How preconstruction is with MeltPlan.
One software platform for every precon workflow
What it is – Construction docs review, takeoff, bid leveling, code compliance, all in one platform. Same plans and specs used for issue detection, takeoffs, & scopes. Same sub bids used for leveling & keeping your cost database up to date.
What it means for you – All precon data & decisions in one place. Work done once, available everywhere, no re-entry. One platform instead of a stack that doesn’t talk.
AI grinds through grunt work, hands over for your decisions
What it is – MeltPlan AI does the grunt work, saving you real hours. When it reaches you, the work is accurate, cited, and honest about its gaps — built on real construction data, every number has a source, and AI shows you its blind spots.
What it means for you – Pursue more of the right work, as estimators have more time. Win more work with more estimator time to strategy.
Every project makes the next one sharper. Automatically.
What it is – The intelligence from each project, such as cost data and sub pricing feeds back into the platform and compounds into your next pursuit — a budget flywheel where closed GMP data becomes the foundation for your next estimate, and a cost flywheel where sub pricing from every leveled bid updates your cost database.
What it means for you – Your data is put to work, instead of dying in spreadsheets. Better margin on every win with real history & sub performance.
Every precon stage, connected by the same fabric
Start with one workflow or run them all on MeltPlan — everything integrates with the tools your team already uses.
Melt Code
Building code research assistant provides visual compliance paths, simplifying code decisions.
Learn more →Melt Takeoff
Quantities pulled straight from your plans, reviewed and adjusted by experienced estimators.
Learn more →Melt Bid
Scoping & leveling in 2 minutes with scope gaps, exclusions, qualifications identified.
Learn more →Melt Review
Design issues and cost items identified from your plans & specs, automatically.
Learn more →Made for the people who run precon.
Spend less time on first passes and more time on the decisions that win work…takeoffs, bid leveling, and scope generation handled before you open the file.
Pursue more projects, protect margin on every award, and build a precon operation that gets sharper with every project you run.
Surface every design risk, missing requirement, and coordination gap in minutes and get issues into Autodesk Forma without leaving MeltPlan.
GC teams building smarter with MeltPlan.
Every project type. The same AI-first advantage.
MeltPlan works across every sector GC precon teams operate in, with the same AI-first approach applied to the specific challenges of each project type.
Fast-moving bids, aggressive schedules, and scope gaps that don’t show up until they turn into rework that has to be absorbed. MeltPlan keeps your packages tight and your budgets grounded in your actual project history.
- Level 20–30 trade packages before your estimator opens the comparison.
- Catch spec conflicts and missing provisions before ITBs go out, not after 8–12 addenda.
- Build early budgets from your closed GMP data, not published cost guides.
- Know exactly what changed between SD and DD without a manual redline.
- Resolve occupancy and egress questions before permit review, not during it.
Healthcare specs run 2,400+ pages, from FGI, ICRA, ASHRAE 170, NFPA 99 and 101, to medical gas, radiation shielding and more. Most precon teams don’t have the bandwidth to read all of it. MeltPlan does.
- Surface ICRA provisions, infection control requirements, and sole-source MEP specs automatically.
- Answer FGI and ASHRAE 170 code questions with citations your AOR can verify.
- Generate ICRA and mockup requirement lists directly from the specs, organized by work zone.
- Level specialty MEP and medical equipment packages regardless of how subs structure their quotes.
- Carry coordination patterns from prior hospital jobs into new document reviews automatically.
Multifamily budgets are what lenders underwrite against, hence they need to be defensible and built on real data. And developers expect fast numbers, often before your team has capacity to spare.
- Build unit-cost estimates benchmarked against your own closed multifamily GMP data.
- Level finish-heavy packages where every sub quotes in a different format.
- Flag sole-source specs and long-lead items early…switchgear lead times run 40–50 weeks.
- Resolve Type III and V wood-frame code questions before they trigger a redesign.
- Price more deals in the same time without stretching your team.
Dense specs, bespoke process systems, heavy sole-source equipment. Scope gaps between process piping, mechanical, and electrical are where margin quietly disappears.
- Surface MEP and process interface gaps before packages go out…industrial specs routinely leave connection point ownership ambiguous.
