Civil engineer. Software builder. Bay Area.

I build automation and full-stack tools for the construction and civil firms I used to work for.

Background

4+ years on jobsites and in CAD — Nibbi Bros, Westland Group, BKF Engineers — before I shipped my first production app. Now I build the tools I wish I'd had.

Currently

Available Q2 2026. Best fit: mid-size GCs and civil firms whose PMs lose hours each week to RFIs, submittals, and daily reports.

Book a workflow audit → See work ↗
01/04 Selected work

A live tool, and a restaurant in flight.

Both solve problems I ran into firsthand.

W—01 Solo build · 2026 Full-stack · AI vision Live demo

RedlineIQ

Upload a redlined PDF. The system reads every annotation and returns a structured drafter checklist — classified, cross-referenced to sheets, and confidence-scored.

RedlineIQ — extracted redline checklist from a marked-up PDF
Problem

Drafters lose hours each day decoding PM redlines before they touch Civil 3D. I did this job for two years.

Approach

Claude Vision parses the markup; a Node service classifies items, links them to sheet numbers, and produces a punch list a drafter can work from.

ReactNodeExpressClaude VisionSQLiteDocker
Live demo → Source ↗
W—02 · Also in flight
Akane — counter-first sushi restaurant with live booking
2026 Full-stack · reservations In progress

Akane

Counter-first sushi restaurant with a live reservation system, email confirmations, and a protected owner dashboard. Next: an AI layer for conversational booking and natural-language owner queries — "how many covers last Saturday?"

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseResendVercel
Live demo → Source ↗
02/04 Services

What I build.

Off-the-shelf contech is built for the average firm. I build for yours.

01

Civil engineering firms

Proposal & SOQ drafter

CE-01

RFP in, tailored draft out. Maps scope sections to past projects and pulls relevant bios — PMs edit instead of starting blank.

Spec & code assistant

CE-02

Caltrans, AREMA, agency standards, your master spec — searchable and citable with section numbers.

RFI response drafter

CE-03

CA-side, not field. Drafts responses from the drawings and specs with references; PM reviews and sends.

QA/QC sheet check

CE-04

Cross-references notes, details, and specs across the set for conflicts and missing callouts before submittal.

02

General contractors

RFI / submittal flow

GC-01

Intake, route, remind, close. Reviewers get nudged, overdue items escalate, closeout logs write themselves.

Daily report engine

GC-02

Super dictates from the field. System pulls weather, logs crew counts, attaches photos, formats the doc, emails the owner.

Punch & closeout

GC-03

Photo to assigned punch item to sign-off, with a live owner dashboard instead of a walk-through-and-pray.

Document review AI

GC-04

Surfaces spec-to-drawing mismatches and the conflicts that come back as RFIs a month later.

03

Full-stack web — supporting work

Custom marketing sites

WEB-01

Hand-built in React or Next, deployed to a proper CDN. For firms that want to look like they build things.

Full-stack apps

WEB-02

React or Next, Node or Supabase, Postgres for state. Built to take load and survive the quarter.

Internal tools

WEB-03

Approval flows, entry portals, project dashboards — built around how your team actually works.

Workflow integrations

WEB-04

Procore, Bluebeam, Civil 3D, Google Workspace — so data stops falling between the systems you already pay for.

How engagements run
01 — Audit
30-min call

I map your PM workflow and flag the top three wins, ranked by hours saved. Free, no obligation.

02 — Scope
Written proposal

Scope, timeline, fixed price. No T&M, no 90-day discovery.

03 — Build
Weekly demos

Built against your real data from day one. You see progress every week, not at the end.

04 — Ship
Launch & support

Launch, document, hand off. Optional retainer for the tweaks your team will invent in week two.

03/04 About

4+ years in infrastructure. Five in software. Same discipline.

Nick Furr
Nick Furr — Burlingame, CA

I built physical infrastructure before I built digital. At Nibbi Bros I ran takeoffs, subcontractor coordination, and field problem-solving on the SFO Long-Term Parking Garage and an LIHTC housing project in San Francisco.

At Westland Group I kept automating Excel in VBA until the shop realized I should be writing software. Two years at BKF Engineers as Lead Civil 3D Designer on Treasure Island, Adrian Court in Burlingame, and 2201 Valley St in Oakland.

Then I went heads-down on code through 100Devs. The tools changed. The discipline — check your work, document every decision, the spec is gospel — didn't.

2015 Cal Poly Pomona — B.S. Civil Engineering
2018 Nibbi Bros — Project Engineer. SFO garage, LIHTC housing.
2019 Westland Group — SoCal Gas as-builts. First production VBA.
2020 BKF Engineers — Lead Civil 3D Designer.
2021 → Full-time pivot to software via 100Devs. Five years building React, Node, and production apps.
Now Automation for civil & GC firms. RedlineIQ live; client work ongoing.
04/04 Contact

Reclaim the hours.

Most firms don't need new software. They need the systems they already own to talk to each other — and a few targeted tools where nothing exists.

Email me@nickfurr.com
Based Burlingame, CA
Response Within 24 hours
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/nicholas-furr
30 min · Free · No obligation

Book a workflow audit

You'll leave with a written hit list of the three highest-leverage automation plays for your firm — ranked by hours saved per week. Whether or not we end up working together.

  • Map your PM's weekly time-sinks
  • Rank the three highest-leverage plays
  • Walk away with a written punch list
Pick a time on Cal.com →

Prefer email? Reach me at me@nickfurr.com — I reply within 24 hours.