DESIGN PARTNER PROGRAM

We Don’t Sell Software. We Prove It On Your Projects First.

Halozen works through scoped design partnerships — not annual licenses. Your team runs real bids through the system, shapes the product roadmap, and only scales when the value is undeniable. If we can’t save you dollars, we won’t charge you.

See What We Built

Partnership arc

Prove → Expand → Enterprise

The Difference

Why Not Just Buy a License?

Because construction firms are federated. Every region operates differently. Every project type has different risk. A one-size-fits-all SaaS product doesn’t survive first contact with how your team actually bids.

What others do

Ship a product and hope it fits

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What we do

Deploy on your environment, learn your workflow, then build within it

What others do

Generic AI trained on the internet

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What we do

Institutional Memory trained on your firm’s own bid history and project reasoning

What others do

12-month license, pray for renewal

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What we do

Prove value on 2–3 projects, then grow together when you’re ready

A design partner isn’t a beta tester. You’re a co-builder. Your feedback shapes the product. Your workflows become the standard. And by the time we reach enterprise, the tool is built around how your team works — not how we think they should.

DESIGN PARTNER BENEFITS

What Your Firm Gets

Direct Product Access

Full access to all three pillars — Strategic Drafting Assistance, Live Obligation Matrix, and Reasoning Ledger — from day one. Not a demo. Not a sandbox. Your real specs, your real subs, your real risk.

Founding Team on Speed Dial

Bi-weekly check-ins with Halozen’s founding team. Your feature requests go straight to the engineers building the system. No support tickets. No “we’ll add it to the backlog.”

Design Partner Pricing

Heavily discounted Year 1 rates. We’re investing in the relationship, not optimizing for margin. If it doesn’t deliver, you walk — no penalties, no long-term commitment traps.

On-Premise Deployment

Halozen runs inside your private VPN or Azure environment. Your documents never leave your network. SOC 2 certified. NDA-protected before any project data is shared.

Shape the Roadmap

Quarterly product roadmap calls. The features your team needs get prioritized. If your estimators in Massachusetts need MassDOT prevailing wage mapping and your Texas team needs TxDOT SWPPP automation — both go on the board.

Multi-State Coverage

Your firm works across state lines. We map the regulatory framework for every state your projects touch — TxDOT, NYSDOT, MassDOT, WSDOT, KDOT, FDOT, and beyond. One system, every jurisdiction.

HOW IT WORKS

Prove. Expand. Enterprise.

A design partnership isn’t open-ended. It has a clear arc with defined milestones, so both sides know what success looks like.

Phase 1

Prove

Months 1–3

Your team picks 2–3 active bids. We ingest specs, addenda, MEPs, and historical documents from your Procore instance or file system. The Obligation Matrix runs on your real project data. Scope gaps and cross-division conflicts get flagged on documents your estimators already know — so they can validate instantly.

Your team’s commitment

Designate a champion (estimator or precon manager) to run point
Share 2–3 active or recently completed bid packages
Attend bi-weekly check-ins (30 minutes)
Give honest feedback — what’s useful, what’s not, what’s missing

What you’ll see by month 3

Obligation matrices on your own project documents
Scope gaps caught with exposure estimates and source citations
Strategic drafting suggestions drawn from your firm’s own history
A clear answer: does this save us money or not?

Success metricIf Halozen doesn’t flag risk your current process missed, we haven’t earned Phase 2.

Phase 2

Expand

Months 4–9

Your Institutional Memory is now 5–10 projects deep. The AI draws from your own bid history to suggest exclusions, qualifications, and risk flags. New estimators can tap into what your senior team learned on last year’s NYSDOT bridge or last quarter’s water treatment plant in Kansas — without asking anyone.

Your team’s commitment

Run all new bids through Halozen (not optional — consistency builds the memory)
Enterprise stakeholder review: bring in VP of Precon, finance, or operations to see results
Provide feedback on drafting suggestions (used to refine the model)

What you’ll see by month 9

Past project lessons actively informing new bids
ROI proven on your own documents — scope gaps prevented, bid time reduced, change order exposure eliminated
Multiple estimators using the system independently
Internal demand: other teams asking for access

Success metricYour team starts referencing Halozen findings in bid reviews without being prompted. The system is part of how they work.

