How I built an engineering firm's proposal portal in 44 days

I build the systems your business runs on.

I'm Mark Szymanski. I find the expensive, repetitive work inside a business and build the system that does it instead, then I stay on to keep it running. Motive11 is my company, and it's just me, plus AI doing the work a team used to.

Sheffler & Company portal
The lead queue in the portal I built for Sheffler & Company, shown with demo data The Sheffler & Company website The Polverini & Wiater website The Valor PGH website The Valiant 3 website The Quality Choice Landscaping website The Bus Stops Here Foundation website

A proposal portal for Sheffler & Company, an engineering and surveying firm. Read the Case Study

Firms around Pittsburgh running on something I built

Sound familiar?

If you've said one of these, I can help.

Real things owners have told me. None of them sounds like a technology problem, and every one is the kind of thing I fix.

  • Nothing gets quoted unless I do it, so in our busy season jobs just sit there.

  • She re-enters the same numbers every single day so the scorecards stay current.

  • If he left, we'd be in real trouble.

  • We've got six systems and none of them talk.

  • We bought the tool and we still do it by hand.

  • Every time I want a small change to the website I have to email somebody and wait.

  • We get the leads, we just don't call them back fast enough.

  • Our stuff is confidential, so AI is off the table for us.

Mark Szymanski
Mark SzymanskiFounder, Motive11
How it works

One person and a lot of AI, instead of an agency and a lot of meetings.

1

I find where the week goes

I learn what your team does all day and find the one job that costs the most time.

2

I build it around how you work

The system fits the way your people already do the job, so nobody has to learn a new way of working.

3

I stay on

When something needs to change, you tell me and it gets done. You never get handed off to someone else.

Recent work

Three firms, three different problems.

Every case study
The lead queue in the Sheffler & Company portal, shown with demo data.
Sheffler & Company · Civil engineering and land surveying

A 50-year-old engineering firm's proposals, moved out of Word and into software they own

Leads lived in a spreadsheet, site research meant digging through county websites, and every proposal was built by hand. Now all three run through one portal I built for them.

44 daysfrom yes to version one of the portal
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The Polverini & Wiater homepage: Ohio Valley Criminal and Civil Litigation Law Firm, over an aerial photo of a river bridge.
Polverini & Wiater · Civil and criminal litigation

A law firm's new name, launched with a website that finally described the firm

The firm was changing its name, its partners, and its domain at once, and its website was a GoDaddy page with a couple of FAQs. I scoped the new site, ran the build, and launched it the same day the rebrand went live.

Same daythe new site launched alongside the rebrand
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The new Valor PGH homepage: 'One team for your whole life.' under the line Insurance, Real Estate, Renovations, beside a photo of the Valor team.
Valor PGH · Insurance, real estate, and renovations

An insurance agency's website, rebuilt around all three of its businesses in under two weeks

Kyle couldn't edit his own website, and the quote widget on it was handing people false rates before he ever talked to them. In under two weeks he had a new site for all three of his businesses and a lead flow that hands quoting back to his team.

Under two weeksfrom pitch to launch
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When my team finds something that needs to change, Mark fixes it fast, often the same day. At this point he knows how our business runs as well as anyone in the building.

Bud Sheffler Bud ShefflerFounder, Sheffler & Company, Inc.
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Who I build for

Established businesses doing $3 million or more a year.

The business

Ten or more people on payroll, with an office that keeps the work moving.

The problem

A specific person losing real hours every week to proposals, research, intake, scheduling, or data entry.

The owner

Knows the numbers, like how many leads come in and how many close, and wants the problem fixed for good.

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