded, and direct-to-factory material sourcing delivered to your site, wherever the job is.

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Who this is for

Four kinds of shop, one bottleneck.

The work isn't the constraint. The paperwork around the work is.

Commercial contractors and subtrades

The bid work and the job paperwork sit with the owner and one office person. Tenders get missed because nobody was watching that week, and submissions go out at eleven at night.

Custom home builders

Every build is a different spec, a different set of suppliers and a different lead time. The coordination load grows faster than the crew does.

Developers

Multiple trades, multiple packages, and a schedule that only works if material lands when it's supposed to.

Designers and design houses

You specify the finish. Then you spend weeks chasing whether it can actually be sourced, at what price, by when.

What we run

Two ends of the same job.

Upstream, how work gets found, priced and submitted. Downstream, the material that goes into it once it's won.

Bid and back office

We work inside your operation, under your name, not as an outside vendor your clients ever see.

  • Watching tender sources and flagging only what fits your scope
  • Assembling and submitting bid packages, with deadlines and addenda tracked
  • Administration after award: submittals, supplier coordination, job paperwork
  • Capturing the process knowledge that currently lives in one person's head

It's back-office capacity without a hire to make, train, or replace.

Material sourcing

A direct-to-factory line, with warehousing and consolidation so material lands where the job is, not where a distributor happens to hold stock.

  • Windows, doors, cabinetry, flooring, fixtures, furniture. Anything on the spec sheet
  • Landed pricing to your site and a real delivery date, quoted per job
  • Second-source cover for tight lead times and awkward specs
  • We work alongside your existing suppliers, not instead of them

Quoted job by job. Nothing to sign, and nothing that cuts across agreements you already hold.

Boundaries

What we don't do.

  • We don't supply labour or crews.
  • We don't ask you to leave suppliers you're already contracted with.
  • We don't take over your accounts, your numbers, or your client relationships.
  • We don't put our name on your work.
Where to start

Start with one job.

Not a program, not an onboarding. One live job, and you decide from there.

Have a job you're pricing?

Email us the takeoff and you'll have landed pricing and a delivery date back within 24 hours. No account, no obligation. A photo of a marked-up plan is plenty.

[email protected] →
  • Square footage
  • Product type
  • Wear layer or thickness
  • Spec, or a comparable
  • Delivery address
  • Needed-by date

Bidding something and want a second set of eyes?

Send us the tender documents and your package before it goes in. We'll read them against each other and flag what's missing, non-compliant, or going to get you disqualified on a technicality. Same day, no charge the first time.

[email protected] →

Engagements are scoped after a conversation, because a two-person office and a forty-person builder don't need the same thing.

Or tell us about the job here.

Three short steps, about a minute. Louis reads these himself and replies within one business day.

Step 1 of 3 · What you need
Step 2 of 3 · The job

Have a takeoff, tender package or marked-up plan? Email it to [email protected]. A photo works fine. Finish this and we'll match it up.

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