Agent developer program · Franchisees & partners

Build the next specialist. Share in what it earns.

Our contractors talk to one assistant project manager; behind it works a team of specialist agents. If you know a part of construction better than anyone — a trade, a region, a piece of software, a procedure — you can turn that knowledge into a specialist on the platform, and earn a share of the revenue every time the APM puts it to work.

Who it's for

Franchisees first — and anyone with real construction know-how

EPC franchisees

Priority review, the highest revenue share, and the right to keep a franchise-only agent exclusive to the franchise network for its first year. Your agents strengthen the brand you work under.

Contractors & trade experts

A 30-year electrician, a concrete superintendent, a roofing estimator: the knowledge in your head becomes a specialist that works for hundreds of small contractors. We handle the engineering.

Software & data partners

Connect your product (scheduling, takeoff, accounting, drone/photo, sensors) so the specialists can read and act on it, or contribute datasets and templates that make an existing specialist sharper.

How agents are built here

Four parts make a specialist

You don't need to be a programmer. Most of a specialist is construction knowledge written down the way a good procedure manual writes it. Our engineers do the wiring.

1 · Role

Responsibilities

What the specialist is accountable for, what it needs as input, what it produces, and who it hands its work to — exactly like a department description in a GC's procedure manual. This is what the APM reads to decide when to call it.

2 · Skill

Know-how

Procedures, checklists, rules of thumb, code references, typical durations and prices, templates (Word, Excel, PDF) — the stuff an experienced person knows. Written in plain language; it becomes the specialist's skill file and gets better with every approved lesson.

3 · Tools

Connectors & files

What it can reach: web search, the contractor's QuickBooks or Procore, your own software through a connector, uploaded drawings and spreadsheets. It writes real files the contractor downloads.

4 · Playbook

Where the APM uses it

The steps in which the APM calls the specialist, what comes before and after, and the checks the APM runs on its work. A new specialist earns its place by making an outcome — a bid, a close-out, an inspection — faster or better.

The current roster and playbooks (live)

This is what the APM coordinates today. Gaps you see here — a trade, a region, a procedure, a connector — are the best opportunities.

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What you can contribute

Four kinds of contribution

A new specialist

Examples: permits & entitlements, equipment & rentals, surveying & layout, a trade specialist (electrical, mechanical, concrete, roofing), a regional specialist (Texas, Arizona, Washington), Spanish-first field documentation.

An improvement

Better templates, checklists, unit-price data, code updates or lessons for an existing specialist. Reviewed and merged as a new skill version with your name on it.

A connector

Let the specialists read (and, with the contractor's confirmation, write to) your software or data source, the way QuickBooks and Procore are connected today.

A playbook

A procedure the APM should follow for an outcome we don't cover yet — for example public-works certified payroll, a tenant-improvement turnover, or a solar + storage project.

Revenue sharing

You earn when your agent works

Contractors pay per use. For every project where the APM puts your contribution to work, a share of the net revenue (what the contractor paid for that work, less the AI-provider and payment-processing cost) is credited to you and paid out quarterly.

ContributionProposed share of net revenueTermFor franchisees
New specialist agent — role, skill and playbook steps, built with us30 %3 years from publication, then 15 % for as long as it is in service+10 points, and first-year exclusivity to the franchise network on request
Improvement to an existing specialist — templates, data, lessons, code updates10 %12 months from the skill version that includes it+5 points
Connector to your software or data15 %While the connector is maintained by you+5 points
Playbook — a new APM procedure5 % of the APM's revenue on projects that use it3 years+5 points

How it's counted

Every call is metered per specialist in the contractor's account today; your share is computed from those records and shown on a statement each quarter. Minimum payout $50; balances roll over.

What stays yours

Your name on the specialist and in its skill file. Your knowledge, licensed to the platform for the term — you can use it elsewhere. Vulcan Zone owns the platform, the APM and the publishing rights on it.

Quality gate

Before publishing: accuracy review by a Vulcan Zone professional in that discipline, safety and disclaimer checks, no copyrighted or confidential third-party material, a sandbox test with real contractor requests, and a maintenance plan.

These are the proposed program terms as of November 2026. The final terms — including the share percentages, how net revenue is calculated, intellectual-property and confidentiality terms — are set out in the Vulcan Zone Developer Agreement you receive after review. Nothing on this page is an offer or a promise of payment, and franchise matters are governed separately by the Franchise Disclosure Document where applicable.

The process

From idea to published specialist in about 6–10 weeks

1

Propose

The form below — 10 minutes. What problem, for whom, what it produces, what you know that others don't.

2

Review & call

Within two weeks we reply; if it fits, a 30-minute call to shape the role, the skill and where the APM would use it.

3

Agreement

Developer Agreement with the share, term and IP terms. Franchisees sign a short addendum to their franchise agreement.

4

Build in the sandbox

You write the knowledge (we give you the template and examples); our engineers wire the tools and playbook steps; you test it with real requests in a sandbox account.

5

Publish & earn

After the quality gate the specialist goes live behind the APM, with your name on it. Statements and payouts quarterly.

Want to see what a specialist definition looks like before you propose one? Download the specialist spec template (plain text, 2 pages).

Propose a contribution

Tell us what you'd like to build

Not ready to build, but want the APM for your company?

Contractors get an assistant project manager and the whole specialist team behind it — first $8 of usage free.

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