For project developers · October 2026

Dundir

What one project learns, the next should know.

Dundir is designing a supplier record and a bid comparison built from your own projects. Both are in development with design partners; nothing in this deck runs at a client yet.

The cost structure

Most of the budget is bought in.

Materials can be up to seventy percent of a project. A slightly wrong assumption at the order stage, repeated over a few projects a year, is margin.

Materials up to 70% of total project cost. Donyavi et al. 2024, in Hamppi 2025, p. 8 [EVID-001]

The design Stage: design

A supplier record that stays.

Each finished order is meant to add a line: on time or not, to specification or not, which certificates, which deviations.

The next project starts from that record instead of from the same three numbers in a phone.

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Suppliers on four criteria, certificates with their expirydesign

Procurement decisions Stage: research and design

Compared, not remembered.

A language model writes an answer. An optimisation engine works one out.

Hard requirements are fixed first: certification, delivery date, budget ceiling, CO₂ limit. Price and reliability are weighed inside them, by weights you set. Same input, same answer, and the reasons written down at award.

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Five bids, put on one line each, then solvedsolver: research and design

Where we stand

Stage, not product.

Module Stage
Procurement solver research and design
Smart gate lab prototype
Supplier record and contract memory design

What we have not proven yet. That the solver buys better than an experienced buyer. The literature supports the problem and the local design; the rest has to come from pilot data, and we do not have it yet.

What we are asking for

A pilot on recent projects.

  • Closed purchases. From one or two recent projects, with the quotations you received.
  • Your project managers. A few hours of feedback on what the comparison shows.
  • A decision after ten weeks. Same protocol as for contractors: no hardware, no ERP.

Dundir

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Sources

Hamppi, Joni. 2025. “Integrating AI into Procurement Processes in Construction.” Master’s thesis, Aalto University, School of Engineering. https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/0abb3c95-dd08-4913-b563-6d34b21a6f44.