2016 - 2020
Scaffold Yard Management
American Scaffold, San Diego
Selected materials for jobs, kept quality up and costs down, and got crews what they needed before the deadline.
Founder, Kinvi. San Diego, CA.
8 years in construction and electrical engineering. Now I build AI for contractors.
Lead follow-up, estimates and job paperwork, handled by systems I set up in your business, so you can stay on the job.
- Engineering, SDSU
- American Scaffold
- Semper Solaris
- Syska Hennessy Group
- AlfaTech
I've worked the field and the drawings.
Hands-on in a scaffold yard, residential solar on the roof, commercial electrical design to NEC. I know how your week actually goes.
2020
Engineering degree
San Diego State University
Studied engineering while working in the yard. Graduated in 2020.
2020 - 2021
Solar Designer
Semper Solaris, El Cajon
Designed residential solar PV and battery storage systems to NEC, built for the best energy production on each home.
2022 - 2024
Electrical Engineer
Syska Hennessy Group (Electrical Engineer II) and AlfaTech, San Diego
Commercial electrical design for schools, hospitals, offices and labs. Drawings in Revit and AutoCAD, site visits, and coordination with the rest of the building trades.
Today
Founder
Kinvi
I build and run AI systems for service businesses: the follow-ups, quotes and paperwork that eat the owner's evenings.
Three places AI pays for itself in a contracting business.
No made-up percentages. Put in your own numbers and see what it's worth to you.
Lead follow-up and quotes
A lead calls while you're on a roof. You call back the next day and they already hired someone. The estimates you did send? Nobody followed up.
Every missed call and web form gets a reply in minutes, the right questions get asked, the site visit gets booked, and every quote gets followed up until it's a yes or a no.
What it's worth to you
Fill in the four boxes.
leads x share lost x close rate x profit per job = profit left on the table each month. That's the ceiling; even one extra job a month is the number to compare.
Estimates and takeoffs, first draft
Every bid costs you an evening. Plans, counts, a spreadsheet, a proposal. Most of them you don't win.
The system reads the plans or your site-visit notes and drafts the quantities and the proposal with your prices and your format. You check it, fix it and send it. AI drafts, you sign.
What it's worth to you
Fill in the four boxes.
bids x hours per bid x drafting share = hours back each month, x your hourly value. Or keep the hours and send more bids.
Permits, inspections and job paperwork
Permit packages, inspection scheduling, daily reports, change orders, chasing subs for documents. None of it is billable and all of it lands on you or your PM.
Permit packages built from your templates, a running list of which inspection is next on each job, daily reports from voice notes and site photos, and change orders drafted for your approval.
What it's worth to you
Fill in the four boxes.
hours per week x people x cost per hour x 4.3 weeks x share drafted = monthly cost you get back. It doesn't replace your engineer of record or the inspector.
These are your numbers, not mine. When we sit down, we measure them for real before you spend anything on a build.
How we'd work together.
Map where your time goes
We look at your office and job paperwork and pick the one or two things that cost you the most.
Build it in your accounts
Installed in about 30 days, in your own email, calendar and tools. Your data stays yours.
Keep it running
Monthly upkeep: monitoring, fixes, and the next automation when you're ready.
You pay half to start, and the other half when your first automation is working.
Let's talk about your business.
Tell me how your office runs today. I'll tell you straight whether AI makes sense for you yet. Hablo español.