BuildPaid
GOVERN FIRST. FUND SECOND.
GOVERNANCE OS
— REAL-TIME GOVERNANCE PULSE

Construction changes every day.
The OS recomputes within seconds.

A schedule slip, a change order, an inspection fail, a material substitution, a zone that's been idle for 72 hours — BuildPaid hears them all, fires governance cascades through the kernel, and recomputes posture, capital routing, and Capital Optimization automatically. No one clicks anything. The lender sees the change in the audit chain before the foreman finishes texting.

SIGNAL VOCABULARY
13 SCHEDULE_SHIFT events
Schedule slips, CO scope changes, material delivery delays, supplier date misses, weather zone blocks, inspection failures, zone idleness, BIM deviations, material substitutions, labor reallocations, field reallocations, scope shifts, work-window changes.
CASCADE
Graph → Posture → Routing → Plan → Narration
Every event fires a five-stage cascade through CAG, P12 posture, P10 capital routing, P15 Capital Optimization, and Alexis narration — all in under 3 seconds, all org-scoped, all auditable.
DERIVATION ENGINE
Signals without humans
Idle zones, progress deviation, material substitution patterns — derived from the OS reading its own data every 4 hours. No foreman has to text anything for the system to know.
Audit chain provenance. Every cascade commits a PULSE.CASCADED kernel event with a SHA-256 hash chained to the source event. Lenders verify integrity independently via /api/audit-verify — AUTHENTIC or TAMPERED, deterministic. See the Lender Data Room →
INTAKE.DOCUMENT.CLASSIFIED · PRAL.UPDATED · PROVENANCE.RECORDED · COMPLIANCE.SATISFIED · DOCUMENT.NOTARIZATION.COMPLETED · LIFECYCLE.READY · ENTITY.EXTRACTED · PRAL.ARBITRATION.DECISION · RISK.SCORED · BPI.UPDATED · COMPLIANCE.NOTARIZATION.GATE_CLEARED · DELAY.VALIDATED · INTAKE.DOCUMENT.CLASSIFIED · PRAL.UPDATED · PROVENANCE.RECORDED · COMPLIANCE.SATISFIED · DOCUMENT.NOTARIZATION.COMPLETED · LIFECYCLE.READY · ENTITY.EXTRACTED · PRAL.ARBITRATION.DECISION · RISK.SCORED · BPI.UPDATED · COMPLIANCE.NOTARIZATION.GATE_CLEARED · DELAY.VALIDATED
KERNEL LIVE
The Governance Credit Bureau for Construction

Credit Scoring
Without
Financial History.

no FICO · no bank statements · no credit bureau · pure governance signal · patent pending
BuildPaid is the first autonomous capital governance OS. 200+ engines, 90 patents, and 56,000+ kernel events. The OS verifies documents, detects contradictions across 11 rails, autonomously approves low-risk draws, predicts supplier collapse, simulates capital flow 90 days forward, and tunes its own governance thresholds. GAL 4 autonomous approval is live. The OS governs the governance.
Ledgers settle money. BuildPaid decides when money is allowed to move.
KERNEL VIEW: GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Open OS Request Pilot Access
No login required — onboard a project and watch the OS govern it instantly
See Pricing → Lender Intelligence →
90patent applications · USPTO · Patent Pending
1,703+patent claims · IP moat
200+governance engines · one kernel
56,000+provenance-hashed kernel events
A-Fgovernance credit grades · no FICO
11governance rails · every dollar governed
For GCs
Pay subs in 10 days, not 75. Every draw kernel-verified. Every vendor governance-scored. Zero lien exposure.
For Subs
Build your governance credit score by doing what you already do — submit docs, pass compliance, get paid faster. No bank statements required.
For Lenders
Query any entity. Get a governance credit grade. See behavioral state, SAM.gov status, conflict alerts, and remediation velocity. One API call.
Lender Command Surface · Live · Read-Only
Audit-exportable. Cryptographically verifiable. Lender pilot ready.
Every contract emits a SHA-256-signed JSON provenance bundle. Drop it back on the dashboard and your browser re-hashes it with WebCrypto in 2 seconds — no trust required, the math is the proof.
$10.94M
Live exposure
95.6%
Capital gated
7 sigs
Chain-verified
2 fraud
Auto-caught
4 active construction projects · 13 governance panels · 17 mutation endpoints server-gated · SHA-256 + WebCrypto
QR INGESTION RAIL · LIVE · PATENT PENDING
Scan This. Watch the Kernel Govern.
One scan. One ingestion. One governance sequence. Every event cryptographically logged.
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KERNEL EVENT FEED
Awaiting scan...
Built in the Bronx, NY — real subs, GCs, and lenders. Designed for jobs that can't afford theory.
BuildPaid — AGS Kernel Manifest LIVE
Event Bus
Every action logged, sequenced, and enforced. Nothing moves without authorization.
⚖️
PRAL Arbitration
Every payment deterministic, explainable, reason-coded.
🔀
State Machine
Every payment follows a governed lifecycle. No step skipped. No shortcut possible.
🛡️
Compliance
Six compliance rails — notarization, COI, licensing, signature, certified payroll, and supplier delivery. All enforced before payment.
🔗
Provenance
cryptographic hash chain. Tamper-evident. Lenders audit this.
Notarization Rail
Remote online notarization with certificate anchoring. Documents verified before payment clears.
COI Rail
Insurance certificates validated against coverage requirements. Expired COI blocks payment automatically.
License Rail
Trade licenses verified against state authority. Scope and expiry enforced before any payment proceeds.
Signature Rail
Deterministic multi-party sequencing. Cryptographic chain validation. Cross-rail dependency enforcement. PRAL-integrated payment arbitration. An 8-state kernel-governed FSM that rejects out-of-order signing, detects tampering at the exact break point, gates validation on compliance rail clearance, and feeds payment release decisions directly. Not click-to-sign. Governance.
CPRAL
Davis-Bacon wage verification automated. Classifications, apprentice ratios, and fringe benefits enforced before payment releases.
Supplier Rail
Materials delivery verified before payment. PO confirmation, delivery receipt, field verification. Kernel state transition.
Alexis AI
Kernel-connected. Reads live state. Not scripted.
🎯
Bid Win Intelligence
GC behavioral fingerprints. Scope gap detection. Competitor shadow modeling. 5-slider what-if simulation. Closed-loop learning from every outcome. Autonomous drift detection across 9 dimensions. The first construction-native bid intelligence engine.
🔐
Audit Bundle Engine
Dual-hash signed JSON provenance bundles. Client-side WebCrypto verification. No backend round-trip. Tamper localization: TAMPERED_DATA vs TAMPERED_BUNDLE. The math is the proof.
November 2026 · ISO 20022

When the banking rails go structured,
most construction payees won’t clear.

From November 2026, SWIFT (CBPR+) and SEPA stop accepting unstructured payee data. Free-text addresses, missing tax IDs, unverified parties — rejected or delayed at the rail. In construction finance, that’s most of your payees. BuildPaid governs the gap before it reaches the bank: it is ISO 20022-native identity governance.

Structure
Every payee, structured
A deterministic engine parses each payee into discrete ISO 20022 elements — StrtNm, BldgNb, TwnNm, CtrySubDvsn, PstCd, Ctry. Free text in, structured identity out.
Validate & gate
Block what the bank would reject
Validates structured identity and evidence — W-9, COI, tax ID — and blocks any draw whose payee the bank’s ISO 20022 engine would bounce. Before capital moves, not after.
Emit
Bank-ready party data
Hands the bank a validated, ISO 20022-conformant <Party> block, provenance-anchored. BuildPaid governs the identity; the bank’s engine emits the payment.
Conformant output · structured <PstlAdr>
<Cdtr>
  <Nm>Northstar Mechanical LLC</Nm>
  <PstlAdr>
    <StrtNm>Hollywood Ave</StrtNm><BldgNb>111</BldgNb>
    <PstCd>10465</PstCd><TwnNm>Bronx</TwnNm>
    <CtrySubDvsn>NY</CtrySubDvsn><Ctry>US</Ctry>
  </PstlAdr>
  <Id><OrgId><Othr><Id>XX-XXXXXXX</Id>
    <SchmeNm><Cd>TXID</Cd></SchmeNm></Othr></OrgId></Id>
</Cdtr>
Validates against the official ISO 20022 schema · pain.001.001.09
It doesn’t emit the payment.
It makes sure the payment clears.
Structured. Validated. Evidence-backed. Provenance-anchored. Every draw is gated against the rail before a dollar moves — so the bank’s ISO 20022 message goes through the first time.
See the readiness gate →
For Subcontractors
Get paid in 10 days,
not 60–90.
Stop financing the job. PRAL arbitrates your pay app, verifies compliance, and routes payment the moment conditions are met. Bid Win Intelligence gives you GC behavioral fingerprints, scope gap detection, competitor shadow modeling, and a 5-slider what-if engine — so you win the bid before you submit it.
Try the bid simulator →
For General Contractors
Lock every pay app, CO,
and lien waiver.
Every change order, pay application, and compliance document is kernel-governed — not email threads. Disputes become impossible to dispute.
For Lenders
Provenance-verified trail
for every dollar.
Cryptographic audit bundles with dual-hash signing and client-side WebCrypto verification. Bid drift detection across 9 dimensions gives you early warning before a sub's bidding behavior deteriorates. Every dollar is provenance-anchored.
See lender-grade audit trail →
Live Kernel Feed

Every governance decision,
provenance-anchored to the chain.

Real kernel events from the running OS. Each is hashed and sealed into an append-only audit chain at the moment it fires.

KERNEL EVENT STREAM CHAIN INTACT
The Architecture

Eleven rails. 200+ engines. GAL 4 autonomy.
Self-tuning meta-governance. 40 Alexis intents.
1,703+ claims. The OS governs the governance.

Eleven governance rails, 200+ engines, and a meta-governance layer that evaluates, tunes, and corrects the rails themselves. The OS detects drift, adjusts thresholds, and lowers its own autonomy when conditions degrade. Self-tuning. Self-correcting. Self-governing.

PRAL
Payment arbitration
Scores every payable against 6 BPI dimensions. Returns RELEASE, HOLD, or ESCALATE with a reason code. No payment moves without a PRAL decision.
Apps 1–3 Governs money
CPRAL
Labor governance
Verifies every worker’s identity, classification, wage rate, and fringe against Davis-Bacon. Blocks draws when labor is non-compliant.
App 8 Governs labor
Kernel
Event authority
Single-authority deterministic event processor. Sequences every action, hashes every state transition, enforces every compliance gate.
App 11 Governs the system
Why this can’t be replicated
PRAL needs the kernel
Every arbitration decision requires the compliance state computed by the kernel’s event sequence. Without the kernel, PRAL has no signal bundle.
CPRAL needs PRAL
A wage violation triggers a PRAL hold, not just a flag. Labor verification feeds directly into payment arbitration.
The kernel can’t be replaced
It’s not a database. It’s a deterministic event processor. Replacing it means rebuilding the entire governance model.
Five dimensions · one triadic pattern · 1,703+ claims
INTELLIGENCE
Pattern · AI · Kernel
COMPLIANCE
Labor · Materials · Docs
GOVERNANCE
Lender · GC · Kernel
CRYPTOGRAPHY
Classical · Hybrid · PQC
PAYMENTS
Rail · Predict · Activate
GOVERNANCE RAILS

Every dollar
governed.