- Build a sole-source list early enough to negotiate or qualify alternates before award.
- Level process mechanical, instrumentation, controls, and specialty electrical across incompatible proposal formats.
- Resolve high-hazard occupancy and process system code questions with full section citations.
- Generate schedules that account for equipment delivery windows, steel sequencing, and utility tie-in constraints.
Commercial
Fast-moving bids, aggressive schedules, and scope gaps that don’t show up until they turn into rework that has to be absorbed. MeltPlan keeps your packages tight and your budgets grounded in your actual project history.
- Level 20–30 trade packages before your estimator opens the comparison.
- Catch spec conflicts and missing provisions before ITBs go out, not after 8–12 addenda.
- Build early budgets from your closed GMP data, not published cost guides.
- Know exactly what changed between SD and DD without a manual redline.
- Resolve occupancy and egress questions before permit review, not during it.
Healthcare and Institutional
Healthcare specs run 2,400+ pages, from FGI, ICRA, ASHRAE 170, NFPA 99 and 101, to medical gas, radiation shielding and more. Most precon teams don’t have the bandwidth to read all of it. MeltPlan does.
- Surface ICRA provisions, infection control requirements, and sole-source MEP specs automatically.
- Answer FGI and ASHRAE 170 code questions with citations your AOR can verify.
- Generate ICRA and mockup requirement lists directly from the specs, organized by work zone.
- Level specialty MEP and medical equipment packages regardless of how subs structure their quotes.
- Carry coordination patterns from prior hospital jobs into new document reviews automatically.
Residential and Mixed-Use
Multifamily budgets are what lenders underwrite against, hence they need to be defensible and built on real data. And developers expect fast numbers, often before your team has capacity to spare.
- Build unit-cost estimates benchmarked against your own closed multifamily GMP data.
- Level finish-heavy packages where every sub quotes in a different format.
- Flag sole-source specs and long-lead items early…switchgear lead times run 40–50 weeks.
- Resolve Type III and V wood-frame code questions before they trigger a redesign.
- Price more deals in the same time without stretching your team.
Industrial
Dense specs, bespoke process systems, heavy sole-source equipment. Scope gaps between process piping, mechanical, and electrical are where margin quietly disappears.
- Surface MEP and process interface gaps before packages go out…industrial specs routinely leave connection point ownership ambiguous.
- Build a sole-source list early enough to negotiate or qualify alternates before award.
- Level process mechanical, instrumentation, controls, and specialty electrical across incompatible proposal formats.
- Resolve high-hazard occupancy and process system code questions with full section citations.
- Generate schedules that account for equipment delivery windows, steel sequencing, and utility tie-in constraints.
Your data stays yours. Always.
Encrypted at rest and in transit. Fully isolated per organization. Never used to train our models.
Your data never trains our models.
Your data never touches another GC’s workspace.
Your data leaves with you.
Your bid data and cost history are never used to train AI models, ours or third party. Contractually guaranteed.
Every project, bid, and spec lives in a fully isolated, encrypted environment. Your data is never co-mingled with another firm’s.
You get a full export of your data if you stop using MeltPlan. Everything including backups is permanently deleted along with a written confirmation.
Your data never trains our models.
Your bid data and cost history are never used to train AI models, ours or third party. Contractually guaranteed.
Your data never touches another GC’s workspace.
Every project, bid, and spec lives in a fully isolated, encrypted environment. Your data is never co-mingled with another firm’s.
Your data leaves with you.
You get a full export of your data if you stop using MeltPlan. Everything including backups is permanently deleted along with a written confirmation.
Pricing that works for your team.
Questions GC precon teams ask before they see a demo.
General AI models are built to answer anything — which means they're not built for construction. They perform poorly on vision tasks like reading drawings, they hallucinate on scope classification, and they give you answers without telling you where they're uncertain. MeltPlan's AI is three purpose-built layers — Small Language Models trained on construction tasks, a workflow Harness that prevents drift across long multi-step processes, and Guardrails that check AI output before it reaches your team. The result is 95%+ accuracy on precon-specific tasks, where frontier models sit at 75–80%.