Faro capabilities · GC field guide

One front door for the work around the job. Built for how contractors actually operate.

Faro checks the connected Sullix project record, explains what needs attention, and prepares usable construction work. Your team reviews every consequential action before it moves.
Bring a job to the pilot See contractor plans
Reads the job record first
Prepares usable work
Stops at review gates
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Faro Controls

Example project brief

Three items need attention

Review first
Active Inspection: RFI 014Draft Ready

Bearing header conflict on Plan Sheet S-2.1. Draft clarification prepared for GC review.

Faro can investigate an item and prepare the next action. Nothing consequential changes until the GC reviews it.

Recorded Product Demonstration

Meet Faro on your next job.

Describe the scope, budget, and timing. Faro prepares a structured project draft for you to inspect. Approval stays with you.

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45 minutes · One job · No card or commitment · Separate from the contractor subscription trial

Fictional project. Recorded draft excerpts, not autonomous project completion.

1:33 · Faro’s AI-generated voiceAI-generated voice. A directed synthetic preset, not a human recording or an exclusive cloned voice. Illustrative scenes, not a live session. Community-controlled AI and local value retention describe ambitions, not guaranteed savings, financial returns or current ownership rights.

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Hi, I'm Faro. Small robot. Strong opinions.

You shouldn't need six subscriptions to run one construction project. Or spend your evening introducing your spreadsheet to your scheduling app. You build things. Your tools should work together.

I'm here to help bring the work together: scope, estimates, schedules, documents, and the decisions between them.

I prepare. You review. Your experience stays in charge.

But this is about more than software. The work happens here. The relationships are here.

Yet too often, the money we spend on technology goes somewhere else, with little say in what gets built next.

We think communities deserve a better arrangement. Tools shaped by the people who use them. More value staying closer to the people who create it.

That's what we're building toward with Sullix. Bring your experience. Question my answers. Tell us what doesn't work. Let's build this together. And keep improving it together.

Over time, our ambition is community-controlled AI: more say over its data, its direction, and how it supports the local economy.

When money is involved, responsibility matters even more. Clear rules. Visible records. People accountable for the decisions.

I can get things wrong. I don't replace your judgment.

I'm Faro. Let's make the tools work for the people doing the work.

The construction desks

Ask Faro. The right desk picks up the work.

Faro coordinates familiar construction responsibilities. You do not need to learn internal agent names or decide which tool should run.

Project Controls

Show the RFIs, submittals, blockers, and decisions that need attention.

  • Daily control brief
  • RFIs, submittals, and schedule blockers
  • Tasks, logs, meetings, and owner updates

Current boundary: Full deadline chasing is still being connected.

“What needs my attention before tomorrow's meeting?”

Preconstruction & Estimating

Turn scope into takeoff, price, margin, and a proposal you can review.

  • Scope review and quantity takeoff
  • Assemblies, unit rates, and margin policy
  • Estimate revisions and proposal preview

Current boundary: Faro flags missing quantities and prices instead of faking precision.

“Turn this takeoff into a client-ready estimate using our margin policy.”

Trade Partner & Bid Management

Find coverage, compare bids, and show gaps before you award work.

  • Contractor search and trust signals
  • Job-post and bid drafts
  • Bid review and leveling

Current boundary: Solicitation rounds, awards, and subcontracts still need human control.

“Level these bids and show exclusions, allowances, and missing scope.”

Field, Safety & Compliance

Turn site notes into logs, QC checklists, and inspection prep.

  • Daily logs, toolbox talks, and QC checklists
  • Safety-condition review and inspection planning
  • Inspection results and COI records

Current boundary: Faro does not replace the AHJ, safety officer, designer, engineer, or counsel.

“Build today's log and a waterproofing QC checklist from these field notes.”

Cost, Contract & Payment Controls

Show where cost, changes, invoices, and payment risk are moving.

  • Budget, job-cost, invoice, and pay-app reads
  • Variance and forecast-at-completion review
  • Change and payment-risk checks

Current boundary: Pay apps, change approvals, purchasing, exports, and money movement stay gated.

“Show current cost, committed cost, forecast, and gross-profit exposure.”

Materials & Procurement

Connect quantities, alternates, price checks, and lead-time risk.

  • Material quantities and waste factors
  • Price and catalog searches
  • Alternates, shopping lists, and purchase-order reads

Current boundary: Purchase commitments, vendor follow-up, and long-running tracking are not automatic.

