Before the record
Invisible to the market
Site talk, NDAs, land options. Nothing public yet. Nobody can sell it from a register.
Business development for Irish & UK construction
Know who to ring before they spend
Fia watches planning, press, and project history — then tells you which client is about to move, who to call, and why. In Teams, email, and calendar. Not another dashboard.
ProofTrack record
Your completed work, frameworks and case studies.
Completed project
Framework win
Sector case study
Client worked with
Repeat business
Referenceable
Delivery record
C&Q recordPeopleThe connectors
Who you know — and who can get you in.
Process engineer
PM firm
Architect
QS practice
Client-side PM
Package manager
C&Q director
IDA contactTimingMarket signals
First public signal. Months before the list.
Parent capex
IDA land
Pre-application
EPA licence
Grid connection
Consultant appointed
Planning decision
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Business development is proof, people and timing
Ailtir builds two graphs. The market graph maps every project, company and person in your market, updated daily from planning, funding and company records. Your company graph is private: everything you've built, and everyone you've built it with. Fia is the agent that connects them, finding the projects you can win and the people who can get you in.
- Proof · Your company graph
- The track record that makes the introduction land
- Fia matches your track record to upcoming work, so you chase the jobs you can win.
- People · Your network
- Work is won through people
- You, your team, your company: Fia searches everyone you know to find your way to the decision maker.
- Timing · The market graph
- Months before the announcement
- Fia starts at the first public signal that names the site. In ten of fourteen backtests that landed 2 to 26 months before the client said a word.
PROJECTCOMPANYPERSON
MARKET GRAPH · PUBLICYOUR COMPANY GRAPH · PRIVATEPEOPLEDIRECTORREPEAT CLIENTDECISION MAKERPROJECTCLIENTROUTE
504 THOUSAND
planning applications in the graph, across every authority we cover, since 2000
28 THOUSAND
architects, engineers, consultants and clients, linked to the projects they worked on
36 SOURCES
read every day: planning registers, building control notices, environmental licences, company filings, investment announcements and news
19,364
Records read today
41
New pharma and data centre signals this week
Backtests
Get in before the list exists
By the time a tender list reaches you, the client has picked the site, the budget and the design consultant. Fia starts at the first public record that names the site.
The same fourteen projects, two ways of hearing about them. Every dot is a real date from the public record.
2 to 26MONTHS BEFORE THE ANNOUNCEMENT
How early a public record first named the site, on ten of the fourteen cycles rebuilt from the public record.
ANNOUNCED
When Fia first saw it12 of 14
When a contractor was named6 of 14 dated
3024181260612
MONTHS BEFOREAFTER
You can still bid late. You just bid worse. The average bid-hit ratio is 38%, and firms say they're stepping back from single-stage tenders to chase the clients they already know. Gardiner & Theobald, Q3 2025.
Fourteen Irish life-sciences cycles rebuilt from the public record. Ten had a public signal naming the site 2 to 26 months before the client announced anything, one more on the day itself, and Lilly's Kinsale peptide plant, off the left edge at 62 months, was only disclosed once it was built. On three cycles a contractor was working before the planning file was lodged; those are not plotted on the lower row.
How she works
Built to bring you the right thing at the right time
PLANNING FILEOWNERDESIGN CONSULTANTNEW SOURCE
She reads every new source
Every register, every day. A file lands and she breaks it down: the project, the companies on it, the people inside them.
See a signalMDREGIONAL DIRECTORPROJECT LEAD · DECIDESQSBID MANAGERENGINEERYOUR PRE-CON DIRECTORROUTE: FOUND
She maps the company
Who's who inside the owner and the design consultant. Who decides. Who on your side already knows them.
See a routeMonday brief, three signals |
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[Acted] [Not now] [Never] [Wrong]
She comes to you
A short brief on Monday. Why she believes it, who to ring, four buttons to reply with. Never more than three signals.
See a briefKerry County Council
Planning 2360295: PM Group named agent of record for Astellas, 8 Nov 2023
Sligo County Council
A change of use in Collooney that asks for an Industrial Emissions Licence
Novo Nordisk
€432m Athlone retrofit already under way, with a 500-worker park-and-ride
Where she lives
Connects to the tools your team already uses
Fia comes to you in Teams, email and calendar. Built to plug into the rest of your stack as you need it.
Starts in Teams, Outlook, and calendar — expands to the rest of your stack.
What a signal is
An early public event. Then who to ring.
A signal is the first public record that names a site or a move. Fia reads it, finds who you already know on that job, and tells you who to call.
