Corpus by SalemWise · for civil, structural, geotechnical, environmental, surveying and mining firms

Win your next pursuit with the projects you have already done.

Corpus by SalemWise is page-cited AI for civil, structural, geotechnical, environmental, surveying and mining firms. It reads your firm’s archive of past projects, then helps you decide bid or pass on a new RFQ, draft the SOQ with every sentence cited to the page, and build the fee. Built for principals and BD leads at consultancies of 20 to 500 people.

Most proposal AI reuses your old proposals. Corpus reads the projects themselves: geotech reports, calc packages, specs, bid tabs and drawings, and every sentence cites the page it came from.

On your hardware or ours · No public AI API · Restricted projects stay restricted · If it’s not on file, it says so
Live demo See the Principal tour on the live demo A bid / no-go scorecard for a public RFQ.

From the live demo: a fictional sample firm built from real public engineering documents.

What Corpus does for a pursuit

From RFQ to fee, answered from your own past work.

01

Bid or pass

Corpus reads a new RFQ, checks it against the work you have actually done and suggests go / no-go scores, each linked to the pages behind it. Fit, relationship and capacity stay your call.

02

Draft the SOQ

Draft the SOQ from your own relevant projects, every sentence cited to the page. Your team edits a draft instead of starting from a blank page.

03

Price it and paper it

Build a cost-plus-fixed-fee estimate; the demo follows WSDOT’s method. The fee math is done by code, not by the AI. Then start from a draft contract: a draft, not legal advice.

04

Who sees what

Restricted projects stay restricted. Access is trimmed by role before search runs, so nobody gets an answer from a file they cannot open.

For your engineers

Ask the archive a plain question. Get the page it came from.

Search is the engine underneath the pursuit tools. Engineers ask in plain words and get answers cited to the document and page, so they can open the source and check it.

If it is not in the archive, Corpus says “Nothing on file” instead of guessing.

See it on the live demo

From the live demo: a fictional sample firm, real public documents

Question

What watertightness testing standard and leakage limit apply to the containment concrete structures?

Answer

ACI 350.1, Testing Reinforced Concrete Structures for Watertightness. The maximum leakage allowed in the final 24-hour test is 0.05 percent of the test volume [1]

[1] Source: 2020-EV288-STR-Spec · p. 7 (Evergreen Containment Basin)

Question

What liner thickness did we carry for the Harborview digester dome?

Nothing on file.

What you can check yourself

No customer logos yet. Here is what you can check today.

The live demo

57 public engineering documents, filed under a fictional sample firm: DOT plan sets, geotech reports, specs, bid tabs and real public RFQs. Ask it anything.

Every page citation

Click a source and the cited page opens with the passage highlighted.

The refusals

Ask about work that is not in the archive and it says “Nothing on file”.

The permission trim

Switch from the engineer to the principal: the restricted project appears only for the person allowed to open it.

The fee math

Done by code, line by line, not by the AI.

The price

$5,000 fixed for the pilot, credited toward setup. You judge it on your own RFQ.

Try the live demo

How to start

Start with one pursuit. Decide after.

Prove it on a real RFQ before you commit to anything larger. Corpus runs on your own hardware (a local NVIDIA GPU on your network) or ours, on an open-weight model with no outside AI service. On-prem, your files never leave your office.

Step 1 · Pilot

$5,000

Fixed price · about 2–3 weeks

  • We load a copy of a slice of your project PDFs, for example the last 2–3 years
  • We run your next real RFQ through Corpus: go/no-go, SOQ draft, fee build
  • You judge it on your own pursuit
  • No integration work in the pilot

The $5,000 is credited toward full deployment if you continue.

Start a $5,000 pilot
Step 2 · Full deployment

from $21,000 setup

then $1,500–$2,000/mo

  • Deployed on your archive where it lives: we connect to your network drive, SharePoint or ProjectWise as part of setup
  • In the browser; Microsoft Teams connected during setup
  • Runs on your own hardware or ours
  • Live in 6–8 weeks. No per-user fees
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Straight answers

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Built by software engineers, not marketers.

Yermek Ibray (Founder) and Pavel Dolgov (Co-Founder) are software engineers who built systems at Google, Meta and The New York Times. You talk to them, not a sales team.