A collaborative space to organize all of your construction supply chain data and analytics
Katalyst.DI brings together Owners, Constructors, and Suppliers to more effectively plan, manage, and execute work across a distributed construction supply chain.
Upload Your Projects
Load or Link model(s), then upload your Bill of Material
- Create a single, or multiple work packages for your project and upload your Bill of Materials.
- Structure your BOMs into Sub Assemblies, Fabrication drawings, parts, components, or other units to better understand supply chain and cost stack.
- Convert select packages to subpackages to facilitate data collection at those levels.
Map Your Supply Chains
Map your Bill of Materials to Suppliers.
- Map out the items in your BOM to one or many suppliers.
- Add current lead times to visualize items that may cause project schedule delays.
- Manual data updates are included with our Free Plan. For paid plans our team can setup automated data collection from Collaborators who are associated Supplier Contacts.
Integrate Your Suppliers
Invite suppliers to collaborate
- Invite suppliers to collaborate on the platform for free.
- Find product substitution opportunities for disrupted supply chains.
- Request lead time updates on an automated or manual basis.
- Update your project when lead times change and identify issues in the project schedule as early as possible.
Automate Data Exchange
Integrate with your other tools
IB.AI can integrate with any enterprise tool that has API access. Examples of platforms we have integrated with include: Primavera P6, SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk BIM360, Procore, and SmartPlant.
Provide & Request Updates
Automatically provide and request updates
Offer your customers an enhanced experience by using IB.AI to provide access and transparency to more valuable and timely data specific to their orders and programs. Provide real-time automated project updates to your customers and request them from suppliers. Our system eliminates the manual effort spent searching through project spreadsheets to ensure that everything is on schedule before hitting send.
Analyze Your Data
Analyze Supply Chain performance and identify areas for improvement.
Manage information exchange with supply chain partners to ensure that design and planning decisions are made with defined supply chain data such as inventory and lead time and that the supply chain is informed with the proper Package revisioning and localization plans.
Load or Link model(s), then upload your Bill of Material
- Create a single, or multiple work packages for your project and upload your Bill of Materials.
- Structure your BOMs into Sub Assemblies, Fabrication drawings, parts, components, or other units to better understand supply chain and cost stack.
- Convert select packages to subpackages to facilitate data collection at those levels.
Map your Bill of Materials to Suppliers.
- Map out the items in your BOM to one or many suppliers.
- Add current lead times to visualize items that may cause project schedule delays.
- Manual data updates are included with our Free Plan. For paid plans our team can setup automated data collection from Collaborators who are associated Supplier Contacts.
Invite suppliers to collaborate
- Invite suppliers to collaborate on the platform for free.
- Find product substitution opportunities for disrupted supply chains.
- Request lead time updates on an automated or manual basis.
- Update your project when lead times change and identify issues in the project schedule as early as possible.
Integrate with your other tools
IB.AI can integrate with any enterprise tool that has API access. Examples of platforms we have integrated with include: Primavera P6, SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk BIM360, Procore, and SmartPlant.
Automatically provide and request updates
Offer your customers an enhanced experience by using IB.AI to provide access and transparency to more valuable and timely data specific to their orders and programs. Provide real-time automated project updates to your customers and request them from suppliers. Our system eliminates the manual effort spent searching through project spreadsheets to ensure that everything is on schedule before hitting send.
Analyze Supply Chain performance and identify areas for improvement.
Manage information exchange with supply chain partners to ensure that design and planning decisions are made with defined supply chain data such as inventory and lead time and that the supply chain is informed with the proper Package revisioning and localization plans.
Project Owners
Gain better insight into your supply chain at all tiers so you can optimize your construction program.
Integrators
Enable reuse in designs. Share and request information bi-directionally with both customers and suppliers.
Contractors
Seamlessly manage sub-contractors and offsite production. Optimize bulk purchasing & identify areas for improvement.
Suppliers
Centralize your product information, drawings, and data then share supporting documentation with your customers.
What is Enhanced Market Intelligence?
Learn how you can optimize construction program decisions at all phases.
What is IB.AI?
IB.AI is a collaborative platform aimed at helping to digitally transform and integrate the construction supply chain. It connects owners, engineers, contractors, offsite integrators, and suppliers to automate data exchange and collaboration. The technology extends and links existing design libraries, MCAD and BIM platforms, PLM, MRP/ERP, and logistics systems to provide a single end-to-end record set for supply chain data exchange and analytics, while eliminating redundant manual tasks.
What other tools integrate with IB.AI?
Any tool that has an API connection or a way to export data can be integrated with IB.AI. IB.AI uses the power of Palantir Foundry to build connections between it and your key systems. This allows of open ingestion of all types of data and eliminates the need for error prone manual data imports.
How can I access IB.AI?
You can access IB.AI from any computer system that has an internet connection and a web browser. We recommend IB.AI be used on a tablet size screen at minimum as our user interfaces are designed to be read at larger screen sizes.
What are the differences between your plan levels?
We offer three levels of plan:
1. IB.AI Clarity is most often used by material suppliers. It offers a 1000 product library for unlimited users and up to 5 customer project connections. This level of plan is perfect for any organization that wants to be able to send automated lead time updates to customers and collaborate on documentation delivery.
2. IB.AI Insight is a package level license and includes 1 work package with an unlimited number of suppliers. This license level is designed with constructors such as integrators, general contractors, and EPCs in mind.
3. Our Enterprise level Empower plans are customized to your organization. Enterprise plans are designed with your team's needs in mind and can include unlimited projects, packages, and partner integrations.
How do I implement IB.AI
Implementing IB.AI follows a simple 4 step process detailed in the video above:
1. We start with your design data such as BIM, specifications, vendors, and project schedule.
2. Your projects or work packages are organized and structured into products ready for integration with your suppliers.
3. You invite your suppliers to collaborate on your new system in order to provide detailed supply chain information needed for each product.
4. KDI automates the flow of information between products and suppliers so your team can plan and execute your projects with a fully integrated supply chain.