Cosan connects construction and trades businesses with vetted AI operators (embedded professionals already building AI tools inside companies like yours) as independent contractors.
"The best AI talent isn't on Upwork. They're solving problems inside companies that look exactly like yours."
Construction and trades SMBs know AI could transform how they estimate, manage projects, and run operations. But they can't find the right people to make it real.
There's an emerging class of professionals (PMs, estimators, finance leads) who are building genuine AI tools inside their companies. Their skills are real. Their options to monetise them aren't.
We run a discovery session to define your AI transformation goals and identify the exact background, skills, and experience your AI operator needs. We then run a tailored search against our vetted network.
Every operator comes with a portfolio, professional context, and our recommendation. You review profiles, shortlist your favourites, and we set up project briefing interviews. No cold searching required.
Engage your operator directly as an independent contractor using our ready-made agreement templates. We hand you a custom onboarding plan to make sure the engagement starts right, for both parties.
Our operators are active professionals: not consultants, not content creators. Every profile below represents a real engagement type in our network. Identities are kept confidential until a mutual fit is confirmed.
Built an end-to-end workflow that ingests PDF drawings, extracts quantities using a custom GPT, and auto-populates bid sheets, reducing estimating time per tender from 14 hours to under 4. Now processing 30+ bids per month through the system.
Designed and deployed an n8n workflow that monitors incoming RFIs from Procore, classifies urgency and trade using AI, and automatically routes to the correct subcontractor with a drafted response for PM review, eliminating manual triage entirely on a $22M ICI project.
Built an OCR-based invoice intake system that extracts vendor, amount, and cost code data from PDF invoices, auto-matches to job records in Airtable, and flags anomalies for review. Replaced a 3-person manual AP process and gave operations real-time job cost visibility for the first time.
Developed a RAG-based system that ingests subcontractor submissions, insurance certificates, and past performance records, then answers procurement team queries in plain language. Reduced prequalification review time from days to hours and surfaced risk flags that manual review consistently missed.
Cosan is currently onboarding a select group of construction and trades businesses in its founding cohort. Tell us about your company and we'll be in touch within 48 hours.