AI systems for small builders
A homebuilder who runs his company on AI. I'll help you run yours.
I'm Donald Speedie. I build homes in Northern California — and I built the AI back office that runs my company. No slides, no theory, no discovery theater. Real, working systems for small and mid-size construction companies, from someone who swings the tools.
Donald Speedie — builder, Nimble Development
What I can build for your company
The same systems, pointed at your jobs
Everything below runs in my own company today. These aren't demos — they're the working parts of a small builder's back office, and each one can be built for yours.
A morning brief that writes itself
Calendar, email, your jobs, and the market — one plain-English digest waiting before your first coffee. The single highest-ROI thing I run.
An AI bookkeeper
Enterprise-grade books without the enterprise price. Transactions coded, rules enforced, the math auditable.
Job costing AI can reason over
A cost-code structure built so both your team and the AI can actually use it. The unglamorous foundation everything else leans on.
Cashflow forecasts that self-correct
Forecasts that measure their own error and recalibrate. Know your cash position weeks out — AI interprets, the math decides.
Deal & land intelligence
Highest-and-best-use screening in minutes, not days — thousands of parcels analyzed automatically, ADU and redevelopment upside priced in.
A back office that runs itself
Two dozen scheduled jobs working nights and weekends — meeting prep, follow-ups, market scans — whether you show up or not.
A system that learns your business
It captures what works, remembers your mistakes, and gets sharper at your company over time instead of staying generic.
Guardrails that keep AI honest
It asks before it acts, stops when it's unsure, and never touches the money without rules. Safe automation you can actually trust.
Working with me
How an engagement works
I take on a handful of builds a year. It's hands-on and practical — we ship the first useful thing in weeks, not quarters.
Readiness assessment
We look at your data and name your sources of truth. You get an honest score and a starting phase — before you spend a dollar on tools.
Phase build-out
We build in order: clean data, then an assistant, then the scheduled backbone, then agents with real authority — each with guardrails installed first.
Handoff
Your team owns it when I leave. I document as I go and teach the habit, so the system keeps compounding without me.
Ready to talk?
If you run a small or mid-size construction company and you've read this far, you already know whether this is for you. Let's look at your data and find the first useful thing.
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