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That is the Excelsior Energy Center in New York, counted page by page from its public siting application: 41 exhibits, 79 appendices and 32 figures. No EPC contract yet, meaning engineering, procurement and construction. No construction drawings, no submittals, no requests for information (RFIs). Your plan is sized by records like this one: the pages you bring in each month. Not your revenue, and not your headcount.
Look at where the pages are. The body of each document is the part that gets read on a deadline. The appendices and exhibits are where the requirement sits, and on six of these seven documents they make up most of the page count.
Every document on this page comes before construction. Add the EPC contract, the construction drawings, every submittal and RFI, and the daily reports, and a closed-out utility-scale project runs past 10,000 pages.
Page counts taken from the published PDFs, September 2026. The geotechnical report is counted on its own here and is also part of the siting application. Excelsior siting application, NY Case 19-F-0299 · Galena Solar permit filing · Somerset Solar SWPPP, part 1 of 4 · Xcel Energy solar technical requirements · Entergy solar scope book · Excelsior interconnection agreement · Excelsior geotechnical report
Month one is the heaviest month you will have. You are loading the record you already own while you work the bid in front of you. Commit to three months at the same monthly price and we match your first month's pages and credits, one for one.
That is one EPC team's onboarding month on Axion, loading its history while working live bids. The same team's steady pace on pre-construction alone runs past 6,000 pages a month. The first month is where teams run out of room, and the bonus is built for that month.
The bonus equals one month of your plan's pages and credits and is added once, at the start of a three-month commitment. It does not add storage, has no cash value, and is issued once per customer. Bonus value uses the Page Pack rate of $0.50 per page and the Insight Pack rate of $1.00 per credit published in the order form below.
We are the only platform in this category publishing prices. That is worth nothing if the unit is vague, so here is exactly what a page is and exactly what everything costs.
That number did not come from us. It came from the company whose software most of these teams already run, working with Dodge. Read it twice: the searching is happening inside the systems built to organize the files.
Eight working weeks per person per year is not a software problem you can solve by buying more storage. It is a payroll line, and it renews every January whether or not anyone puts it in the budget.
Use the salary you actually pay, not an hourly rate nobody on your team recognizes. We add the burden for you and show the arithmetic. Every default here is set at the conservative end on purpose: 18% is the published figure, and it sits below the 20% to 30% range we measure on live deployments.
How this is calculated. Salary times your burden multiplier, divided by 2,000 hours, gives the loaded cost of an hour. That times headcount, times 2,000 hours, times the share of time spent searching, gives the annual number. We use 2,000 hours rather than the 2,080 most firms pay for, because it is the lower figure. Break-even is the plan's annual fee divided by the search number: the portion of lost time Axion has to give back before the plan costs you nothing. We are not claiming Axion recovers all of it. We are showing you how small a fraction has to come back. Salary bands are from published 2026 construction compensation data, and every input is yours to change.
Your estimator is good. That is not the problem. The problem is that a 1,200-page bid package gets read once, on a deadline, by someone who has already read four others that week. Attention runs out. Axion reads every page of every document to the same standard every time you ask it, and it does not care what time it is.
Axion returns the source document behind every answer, so nothing has to be taken on faith. If the answer is not in your documents, it says so instead of guessing. It does not invent contract terms or make up equipment specifications.
It also does not replace the person reading the contract. It makes sure that person is not the only thing standing between your company and a requirement buried on page 847 of an exhibit nobody opened.
Construction software is usually priced on how big you are, how many people log in, and how much help you need to turn it on. None of those are inputs to an Axion invoice.
| Line item | Common in construction software | Axion |
|---|---|---|
| Implementation | $50,000 to $150,000 in year one on volume-priced platforms | $0 |
| Per-seat fees | Priced per user, so adding the field team costs more | Unlimited users on every plan |
| Revenue-based pricing | $15,000 to $80,000 a year scaled to your annual construction volume | Priced on your record, not your revenue |
| Published price | Quote only, no public rate card | Every rate on this page |
Volume and implementation figures are third-party estimates for Procore, which prices on annual construction volume and does not publish rates. Document Crunch and Trunk Tools publish no pricing at all. We name them because they are the platforms EPC teams actually evaluate against us, and because a buyer deserves to know what the comparison looks like before the first call. Procore pricing estimate
Every plan on this page is priced in months. The two numbers below are what a month is worth on a late solar or battery storage project right now.
A hyperscale campus or multi-site program generates mechanical, electrical, structural, controls and commissioning records at a volume no monthly tier covers, and the historical record at onboarding can run past 100,000 pages on its own. Those deals are structured as one annual commitment, invoiced quarterly, drawn down as you use it. One purchase order, no monthly approvals.