About Preckon

Rebuilding the front of construction.

The numbers a project is won or lost on are still produced by hand, slowly, and locked in a few people's heads. We're changing that — making preconstruction fast, defensible, and open to everyone who prices the work.

Mission

Turn documents into decisions.

Give every contractor and quantity surveyor a way to go from a raw tender package to a costed, defensible estimate in hours — with the reasoning shown and a person in control at every step.

Vision

Preconstruction, no longer the bottleneck.

A world where bid throughput isn't limited by how many senior estimators you can hire, where no number is a black box, and where the knowledge to price a project isn't trapped in one person's spreadsheets.

Why we built it

Estimating is the hardest, slowest, least-shared part of the job.

Before a shovel touches the ground, someone has to read the drawings, measure everything, decide what it's made of, price it, and package it for buyout. It's the work that decides whether a bid wins and whether a project makes money — and it's still done largely by hand, in spreadsheets, under a clock.

The most consequential numbers in construction are produced the slowest, by the fewest people, with the least ability to audit them.

Takeoff tools measure. Estimating tools price, manually. Project platforms manage what already exists. Nobody carried the whole thing — from raw documents to a procurement package — in one place, with the reasoning attached. So we built Preckon to do exactly that: read the documents, generate the chain, and keep the estimator's judgment at the center of it.

Who's building it

Built by people close to the work.

"Preconstruction shouldn't take longer than the bid window, and no number should be a mystery. We're building the platform I wish estimating teams already had — fast, traceable, and still under human control."

Mahesh Mukkara
Founder & President · TechSME Inc. · Mississauga, ON

Preckon is developed with practicing estimators and quantity surveyors — the people who feel the takeoff-and-estimate crunch every bid — so it fits how the work is really done.

How we build

Four principles under the hood.

AI-native

Built around AI from the first line — not a chatbot bolted onto a document viewer.

Provider-independent

No single AI vendor to lock us — or your data — in. We route to the right model for each task.

Explainable & reviewed

Every output traces to its source and passes through a human. Nothing auto-commits.

Grounded in construction

A real construction knowledge graph, so the platform reasons about buildings — not generic text.

Roadmap

Where we are, and where we're headed.

Directional, not a promise of dates — but this is the shape of it.

● Now
  • Core document-to-estimate chain live
  • Design Partner Program open
  • Running real bids with first partners
◇ On the horizon
  • Broader public availability
  • Enterprise deployment options
  • SOC 2 completion
Company
TechSME Inc.
Headquarters
Mississauga, ON
Focus
AI-native preconstruction
Stage
Design partners open
Design Partner Program · now open

Build it with us.

We're onboarding a small group of contractors and QS consultancies to run real projects through Preckon — with direct access to the team and terms that reflect building it together.

  • Run live bids through the full chain
  • Shape the roadmap and priorities
  • Founder-level support and onboarding
  • Preferred early terms, locked in

Come build the front of construction with us.

Whether you want a demo or a design-partner conversation, we'd like to talk.

Get in touch