“Check quantities, compare two alternates, and flag the long-lead exposure.”

Deal Feasibility

Tie acquisition assumptions to scope, price, and delivery risk.

  • Live address underwriting with source freshness
  • ARV, rehab, return, and maximum-offer analysis
  • Confirmed preliminary GC price request and project handoff

Current boundary: An underwrite is a decision aid, not a guarantee of value, cost, or return.

“Underwrite this address and show where the comp or rehab confidence is weak.”
Project lifecycle

Broad coverage today, with honest hold points.

The platform connects the job from opportunity to closeout. This table shows what Faro can prepare now and where the current pilot still hands control to the native Sullix workspace or an authorized person.

Opportunity

AvailableUnderwrite, scope check, service-area check, contractor discovery

Hold pointBuying the property or signing the deal

Preconstruction

AvailableTakeoff, estimate, margin, proposal, bid review

Hold pointPermits and full design coordination

Mobilization

AvailableSchedule, tasks, milestones, inspections, COIs

Hold pointNotice to proceed and full submittal setup

Active work

AvailableControl brief, RFIs, submittals, logs, safety/QC, cost checks

Hold pointFull submittal cycle and automatic deadline chase

Billing

AvailableBudget, job cost, invoices, pay apps, changes, risk review

Hold pointSubmission, approval, purchasing, payment, escrow

Closeout

AvailableProject-record review and closeout prep

Hold pointPunch, finals, waivers, warranties, callbacks

Use normal job language

Start with the question already on your mind.

Faro uses the selected job, your role, and the request to bring the right records and construction desk into the conversation.

Control the job

  • “What's going to bite me before tomorrow's OAC?”
  • “Which RFIs or submittals are holding the schedule?”
  • “Draft Friday's owner update from the project record.”

Protect margin

  • “Where is this estimate thin?”
  • “Does this change hit budget or schedule?”
  • “Level these bids and call out the holes.”

Move field work

  • “Build next week's lookahead around blockers.”
  • “Turn these crew and weather notes into today's daily log.”
  • “What do we need before rough electrical inspection?”
Contractor controlled

Faro prepares. Your team commits.

Reading and analysis can happen immediately. Creating records, sending communication, deleting work, or making an external request stops at a clear review point.

1

Check

Read the job record and source evidence.

2

Explain

Show the issue, assumption, or risk.

3

Draft

Prepare the brief, checklist, note, or next action.

4

Approve

Let the right person edit and approve it.

Current pilot boundary
Faro does not autonomously move money, release escrow, award work, sign contracts, submit pay apps, approve changes, or send silent communication. Legal, engineering, design, safety, and code-official responsibility remains with the appropriately authorized person.
The contractor advantage

Why general contractors stay on Sullix.

Legacy construction platforms force you to enter the same data across five disconnected point solutions. Sullix keeps the entire job connected from first estimate to final lien waiver.
01 · Living Connected Record

Zero double-entry across tools

Your takeoff quantities feed unit-cost assemblies, which become the client proposal, contract SOV, schedule milestones, and AIA pay apps. Never re-key data into separate software.

02 · Verifiable Construction Logic

Strict math over generic text

Faro calculates retainage, CSI division totals, and bid leveling deltas using strict arithmetic verified against company margin policy and local building codes, not loose chatbot guesses.

03 · Human-Gated Autonomy

You retain absolute control

Faro prepares the heavy drafting, flags missing scope, and builds the next move. But no RFI sends, no money moves, and no contract commits without your team’s explicit review.

What comes next

The next step is deeper runbooks, not more disconnected features.

Estimating is Faro's most complete connected lifecycle. These are the operating loops being finished next so Faro can follow work through instead of stopping after one task.
  1. 1Project control: brief, prioritize, draft the follow-up, review, send
  2. 2Client updates: collect progress, flag decisions, review recipients, send
  3. 3Bid and buyout: package scope, compare bids, clarify gaps, record the award
  4. 4Field control: collect notes/photos, write the log, route safety and QC issues
  5. 5Closeout and warranty: punch, finals, waivers, warranties, callbacks
Guided GC pilot

Bring one real job. Judge the work, not the pitch.

Use one scope, bid set, estimate, field issue, or change. Faro prepares the work while your team tests accuracy, usefulness, corrections, and review control.
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No card or money movement during the guided pilot.