Software platform Procore and Bespoke Metrics announced on October 15 that the latter’s artificial intelligence platform Compass will be the default provider of subcontractor prequalification services through its construction management platform.
Compass has been available on Procore’s platform for over two years, but the new partnership will make it the vendor of choice. Procore will use the Compass model-context-protocol connection to enable its general contractor customers to receive a Compass Q-score and prequalification results, but not the underlying financial data, from the Compass platform.
Subcontractors’ financial data will still reside only on Compass’ servers.
Model-context-protocol is an open source standard introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 which was later donated to the Agentic AI Foundation operated by the Linux Foundation. It allows agent AI applications to connect to external data sources such as credit information and Compass workflows, including those in Procore’s construction management platform.
“Clearly, the compass will not [large language model] that you will use for all your AI needs,” says Michael Ho, CEO of Bespoke Metrics, owner of Compass. “If we can capture the risk AI component and then serve the risk outputs to Procore…that seems like a perfect integration for us. So the risk manager would use us and our AI [that] would offer intelligence without crossing over in terms of sensitive data.”
As part of the partnership, Procore is launching Prequal for All, offering Compass prequalification to all of its general contractor and subcontractor customers. Compass analyzes a subcontractor’s financial, safety, insurance and operational information to generate a Q, or rating, score and store a rating profile that is updated in its database. Prequal scores and results are the only things shared through Prequal for All on the Procore platform.
“Prequalification is a critical risk management function that requires purpose-built tools and a data-rich platform,” Geoff Lewis, Procore’s senior vice president of product, said in a statement. “By deepening our partnership with Bespoke Metrics and integrating ourselves even further [its] information directly on Procore’s AI-powered platform, we are able to replace passive and static forms with modern, active risk intelligence.”
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Ho said that as someone who came to construction technology through the credit and banking industry, the industry’s approach to grading was always difficult to justify.
“I came from a credit background, from a rating agency, and so every industry does this counterparty assessment, the pre-qualification.” said, “It didn’t make sense to me that you would go into a professional relationship and not do that. My metaphor is always before you get married, you have to have that discussion.”
