Trade AI.
Industrialised.
The AI reads every item in the bill, recognises the work behind it and fills the price pool — before the first supplier has replied.
A tender with thousands of items is handwork today: understand each item, hunt for prices, match up supplier quotes. KraftHub recognises the work behind every item and gathers a price pool for each — from your article master, from past projects, from the supplier quotes as they arrive. The estimator opens a priced draft, not an empty tree.
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- GDPR-compliant
- Pilot in three weeks
Where the hours actually go.
Not in the arithmetic. In understanding, searching and matching — five bottlenecks and what the AI makes of each.
The planner writes freely. The estimator translates in their head.
Where catalogue text is used, matching is a lookup. Where a planner chose their own words — and that is the rule — the estimator first has to work out which service is even meant before they can look for a price.
The AI recognises the work behind every item — semantically, against performance lists, the article master and your own past items. That one recognition unlocks both the material price and the labour minutes.
The price pool fills before the first supplier replies.
Weeks pass before every quote is in. So people estimate, wait, or calculate at the last minute — and the deadline keeps running.
For every item the system gathers price candidates from wholesale master data, from comparable items in past projects and from the labour minutes in your performance lists. No candidate is discarded because a better one exists — they sit side by side with their source. A solid partial costing exists on the day the tender arrives.
The work is not the arithmetic. It is the post.
Enquiries out, second wave, third wave. Back come partial quotes as PDF, as scan, in a mail attachment — with the wrong project reference, in the wrong folder, covering five items out of two hundred and fifty-six. Finding them and filing them correctly is the real effort.
Incoming quotes are read, matched to the items and placed in the pool — scans included, wrong project references included. What cannot be matched unambiguously is kept as a low-confidence reference rather than discarded.
The estimator takes over a draft, not an empty bill.
Today the final costing starts from nothing: every trade in one sitting, item by item, with no idea where the expensive uncertainties are.
The draft is priced when the estimator opens it. Exceptions are sorted by value × uncertainty — the most expensive unknowns first. They check those, set the factors at total level and approve.
Every costing improves the next.
Experience sits in individual heads. Lose one estimator and costing quality goes with them — and every branch prices differently.
Every quote fed in, every exception resolved and every confirmed match grows the reference base. Coverage rises with each project, across every branch.
Genuinely individual special cases stay with the estimator — that is where the experience sits. Everything recurring is the platform's job.
We do not replace your ERP. We dock onto it.
Your AVA and ERP stay the system of record. KraftHub sits above them as a costing and quoting layer and returns the result in the formats your landscape already speaks.
- GAEB
- Import bills of quantities, price them and return them in the required format — X84, X86 and the older DA90.
- DATANORM
- Your suppliers' article master and price update services, with a preview of what an import changes.
- Wholesale
- IDS-Connect and Open Masterdata on your own credentials and terms.
- DATEV
- Booking and invoice export in the format your accounting expects.
- Everything else
- Unusual industry software we clarify in the first conversation. CSV and Excel export always works.
Operations, hosting and data protection.
German hosting, logged access, a data processing agreement as part of the contract. Two deployment models — you decide where the platform runs.
- Hosting
- Operated in German data centres by a German provider. Access is your team's alone; support access happens only on explicit approval and is logged.
- Data protection
- GDPR-compliant, aligned with IT-Grundschutz, EU AI Act taken into account. Your data stays yours: return it at any time in open formats, no lock-in clauses.
- Traceability
- Every quote is traceable: you see which inputs produced which result, and you find and correct systematic deviations yourself.
- Audit trail
- Approvals and changes stay on the record — including the history of who changed what and when.
Two deployment models.
KraftHub Cloud
We host, you use it. Fastest start, least operational effort — in German data centres.
- Ready to run from day one
- Updates without your involvement
In your cloud
The platform runs in your own Azure tenant. Data never leaves your infrastructure — for corporate IT with its own cloud strategy.
- You choose the language models — including locally hosted LLMs
- Handover to your IT after 6 months
Your data comes with you.
Projects, quotes, invoices, customers, prices, site photos and work reports from your old trade software — €1,199 flat, free from many systems until 31.12.2026.
Three weeks to the first real bid.
Not an open-ended consulting project. A pilot with a fixed scope, a fixed price and real numbers at the end.
On-site assessment
We look at your bid process, your approval stages and your data — on site, with your office team and an estimator.
Configuration and migration
Pricing basis, article master and templates are loaded, past quotes imported, the interfaces connected.
First bids in production
Your team works real tenders. At the end there is a number: time saved per bid, measured on your own cases.
What gets migrated
- Price and article master including your terms
- Past quotes and bills of quantities as a costing basis
- Customer, project and site data from ERP or Excel
- Templates, text blocks and approval stages
What your team contributes
- One contact from the office team
- One estimator who runs the pilot with us
- Access to the current price and article data
That is all. You do not change your processes — we configure around your reality.
What construction firms want to know first.
The full list of fifteen questions on pricing, contract and operations is on the enterprise overview page. To the overview
KraftHub is a member of BVBS – Bundesverband Software und Digitalisierung im Bauwesen e.V. The GAEB XML standard is maintained through its Arbeitskreis Datenaustausch.
Sixty minutes. No sales pitch.
You describe your bid process. We describe what a pilot would look like at your company — scope, indicative price, and an honest answer on whether our approach fits your situation. If it does not, we say so.
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