Where she starts
First public signal
Your window
Planning lodged, an EPA licence, IDA land, press that names the site. Months before the list. This is when she tells you who to ring.
Tender list
Everyone hears
The client has picked the site, the budget and the design team. Relationship work is late. You're bidding with the pack.
Signal types she watches
Planning lodgedPre-applicationPlanning decisionEPA licenceCommencement noticeGrid connectionIDA landCompany filingInvestment announcementPress naming the siteConsultant appointedParent capexeTenders noticeTED noticeBuilding controlChange of use
Planning lodgedPre-applicationPlanning decisionEPA licenceCommencement noticeGrid connectionIDA landCompany filingInvestment announcementPress naming the siteConsultant appointedParent capexeTenders noticeTED noticeBuilding controlChange of use
Planning lodgedPre-applicationPlanning decisionEPA licenceCommencement noticeGrid connectionIDA landCompany filingInvestment announcementPress naming the siteConsultant appointedParent capexeTenders noticeTED noticeBuilding controlChange of use
She reads who you talk to.
Never what you wrote.
Headers and sources for BD. A clean Microsoft path for IT. She never opens a message.
Talk to us about ITHeaders only. The permission she asks for can't return email bodies, previews or attachments.
Sources on the brief. Every brief shows where each fact came from. Nothing is a black box.
Admin consent, then a call. Microsoft admin consent, a click-through DPA, and a 15-minute IT call.
GDPR by design. Legitimate interest with a DPIA. Every third party gets a notice in the first message.
She says she's AI on every channel, at first contact.
Receipts
Already reading the Irish market
Four finds from the last six months, from public records alone. No customer connected, no relationship data behind them.
IDA Ireland · RTE · 14 Sep 2026
Astellas is expanding Tralee before the first building opens
A second aseptic filling line and the infrastructure behind it, doubling drug product capacity by 2029. The €330m facility beside it doesn't open until early 2027.
Sligo County Council · 2660249 · Lodged 26 Jun 2026 · granted
A change-of-use application in Collooney is a pharma plant
An industrial unit becoming manufacturing, processing and packaging. The description ends with one line: the activity requires an Industrial Emissions Licence. That line is the tell. The EPA file won't appear for months.
Novo Nordisk A/S · 2 Mar 2026
€432m into Athlone, and construction has already started
A retrofit of the existing Monksland plant for oral GLP-1, across forty-five acres, staged from late 2027 into 2028. Up to five hundred construction jobs. A retrofit never looks like a large planning event.
Two sources · two counties · 2 Mar / 31 Mar 2026
One molecule is driving separate Irish capital programmes
Novo Nordisk in Athlone and West Pharmaceutical in Damastown are both building for GLP-1 demand, in different counties, announced by different bodies. No single register shows both. The join does.
One agent. Three depths.
How much of the firm she can see. For BD, commercial and pre-construction directors at Irish and UK contractors from €40m up. Founding is free for life; Pro and Enterprise are on request.
Free
The founding cohort
The personal edition. A small cohort of Irish BD directors, free for life.
- The Monday brief from public data
- Warm routes from the public record
- Your LinkedIn connections, if you share them
- Text, email and a call-back
Pro
One director, one mailbox
She reads the headers of your work mailbox and calendar. Never the bodies.
What Free can't do: know how strong a relationship is.
- Everything in Free
- Relationship strength and recency
- Follow-up nudges from your own threads
- Scheduling on your calendar
Enterprise
The whole firm
The company graph. Every colleague's routes, your project history, your bid log.
What Pro can't do: see a route that runs through a colleague.
- Everything in Pro
- Cross-colleague warm routes
- Your ERP job list and bid log joined to the market
- Entry through a paid Signal Audit
A paid walkthrough of your market signals and warm-route gaps before firm rollout.
Talk to usQuestions
Join the founding cohort
A small cohort of Irish BD and commercial directors. Free for life. You get the Monday brief, a seat at the table, and first say on what she does next.
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Donagh Ó Buachalla. Founder of Ailtir. Structural engineer, formerly at Arup. Has trained 86 construction contractors on AI tools.
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What happens next
- 01
A call from Fia.
She rings within a day and asks which clients you care about. She'll say she's AI. Ten minutes.
- 02
Your first Monday brief.
Three signals from the public record, with the source on each and who to ring.
- 03
You tell her what was useful.
Reply with a button, a text or a call. She narrows to your patch.
Business development built for your week
The right client, the right person, the right time. Before the announcement, not just before the tender list.
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