Eleven governance rails that close every loop between scope, labor, materials, compliance, and capital. Together, they answer the only question lenders care about: is this draw safe to release?

1 · CPRAL RAIL
Governs labor
Davis-Bacon wage verification. Trade classification. Underpayment detection. Draw blocking on violations.
2 · COI RAIL
Governs insurance
35-field extraction. Expiration detection. Limit validation. Additional insured verification. Payment gating.
3 · DRAWING RAIL
Governs scope
Trade detection. Davis-Bacon mapping. Revision deltas. Cross-validation against SOV, payroll, change orders.
4 · FINISH SCHEDULE RAIL
Governs materials
Material identity. Manufacturer + SKU extraction. Spec section mapping. Auto sample request generation.
5 · SAMPLE REQUEST RAIL
Governs verification
Governed outbound supplier contact. 7-state lifecycle. Email via Resend. Payment gated on sample approval.
6 · CONTRACT RAIL
Governs clauses
AI clause extraction. Risk surface mapping. Retainage, indemnity, compliance triggers. Rail auto-activation.
7 · BID SCOPE RAIL
Governs competitiveness
Scope gap detection. Vendor coverage analysis. Trade-to-drawing alignment. Bid verdict scoring.
8 · PAYMENT ELIGIBILITY RAIL
Governs capital release
FUNDABLE / CONDITIONAL / REVIEW / BLOCKED. BCAS grading. Capital readiness. Governance simulator.
9 · PROVENANCE RAIL
Governs authenticity
SHA-256 tamper detection. Audit bundle export. Client-side verification. Document authenticity chain.
HOW THE 11 RAILS WORK TOGETHER
Three closed governance loops converge into one:

Loop 1 — Labor Reality: Drawing Rail detects trades → CPRAL verifies Davis-Bacon wages → violations block draws automatically.

Loop 2 — Cost Reality: Drawing Rail extracts scope → Finish Schedule Rail identifies materials → Supplier Intelligence scores vendors → Bid Scope Rail detects gaps.

Loop 3 — Material Compliance: Finish Schedule Rail extracts SKUs → Sample Request Rail contacts suppliers → Payment Eligibility Rail gates capital on sample approval.

Convergence: All three loops feed into the Predictive Proposal Engine — pre-award governance before the bid is submitted. The Provenance Rail hashes every event. The Contract Rail enforces every clause. The Payment Eligibility Rail produces the final verdict: FUNDABLE, CONDITIONAL, REVIEW, or BLOCKED.
CAPITAL INTELLIGENCE SUITE
All eleven rails feed into the Capital Readiness Engine — which produces a single verdict per contract: FUNDABLE, CONDITIONAL, REVIEW, or BLOCKED. Three closed governance loops converging into one: (1) Drawing → Trade → Davis-Bacon → CPRAL → Payroll → Fraud. (2) Drawing → Material → Supplier → Cost → Bid Win. (3) Finish Schedule → Material → Supplier → Sample → Payment. All three converge in the Predictive Proposal Engine — pre-award governance before the bid is submitted. 200+ engines, 11 governance rails. One API call. One grade. One verdict. One cost.
90 patent applications (Patent Pending) · Each triad protected by claims on the interdependence, not just the components
The Problem

Construction money moves
in 45–90 days.
Subs are financing the job.

The industry is built on paper: emailed PDFs, manual approval chains, and ACH rails that move money like it's 1993. Subcontractors absorb the float. Cash flow crises cause project abandonment. The problem isn't discipline — it's infrastructure.

$310B+
outstanding sub receivables annually
75 days
average payment cycle, industry-wide

SaaS tracks documents. BuildPaid governs money.

Infrastructure Delta

This Is Not Software.
This Is a Governance Universe.

Every infrastructure company proves its value the same way: showing the gap between the world before them and after. Here is the BuildPaid delta.

Legacy Stack
Today
Email + PDFs
Manual approvals
ACH only
75-day payment cycle
No provenance
No arbitration
No compliance rails
Certified payroll handled manually, outside payment systems
No lifecycle enforcement
Human judgment
Dispute-prone
No kernel
delta
BuildPaid AGS
After
Kernel event bus + event grammar
PRAL arbitration engine
Compliance rails (Notarization · COI · License · Signature · Certified Payroll)
CPRAL — Certified Payroll Rail Arbitration Layer · automated wage classification, apprentice ratio enforcement, provenance-anchored submission
RTP · FedNow · ACH · Wire
accelerated payment cycle
cryptographic provenance chain
Deterministic state machine
6-phase lifecycle enforcement
Alexis — kernel-grounded AI
Physics-first document intelligence
OS — not software
75 → 10
days to pay
manual → autonomous
approvals
docs → events
data model
ACH → RTP
payment rail
logs → chain
audit trail
workflow → OS
category

"BuildPaid is the first autonomous capital governance OS — it verifies, predicts, approves, and tunes itself. 90 patents. 11 rails. GAL 4 autonomy. Meta-governance. Construction is Map 1."

— DOCUMENTS

Everything your team will ask for.
Already in your tab.

Security posture, SOC 2 evidence, lender data room, contract drafts. Hand them to your legal, security, and compliance teams before your second meeting. No NDA required for any of these — they're built to be read.

01 — COMPLIANCE & LEGAL

For your legal team

MSA + DPA are first-draft skeletons marked for legal review — built to be tailored by your counsel.

02 — SECURITY

For your security & compliance team

SOC 2 evidence package maps controls to TSC CC1–CC9, A1, C1 with honest "partial" labels — no overclaiming.

03 — DUE DILIGENCE

For your underwriting & risk team

Data room covers architecture, patent estate, audit-chain verification, and pilot framework. Suitable for first-meeting handoff.

Questions about any of these? sean@buildpaid.ai
All documents also accessible directly: buildpaid.ai/legal/{terms-of-service,privacy-policy,security-posture,soc2-evidence,lender-data-room,msa-draft,dpa-draft}.pdf
"Built in the Bronx with real subs, GCs, and lenders — designed for jobs that can't afford theory."
90 patent applications filed (Patent Pending) · 1,703+ claims · USPTO 2026 · Live on real Bronx projects
Open BuildPaid OS →
How BuildPaid Works

The Kernel. The Rails.
The Lifecycle.

Every action in BuildPaid is sequenced, authorized, and enforced by the kernel. No skipped steps. No manual overrides. Five stages from submittal to settlement.
📄
SUBMITTED
COMPLIANT
⚖️
ARBITRATED
💰
FUNDABLE
🏦
SETTLED
State machine invoice flow · No step can be skipped · Every transition kernel-enforced
The AGS Primitives

Power concepts.
Real outcomes.

Each primitive solves a failure mode the industry has lived with for decades.

PRAL · 90 PATENTS FILED
The arbitration brain that decides when money moves — and why no one else can build this.
Every payment decision is reason-coded, confidence-scored, and logged to the provenance chain before a dollar moves. For subs: payment in 10 days, not 75. For GCs: airtight compliance on every disbursement. For lenders: deterministic draw governance with court-admissible audit trail.
CASCADE · OS-NATIVE INTELLIGENCE
One event triggers eleven. Weather, documents, and field data cascade through the kernel automatically.
One document arrives. The kernel fires eleven events. PRAL posture updates. Compliance gates check. Risk scores recalculate. Ingestion → kernel → PRAL — the loop runs without human intervention.
PROVENANCE · TAMPER-PROOF CHAIN
Every change is hash-chained. No one can quietly edit history.
Cryptographic hash-chained. Tamper-evident. If any record changes, the chain breaks. Attorneys can audit it. Lenders can rely on it. Courts can accept it. This is provenance-verified governance.
ALEXIS · KERNEL-GROUNDED AI
The AGS speaks. Not a chatbot bolted on — an intelligence layer reading live kernel state.
Alexis cannot hallucinate payment status. She reads the actual PRAL decision, live. Ask why a payment is held — she returns the kernel event, the compliance gate, and the resolution path. OS-native intelligence, not an AI feature.
Built in the Field

"Built in the Bronx with real subs, GCs, and lenders — designed for jobs that can't afford theory."

90 patent applications filed (Patent Pending) · 1,703+ claims · USPTO 2026 · Live on real Bronx projects
The Living System

Visible Governance.
Not invisible automation.

BuildPaid doesn't just process — it shows you what it's governing, in real time. The AGS makes governance visible to every stakeholder.

INTELLIGENT FIX ENGINE
Self-governing corrections
When a contract obligation drifts from its governed state — missing certified payroll, expired COI, wage deviation — the GVM detects it, triggers a correction, and logs the fix with cryptographic proof. The dashboard shows: "Intelligent Fix Executed — Compliance Restored."
📡
SMS KERNEL EVENT SURFACE
State transitions, not notifications
When a draw hits FUNDABLE, the sub gets an SMS — not a generic alert, but a kernel-anchored state transition: "BuildPaid AGS: Draw FUNDABLE. Compliance rails cleared. Payout initiates on GC approval." Every SMS is logged as an immutable kernel event with SHA-256 provenance.
🔍
LIVE GOVERNANCE FEED
Real-time audit stream
Every contract obligation being verified, corrected, and recompiled — visible in a live feed. Rail checks, BPI assessments, deviation detections, and fix executions stream in real time. Lenders see the same feed in their provenance chain. The AGS governs visibly.
56,000+
KERNEL EVENTS
50+
API ENDPOINTS
$1.2M+
LIVE VOLUME
4
GOVERNED CONTRACTS
Two Rail Systems

Payment Rails Move Money.
Compliance Rails Gate It.

PAYMENT RAILS
ACH · RTP · FedNow · Wire · Card · Blockchain — fastest eligible rail selected automatically based on PRAL decision and compliance clearance.
COMPLIANCE RAILS
Notarization · COI · License · Signature · CPRAL · Supplier — all six must clear before any payment rail activates. Hard gates, not checklists.
This is not a SaaS platform. It is an operating system with a kernel, 11 governance rails, 200+ intelligence engines, a BCAS capital adequacy standard, a cryptographic provenance chain, a Governed BIM Payment Surface (every building element is a clickable payment node), a Governance Dossier (one-button system of record), a Kernel Snapshot Ledger, and configurable governance policy that adapts to each lender's risk appetite — anchored to every payment decision.
The Kernel

The system beneath
the system.

Every payment decision, every compliance check, every arbitration, every AI signal, every provenance hash — passes through the kernel. It's the single source of truth for the entire OS. Not a database. Not a workflow engine. A deterministic governance kernel.

