Network Brainiacs

Construction · Staten Island, NY

Managed IT, cybersecurity, and AI for construction and trades in Staten Island.

Mobile-first IT, secure file sharing, and AI tools for takeoff and change-order management across Staten Island — St. George, Stapleton, Dongan Hills, New Dorp, and the Great Kills / Tottenville corridor.

Serving Staten Island — St. George, Stapleton, Dongan Hills, New Dorp, and the Great Kills / Tottenville corridor

Construction and trades businesses operating around Staten Island juggle job sites, subs, and shifting client expectations. We keep your field and office in sync — and deploy AI where it actually saves time: takeoffs, document search, meeting notes — so the only scramble each morning is the actual dirt, not the data.

Staten Island is the most residential of NYC's five boroughs — Hylan Boulevard and Forest Avenue host a long tail of small businesses, professional-services firms, and medical and dental practices. Richmond University Medical Center and Staten Island University Hospital anchor healthcare.

Also serving: St. George · Stapleton · Dongan Hills · New Dorp · Great Kills · Tottenville · Charleston

What construction businesses in Staten Island deal with

  • Connecting job sites and trailers to office systems reliably
  • Running project-management tools (Procore, Buildertrend, CoConstruct) on site without laptops dying in the field
  • Sharing plans, RFIs, and change orders securely with subs and clients
  • Keeping estimating data + bids safe from ransomware and business-email compromise
  • Estimators spending full days on takeoffs that AI can now do in hours

What we do for them

  • Rugged mobile device management + LTE/5G backup connectivity for trailers
  • Secure file sharing between field, office, subs, and architects
  • Project-management tool integration + vendor coordination
  • Backup + disaster recovery for job-cost data — one ransomware hit can bankrupt a GC
AI as a Service

How we're putting AI to work for construction in Staten Island

  • AI takeoff and estimating assistants that read plans and draft quantities so estimators can focus on margin, not measurement
  • AI document search across specs, RFIs, submittals, and change orders — find the exact clause in seconds
  • AI-summarized meeting notes and daily reports from voice recordings on the job site
  • AI safety monitoring — flag incident patterns across projects before they become an injury
Questions we get from construction businesses in Staten Island

Frequently asked questions

Do you support Procore, Buildertrend, and CoConstruct?+
Yes. Those three (plus Autodesk Construction Cloud and BIM 360) cover most of the GCs and builders we see in Staten Island. We handle user provisioning, SSO integrations, and the vendor coordination when something in the stack breaks mid-project.
How do you give job sites reliable internet?+
Combination of LTE/5G cellular routers for trailers, cloud-managed wireless where fiber's available, and failover between connections so a downed ISP doesn't stop the job. For remote or early-phase sites we deploy Starlink where it makes sense.
Can AI really do takeoffs?+
It can — and it's changing the estimating game fast. Tools like Togal.ai, Trimble's AI assistants, and custom GPT-based plan readers can process a set of drawings in hours instead of days. We help builders evaluate which tool fits their workflow and stand it up without disrupting the estimating team.
What's the biggest cyber risk for a construction company?+
Business-email compromise — someone impersonates the GC or a key sub and convinces finance to wire funds to a fake account. Second biggest: ransomware on job-cost and estimating data, which can stall every active project at once. We close both with MFA, email phishing protection, and offline backups.
Can you help us meet cyber-insurance requirements?+
Yes — and they're tightening every year. Most carriers now require MFA on email + remote access, endpoint detection (EDR), tested backups, and documented employee training before they'll even quote a construction business. We put all of that in place and hand you the documentation the underwriter wants.

Compliance we handle

  • Cyber-insurance carrier requirements (MFA, EDR, backups)
  • Contractual data-handling requirements for public-works and federal jobs