Capability statements
The document a procurement contact asks for, plus the web page that makes asking unnecessary. Sectors, delivery methods, bonding, geography, project experience.
Content & copywriting
Construction content writing that does not read as bluffing.
Construction copy written by generalists is detectable within a paragraph to anyone in the industry. Wrong terminology, wrong delivery-method language, design-build and CM-at-risk used interchangeably. Your buyers notice immediately.
The credibility trap
Everyone else can write. Almost nobody can write this.
A marketing writer will produce fluent, confident, completely wrong copy about your delivery methods. It will read well to you at a glance and read as a bluff to the project manager evaluating you. The tells are specific and they are everywhere:
- Calling a stipulated-sum contract "fixed price" in a context where the distinction matters
- Describing construction management as though it were general contracting with a different label
- Listing "safety" as a value with no TRIF, no LTI, no COR status and no evidence
- Using "we" for work that was actually delivered as a joint venture, without saying so
- Writing about a sector — healthcare, institutional, industrial — with none of the constraints that define it
What we write
Seven kinds of document, all in the same voice.
Project write-ups
Scope, value band, delivery method, duration, your role, and what made the job difficult. Written so it works as a website page, a proposal exhibit and a recruiting asset.
Service and sector pages
The pages that carry your search visibility and answer "do you do this kind of work" without a phone call.
Careers content
Employer-brand copy that says something concrete about how you run a site, and trade-specific job posts that read as though a human wrote them.
Safety and quality narrative
Presenting your record accurately and without overclaiming — including how to publish statistics without creating exposure you did not intend.
Articles
Content mapped to your silo, aimed at what buyers and applicants actually search rather than at a keyword volume spreadsheet.
Tone and terminology guide
So that whoever writes next — you, a junior marketer, another agency — stays consistent with what we established.
House style
Numbers over adjectives.
- Plain. If a foreman would not say it out loud, we do not write it.
- Specific. "Forty-two projects over $5M" beats "extensive experience" every time.
- Verifiable. Everything we publish should survive someone checking it.
- Short. Procurement contacts scan. So do journeymen. So does everyone.
- No superlatives. Nobody has ever been persuaded by "industry-leading".
The AI question, answered
Yes, we use it. No, it does not write your capability statement.
We use AI tooling for research, outlining and first drafts of routine pages, the same way we use a spell checker. It is genuinely useful and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
What it cannot do is know that your Q3 tilt-up job ran through a February cold snap, or that your client cares more about schedule certainty than price. Everything that carries a claim about your company gets written and checked by a person who has read your project files. That is the part you are paying for.
Where the copy lands
Content is the fill, not the frame.
Website design
The structure the content sits in. Built first, because copy without a structure has nowhere to go.
Construction SEO
What makes the content findable — and an honest read on whether that matters for your market.
Maintenance
Keeping project pages and certifications current, so the copy stays true after launch.
Questions about content
How much does it cost?
Content is included in a full build from CAD $15,000 up. As a standalone engagement it starts around $2,000 for a capability statement and a set of core pages, and scales with page count and how much source material we have to chase.
What do you need from us?
Project files, certification documents, safety statistics and about ninety minutes with someone who actually ran the jobs. That interview is where the specifics come from, and it is the difference between real copy and generic copy.
Can you write about work covered by an NDA?
Yes. Sector, value band, delivery method, duration, complexity and your role can all be written without naming the client. In practice those facts do most of the persuading anyway.
Will you write in our founder's voice?
If that voice is doing work for you, yes. Often the more useful move is a plain house voice for the pages procurement reads, and a personal voice on the About page where it belongs.
Do you write proposals and bid documents?
Not the technical or pricing sections — that is your estimating team's work. We do write the company, capability and past-performance sections, and those are usually reusable straight from the website content.
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