What the kernel governs
STATE MACHINE
Invoice Lifecycle
SUBMITTED → REVIEWED → APPROVED → RELEASED → SETTLED. Every transition is enforced, logged, and immutable.
EVENT BUS
Deterministic Sequencing
56,000+ events. Every event gets a sequence ID, timestamp, actor identity, source module, and SHA-256 hash.
COMPLIANCE RAILS
6 Payment Gates
Notarization · COI · License · Signature · CPRAL · Supplier. No payment advances without all 6 payment gates passing.
ARBITRATION
PRAL Decision Engine
HOLD · RELEASE · ESCALATE. Every payment goes through arbitration. 25 reason codes. Deterministic.
PROVENANCE
Hash Chain
Sequential SHA-256 hash chain. Each event's hash depends on the previous. Tamper-evident. Court-admissible.
AI GOVERNANCE
Constraint Boundary
AI signals are advisory. Kernel decisions are authoritative. 8 prohibitions enforced. Cryptographic anchoring required.
Kernel event grammar
INGEST.CLASSIFIED → normalizer → physics
INGEST.NORMALIZED → normalizer → construction_science
COMPLIANCE.GATE_CHECK → compliance_engine → compliance
COMPLIANCE.SATISFIED → compliance_engine → compliance
PRAL.ARBITRATION.DECISION → kernel → pral
CPRAL.VERIFIED → cpral_engine → labor
PAYMENT.SETTLED → stripe → payments
PROVENANCE.ANCHORED → kernel → provenance
CASCADE.PRICING_UPDATED → cascade → intelligence
CASCADE.BEHAVIORAL_UPDATED → cascade → behavioral_risk
INGEST.COMPLETENESS → normalizer → physics_scoring
AI.SIGNAL.ANCHORED → ai-govern → governance
LENDER.DRAW.APPROVED → lender → governance
WEATHER.HOLD.DETECTED → weather → intelligence
CO.MARGIN_RISK → change_orders → intelligence
Kernel status · live
6,100
EVENTS
94.3%
HASH COVERAGE
INTACT
CHAIN STATUS
25
INVOICES
18
SUBS
v8.0.0
KERNEL
New Kernel Modules · Patent Pending
CONTRACT ACTIVATION ENGINE
Contract → Rail Activation
Drop a contract into the CSN (Construction Science Normalizer). The kernel decomposes it into canonical construction primitives — quantities, labor, materials, unit rates, exclusions, behavioral signals — using physics-first extraction. Davis-Bacon clause? CPRAL activates. Retainage terms? Payment engine configured. Aggressive language detected? Behavioral risk engine fires. 10 intelligence models update simultaneously. Zero manual setup.
CONTRACT.RAIL.ACTIVATED · CONTRACT.PROFILE.ACTIVATED
PREDICTIVE FAILURE ENGINE
Predict Rail Failures Before They Happen
The kernel predicts which compliance rails will fail before they fail. COI expiring in 3 days? License gap detected? CPRAL violation pattern emerging? Supplier delivery overdue? You know before it blocks payment. Severity-ranked. Confidence-scored. Dollar exposure calculated.
COMPLIANCE.PREDICTION.GENERATED · SHA-256 anchored
RAIL SELECTION ENGINE
Compliance-Aware Payment Routing
ACH, RTP, FedNow, Wire — the kernel selects the optimal rail based on amount, urgency, recipient capability, compliance state, and risk score. Simulates outcomes before committing. Every selection decision provenance-anchored.
PAYMENT.RAIL.SELECTED · PAYMENT.RAIL.SIMULATION
GOVERNANCE FORESIGHT
Impact Preview Before Action
Before a lender approves, rejects, freezes, or releases — the kernel computes the predicted impact on BPI, exposure at risk, risk temperature, and fundability. See the consequences before you commit. Predicted vs actual logged to provenance.
GOVERNANCE.IMPACT_PREVIEW · predicted + actual recorded
New kernel events · apps 12-17
SUPPLIER.DELIVERY.CONFIRMED → supplier_rail → compliance
COMPLIANCE.SUPPLIER_GATE.PASSED → supplier_rail → compliance
CPRAL.TRIGGERED_BY_DELIVERY → cascade → closed_loop
PRAL.RE_ARBITRATION.TRIGGERED → cascade → closed_loop
CONTRACT.RAIL.ACTIVATED → contract_engine → activation
CONTRACT.PROFILE.ACTIVATED → contract_engine → activation
COMPLIANCE.PREDICTION.GENERATED → predict_engine → intelligence
PAYMENT.RAIL.SELECTED → rail_selection → payments
PAYMENT.RAIL.SIMULATION → rail_selection → payments
CRYPTO.PROFILE.SET → crypto_profile → kernel
ARCHITECTURE
Not a database. Not a blockchain. A kernel.
The kernel is a single-authority deterministic event processor. It doesn't use distributed consensus, tokens, proof-of-work, or any blockchain infrastructure. It provides equivalent cryptographic auditability through sequential hash chaining, independent verification, and forensic export — without the overhead, cost, or impracticality of blockchain in construction finance. 90 patent applications (Patent Pending). 1,703+ claims. This architecture is patent pending.
Open OS Demo →
Payment Risk Governance Engine

PRAL Is The Payment Governor.

Not an approval workflow. A deterministic arbitration engine that evaluates every payment against a signal bundle — performance scores, compliance gates including notarization, weather, field verification — and produces a formal decision with reason codes. Payment rails move money. Compliance rails gate it first.

PRAL Pipeline — Live Simulation RUNNING
01
Signal Bundle
BPI 6-dim scores, weather data, compliance rails (Notarization · COI · License · Signature · CPRAL), field events
02
Verification Gate
COI · Lien waiver · CPRAL (certified payroll) · Signature · Notarization — all hard gates
03
PRAL Arbitration
Deterministic rules engine → formal decision + reason code. CPRAL governs labor before PRAL arbitrates payment.
04
Rail Selection
RTP · FedNow · ACH · Wire — fastest eligible rail selected
05
Settlement
DRAFT → SUBMITTED → COMPLIANT → FUNDABLE → SETTLED
Reason Code Vocabulary
RC-001 → RC-005
Release
All gates clear. Payment authorized. RC-002 triggers accelerated RTP release when BPI ≥ 90.
RH-001 → RH-006
Hold
Payment blocked until condition resolves. Weather, compliance, insurance, licensing, notarization — each hold has a specific reason code so subs know exactly what to clear.
RP-001 → RP-002
Partial
Release authorized for verified scope only. Remainder held pending compliance or schedule.
RE-001 → RE-002
Escalate
Dispute flagged or confidence below 60%. Human review required before any release.
Payment Cycle Compression
75
DAYS — INDUSTRY AVG
10
DAYS — BUILDPAID OS
87%
CYCLE COMPRESSION
Cryptographic Architecture
Quantum-Safe.
Crypto-Agile. NIST-Aligned.
BuildPaid's kernel doesn't hard-wire cryptographic algorithms. It defines crypto policy at the governance layer — so the entire provenance chain, every compliance rail, and every payment anchoring event can migrate to post-quantum algorithms without rewriting the OS.
01
Crypto-agile kernel — algorithm suites are pluggable, not hard-coded. Three profiles: CLASSICAL_V1, HYBRID_PQC_V1, PQC_ONLY_V1
02
PQC-ready anchoring — hybrid scheme: classical signature + post-quantum signature over the same event digest. NIST FIPS 203/204/205 aligned (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA)
03
Crypto profile as compliance dimension — CPRAL tracks which crypto profile governs each payment trail. Lenders see a "Quantum-Safe Ready" badge when the full chain is under a PQC or hybrid profile
04
Every event stampedhash_algorithm, signature_algorithms[], anchor_profile_version logged on every kernel event
KERNEL CRYPTO POLICY
{
  "profile": "HYBRID_PQC_V1",
  "transport": "TLS_1.3_KYBER",
  "signatures": [
    "ECDSA_P256",
    "ML-DSA-65"
  ],
  "anchoring": "SHA3-256",
  "kms": "AWS_KMS_PQC",
  "fips_alignment": [
    "FIPS-203", "FIPS-204"
  ]
}
Current Profile
CLASSICAL_V1 → HYBRID_PQC_V1
Migration path documented. No rewrite required.
AI Governance · Patent Pending
AI Insight vs. Kernel Decision.
Separation Enforced.
Alexis and every AI component in the AGS are constrained by a formal governance boundary. AI signals are advisory — the kernel is authoritative. No AI output can modify payment state, override PRAL, bypass compliance rails, or alter the provenance chain without cryptographic anchoring and kernel validation.
01
8 signal types — each with a maximum governance weight. Weather prediction: 0.6. Risk assessment: 0.3. Chat response: 0.0.
02
8 permanent prohibitions — AI cannot modify invoice state, override PRAL, bypass compliance, alter provenance, execute payment, modify config, grant access, or delete events.
03
Model drift detection — if AI confidence diverges >25% from 7-day average, governance weight is automatically cut 50%.
04
Cryptographic anchoring required — every AI signal is SHA-256 hashed and recorded to provenance BEFORE it can influence any kernel action.
Chain Verification · Patent Pending
Cryptographic Auditability.
Without Blockchain.
BuildPaid's provenance chain provides tamper-evident, independently verifiable, court-admissible audit trails — without consensus nodes, tokens, gas, or any blockchain infrastructure. Single-authority deterministic sequencing. A third party can verify the entire chain with nothing but a SHA-256 implementation.
SELF-TEST
Automated chain integrity verification. Detects gaps, reordering, hash mismatches.
INDEPENDENT
Self-contained verification package. No BuildPaid access required. Any SHA-256 tool.
FORENSIC
Court-admissible. FRE 901(b)(9) compliant. Attestation hash + certification.
The Governance Oracle for Tokenized Capital

Ledgers settle money.
BuildPaid decides when it's allowed to move.

Regulated banks are moving deposits on-chain. A tokenized deposit is a bank-held dollar represented as a programmable, ledger-anchored object — governed by deterministic rules, not batch processes. The settlement layer is being rebuilt. The open question for construction lending isn't whether capital moves on-chain. It's what decides, provably, that a given dollar is cleared to move. That is a governance problem. It is the problem BuildPaid was built to solve.

WHY BUILDPAID ALREADY FITS THIS WORLD

BuildPaid represents construction capital as governed objects on an event-sourced kernel ledger, every state change provenance-hashed and auditable. That is structurally the same model a tokenized-deposit rail uses for settlement — built independently, for the same reasons.

CONCEPT
TOKENIZED-DEPOSIT RAIL
BUILDPAID OS
Unit of capital
Tokenized deposit
Governed capital object
Ledger
On-chain settlement
Kernel event ledger
State change
On-chain transfer
Kernel event (release / block / override)
Provenance
Transaction hash
Kernel provenance hash
Governance
Bank compliance
Draw readiness + CPRAL + contradictions
Determinism
Smart-contract rules
Governance-kernel rules
BUILDPAID AS A PRE-SETTLEMENT ORACLE

Before releasing a tokenized deposit, a bank needs a governed, defensible signal that the underlying draw is eligible. BuildPaid already produces that as a deterministic verdict — the bank's settlement contract calls BuildPaid as an oracle, receives the verdict, and acts on it.

CLEARGoverned conditions met. The settlement may execute.
CONDITIONALThe settlement must require human approval before it executes.
BLOCKEDThe settlement must halt, with the reason on the record.

Each verdict carries its reason, contradiction count, CPRAL labor-compliance result, subcontractor eligibility, risk posture, kernel version, and a provenance hash. Settlement happens on the bank's rail. BuildPaid logs the result as an immutable kernel event, binding the kernel hash to the on-chain transaction hash.

