Tyce, a Toronto software company, announced on October 19, 2026, that it raised C$2.8 million (about US$2 million) in pre-seed funding, an early round that comes before a seed round. BDC’s Thrive Venture Fund and the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund led it. Tyce’s software reads a bid package, flags scope gaps and risky contract terms, and drafts proposals. In the same announcement, Ontario general contractor Eastern Construction says it rolled Tyce out across its preconstruction teams and cut the time spent bidding on and managing projects by at least 40%.
What it does
On a typical pursuit, an estimator reads the drawings, specs and addenda, writes a scope sheet for each trade, and then levels the sub bids against those sheets. Tyce’s CEO and co-founder, Lylia Djait-Paulien, told The Construction Broadsheet that the product is meant to catch the item on page 400 that nobody had time to read.
The inputs are the bid documents. Tyce pulls drawings, specifications, addenda and trade bids from Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud or a direct upload. It links them into one project model that the team can question in plain language.
The software then flags scope gaps, exclusions and risky contract terms. It supports takeoff and bid leveling, and it drafts proposals. Each flag shows the sheet, spec section or page it came from, so the estimator can open the source and confirm it. Scope sheets, bid leveling and risk summaries export to Excel.
Tyce’s website adds two functions. It compares supplemental clauses with standard contract forms and flags risks against the company’s own risk profile. It also compares a new estimate with the firm’s past estimates and points out line items outside the usual range.
Djait-Paulien said large general contractors use Tyce across estimating, preconstruction, contract review and project management. Smaller firms with one or two estimators use it to add capacity, and a drywall or formwork sub can pull out only its own trade’s scope.
Evidence so far
The evidence is Tyce’s funding announcement, a quote in it from Eastern Construction’s CEO, and Djait-Paulien’s interview with The Construction Broadsheet.
These claims come from Tyce and Eastern Construction:
- Eastern Construction has rolled Tyce out across its preconstruction teams and cut the time spent bidding on and managing projects by at least 40%.
- Dean Walker, Eastern’s CEO, said in the announcement: “With Tyce, tasks that took our preconstruction team five hours now take 15 minutes.”
- Djait-Paulien told the Broadsheet that the largest gains come from reviewing bid packages, leveling sub bids, reviewing contracts, and summarizing reports and meeting minutes.
- She also said customers are bidding more work with the same staff.
| Measure | Reported by | Before Tyce | With Tyce | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed preconstruction tasks | Dean Walker, CEO, Eastern Construction | 5 hours | 15 minutes | 95% less (our arithmetic) |
| Time spent bidding on and managing projects | Tyce announcement | Not stated | Not stated | At least 40% less |
Walker’s five hours to 15 minutes refers to preconstruction tasks that the quote leaves unnamed, and it works out to a 95% cut for those tasks. The 40% figure covers bidding and project management time together. The method, time period and number of bids behind it are not in the announcement.
Accuracy rates are not yet public. Tyce told the Broadsheet that it benchmarks its output against customers’ own estimates and plans to publish accuracy and win-rate figures as its customer base grows. Bricks & Bytes, a construction technology newsletter, said accuracy is the first question a chief estimator should ask.
How to measure it on your projects
Track review hours per bid. Define it as the hours estimators and preconstruction staff log against one bid, from receipt of the documents to issued trade scope sheets and leveled sub bids. Split the hours by task: document review, scope sheets, bid leveling and proposal writing. That split lets you check which of Walker’s tasks moved on your own work.
Capture the baseline on your next five to ten bids before the pilot starts, and note each bid’s size and delivery method. Review hours on a small tenant improvement and a large hospital bid differ widely, so compare pilot bids with baseline bids of similar size.
Track what the review catches alongside the hours. For each pilot bid, record how many flags the tool raised and how many held up when an estimator checked the cited sheet. Then count the scope items the estimator found that the tool missed. After award, tag any change order that traces back to a scope gap at bid time. Our posts on change orders by cause and bid-hit ratio show how to set up that tag and check whether the extra bids turn into wins.
A first step on one job: on the next bid that comes in, have each estimator log hours by task in a shared sheet until the bid goes out.
Availability and cost
Tyce sells an annual subscription, tiered by company size and usage, with no per-project fee, according to the Broadsheet. Prices are not listed. Djait-Paulien said setup, including onboarding and training, usually takes a few weeks, and that past estimates and cost data are optional at the start. She also said customer data is never used to train models for other firms.
Tyce says it serves customers in Canada and the United States, and it told the Broadsheet it expects the US to become its largest market. For a European product aimed at the same bid review work, see our post on Kuro’s AI tender review.