# Naram Alhasani > Naram Alhasani is a systems architect in Virginia. He is the Technical Co-Founder & CTO of Formwork, a sales, marketing and software firm for commercial construction contractors, where he builds the software the firm and its clients run on. He is also a Senior Consultant at CGI Federal, delivering AI projects for Medicare & Medicaid. I design, architect and build software products. ## Results - **Built MATTER,** the project platform that replaced Procore at Delta Construction, a $9M general contractor: about 180 active projects, $14M in contracts, and a $48K-a-year bill gone. - **Recovered 25 years** of a contractor’s history from a locked Access database: $54M of past projects and 4,500 client contacts, now a cloud ERP. - **Built a 234-tool MCP server** so Claude can work inside a live construction platform with each person’s exact permissions. ## Career - **Formwork**, Technical Co-Founder & CTO, Nov 2024 to now. Formwork does sales, marketing and software for commercial construction contractors. I built all of its technology, and I decide how it fits together across the three units. It started as Sunrise Systems. - **CGI Federal**, Senior Consultant, Jun 2022 to now. I work in the Health and Social Services unit. I built the AI prototypes that led to a contract award from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. I also built the tracking systems and the dashboards leadership uses to see the team’s work. ## Education B.B.A. Computer Information Systems, James Madison University, 2023. ## Systems built How each one works: [systems](/systems.md). - [MATTER](/systems/matter.md): Construction project platform. Runs about 180 active projects and $14M in contracts at Delta Construction: chat, RFIs, submittals and bids in one place, showing who owes the next move. *Live · runs Delta Construction.* - [OutreachSphere](/systems/outreachsphere.md): Sales CRM. Turns a cold lead list into deals: it fills in missing contacts, runs email and LinkedIn sequences, and sorts replies so only real leads reach a person. *Live · Formwork and its clients.* - [ContentSphere](/systems/contentsphere.md): Content system. Each client’s newsletters, LinkedIn posts and web copy, planned from their brand and drafted from prompts written for them. The client approves every piece. *Live · internal.* - [Contractor Toolkit](/systems/contractor-toolkit.md): Open-source Claude Code plugins. Free Claude Code plugins for contractors. Tell Claude about your company once, and it drafts estimates, bid packages, RFIs and daily logs in your brand. *Live · open source.* - [C0](/systems/c0.md): Internal operations system. Runs Formwork day to day: clients, projects, tasks and invoices in one place, synced with the books. After each meeting, Claude drafts the follow-up tasks. *Live · runs Formwork.* - [Delta Portal](/systems/delta-portal.md): MATTER, deployed for Delta. Delta’s deployment of MATTER: RFIs, bids, contracts and chat. It replaced Procore, a $48K-a-year bill; about 400 past projects moved off it in about two hours. *Live · Delta Construction.* - [Delta Estimating Portal](/systems/delta-estimating.md): Bid pipeline & CRM. Shows Delta’s estimators what they’re bidding and when: each bid gets a slot with a name, dates and hours, beside the client account. *Live · Delta Construction.* - [SIGIL](/systems/sigil.md): Sound-design instrument. A synth with six ways to make sound that plays in a browser tab or inside your DAW. Hunt breeds new patches from the ones you keep, so you find sounds by ear. *Invite-only for now · demos public.* - [Orbit](/systems/orbit.md): AI testing platform. Point it at a GitHub repo and it tests the app for you: riskiest journeys first, in a real browser, with what broke explained in plain English. *Live · in development.* - [Thronos](/systems/thronos.md): Agent operations platform. A team of AI agents that works on a schedule. They read a company’s systems, draft the work and bring every decision to a person to approve. *Live · private.* ## Problems solved ### Delta Construction - Problem: Delta, a $9M general contractor, ran its projects on Procore: about $48K a year and climbing as Delta grew. A rough estimate took a senior estimator weeks. - Built: Delta Portal, a deployment of MATTER: RFIs, bidding, contracts and chat in one system. About 400 past projects came off Procore in about two hours. - Result: About 180 active projects and $14M in contracts run on it. Rough estimates take minutes. ### EFI - Problem: After an ownership change, EFI lost access to 25 years of records: an old Access database on a laptop, holding about $54M of past projects and 4,500 client contacts. - Built: We got into the laptop, pulled the data out, designed a new schema and moved it to a cloud database. - Result: 25 years of records are back, running as EFI’s cloud ERP. ### CGI Federal - Problem: An AI idea had to prove itself before a federal agency would commit. - Built: I built the working prototypes. - Result: CMS awarded the contract. ### Open source - Problem: Senior project managers spend their time on estimates, proposals and paperwork. - Built: Contractor Toolkit: AI plugins that write estimates, proposals, RFIs, submittals and daily logs in the company’s own brand. - Result: Free on GitHub. Fork it and run the setup wizard. - Link: https://github.com/Sunrise-Systems/contractor-toolkit ## Guides - [Getting started with ChatGPT](https://app.formworkgroup.co/gpt): A practical guide for construction teams. Take one job your team repeats every week and hand it to ChatGPT, from the first question to the finished document, with a person checking each step. - [Getting started with Claude](https://app.formworkgroup.co/claude): A practical tutorial for teams. For whoever is rolling Claude out at a construction or professional-services firm: which app, which model, and how projects, skills and connectors fit together. ## What people say > He has been integral in the development of tracking systems and dashboards, automating and displaying team function at an executive level. > > William Hall, Director of Emerging IP, CGI Federal > You have shown a speed and ability to solve problems that I have not seen in my students before. > > Dr. Dmytro Babik, Professor of Information Systems, James Madison University ## Expertise Systems Architecture, Product Development & Management, Go-to-Market, Operations Consulting, Enterprise Consulting, AI/ML Implementation, Full-Stack Development, Construction Technology. ## More - [Now](/now.md): what I’m working on this month - [Systems](/systems.md): how each system works ## Contact - Email: naram@hey.com - Contact form: https://www.naramalhasani.com/#contact - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/NaramAlhasani - GitHub: https://github.com/NaramAlhasani - GitHub (work): https://github.com/naramalhasaniWork - Newsletter: https://world.hey.com/naram