THE INVARIANTS THAT MAKE IT BANK-SAFE
Never touches keys. Never initiates settlement.
Banks sign and move funds. BuildPaid governs whether they may.
Verdicts are deterministic.
Same governed inputs → same verdict → same provenance hash. Replayable for audit.
Provenance is end-to-end.
The kernel hash binds to the on-chain transaction hash — decision and settlement cryptographically linked.
Voice cannot move capital.
Alexis reports governed state aloud. She can never initiate or approve a settlement.
Tokenized deposits are the settlement rail. BuildPaid is the governance rail. Whoever owns the governance layer for construction capital owns the decision that gates every dollar. That is the position BuildPaid intends to hold.
Certified Payroll Rail Arbitration Layer

The labor behind the money.
Governed.

CPRAL is not a compliance checkbox. It's a labor governance engine that enforces Davis-Bacon wage compliance, worker classification, apprentice ratios, and fringe benefits — automatically, deterministically, before any payment moves. The guarantee construction lenders have never had.

PATENT PENDING · 81 APPLICATIONS · 1,703+ CLAIMS
The Four CPRAL Operators
CPRAL_REQUIRED
Determines if labor verification is mandatory for this draw. Checks prevailing wage status, trade, amount thresholds. If Davis-Bacon applies, no invoice advances without CPRAL clearance.
CPRAL_VERIFY
Validates every worker's identity, classification, and wage rate against Davis-Bacon determinations. Catches underpayment, misclassification, and fringe shortfalls at the individual worker level.
CPRAL_CLASSIFY
Auto-classifies labor based on scope of work. 12 NYC trade classifications at 90%+ confidence. Maps to DOL wage determination codes. Catches workers performing work outside their classification.
CPRAL_SUBMIT
Anchors verified certified payroll to the provenance chain. SHA-256 hash, anchor profile, WH-347 auto-generated. Immutable. Court-admissible. The federal compliance record that didn't exist before.
Live Example · Compliant Crew
Rivera Electrical LLC — Bronx Development Center — $84,250
Pay Application · 4 workers · Journeyman + Apprentice
Marco Rivera
40h · $57.42/hr · Journeyman ·
Luis Hernandez
40h · $57.42/hr · Journeyman ·
Antonio Reyes
40h · $57.42/hr · Journeyman ·
Kevin Park
32h · $40.00/hr · Apprentice ·
CPRAL Score: 100/100 · Davis-Bacon: COMPLIANT · Apprentice Ratio: 1:3 (25%) ✓
Result: Payroll anchored to provenance chain. Invoice advanced to FUNDABLE.
Live Example · Violation Detected
Metro HVAC Group — Bronx Development Center — $62,100
Pay Application · 3 workers
Robert Kim
40h · $50.18/hr · Journeyman ·
Maria Garcia
40h · $38.50/hr · Journeyman · ✗ VIOLATION
James Wilson
40h · $50.18/hr · Journeyman ·
CPRAL Score: 55/100 · Davis-Bacon: NON-COMPLIANT
VIOLATION: Maria Garcia — UNDERPAYMENT
Paid $38.50/hr · Required: $50.18/hr (Sheet Metal, NYC 2026) · Shortfall: $467.20 over 40 hours
Fringe paid $22.00/hr · Required: $39.45/hr · Additional shortfall: $698.00
Result: Draw request BLOCKED. Invoice cannot advance to FUNDABLE until wages are corrected.
The Closed-Loop Cascade · Patent Pending
Supplier → CPRAL → PRAL
Materials delivery triggers CPRAL wage verification. CPRAL result triggers PRAL re-arbitration. Governance systems fire as a single deterministic kernel event sequence.
📦
SUPPLIER
.DELIVERY.CONFIRMED
waiting
🏛️
CPRAL
.TRIGGERED_BY_DELIVERY
waiting
VERIFY
.WAGE_CHECK
waiting
PRAL
.RE_ARBITRATION
waiting
DECISION
.ANCHORED
waiting
PRAL governs money. CPRAL governs labor. The kernel governs the system.
No GC system does this. No payroll system does this. No lender platform does this.
Predictive CPRAL Intelligence
The kernel tracks violation history per subcontractor and predicts which subs are likely to fail their next CPRAL check. Pattern-driven. Confidence-scored. Lender-visible.
Patent Pending
Contract-Activated CPRAL
Drop a contract into the AGS. If it says "Davis-Bacon," "prevailing wage," "certified payroll," or "WH-347" — CPRAL activates automatically. Zero manual configuration.
Patent Pending
Open OS Demo →
Intelligence Layer

Weather That Governs Payment.

Real-time weather cross-referenced against your project schedule and work type. When rain probability crosses the threshold for a concrete pour, PRAL issues hold RH-004 before any money moves. No human intervention. No checkbox.

Patent Pending · Predictive Proposal & CO Intelligence

Change Order Intelligence
that protects your margin.

PATENT PENDING
CO Ingestion
Every CO goes through the kernel.
Change orders are classified and margin-scored the moment they arrive — deterministically, against a governed margin policy. No cost basis means UNKNOWN, never a silent pass. Every score is provenance-hashed to the kernel chain.
Predictive Pricing
Margin risk scored before you commit.
CO margins are cross-referenced against historical change-order rates in the same category. Underpriced COs draw UNDER_HISTORICAL_RATE reason codes — and when history is too thin to compare, the engine says INSUFFICIENT_HISTORY instead of faking confidence.
Margin Protection
Kernel-enforced approval gates.
An approved CO below the governed hold threshold hard-stops draws: verdict HOLD, eligible $0, rule SR-CO-MARGIN, anchored to the chain. COs with unknown margin exclude their delta from eligibility pending review.
BEYOND TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE
Governance Engines No One Else Has
Every engine computes deterministic governance decisions. Every decision is provenance-hashed. Every hash is immutable.
🏧
Autonomous Draw Engine
10 governance gates evaluate every draw request automatically. SOV progress, retainage, compliance, waivers, schedule health, CO impact, PRAL, CPRAL, ghost labor, and environmental risk. Computes eligible amount — no human intervention required.
💎
Capital Twin
Live financial model that updates from every governed signal. Capital adequacy (margin-aware, six-vector), margin posture, drift cost, and CO probability — all computed from kernel events, never typed in.
📅
4D Schedule Governance
Governed temporal intelligence. Drift detection, drift attribution (COs, weather, labor, materials), baseline vs. actual comparison, PRAL schedule gating, and Alexis temporal narration in English and Spanish.
🌍
8D BIM Environmental Rail
Geology × Weather = Environmental Risk. Soil profiles, groundwater monitoring, 7-day construction forecasts, drift probability from environmental factors. The first payment rail that understands the ground itself.
🦺
Safety Governance Rail
OSHA-referenced safety signals from Weather × Geology × Phase × Equipment × Labor. Collapse risk, crane restrictions, dewatering alerts. Safety score gates PRAL — unsafe sites don't get paid. 3D volumetric safety visualization.
🏛️
SAM Federal Compliance Rail
Federal truth layer. UEI verification, exclusion monitoring, debarment detection. Nightly cron sweeps. Debarred entities auto-blocked from payment. Federal compliance is ambient, not manual.
🗺️
3D Governed Spatial OS
The jobsite as a governed 3D environment. 10 toggleable physics layers: Capital Flow, Risk Physics, Stormwater Hydrology, Soil Strata, Vegetation Risk, Equipment Physics — plus Cross-Rail Arbitration, Kernel Replay, and Predictive Governance. Every layer computes. Nothing decorates.
📋
Governance Dossier
One-button system of record. Three audience variants — Lender, Regulator, Owner. Contains: kernel snapshots, PRAL decisions, safety halts, draw eligibility, Alexis recommendations, chain integrity verification. SHA-256 signed. The governed closeout package.
🔗
Kernel Snapshot Ledger
Every governance state change — persisted, hashed, and chained. Time travel to any point in the project. Verify chain integrity with one API call. Drift causality, safety causality, PRAL justification — all provable. The governed ledger of reality.
⚙️
Configurable Governance Policy
Every lender sets their own capital adequacy threshold. Every owner sets their own drift tolerance. Every GC sets their own safety halt. 5 policy presets — Conservative CDFI, Aggressive Bridge, Public/Prevailing Wage, Private Residential, Affordable Housing. Same kernel. Different governance physics.
4D Governed Temporal Intelligence
Not a Gantt chart. A governed temporal graph. Predictive drift before it happens. Alternate futures simulator — overtime, crew reallocation, supplier substitution scenarios with cost, drift change, and completion impact. Kernel triggers show exactly what caused the schedule state. Alexis prescribes the next action.
🏗️
Governed BIM Payment Surface
Every building element is a payment node. Click a column, duct, or curtain wall panel — see the sub, contract value, pay app line, change orders, COI, W-9 match, payroll, inspections, and fundability verdict. BIM cross-document intelligence: BIM contractor ↔ W-9 ↔ COI three-way entity match. Trade-level filtering. Per-element fundability scoring. The model IS the payment surface. Patent filed.
💰
EV / FV / OV / PAYABLE Architecture
Four numbers govern every payment. Earned Value (what the contract says). Fundable Value (what governance allows). Override Value (what a human authorized — mobilization, stored materials, early retainage). PAYABLE = FV + OV. Overrides add to FV, never replace it. Frozen Value shows capital locked behind governance gates with itemized reasons. The OS computes truth. Humans authorize exceptions. The kernel records both.
Draw Timeline Rail
"Show me what this building looked like on Draw #3." Scrub the timeline — the 3D model changes color, the draw summary shows historical EV/FV/OV/Frozen, Alexis narrates the snapshot. Every draw is a governed moment in time. Time-anchored governance across every scope, every sub, every dollar.
🏢
Portfolio Governance Engine
Multi-project capital engine. Portfolio EV, FV, OV, Frozen, PAYABLE across every project. Frozen/EV ratio drives loan committee decisions. Risk pricing signals with suggested spread adjustments. Weather exposure and compliance exposure aggregated. BCAS grade. The data that turns a lender into a quantitative construction investor.
🔮
Predictive Intelligence Engine
7 predictive rails running simultaneously. Predictive samples — the OS requests samples before the GC knows they're needed. Predictive overrides — suggests stored materials OV before it's asked. Predictive frozen risk — warns before capital freezes. Draw readiness — computes PAYABLE and blockers for the next draw from live kernel state. Predictive supplier confirmations — tracks material arrivals and OV eligibility. Predictive weather gating — 72-hour NOAA forecast integration. Predictive compliance failures — flags COI expirations and payroll gaps before they break.
🧪
Governed Sample Rail
6 sample types (color, texture, unit, mockup, material, test). 13 auto-generation rules mapped to CSI codes. BIM element → CSI prefix → auto-generated sample request with correct type, due date, and approval chain. Sample approval drives OV eligibility — mockup approved, stored materials OV unlocked. No human selects what to request. The OS knows from the spec.
📄
Governed Document Generation
AIA G702 Application for Payment. AIA G703 Continuation Sheet. Change Orders. Lien Waivers — conditional and unconditional. Every document is governed, kernel-anchored, and produced with one click. Print. Download. Email. Share. Cross-validated against the capital engine — the pay app amount matches the EV/FV computation. Not a template. A governed output.
🌐
Realm Gate — Governed World Entry
Choose your role: GC, Sub, Lender, Owner. The OS loads your governed world. Role-specific surfaces. Multi-project switcher. Identity seal. Pre-fetched intelligence — data arrives before you click. Server-side pre-computation — the browser renders, the server computes. sessionStorage caching — repeat visits are instant. This is not a login page. It is a portal into a governed universe.
GOVERNED EXPORTS · 12 DOCUMENT TYPES BILINGUAL ALEXIS · EN/ES 5 ACTOR ROLES · GC/OWNER/LENDER/SUB/SUPPLIER SAM FEDERAL COMPLIANCE RAIL CROSS-RAIL ARBITRATION GOVERNANCE DOSSIER · 3 AUDIENCES KERNEL SNAPSHOT LEDGER CONFIGURABLE GOVERNANCE POLICY · 5 PRESETS GOVERNANCE INBOX · UNIVERSAL GOVERNED BIM · PAYMENT SURFACE BIM CROSS-DOCUMENT INTELLIGENCE · 6 CHECKS TRADE-LEVEL COMPLIANCE GATING PER-ELEMENT FUNDABILITY ENGINE EV · FV · OV · PAYABLE ARCHITECTURE GOVERNED OVERRIDE LAYER · 9 TYPES DRAW TIMELINE RAIL · STATE REPLAY PORTFOLIO GOVERNANCE · MULTI-PROJECT PRICING RAIL · UNIT RATE DERIVATION CAPITAL DECISION MEMO PREDICTIVE INTELLIGENCE GOVERNED SAMPLE RAIL · 13 CSI RULES AIA G702 / G703 GENERATION REALM GATE · ROLE-AWARE ENTRY PRE-FETCH · SERVER-SIDE COMPUTATION 3 PRODUCTION INGESTION PIPELINES SUPPLIER CONFIRMATION RAIL LENDER GOVERNANCE RAIL
Kernel events: CO.MARGIN.VERIFIED · SCOPE.DELTA_DETECTED · VERDICT.ISSUED
CO Intelligence · Patent Pending

