Agentic UK Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 pre-construction health and safety file, F10 notification, and Principal Designer compliance document service for small builders, architects, and developers on notifiable projects. Replaces the CDM consultant or health and safety advisor who charges £600–£2,500 to prepare the HSE F10 online notification, produce the pre-construction information pack, and draft the health and safety file handed over at project completion.
Why now
HSE has increased CDM enforcement activity in 2024–2025, with the Construction sector named in HSE's 2024/25 operational priorities and recent prosecutions of Principal Designers for inadequate pre-construction information. HSE news feed and gov.uk construction safety communications confirm renewed focus. https://www.gov.uk/search/news-and-communications?keywords=CDM+construction+health+safety
Source signals
https://www.gov.uk/search/news-and-communications?keywords=CDM+construction+health+safety
Commercial value
Every UK construction project with more than one contractor or lasting more than 30 working days must comply with CDM 2015 — roughly 150,000+ notifiable projects per year. Small builders routinely pay £600–£2,500 per project to a CDM coordinator or H&S consultant. ACV: £300–£800/project or £500–£1,500/yr subscription for active small developers. Clear budget line: CDM consultant fees are a standard project cost line on small build programmes.
Go-to-market
Post in r/Construction and UK-specific Facebook groups for small builders and self-builders. Partner with 2–3 architectural technologist practices who are asked to act as Principal Designer but lack CDM documentation support. Price at £299 per project pack or £79/mo for active developers doing 3+ projects. First 10 customers via direct outreach to architects and small developers on Contracts Finder and planning portal public data.
2-week MVP
Single feature: structured intake form (project type, duration, contractor count, site details) → LLM generates F10 notification draft, pre-construction information summary, and a skeleton H&S file template as a PDF/Word pack. Cut: no live HSE portal submission, no ongoing site monitoring, no accident reporting. Manual step: customer submits F10 themselves via HSE portal using the pre-filled data. Day-1 outcome: a Principal Designer or small builder pays £199 for a CDM-compliant document pack that would otherwise cost £600+ from a consultant.
Agent score
0.59 — Commercial score reflects a named, recurring consultant fee (CDM coordinator at £600–£2,500 per project) and a large volume of notifiable projects annually — but project-based pricing limits ACV unless subscription adoption is strong. Speed score is high: the MVP is a structured form-to-document workflow with no infrastructure beyond an LLM and a PDF generator, reachable in under 2 weeks. Defensibility is low initially but improves if the product accumulates a library of project-type-specific pre-construction information templates that are hard to replicate quickly.
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