Datum — The Construction AI Platform, by HingePoint

The answer is already in your documents.
Datum finds it.

Every project buries its truth in thousands of RFIs, submittals, drawings, and bids. Datum reads all of it, understands it the way your team does, and answers any question with the source attached.

The name

Named for the one tool that always finds true.

A plumb bob is the oldest precision instrument on a site — a weight on a line that uses gravity to find true vertical, and the fixed point everything else is measured from.

That is the platform in a single image. Datum takes the noise of thousands of documents and resolves it to one true point: the answer. Fittingly, to plumb something also means to get to the bottom of it — to fathom its depth.

And the name does the same work as the mark. In construction, a datum is the fixed reference every other measurement is taken from — the surveyor’s anchor, the drawing’s elevation zero. In Latin, it is literally a unit of data: the singular of data. The platform sits where those two meet — the fixed point your projects are measured from, made of every record it has ever absorbed. It pairs with HingePoint by design: two precision-instrument names, one deliberate family.

Capabilities

One platform. Every answer your projects hold.

Start with questions, grow into the work. Each capability runs on the same understanding of your documents — so it only gets sharper as more of your record lives in Datum.

Ask anything

Plain-language answers across every project document, each with its source one click away. No guessing, no hunting through folders.

RFI drafting

Draft RFIs grounded in the actual record — the relevant drawings, specs, and prior correspondence pulled in automatically.

Submittal compliance

Check submittals against the spec section by section, and flag what doesn’t conform before it costs you a cycle.

Bid intelligence

Surface risk, precedent, and scope gaps across current and past bids so nothing slips through on a number.

Proactive intelligence

Datum flags what needs attention — conflicts, missing approvals, exposure — before anyone thinks to ask.

Due diligence

Stand up a deal room and answer questions across the entire document set in minutes, not weeks.

How it works

From folder sprawl to a single source of truth.

Connect

Point Datum at your SharePoint and project systems. It ingests every document — RFIs, submittals, drawings, emails, bids — and keeps in sync.

Understand

Datum classifies and structures everything by trade and document type, turning a folder sprawl into a queryable, trade-aware corpus.

Ask

Ask in plain language. Datum retrieves and reasons over the real record, not a generic model’s best guess.

Answer

You get the answer with the source attached — traceable, defensible, and fast.

The platform

Not a chatbot bolted on. A platform you build on.

The defensible value isn’t any single agent — it’s the platform underneath. The more of your history Datum holds, the more it knows, and the harder it becomes to work without it.

An agent

Answers one question

A clever tool that responds, then forgets. Easy to copy, and it never compounds.

A platform

Remembers every project

Your documents become a structured, trade-aware source of truth that every capability draws on — and that grows more valuable with each project it ingests.

The answer is already in your documents.Datum finds it.