Predictive Proposal &
Change Order Intelligence.

Every proposal and change order ingested into the kernel is cross-referenced against prior COs, market pricing, and scope patterns — then scored for margin risk before you sign. Stop discovering margin problems after the job ends.

Predictive pricing — CO margins cross-referenced against historical change-order rates by category; INSUFFICIENT_HISTORY when comps are too thin
Margin protection — risk score flags scope creep and underpriced COs before execution
Ingestion-driven — email a CO to docs@buildpaid.ai and the kernel classifies the intent, matches the project, and anchors it to the chain
Live CO Kernel Event
{
  "event": "CO.MARGIN.VERIFIED",
  "co_id": "CO-DEF1BA36",
  "margin_pct": 2.02,
  "verdict": "HELD",
  "policy_hold_below_pct": 5,
  "provenance": "83e94a75da7d…"
}
MARGIN HOLD — LIVE
CO-DEF1BA36 — $34,600 · APPROVED
Margin 2.02% — below the 5% governed hold threshold · Verdict HOLD, eligible $0, rule SR-CO-MARGIN · Draws hard-stopped until margin clears
Weather Intelligence — Live
🌧 Weather Intelligence — Live
61%
57°F
26mph
⚖️ PRAL HOLD — RH-004 ACTIVE
Concrete pour · Building C · Thursday · $47,000 held
Weather threshold exceeded · Auto-hold · No human required
Weather → Schedule → PRAL Chain
STEP 1 — WEATHER SIGNAL
61% Rain · Thursday · NWS · Bronx NY
WEATHER_IMPACT_UPDATED
STEP 2 — SCHEDULE CROSS-REF
Concrete Pour · Building C · moisture-sensitive
TASK.WEATHER_SENSITIVE=true
STEP 3 — PRAL ARBITRATION
HOLD $47,000 · RH-004 · 99% confidence
PRAL.UPDATED { adjustment: "HOLD" }
STEP 4 — BPI UPDATE
Risk: 72 → 61 · Weather hold cascades
BPI.RISK_SIGNAL_UPDATED
Change Order Intelligence

CO Intelligence That Predicts
Your Margin Before You Sign.

Every change order submitted to BuildPaid is classified and margin-scored the moment it arrives — automatically, against a governed margin policy. No spreadsheet. No after-the-fact surprises.

INGESTION
CO arrives. Kernel classifies it instantly.
One ingestion surface — drop, paste, or contract modality. The AGS reads it and extracts scope, amounts, dates, and parties. Margin scoring fires on arrival — no human in the loop.
DELTA DETECTION
Scope creep and hidden exclusions become governed events.
Rate changes, quantity shifts, buried exclusions — logged through the revision intelligence rail, each minting a SCOPE.DELTA_DETECTED kernel event with cost and schedule impact, provenance-anchored to the chain.
MARGIN PROTECTION
Margin risk scored before the CO hits PRAL.
Every CO carries a governed margin verdict — CLEAR, REVIEW, HELD, or UNKNOWN. A HELD CO hard-stops draws through the governance verdict kernel; an UNKNOWN CO excludes its delta from eligibility. Live on the chain, not a roadmap.
PATENT PENDING — PREDICTIVE PROPOSAL & CO INTELLIGENCE
"Real-world proposal and change order ingestion → predictive pricing + margin protection." Filed USPTO March 2026.
Application #2 of 60
Predictive Intelligence · Patent Pending
Governance Foresight
Before any governance action executes, the engine computes predicted changes to BPI health score, exposure at risk, risk temperature, and fundability state. Lenders see the consequences before they commit.
Patent Pending
Payment Simulation
Before committing to a payment rail, the engine simulates outcomes on every candidate. Compare settlement time, fees, BPI impact, exposure, and risk temperature across ACH, RTP, FedNow, and Wire.
Patent Pending
Predictive Rail Failures · Live from Kernel
Loading predictions from kernel…
Contract-to-Rail Activation · Live Demo
Drop any construction document into the CSN — PDF, DOCX, or paste text. The Construction Science Normalizer extracts physics: quantities with units, labor hours, material costs, compliance obligations, and behavioral risk signals. Classification happens by content, not filename.
Ask Alexis About This Project
✦ Alexis · BuildPaid AI
Kernel-connected · Job memory active
LIVE
"Building C concrete pour is weather-held RH-004. $47K blocked. Rain 61% Thursday. PRAL will auto-lift when forecast clears."
Not scripted · Kernel-connected · Kernel-grounded · Job memory · Real answers
KERNEL INTELLIGENCE ENGINES · PATENT PENDING

The AGS That Thinks For You.

200+ kernel-level intelligence engines. 11 governance rails. Governed BIM Payment Surface — every building element is a payment node. Trade-level compliance gating. BIM cross-document intelligence. Configurable governance policy. Governance Dossier. The OS that governs while you sleep.

KERNEL INGESTION LAYER
Confidence-Gated Document Intelligence
PATENT PENDING

Every document enters the kernel. AI extracts with per-field confidence. Deterministic validation cross-checks totals, dates, signatures. The kernel decides — not the user.

≥90%
AUTO_ADVANCE
Kernel advances lifecycle
70-89%
HUMAN_REVIEW
Diff surfaced, confirm
<70%
BLOCKED
Corrections → training data
DOC_INTEL.AUTO_ADVANCE · DOC_INTEL.HUMAN_REVIEW · DOC_INTEL.BLOCKED · DOC_INTEL.CORRECTION.HARVESTED
KERNEL SWEEP LAYER
Background Governance Sweeps
PATENT PENDING

The AGS governs while you sleep. Five autonomous sweeps — no clicks, no dashboards, no human involvement.

🛡
COI EXPIRY
💰
FUNDABILITY
👷
CPRAL
🔗
PROVENANCE
STALE INV
SWEEP.COI.EXPIRED · SWEEP.FUNDABILITY.RECOMPUTED · SWEEP.PROVENANCE.SCAN_COMPLETE
KERNEL EVALUATION LAYER
Golden Corpus Evaluation Pipeline
PATENT PENDING

We don't ship vibes. We ship measured accuracy. Every parser runs against canonical test docs with field-level ground truth. Below 85%, deployment blocked.

