Construction intelligence & specification protection

Win the right projects earlier with intelligence, and defend revenue you've already specified with real-time swap alerts.Track earlier. Detect threats faster. Protect revenue.

  • Reads 8–300 docs per project
  • Saves 10+ hrs a week
  • Alerts before the project is lost
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Candour dashboard showing live project intelligence, specification alerts, and pipeline value for a UK construction manufacturer
saved weekly on portal and document research
10+ hrs
typical annual revenue at risk from unnoticed spec changes
£5m–£40m
documents read and structured per project, automatically
8–300

Built with major industry design partners across construction & engineering

One place for Construction ManufacturersMarketers & Field Sales TeamsBuilders & DistributorsArchitects & SpecifiersContractorsto win & protect

Our platform uncovers upcoming projects early, equips you with the know-how to win, and puts you in front of the right decision-makers before the rest of the market arrives.

Won, then quietly lost

5–10%

of your annual target lost silently to substitution

30–60

active specs a 5-person team holds — each worth £250K–£500K

0

alerts you get today when a contractor is swapped or a spec is revised

Your reps know every project by name. They believe they're on top of it. But nobody is reading the revised tender drawings. Nobody checks when a new M&E contractor gets appointed mid-project. At £300K–£500K per project, you don't need to lose many before it becomes a material problem — and it never shows up as a loss in your CRM.

The proof

A team with a £15M target and five spec reps

Projects needed to hit target (at £375K avg)
~40 active specs
Lost to undetected substitution per year (7.5%)
3–4 projects = £1.1M–£1.5M
Revenue recovered if just one is saved
£375,000 — 6–9× the subscription

One saved specification covers the subscription several times over. Everything after that is recovered revenue you would never have known you lost.

Product intelligence that protectsrevenue at every stage

Candour Intelligence, Revenue Shield, and Pipeline View work together from spotting the right project early, to defending the specification through construction, to managing the entire pipeline without spreadsheets.

01 · Find

Candour Intelligence

  • Auto-capture planning amendments and detect secret product swaps
  • Ingest and filter your legacy Barbour ABI and Glenigan feeds
  • Connect effortlessly to your existing CRM and tech stack
  • Send matched technical specifications to architects via secure, no-log-on links

Outcome

Early project signals

02 · Defend

Candour Revenue Shield

  • Arm your reps with project insights instantly
  • Agentic AI trained on your product specifications and building regulations
  • Monitor public registers after award and flag value-engineering and substitution risk early
  • User-friendly mobile alerts, offering the exact script to defend the specification

Outcome

Revenue actively defended

03 · Manage

Candour Pipeline View

  • Unify your entire commercial defense strategy into a single boardroom dashboard
  • Push verified opportunities and threat alerts directly into Salesforce or HubSpot
  • Track the exact monetary value of specifications saved from value-engineering
  • Generate instant reports on margin defense, pipeline health, and field team performance

Outcome

Pipeline visibility, no spreadsheets

See the workflow: find, defend, manage

Three connected views, one AI-driven commercial workflow. Switch between them to see what your team would use every week.

Candour Intelligence interface matching a manufacturer's products to a live UK planning application

Candour Intelligence

Every UK planning application and tender, read in full. Candour extracts scope, materials, stakeholders, and risk — then matches projects to your actual product range.

  • 217 documents processed · St James Quarter, Leeds
  • 94% spec fit — rainscreen cladding, fire class A2-s1,d0
  • Architect + main contractor contacts extracted

Illustrative data — live demo runs on your regions and product set

Before Candour vs. With Candour.

From fragmented registers, legacy feeds, and blind spots—to Intelligence, Revenue Shield, and Pipeline View in one connected layer.

Manual planning & tender searches
Outdated feeds into your CRM
Amendments, VE & spec drift spotted too late
Candour Platform
FindDefendManage
Intelligence — unified project data
Revenue Shield — field alerts & defence
Pipeline View — reporting & deal value
CRM & integrations
Material finance via verified project data

Why enterprise manufacturers choose Candour

Zero integration friction

No complex software rollouts required for your team or the Architects you target.

Building Safety Act alignment

Spec-to-install traceability is now a legal duty, not best practice. We track the exact changes that expose Developers to compliance risk — and give you the audit trail.

Guaranteed pipeline protection

We stop the hidden material swaps that cost manufacturers millions in lost sales every year.

Platform performance at a glance

The numbers and capabilities teams use every week.

Coverage

UK planning authorities

hundreds tracked nationwide

100%

UK public tender coverage

UK construction intel

Candour

Lead to defended spec.

Up to

6-18 months

ahead of public tender

Refreshed

Weekly

new planning & tender intel

Data standard

Approved-only

planning, tender & contact data

CRM

Pipeline View

stages, value & next steps

Mobilise in

24h

finance on verified projects

Defence

Revenue Shield

Post-award VE (Variation/Evaluation) + amendment alerts

Matched to

Your products

region, capacity & spec profile

Up to

18 months

post-tender monitoring

Built with the people who use it

Feedback from the design-partner programme — commercial teams running Candour on live pipelines.

“I stopped using other data providers because I didn't need 10,000 leads. I needed 5 good ones. Candour gave me the local work I could actually win.”
Dave, Groundworks MD
“The 'Fund' button saved us on the Apex job. We bought the steel upfront without touching our overdraft.”
Sarah, M&E Director
“This platform feels like it was made for SME's and it's something I've been looking for since I started in construction 10 years ago”
Roy, Construction company director

Frequently asked questions

How early does Candour detect product substitutions and value engineering?
Candour operates in real-time. The moment a contractor files a planning amendment or technical submittal to the local council attempting to swap your specified product, our engine flags it. We typically provide field sales teams with an 18-day early warning before the alternative material is officially ordered, giving you the time needed to intervene.
How do you track construction projects after the main contractor is appointed?
Once the tender is awarded, your specification is at its highest risk. Candour actively monitors public compliance portals and cross-references new contractor uploads against the original architect's design. If the winning contractor attempts to engineer out your product to increase their own margin, we instantly push a "Kill Sheet" to your field rep to block the swap.
Do we need to cancel our existing project directory subscriptions to use this?
No. Candour is designed to subjugate your legacy project directories. You can drag and drop your raw project data feeds directly into our platform. We filter out the noise, cross-reference it with live portal tracking, and extract only the actionable threats.
What types of construction manufacturers is Candour built for?
We partner with Tier-1 enterprise manufacturers who invest heavily in getting their products specified at the design stage. Our active tracking is highly effective for manufacturers of mechanical and electrical (M&E) systems, HVAC, structural heavy materials, and life-safety or passive fire protection products.
Does Candour require architects or contractors to create an account?
No. Candour is an independent intelligence engine. We do not rely on architects or contractors manually updating a shared portal. We independently track public planning records and ingest your existing data, meaning your targets never have to interact with our software or change their behaviour.
Will Candour integrate seamlessly with our existing CRM?
Yes. You do not need to change your sales process or force your reps to log into another dashboard. Candour sits invisibly on top of your existing tech stack. We push verified project updates and threat alerts directly into your existing CRM environments. For field reps, we can route urgent alerts directly via WhatsApp or Microsoft Teams.
How does the pricing model work for enterprise fleets?
We charge a flat annual platform fee. We do not charge per-seat licences. We believe your entire commercial, marketing, and operations teams should have access to the same threat radar and pipeline visibility without restrictive user caps.

Stop losing specified revenue to silent product swaps.

Every unmonitored week is another revised drawing your team hasn't seen. See your own pipeline in Candour — we'll run your live regions and product set in the demo, no slide deck.

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