Nobody reads the whole set.
Redgorge does.
Plans, specs, schedules, submittals, addenda — read end to end, cross-checked against each other, and every answer cited back to the sheet it came from. Running on a box in your office, behind your firewall.
Direct to Shane — no form, no sales sequence.
ASKED
Does anything in the mechanical package conflict on duct insulation?
CONFLICT — SPEC vs. SCHEDULE
The specification and the drawing schedule call for different values on the same assembly. One of them is going to be installed.
Open items: 1 · RFI drafted, unsent
Sources on this answer: 3 · unsourced claims: 0
Mock-up on an invented set — the shape of an answer, not a run. The real run is in 02.
Three jobs you currently do by reading.
Not a chat window bolted onto your documents. These are the specific things that go wrong on a set, and the specific things Redgorge is built to catch.
Answers with the sheet number attached
Ask in plain language. Get the answer plus the sheet, the spec section, and the line it came from — so you can open the document and check it in ten seconds.
Nothing sourceless. If Redgorge can't cite it, Redgorge says it doesn't know.
Built to catch the contradictions before the field does
Cross-checks spec against spec, spec against plan, plan against schedule, schedule against submittal. The disagreements that sit quietly in a set until somebody installs the wrong one and it becomes a change order.
R-values and U-factors live in the general notes, not the geometry. Redgorge reads the text sheets too — keynotes, general notes, schedules, specifications.
Names what's missing and drafts the RFI
When the documents genuinely don't answer it, that's the finding. Redgorge is built to name the gap, tell you where it already looked, and draft the RFI for you to send.
An honest "this isn't in the set" is worth more than a confident guess. Guesses are what you're already getting.
You may already have AI inside a platform your GC pays for. Worth asking it one question: can it read the addendum you pulled off the FTP, the submittal that arrived by email, and the sketch the engineer sent back on Friday? Those are the documents that never made it into anybody's platform, and they are where the money hides. Redgorge reads the set you actually have.
I took a real project manual and checked every quote.
A citation is only worth something if it's real. So I pointed Redgorge at a public project manual, took every passage it quoted, and went back to the source to see whether those words were actually there. My own test on a public document — not a customer, not a case study.
The set
Pittsburg Unified School District — District Admin. Offices HVAC Units Replacement, Bid 24-026. Project manual dated March 2024, 333 pages. Redgorge read the full mechanical division: all eight Division 23 technical sections, 49 pages of specification.
A public bid document, and a public record. Ask and I'll send you the exact PDF I ran, so you can check every quote against it yourself — which is the whole point. No vendor with customers will hand you their test set. I don't have that problem yet.
The run
Seventy-five seconds, wall clock, start to finish — on the appliance, in the room. Nothing was uploaded, and nothing about that document left the machine.
No OCR and no vision pass required — this manual had a clean text layer.
The result
Twelve of twelve quotes verbatim. Every passage Redgorge attributed to the manual appears in the manual, word for word, and every paragraph number it cited was real.
That is the only thing this run tested, and it is the one that has to hold first: whether a citation is worth enough that you stop checking them by hand.
Your set is already in Procore. The AI service you paste it into isn't.
The owner approved those platforms by name. A subprocessor nobody disclosed, with retention terms that aren't in your subcontract, is a different conversation — and it's one you would have to go and have. Redgorge is one quiet box on your network, so there's nothing to disclose, nothing to review, and nothing to explain to the owner.
Redgorge is software. It arrives on a box because that is the simplest way to keep your documents inside your building — not because the box is the clever part.
Twenty years of reading these sets by hand.
I've done this reading pass by hand for twenty years in construction — every sheet, every spec section, on sets that ran to hundreds of pages.
As director of BIM technology I took our scope into coordination on a California hospital tower, the Sphere, Allegiant Stadium and the Hard Rock — one trade among many in the model, working it out against everybody else's.
Then five years as CTO of an industrial refrigeration contractor, where I built the BIM department from nothing and authored the FabCAD database the shop fabricates from.
Redgorge is the tool I kept wishing existed. I built it on hardware I can hand you, because I know exactly which of those documents you're not allowed to upload.
Revit · Navisworks · Revizto · FabCAD MEP · reality capture & point clouds
prefabrication programs · Procore · NetSuite · process design
— Shane Brooks
What actually happens if you say yes.
The whole offer, spelled out — including where your documents go and what it costs.
You pick one set you already know
A job you've already coordinated and closed out. Plans and specifications together if you have them; an addendum against its base documents is better still. If your contract needs an NDA signed first, send me yours.
A set you already know is the only fair test — you can check what it found against what actually happened in the field. Don't tell me what went wrong on it. Keep that back and grade me on it.
Today there is one appliance, and it's in my office
So either the set comes to it, or I bring it to you. A closed-out job usually makes the first easy; a live bid usually makes the second necessary. Either way it is one machine reading the documents — not a cloud service, and not a queue of subprocessors you'd have to disclose. Nothing about your set, your project or your company appears on this site or anywhere else; the tests published here are public bid documents, and they stay the only ones.
Tell me what should happen to the files afterward — deleted, returned, or never copied off your network in the first place — and that is what happens. Nothing is used to train anything.
You get it back in writing, every claim cited
Findings with the sheet and the paragraph each one came from, so you can check any of them in ten seconds. Where the set genuinely doesn't answer something, it says so instead of guessing. Days, not weeks.
You get the things it got wrong as well. That list is the most useful part for me, and usually the most reassuring part for you.
Then you tell me the truth
Whether it found anything you'd have wanted to know before the field did. That is the whole price — no fee, no license, no pricing yet. I need the evidence more than the money, and I'd rather set a number once I know what it's worth to somebody who does this for a living.
If it earns nothing, you've lost an email and an afternoon.
Residential and service contractors — same box, smaller set.
If you're running a trade shop rather than a coordination department, the same appliance is being built to do the version of this that fits your day: Manual J load calculations read straight off the plans first, then service history across your own past jobs, and quotes built from what you actually charged last time.
Load calculations will be calibrated against ACCA-approved software before anyone is asked to rely on them. That calibration hasn't been done yet — until it has, treat the numbers as provisional. Redgorge is not ACCA-approved software.
Bring it a set you already know.
The fastest way to find out whether this is real: hand it a project you've already coordinated, and see whether it finds what you found — and what you didn't.