47
GROUND-TRUTH FIELDS
6
DOC TYPES
85%
MIN THRESHOLD
CORPUS.EVALUATION.FULL · Correction → corpus feedback loop
PROVENANCE GUARANTEE
All intelligence events cryptographically logged and lender-verifiable.
SHA-256 · Immutable · Timestamped · Auditable
Built from real jobsite chaos. Engineered for lender scrutiny.
76 AUTONOMOUS INTELLIGENCE ENGINES
The AGS That Gets Smarter With Every Document
Every contract, invoice, change order, and pay app that enters BuildPaid feeds a self-bootstrapping intelligence corpus. No external data. No API subscriptions. Your documents become your competitive advantage.
ENGINE 01
BCAS Standard
Capital adequacy grading A through F. Six weighted dimensions. The first credit-rating methodology purpose-built for construction lending portfolios.
LIVE: /api/bcas
ENGINE 02
Capital Adequacy
Six-dimension portfolio assessment: concentration, blocked ratio, carry burden, governance coverage, compliance health, fundability floor.
LIVE: /api/capital-adequacy
ENGINE 03
Capital Readiness
Unified verdict per contract: FUNDABLE, CONDITIONAL, REVIEW, or BLOCKED. Five dimensions scored. Per-contract blockers identified. Portfolio readiness aggregated.
LIVE: /api/capital-readiness
ENGINE 04
Governance Simulator
Model hypothetical governance scenarios. Clear a gate, block a vendor, raise a threshold — see the capital impact before you act. No state modified.
LIVE: /api/governance-simulate
ENGINE 05
Quantum Governance
Non-commutative operator algebra. Entanglement detection. Path-integral carry. Stress-mode collapse. The mathematical substrate of the OS.
LIVE: /api/quantum-governance
ENGINE 06
Supplier Intelligence Rail
Every vendor scored A through F. Compliance posture, identity verification, BPI, payment eligibility, concentration risk, entanglement analysis.
LIVE: /api/supplier-intelligence
ENGINE 07
Demand Governance Rail
Controls when capital moves. Five-gate analysis: posture, fundability, fraud, compliance, gating. Path-integral carry per contract. Capital velocity.
LIVE: /api/demand-rail
ENGINE 08
Sample Governance Rail
Material verification. Substitution fraud detection. Trade-specific governance requirements. Mill certs, submittals, inspections tracked per vendor.
LIVE: /api/sample-rail
ENGINE 09
Ingestion Health
Document state machine with 9 deterministic states. Success rates, failure rates, latency, review queue, per-vendor coverage. No silent failures.
LIVE: /api/ingestion-health
ENGINE 10
Policy Arbitrator
Governance policy resolution with conflict detection, concurrent verdict ingestion, and capital cost propagation across multi-engine governance decisions.
LIVE: /api/policy-arbitrate
ENGINE 11
Capital Cost Engine
Daily carry quantification. Annual cost projection. Capital efficiency scoring. Governance gap to dollar impact conversion.
LIVE: /api/capital-adequacy
ENGINE 12
COI Intelligence
AI-powered Certificate of Insurance extraction. 35 fields per COI. Per-field confidence scoring. Expiration detection, limit validation, additional insured verification. Regex + Claude Haiku.
LIVE: /api/coi-extract
ENGINE 13
Drawing Intelligence
Governance-grade drawing extraction. 12-trade taxonomy with Davis-Bacon classification. Quantity, material, scope extraction. Cross-validates drawings against SOV, payroll, and change orders.
LIVE: /api/drawing-intelligence
ENGINE 14
Finish Schedule Intelligence
Material identity extraction from finish schedules. 12 material categories. Manufacturer + SKU detection. Auto-generates sample requests per sub/per trade. Payment gated on sample approval.
LIVE: /api/finish-schedule
ENGINE 15
Predictive Proposal
Pre-award governance. Unifies all 3 loops: labor reality, scope reality, material reality. Scores proposals against drawings, wages, suppliers, and compliance before the bid is submitted.
LIVE: /api/predictive-proposal
WHAT EACH ENGINE DOES — DETAILED
BCAS Standard — Portfolio-level adequacy grading A through F. 6 dimensions: concentration, blocked ratio, carry ratio, governance coverage, compliance clearance, fundability floor.
Capital Adequacy — Per-contract adequacy scoring. Concentration risk, deployment efficiency, systemic exposure (HHI), blocked capital ratio.
Capital Readiness — Unified verdict per contract: FUNDABLE, CONDITIONAL, REVIEW, or BLOCKED. Aggregates all rail states into one decision.
Governance Simulator — What-if engine. Model gate clearances, threshold changes, vendor blocks. See capital impact before acting. No state modified.
Quantum Governance — Stress testing across worst/best/path-integral scenarios. Entanglement analysis across correlated contracts.
COI Intelligence — 35-field extraction from insurance certificates. Expiration detection, limit validation, additional insured verification. AI primary, regex fallback.
Drawing Intelligence — 12-trade taxonomy. Davis-Bacon classification mapping. Quantity extraction. Cross-validation against SOV, payroll, change orders.
Finish Schedule Intelligence — Material identity extraction. 12 categories. Manufacturer + SKU detection. Auto-generates sample requests per sub/per trade.
Supplier Intelligence — 28 vendors scored A through F. Compliance posture, identity verification, payment eligibility, concentration risk.
Bid Scope Intelligence — Scope gap detection. Vendor coverage analysis. Trade-to-drawing alignment. Bid verdict scoring.
Predictive Proposal — Pre-award convergence engine. Unifies labor, cost, and material reality into one proposal readiness score.
Policy Arbitrator — Resolves conflicts between governance rails. Priority-based policy resolution with override audit trail.
Capital Physics Engine — Quantifies governance drag on capital. Exposure-weighted drag, at-risk and committed-not-released exposure, transparent pricing decision support.
Ingestion Health — Pipeline health monitoring. Document state machine. 5-stage carwash. Per-document confidence tracking.
Sample Rail — Material verification. Substitution fraud detection. Sample completeness per trade. Payment gated on sample approval.
THE AUTONOMOUS PIPELINE
One document. Zero clicks after. The AGS autonomously configures the entire project — vendors, compliance, payments, risk, fundability, and 4D schedule — in a single pipeline execution firing 25+ kernel events with provenance hashing.
CONTRACT.INGESTED TEXT_EXTRACTED AI_CLASSIFIED OBJECT_CREATED PROVENANCE.ANCHORED
QR.IDENTITY RAILS.ACTIVATED RISK.FLAGGED VENDOR.ONBOARDED PRICING.OBSERVED
LEAD_TIMES.PREDICTED RANKINGS.COMPUTED VOLATILITY.SCORED PROCUREMENT.SUGGESTED
COMPLIANCE.CALENDAR PAYMENT.ELIGIBILITY SOV.ANOMALIES FRAUD.SIGNALS
FUNDABILITY.SCORED PRAL.READY PROJECT.LIVE 4D.SCHEDULE.READY
GOVERNANCE HEARTBEAT DAILY @ 06:00 UTC
The AGS governs when nobody is logged in. A daily kernel heartbeat checks compliance deadlines, re-gates payments, recomputes fundability scores, decays stale supplier reliability, refreshes material volatility, scores vendor payment behavior, and captures risk evolution snapshots — automatically.
01 Compliance gate check
02 Payment re-gating
03 Fundability recompute
04 Supplier reliability decay
05 Volatility refresh
06 Payment behavior scoring
07 Risk evolution snapshot
ADAPTIVE INTELLIGENCE
BuildPaid detects stalled workflows, communication breakdowns, and high-urgency signals — ensuring vendors get support and lenders get early risk visibility.
STALLED WORKFLOW DETECTION URGENCY SIGNALS NON-RESPONSE ALERTS ADAPTIVE GUIDANCE
BEHAVIORAL RISK SIGNALS
The AGS continuously monitors vendor responsiveness, compliance timing, and communication patterns — surfacing behavioral risk before it becomes financial risk.
RESPONSIVE
NEEDS CLARITY
AT RISK
NON-RESPONSIVE
200+
ENGINES
140+
RDS TABLES
56,000+
KERNEL EVENTS
50+
API ENDPOINTS
90
PATENTS FILED
Compliance Infrastructure

Eleven Rails. Every Dollar Gated.

No payment moves without documented compliance. These aren't checklists someone clicks through — they're hard gates enforced by the kernel before any payment rail activates.
NOTARIZE
COI
LICENSE
SIGNATURE
CPRAL
SUPPLIER
📜
Notarization Rail
Remote online notarization with certificate anchoring. Documents verified before payment clears. Prevents forged docs and backdated approvals.
🛡️
COI Rail
Insurance certificates validated against coverage requirements. Expired COI blocks payment automatically. Blocks expired insurance before it becomes your liability.
📋
License Rail
Trade licenses verified against state authority. Scope and expiry enforced before any payment proceeds. Stops unlicensed work from hitting your books.
✍️
Signature Rail
8-state FSM. Kernel-enforced sequencing — position N can't exist until position N-1 is fully validated. SHA-256 chain linkage detects tampering at the exact break point. Cross-rail dependency gating: pay apps need CPRAL+COI+LICENSE clear, lien waivers need COI+NOTARIZATION clear. PRAL integration ties signature state directly to payment release. Replaces DocuSign with a governance layer.
🏛️
CPRAL — Certified Payroll Rail (Patent Pending)
Davis-Bacon wage verification automated. Worker identity, classifications, apprentice ratios, and fringe benefits enforced. A governance layer — not just a rail.
See full CPRAL deep dive →
📦
Supplier Rail (Patent Pending)
Full materials governance. PO matching with quantity and cost variance detection. Shortage governance. Substitution detection. Supplier scoring (A–F). Materials exposure ratio. Every variance cascades into BPI and payment velocity.
PO.MATCHED · VARIANCE.DETECTED · SUPPLIER.SCORED · EXPOSURE.CALCULATED
Intelligent Intake · Patent Pending
Smart Sub Onboarding
Drop a W-9, COI, or license into the ingestion surface. The kernel extracts entity data, infers trade classification, and evaluates PRAL eligibility before the sub finishes the form. Every field pre-filled. Every risk scored at intake.
INTAKE.DOCUMENT.CLASSIFIED · ENTITY.EXTRACTED · PRAL.ELIGIBILITY.SCORED
Line-Level PRAL
Every line on the Schedule of Values is evaluated against compliance rails independently. Line 3 passes, line 7 is blocked, line 12 needs a signature. Per-line reason codes. Per-line rail recommendations. Lenders see exactly which dollars are fundable.
SOV.LINE.EVALUATED · PRAL.LINE.DECISION · FUNDABILITY.LINE.SCORED
Compliance Automation · Patent Pending
Contract-to-Rail Activation
Drop any document into the CSN. The engine extracts construction physics — not keywords — and activates the correct rails automatically. "Davis-Bacon" activates CPRAL. "Lien waivers" activates Notarization. "10% retainage" configures the payment engine. Every invoice inherits the contract's compliance profile.
Patent Pending
Closed-Loop Cascade
Supplier delivery triggers CPRAL wage verification. CPRAL result triggers PRAL re-arbitration. All compliance rails fire as a single deterministic kernel sequence. No payment releases without verified materials AND verified labor AND arbitration clearance.
Patent Pending
Insurance Governance · Automatic Enforcement
COI expiration isn’t a reminder. It’s a compliance gate.
When insurance approaches expiration, the kernel doesn’t send an email. It fires a deterministic governance sequence: CPRAL evaluates the risk, PRAL adjusts payment eligibility, and the system auto-requests updated coverage — before anyone has to think about it.
30 DAYS OUT
WARN
Kernel emits INSURANCE.EXPIRING_SOON. Sub and GC notified. Auto-request sent to insurance broker on file.
14 DAYS OUT
BLOCK_SOON
PRAL downgrades BPI score. Payment eligibility flagged. Lender alerted. Draw requests involving this sub enter hold queue.
EXPIRATION DAY
BLOCK_NOW
Compliance gate closed. All draws blocked. RH-002 reason code enforced. No capital moves until valid COI is on file.
INSURANCE.EXPIRING_SOON
PRAL.BPI.DOWNGRADED
COMPLIANCE.COI.EXPIRED
COI.AUTO_REQUEST.SENT
Alexis: “Rivera Electrical’s GL policy expires in 14 days. I’ve already sent the renewal request to their broker. Draws involving this sub will hold at PRAL until updated coverage is on file. No action needed from you unless they don’t respond.”
Role-Aware Governance Alerts
Subs see: “Your insurance expires in 14 days. Payment eligibility will be blocked.”
GCs see: “Subcontractor X has insurance expiring. Draws involving this sub will hold.”
Lenders see: “1 contract approaching non-compliance. Provenance chain active.”
Auto-Request & Self-Healing
When CPRAL fires INSURANCE.EXPIRING_SOON, the AGS generates a pre-filled COI request and sends it to the sub’s broker on file. When updated coverage arrives, the compliance gate re-opens automatically. No human intervention. The system fixes itself.
Patent Pending
Per-Policy Independent Tracking
GL, WC, Auto, and Umbrella each have their own escalation clock. An expired auto policy doesn’t hide behind a valid GL. Every policy is evaluated independently — its own state, its own timeline, its own kernel events. The insurance rail state is the worst policy, not the average.
INSURANCE.POLICY.CLEARED · INSURANCE.POLICY.WARN · INSURANCE.POLICY.BLOCKED
Coverage Adequacy Evaluation
The contract says GL $2M/$4M. The COI says $1M/$2M. The kernel catches it. Every policy limit is compared against contract requirements. Deficiencies fire INSURANCE.POLICY.DEFICIENT and escalate the rail to BLOCK_SOON. Adequate coverage is confirmed per policy type with full provenance.
Patent Pending
Governed Contracts · Governance Virtual Machine · Patent Pending
Drop a contract into the CSN. The kernel compiles it into physics-constrained governance primitives — then 10 intelligence models update simultaneously.
The Governance Virtual Machine reads every clause in an AIA contract — payment terms, retainage, insurance, prevailing wage, change order thresholds, bonding, lien waivers, liquidated damages — and compiles them into executable bytecode. Every obligation becomes a kernel event. Every compliance requirement becomes a rail. The contract doesn’t describe governance. It is governance.
Complete Governance Scope: Every contract clause, amendment, change order, pay application, payment event, lien waiver, notice, insurance update, license verification, certified payroll, bond, safety event, supplier delivery, lifecycle transition, and provenance entry — governed by one virtual machine. Nothing exists outside the GVM.
COMPILER
Lex → Parse → AST → Bytecode
RUNTIME
Event queue → Reducer → Executor
ORCHESTRATION
Rail dependencies → Conflict resolution
LIFECYCLE
Compile → Activate → Execute → Seal
GVM.COMPILER.LEXED
GVM.COMPILER.BYTECODE_EMITTED
GVM.CONTRACT.EXECUTING
GVM.LIFECYCLE.SEALED
BuildPaid Governed Contract (BGC)
A standard AIA contract wrapped in BuildPaid’s governance engine. Three auto-generated documents: Governance Addendum, Risk Tier Schedule, and Rail Activation Schedule. The contract becomes adaptive — change orders trigger recompilation, and the governance layer updates automatically with versioned delta tracking.
Patent Pending
Risk Tier Governance
Every GC is assigned a governance tier based on BPI. The tier controls retainage, documentation strictness, escalation speed, and payment velocity. Tier 1 gets fast-track payouts. Tier 4 gets maximum governance with immediate holds. Tiers reassess monthly — improvements take effect next cycle, downgrades take effect immediately.
THE GOVERNANCE ARCHITECTURE
Materials. Labor. Money.
One Kernel. One Provenance Chain.
The first operating system that governs every dollar from material delivery through certified payroll to payment release — deterministic, auditable, lender-grade.
DOMAIN 1 · MATERIALS
📦 Supplier Rail
Supplier Rail Arbitration Layer · Patent Pending
Full materials governance — not just delivery tracking. PO matching with quantity variance detection. Shortage governance (WARN at 5%, BLOCK at 15%). Material substitution detection. Cost variance monitoring. Supplier Performance Scoring (A–F grades). Materials Exposure Score (like credit utilization for materials). Variance-to-fundability propagation. Every variance cascades into BPI, PRAL, and payment velocity.
A–F
Supplier Scoring
18%
Materials Exposure
PO Match · Shortage · Substitution · Variance · Scoring · Exposure · Fundability
DOMAIN 2 · LABOR
🏛️ CPRAL
Certified Payroll Rail Arbitration Layer · Patent Pending
CPRAL proves the labor behind the money.
Before money moves, CPRAL verifies Davis-Bacon wage compliance, worker classifications, and apprentice ratios. Certified payroll anchored to the provenance chain. The guarantee lenders have never had.
12
Trade Classes
WH-347
Auto-Generated
CPRAL_REQUIRED · CPRAL_VERIFY · CPRAL_CLASSIFY · CPRAL_SUBMIT
DOMAIN 3 · MONEY
⚡ PRAL
Payment Rail Arbitration Layer
Every payment decision arbitrated. PRAL reads the contract, verifies the work, checks compliance, and selects the fastest qualifying rail. 75 days → 10. Deterministic.
6
Payment Rails
10d
vs 75d Industry
▸ RTP · FedNow · ACH · Wire · Card · Blockchain
How CPRAL Protects Lenders
Lenders don't lose money because ACH is slow. They lose money because labor wasn't compliant, certified payroll was wrong, workers were misclassified, and Davis-Bacon exposure hit after the fact. CPRAL eliminates these risks before capital moves.
Four deterministic operators govern every labor event: CPRAL_REQUIRED checks if verification is mandatory. CPRAL_VERIFY validates every worker against Davis-Bacon rates. CPRAL_CLASSIFY auto-classifies labor by trade. CPRAL_SUBMIT anchors certified payroll to the provenance chain.
The Compliance Primitive
CPRAL isn't a feature. It's a new compliance primitive — the labor counterpart to PRAL.
PRAL governs money.
CPRAL governs labor.
The kernel governs the system.
No GC system does this. No payroll system does this. No lender platform does this. Only CPRAL.
THE GOVERNED PAYMENT LIFECYCLE
SUPPLIER VERIFIED DELIVERY CONFIRMED COMPLIANCE CLEARED PAYMENT AUTHORIZED FUNDS RELEASED
MATERIALS → LABOR → MONEY · ONE KERNEL · ONE PROVENANCE CHAIN
INDUSTRY STANDARD
BUILDPAID
75 days — negotiate, chase, wait, dispute, reconcile
10d
86% compression · PRAL-governed · deterministic
KERNEL ACTIVE
9 COMPLIANCE RAILS
Supplier Rail ACTIVE
⚓ PROVENANCE · d474719e… · SHA-256
THE FIRST PAYMENT GOVERNANCE OS
📦
Materials
Governed
🏛️
Labor
Governed
Money
Governed
Provenance
Anchored
All sequenced. All verified. All arbitrated. All anchored.
This is not software. This is infrastructure.
KERNEL ARBITRATION SEQUENCE · v8.0.0 · 90 PATENTS · 1,703+ CLAIMS · USPTO 2026
86%
Payment Compression
$0
Dispute Drift
100%
Lender Auditability
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For Lenders

