Dundir

For project developers

2026-07-23

Your project managers are calling the same three suppliers they’ve always used.

Because those are the numbers in their phone - not because they’re the best option.

When the project finishes, whatever they learned doesn’t go anywhere. The next project starts from zero.

Audience: development director or CFO at a residential or commercial real estate developer. The hook is about lost institutional memory, not a manufactured pain statistic - this segment doesn’t have a dedicated procurement function to begin with.

What we do

• A simple AI procurement tool that works with your existing project data
• Does what a dedicated procurement team would do: surface qualified alternatives, benchmark prices, track supplier reliability across your whole portfolio

This segment doesn’t have (and doesn’t want) a full procurement department - keep the framing lightweight, not enterprise.

How it works

• Enter a material specification - what you need, what standards it has to meet, when you need it
• The tool searches your supplier history and a broader qualified supplier database
• Returns a ranked list with prices, certifications, and delivery track records, and flags anything that looks risky
• Your project managers decide faster; you keep a record; next project, that record is part of the baseline

“Next project, that record is part of the baseline” is the compounding-value argument for this segment - each project makes the next one faster.

Are you sure

• Materials can be as much as 70% of your total project cost (Hamppi, Joni 2025)
• Price volatility, wrong specifications, and unreliable suppliers all cost you money at the order stage

None of this requires a procurement disaster to cost you money. It just requires a slightly wrong assumption at the order stage, multiplied across a few projects a year. That’s your margin.

Note (2026-07-23): the 70% materials-cost figure replaces an earlier unsourced “40-55%” range - this one traces to a real academic source (Hamppi’s Aalto thesis, citing Donyavi et al. 2024). Cite it if asked.

Can you do it

• A lighter hosted tier for this segment - no infrastructure of your own, no ERP, no procurement department required
• Designed for exactly the team size you have
• If you’re already a customer of one of our construction-company clients, there’s a warm referral route that gets you set up in weeks

The ask: a lightweight pilot on your current portfolio - no infrastructure investment, set up in weeks, not months.

Close on the low-friction entry point - this segment’s biggest objection is complexity/cost of adoption, so lead with how little is required of them.

References

Hamppi, Joni. 2025. “Integrating AI into Procurement Processes in Construction.” Aalto University.