Cantaia reads your Outlook mailbox and files every message under the right project, pulls the line items out of a 400-row tender spreadsheet, lines up supplier bids and drafts the schedule.
Designed for Swiss project managers. Built by one of them.
Reinforced concrete quote — lot 211.3 revised
Formwork drawing L+3 — revision C
Site meeting no. 14 confirmed
R. Bühler · Implenia Schweiz AG
Revised bid at CHF 284,500 (−4% vs the 12.03 version). Valid 30 days. Confirmation requested before Friday.
Dear Mr Bühler, thank you for the revised bid. We confirm lot 211.3 on the terms submitted. The intervention schedule follows by return.
Three sequences from the product. No slogan — the screen.
A quote lands in Outlook. Cantaia reads the subject, the sender and the body, then files the message under the right project with its classification. No rules to write by hand.
Reinforced concrete quote — lot 211.3
Three suppliers, one table. Unit prices aligned line by line, gap to the best price, total per bid. You choose — you stop adding up.
| Line item | Implenia | Marti SA | Frutiger |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete C30/37 · m³ | 185.— | 179.— | 192.— |
| Formwork · m² | 68.— | 72.— | 64.— |
| Rebar · kg | 2.85 | 2.70 | 2.95 |
| Bid total | 284 500 | 271 900 | 296 200 |
From the tender line items, Cantaia proposes a Gantt chart with durations, dependencies and milestones. You correct what needs correcting, then export to A3.
Tuesday, 2:32 pm.You have 47 unread emails, 3 tenders to compare before Friday, a foreman calling about a drawing you cannot find, and a client who wants a weekly update daily update.
You are a project manager. Not an administrator.
Not an American tool hastily translated. Cantaia has spoken CFC, SIA and Swiss francs from day one.
Lots, chapters and line items structured along the Swiss construction cost code. Tender analysis recognises CFC and NPK nomenclatures.
Provisional, final or partial handover, defects graded by severity, and automatic tracking of the 2-year and 5-year warranty deadlines.
Amounts, margins and exports in CHF, with Swiss date and number formats (fr-CH, de-CH). Billing in francs.
Interface, generated emails and documents in French, German and English. The report you send to Zurich goes out in German.
Hosted in the European Union, GDPR and Swiss FADP compliant, with a full export of your data at any time.
AI triage of Outlook email by project.
CFC, supplier comparison, price requests.
AI Gantt from the tender. A3 export.
Audio transcription → structured minutes.
Version register. Vision reading.
Foreman daily reports, PIN access.
Project context. File upload.
Margin, KPIs, project profitability.
Hours, delivery notes, exports.
Internal history + CRB reference.
Conversational tickets built in.
Outlook add-in. Native mobile.
No per-head invoice. One credit counter shared across the organisation: a tender analysis costs 20 credits, a set of minutes 15, a chat message 1.
You create your organisation and receive 300 credits. No credit card.
Every AI action draws down the counter. Everything else — projects, tasks, drawings, site reports — is not metered.
When the balance drops, you top up with a pack or move to a monthly subscription, which is markedly cheaper per credit.
Cantaia was born in a project manager's office, between two site meetings. The first module — Outlook email triage — was written because the inbox was overflowing, not because an investor asked for it.
The product is young: launched in 2026, with no public case study to show you yet. What we can show is the software — and you can open it today, without a credit card.
You create an account, you get your credits, you test. No payment details requested.
Subscriptions end with the period. Credit packs do not renew themselves.
Full export of your projects, documents and data at any time, in open formats.
Database and files in the European Union. GDPR and Swiss FADP compliant.
The answers we give on site visits, before talking about price.
No. Cantaia connects to Microsoft 365 over OAuth and reads your existing mailbox; nothing is moved. Gmail and IMAP/SMTP work too. You keep Outlook as your mail client if you want to.
In the European Union, encrypted at rest and in transit. Each organisation is isolated at the database level. Anonymised cross-company data sharing is off by default and controlled from your settings.
Start with the free credits, paying nothing. If your team regularly burns several hundred credits a month, a subscription is markedly cheaper per credit and unlocks the automation features.
Yes. Interface, generated emails and documents (minutes, reports, exports) in German, French or English. Document analysis handles German-Swiss tenders as well as French-Swiss ones.
For nothing. No framework contract, no setup fee, no minimum term. Subscriptions are monthly and end with the period.
A ticket system is built into the product: you write from inside the app and the reply lands in the same thread. In French, German or English.
Create your organisation, connect Outlook, get 300 credits to analyse a real tender. No credit card.