A credit-decision engine.
Not a ledger.

BuildPaid gives lenders the first governed, predictive, kernel-verified lender console in construction finance. Every metric is derived from kernel events. Every decision is cryptographically anchored. Every block has a reason code.

Fundability Engine · Patent Pending
FUNDABLE · CONDITIONAL · BLOCKED
One bar at the top of the dashboard. Computed in real-time from 7 kernel signals: compliance rail states, PRAL arbitration decisions, provenance chain integrity, CPRAL wage verification, weather conflict data, change order margin analysis, and subcontractor verification status. When it's blocked, the diagnostic reasons tell you exactly which invoice, which sub, and which failure is the cause.
7 input signals
Diagnostic reasons per block
Kernel-enforced, not opinion-based
What BuildPaid replaces in your underwriting
Lender TaskBeforeBuildPaid
Draw reviewManual, email-based, 45-90 daysFundability engine — kernel-verified, real-time
CompliancePDF emails, trust-based11 governance rails — hard-gated per invoice
Certified payrollManual WH-347 reviewCPRAL — auto-verified per worker, per rate
Risk assessmentSubjective, experience-basedBPI 6-dimension score + Exposure at Risk
Audit trailNone / spreadsheetsCryptographic hash chain — court-admissible, forensic export
Fraud detectionPost-facto manual auditPRAL arbitration + AI governance + provenance in real-time
Lender & Platform Resources
THE LAYER THAT DOESN'T EXIST YET
Lender tools move money faster.
BuildPaid proves the money should move.
Every construction lending platform manages draws, tracks documents, and generates reports. None of them can answer the question that matters: is the labor behind this draw actually compliant, and can you prove it cryptographically?
EXISTING TOOLS
× Classify documents by filename
× Extract data with general-purpose NLP
× Approve draws based on workflow checklists
× Track compliance status in dashboards
× Generate reports on request
× No behavioral intelligence
BUILDPAID OS
Classify by construction physics, not filenames
Extract with physics-constrained CSN grammar
Approve draws backed by verified labor & physics
Enforce compliance deterministically via kernel
Provenance-hash every governance decision
Detect behavioral manipulation in documents
90
Patent Applications
1,703+
Patent Claims
10
Intelligence Models
8s
Document → Governance
WHAT BUILDPAID PROVES THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN
Labor is compliant. CPRAL verifies every worker's classification, wage rate, and fringe against Davis-Bacon determinations before a draw advances. Not after.
Quantities are real. The CSN extracts physical quantities with standardized units and reconciles them across proposals, change orders, and pay apps as a physics constraint.
Behavior is visible. Six-dimensional behavioral scoring detects urgency, aggression, defensiveness, and avoidance patterns across documents — building longitudinal risk profiles per party.
Everything is provable. Every governance decision — every classification, every route, every cascade update — is SHA-256 hashed into an immutable provenance chain that any third party can verify independently.
BuildPaid is not competing with construction software.
It is the governance infrastructure that construction software runs on.
SEE IT LIVE
Open Lender Dashboard → Lender Landing Page → Open Full OS →
90 patent applications filed (Patent Pending) · 1,703+ claims · sean@buildpaid.ai
INFRASTRUCTURE LEVERS · PATENT PENDING

Governance Cloud.
Programmable. Embeddable. Inevitable.

Stripe made payments programmable. AWS made infrastructure programmable. BuildPaid makes governance programmable. Six architectural levers that turn the OS into the industry standard.

LEVER 1
Governance OS SDK
13 embeddable methods. Lenders embed scoring. GCs embed compliance. Vendors embed provenance. Every response HMAC-SHA256 signed, kernel-event generating, self-documenting.
score.compliance score.fundability provenance.chain
API: /api/sdk →
LEVER 2
Kernel Transparency
Read-only lender-safe view of heartbeat cycles, mesh maturity (scored A-F), provenance integrity, enforcement queue, and world activation state. The Stripe Dashboard for Governance.
A
MESH GRADE
87%
HASH COV
API: /api/kernel-transparency →
LEVER 3
Contract Marketplace
The App Store of governance. Lenders, GCs, insurers, and regulators publish governance contracts as JSON schemas. Each defines required documents, rails, events, and capital rules. Anyone can publish. Anyone can adopt.
GC_STANDARD LENDER_AUDIT DAVIS_BACON
API: /api/governance-marketplace →
LEVER 4
Vendor Credit Score
The first governance-native credit score. 6 dimensions derived from kernel mesh data: provenance depth, event density, compliance velocity, cross-project reliability, document health, governance engagement. No financial history required.
A-F grading portfolio view
API: /api/vendor-credit-score →
LEVER 5
Capital Routing aaS
The AWS S3 of capital flow. 6 payment rails (RTP, FedNow, ACH Same-Day, ACH, Wire, Check) scored by amount, urgency, compliance, and risk. Simulate before committing. Every route provenance-hashed.
simulate route status
API: /api/capital-routing →
LEVER 6
Governance Contracts
The AWS IAM of governance. JSON schemas define required documents, rails, events, and capital rules per contract type. Validate any entity against any template. COMPLIANT, CONDITIONAL, or NON_COMPLIANT verdict with per-dimension breakdown.
GC_STANDARD SUB_STANDARD LENDER_AUDIT
API: /api/governance-contracts →
DOCUMENT INTELLIGENCE · ENGINE 56

Stop uploading PDFs.
Paste the link. We'll handle it from here.

A COI PDF is a snapshot of the past. A link to your insurer's verification portal is a live signal. BuildPaid monitors the source of truth — not the photocopy. The moment a policy lapses, the kernel knows before anyone else.

Link Intelligence
Instead of uploading documents, entities provide verification URLs. BuildPaid crawls the source, extracts compliance data, and monitors it continuously. Re-verified every 24 hours. No manual renewal. No expired documents in the system — ever.
Insurance verification — Carrier portal confirms active policy, coverage, expiry
License lookup — State licensing board confirms trade license status
SAM.gov — Federal registration + exclusion check from source
DOL wage determination — Prevailing wage rates for CPRAL verification
Bond verification — Surety portal confirms bond is active
Compliance Autopilot
BuildPaid already knows your trade, state, and project type. It knows what you need before you do. Public databases are checked automatically — no URL required. Private verification links are requested once during onboarding, then monitored forever.
Auto-generated lookups — BuildPaid builds the DOB, SAM.gov, and DOL URLs from your EIN and trade
Smart requests — Only asks for links BuildPaid can't generate itself (insurance carrier portals)
Continuous monitoring — Re-crawls every 24 hours. PRAL holds the draw before the lapse hits
Zero paperwork — Subs never upload a document that BuildPaid can verify at the source
When documents are necessary — no limits.
200-page contracts, specification books, thick submittals — processed through chunked ingestion with AI-powered field extraction. Simple documents (W-9, lien waiver, invoice) use instant regex extraction. Complex documents (contracts, pay applications, certified payroll) use Claude AI for intelligent field extraction. 13 document types classified and routed to governance rails automatically.
GOVERNANCE PRICING

You pay for governance.
Not AI. Not features. Governance.