Phase 3

Enterprise

Month 10+

Company-wide deployment. The Live Obligation Matrix runs across your entire portfolio — every project type, every state, every team — from pre-bid through closeout. System of record status. Locked-in enterprise pricing through a multi-year RAMP contract.

What this looks like

Every bid gets smarter than the last
Your team’s decades of experience are searchable, citable, and working on every new bid
That knowledge doesn’t exist anywhere else — and it doesn’t walk out the door when someone retires
The firms that adopted first built the deepest knowledge base — your competitors can’t shortcut 5 years of accumulated project history

Success metricEnterprise isn’t a sales conversation. It’s the natural next step when your team says “we can’t imagine bidding without this.”

WHO WE WORK WITH

Trusted by Tier 1 Preconstruction Teams

Active design partner

Partner A — Global Infrastructure GC

$4B+ annual revenue, multi-region operations18 months of active partnership

Live Obligation Matrix
Sub vs. GC scope matching
Multi-agency compliance workflows
JHA safety workflows

Active design partner

Partner B — Mid-Size Commercial GC

$600M revenue, 10-person estimating team4 months of active partnership

Live Obligation Matrix
Conflict detection
Bid proposal integration
Procore & Excel export

Both partners shaped the product. Partner A’s infrastructure workflows drove the multi-agency compliance engine. Partner B’s commercial team drove the sub-scope matching. Your firm’s workflows will drive what comes next.

What We Ask From You

This isn’t one-sided. A design partnership works because both teams invest.

Real Project Data

We need your actual specs, addenda, and bid packages — not sanitized samples. The system learns from real complexity. NDA-protected, deployed on your environment, never leaves your network.

Honest Feedback

If a suggestion is wrong, say so. If a feature is missing, tell us. If the tool isn’t saving time, we need to know before Month 6 — not after.

A Dedicated Champion

One person on your team who runs point. They don’t need to be a VP — they need to be someone who bids every week and will use the tool on real projects.

30 Minutes Every Two Weeks

Bi-weekly syncs with our founding team. 30 minutes. We review what’s working, what isn’t, and what’s coming next. This is where the product gets built.

FAQ

Common Questions

How much does the design partnership cost?

It depends on team size and project volume. Year 1 is heavily discounted — we’re investing in the relationship, not optimizing for margin. Typical range: $120K–$400K/year for the partnership phase. If we can’t demonstrate ROI on your actual projects, you walk.

How long is the commitment?

12 months minimum for the partnership phase. After that, if the results are there, we talk about enterprise expansion. If they’re not, you walk with no penalties. Your Institutional Memory — the accumulated knowledge from every project you ran through the system — stays with you.

We work in 6 different states. Can Halozen handle that?

That’s exactly what Halozen is built for. Every state DOT writes specs differently. TxDOT, NYSDOT, MassDOT, WSDOT, KDOT, FDOT — each has different LD methodologies, prevailing wage rules, environmental review timelines, and permitting requirements. Halozen maps the regulatory framework for every state your projects touch. Your estimator bidding a bridge in Kansas and a water plant in Massachusetts doesn’t have to re-learn the compliance landscape each time.

What if our senior estimator leaves during the partnership?

That’s actually the best demonstration of why the system works. Every exclusion they drafted, every risk they flagged, every lesson they learned is stored as Institutional Memory. Your next hire starts with everything the firm has ever learned — not from zero.

Do we need to change our workflow?

No. Halozen deploys inside your environment and integrates with your existing stack — Procore, Bluebeam, Excel, PDF exports. We build within your workflow. We don’t replace it.

How is this different from a pilot or free trial?

A pilot tests whether software works. A design partnership tests whether your firm and Halozen can build something together that didn’t exist before. You shape the roadmap. Your feature requests get built. By Phase 3, the product is built around how your team actually works — not a generic version we shipped to everyone.

Can we start with just one project?

We recommend 2–3 projects to get meaningful data. One project shows you the tool. Two or three projects prove the pattern — and that’s what convinces your stakeholders.

Ready to See It On Your Own Documents?

Start with a Spec Risk Brief on an active bid. See what Halozen surfaces before you commit to anything. If the findings are useful, we’ll talk about a design partnership. If not, you got free intelligence on your next bid.

Design partnerships are limited to ensure we can deliver hands-on support. We work with firms that have active bid volume, a dedicated champion, and a willingness to give honest feedback. Not every application is accepted — but every application gets a Spec Risk Brief.