Every compliance check, every Alexis interaction, every document classification, every behavioral assessment is a governance operation. Your subscription includes a monthly allocation. Scale as you grow.

PATENT FILED — 90 patent APPLICATIONS
The Self-Repaying
Construction Loan
The first credit instrument whose repayment is governed by an operating system. Better governance earns principal credits, rate discounts, and accelerated timelines. Your borrowers pay less. Your losses drop.
ENGINE 1
Gov Credits
Principal reduction
ENGINE 2
Rate Discount
Interest reduction
ENGINE 3
Retainage
Escrow credit
ENGINE 4
Acceleration
Timeline compression
ENGINE 5
Amortization
Governed schedule
$2.77M
Expected Loss Savings
25.6%
Self-Repaying Percentage
$6.97M
Basel III Capital Relief
Founding Partner Program
First 3 lenders get 90 days free.* Full OS access. Real projects. Real verdicts. If it doesn't prove value, walk away.
*Satellite thermal verification is a paid third-party service. Not included in free trial.
APPLY NOW →
STARTER
$2,500/mo
For GCs and subcontractors
25,000 governance operations/mo
25 governed entities
Unlimited projects
Compliance verification
Behavioral assessment
Provenance chain
Alexis AI governance
Document intelligence
Overage: $0.10/operation
RECOMMENDED
GROWTH
$7,500/mo
For GCs managing multiple projects
5,000 governance operations/mo
Unlimited entities
Unlimited projects
Compliance verification
Behavioral assessment
Provenance chain
Alexis AI governance
Document intelligence
Overage: $0.10/operation
ENTERPRISE
$25,000/mo
For lenders and portfolio governance
Unlimited governance operations
Unlimited entities
Unlimited projects
All compliance rails
Full behavioral governance
Cross-domain arbitration
Alexis AI governance
Audit export + verification
CONTACT US
What counts as a governance operation?
1 OPERATION
Compliance verification · CPRAL check · BPI evaluation · BAGE behavioral scan · Rail gate check
2 OPERATIONS
Alexis governance communication · Audit export · Provenance verification
3 OPERATIONS
Document classification · AI extraction · Contract parsing · COI intelligence
Lender Pilot Program
90-day free pilot. Full access to all governance operations, Alexis, document intelligence, and audit verification. No commitment. See what deterministic governance looks like on your portfolio.
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Kernel-Governed External Signaling

Event Surfaces.
Not notifications.

Every external communication BuildPaid emits is a governed state transition — cryptographically anchored, role-aware, and lender-verifiable. You're not reading alerts. You're reading the provenance chain.

📱
SMS SURFACE
Instant state delivery
When a draw hits FUNDABLE, the sub knows in seconds — not days. The SMS is kernel-anchored: it contains the invoice ID, compliance status, and expected payout timeline.
"BuildPaid AGS: INV-2026-0047 — Rivera Electrical — $84,250. Draw FUNDABLE. Compliance rails cleared. Payout initiates on GC approval."
FINANCE.FUNDABLE.SMS_DISPATCHED · FINANCE.APPROVED.SMS_DISPATCHED · FINANCE.SETTLED.SMS_DISPATCHED
📧
EMAIL SURFACE
Role-aware governance artifacts
The same kernel event generates three different emails — one for the lender (rail states, BPI, provenance hash), one for the GC (action required), one for the sub (payment status). Content from kernel state, not templates.
Lender: "FUNDABLE — INV-2026-0047 — $84,250 — Rails: CPRAL ✓ COI ✓ License ✓"
GC: "Action Required — Draw ready for approval"
Sub: "Your draw is FUNDABLE — $84,250"
🔗
WEBHOOK SURFACE
Lender-mirrored provenance
HMAC-SHA256 signed payloads containing the invoice, all rail states, CPRAL verification, BPI score, governing contract hash, and kernel event chain. Lenders mirror this into their own systems.
payload.governance.rail_states
payload.governance.cpral_status
payload.governance.bpi_score
payload.governance.contract_hash
payload.provenance.hash
signature: HMAC-SHA256
⚖️
GC ACCOUNTABILITY SURFACE
The neutral referee
The kernel detects GC inaction on FUNDABLE draws. Warning at 3 days. Escalation at 7 days. The AGS becomes the referee between lender, GC, and sub — no bias, just state.
FINANCE.FUNDABLE.GC_ACTION_REQUIRED · 3 days
FINANCE.FUNDABLE.GC_STALE · 7 days · Escalation
PROVENANCE-ANCHORED
Every dispatch is a kernel event. SHA-256 hashed. Immutable. Lender-verifiable. Court-admissible.
HMAC-SHA256 SIGNED 50+ API ENDPOINTS 56,000+ KERNEL EVENTS CHAIN-VERIFIED
G702 PAY APPLICATION ENGINE · AIA SPEC
Every G702 field computed from kernel state.
Lines 1-9 of the AIA G702 Application for Payment are computed from governed contract data, G703 SOV line items, change order history, and retainage terms. Every field carries a provenance hash. Six compliance rails must clear before Line 8 (Current Payment Due) advances to FUNDABLE.
$355,102
CURRENT PAYMENT DUE
$39,200
RETAINAGE HELD
10
G703 SOV LINES
6
RAILS REQUIRED
AIA G702 · PAYMENT APPLICATION ENGINE Kernel-Computed Payment Application Every line governed · Every total verified · Every decision provenance-anchored AIA DOCUMENT G702™ — 1992 PATENT PENDING LINE 1 Original Contract Sum $1,150,000 LINE 2 Net Change by Change Orders +$47,500 LINE 3 Contract Sum to Date $1,197,500 LINE 4 Total Completed + Stored (G703) $345,000 LINE 5 Retainage (10%) -$34,500 LINE 6 Total Earned Less Retainage $310,500 LINE 7 Less Previous Certificates $230,000 LINE 8 CURRENT PAYMENT DUE $80,500 LINE 9 Balance to Finish + Retainage $855,102 ⚖ PRAL: FUNDABLE · RC-001 · Confidence 94% AUTOMATION PIPELINE G703 Schedule of Values SOV lines auto-ingested from governed contract Kernel G702 Compute Lines 1-9 calculated deterministically 6-Rail Compliance Verification COI · License · CPRAL · Signature · Waiver · Notary PRAL Arbitration Decision RC-001 RELEASE · $80,500 → FUNDABLE ⚓ PROVENANCE.ANCHORED · sha256:f67ac5b5... · IMMUTABLE BuildPaid AGS · Patent Pending · 81 Applications · 1,703+ Claims
G702.COMPUTE.SUCCESS G703.SOV.LOADED PRAL.ARBITRATION.REQUIRED BPI.FINANCIAL.UPDATED
Kernel Events That Trigger Surfaces
SMART CONTRACT QR INGESTION RAIL · PATENT PENDING · APP 23
One scan. Full governance.
A BuildPaid QR code on page one of any AIA contract activates the entire governance lifecycle in one scan. No parsing. No extraction. No manual configuration. The kernel hydrates directly from the QR payload — parties, SOV, retainage, compliance obligations, and arbitration clauses — bypassing the GVM compiler entirely. Different parties scanning the same QR trigger different kernel events with role-specific permissions.
QR INGESTION RAIL · ONE SCAN · FULL GOVERNANCE · PATENT PENDING SCAN Unique per session 📥 INGEST QR.SCANNED QR.VALIDATED 🔐 VERIFY HASH_MATCHED VERSION_OK HYDRATE OBJECT_HYDRATED GVM.ACTIVATED 🛡 GOVERN GOVERNANCE.ACTIVATED 6 PAYMENT GATES ENGAGED PROVENANCE.ANCHORED COMPLIANCE RAIL ACTIVATION SEQUENCE COI Rail ACTIVE ✓ License ACTIVE ✓ CPRAL PENDING Signature PENDING Waiver IDLE Notary IDLE KERNEL EVENT FEED [11:08:12.001] QR.SCANNED [11:08:12.081] QR.HASH_MATCHED [11:08:12.220] OBJECT_HYDRATED [11:08:12.350] GOVERNANCE.ACTIVATED [11:08:12.420] RAILS.COI.ACTIVE [11:08:12.700] ⚓ PROVENANCE.ANCHORED sha256:d77400ae439a... · chain_length:3 · integrity:VERIFIED · All events immutable and lender-verifiable BuildPaid AGS · QR Ingestion Rail · Patent App 23 · One Scan. Full Governance.
3
PAYLOAD FORMATS
10
INFERENCE RULES
6
PARTY ROLES
6
SOV CHECKS
CONTRACT.QR.INGESTED RAIL.INFERENCE.EXECUTED GVM.HYDRATE.FROM_QR MULTI_PARTY.ACTIVATED
FINANCE.FUNDABLE.*
SMS + Email + Webhook when draw becomes fundable
FINANCE.SETTLED.*
Confirmation across all surfaces when money moves
COMPLIANCE.FAILED.RAIL_BLOCKED
Webhook to lender when a rail blocks payment
COMPLIANCE.FIX_APPLIED.INTELLIGENT_FIX
Webhook when GVM auto-corrects a deviation
FINANCE.FUNDABLE.GC_STALE
GC accountability escalation after 7 days
WAIVER.MISSING_AT_FUNDABLE
Webhook + dashboard when lien waiver is missing
See it live.
The Event Surfaces tab in the AGS demo shows every dispatch in real time.
90 patent applications filed (Patent Pending) · 1,703+ claims · USPTO 2026
UNIVERSAL INGESTION

Everything Enters Here.
The AGS Handles the Rest.

One governed entry point. Not five upload screens. Not separate flows for each document type. One gravitational surface where every contract, every credential, every document enters the kernel through the same pipeline.

📄
FILE DROP
W-9, COI, License, Contract, Pay App, Change Order, Invoice, Lien Waiver, Bond, Permit. Drop it. The AGS classifies it.
📋
TEXT PASTE
Invoice text, email content, scope descriptions. Paste it. Same pipeline: classify, extract, route, govern.
📜
CONTRACT
Paste a contract. Claude reads it. 17 clause types extracted. Exceptions detected. The AGS configures itself. No templates. No forms.
QR & MAGIC LINK
Identity triggers. Not ingestion points. QR establishes who you are. Magic link establishes your role. Then the ingestion surface opens with your context.
FIVE-STAGE KERNEL PIPELINE
1
RECEIVE
Any modality
2
CLASSIFY
Intent detect
3
EXTRACT
Fields + rules
4
ROUTE
Rail + gate
5
GOVERN
Kernel event
Every modality. Same pipeline. Same provenance. Same audit trail. One kernel. Patent Pending (App 35).
ALEXIS
BuildPaid AGS · Kernel AI
Kernel-connected · Ask me anything
ALEXISPRAL moves subcontractor payments from 75 days to 10. I'm kernel-connected — ask me anything about payments, compliance, or the AGS.
Not scripted · Kernel-connected · Voice-enabled