Mirror Engineer — Investor Brief

WHAT IT IS

Said plainly.

Mirror Engineer packages a contractor’s back office into one HTML file he owns outright — his website, crew board, schedule, invoices, price history and estimating sheet. He double-clicks it. There is no server to rent, no seat to license and no subscription to cancel, and it works on a computer or a phone.

The estimating engine is the technology; the pack is the distribution. Every contractor who buys a pack is already running on Mirror Engineer software, so the takeoff engine becomes an upgrade sold to an installed base, not a cold product sold to a stranger.

For general contractors, the pack is one software: plans in, a measured takeoff, the contractor’s own prices, subcontractor bids compared side by side, and every number on the summary marked with where it came from.

WATCH IT

One SAMPLE job, start to finish — then the same software on a phone.

SAMPLE A SAMPLE job. No real job, no real prices. Ask Alma for the full eight-minute walk.

WHERE IT STANDS

Said plainly.

Works today

The general contractor pack: takeoff, Bid Review, the calculators (foundation, framing, roof and more), Bid Compare and the summary — one software.
Walked end to end on a SAMPLE job, on a computer and on a phone.
Back-office packs built for five contractors; one is live on its own domain.

Today the plans, the calculators and the bids each reach the summary as their own job. Putting all of them on one summary is the next step.
The other trades.
A priced, repeatable sales motion — what this raise pays for.

What this is not

Revenue. Pre-revenue. The claim here is that the product exists and works, not that it is yet a business.
No customer’s name, job or price is shown in this brief.

THE TECHNOLOGY

What the software does, step by step. Every still is from the SAMPLE job.

The plan editor measuring a footing run on a SAMPLE sheet

1 · TAKEOFF

It measures.

It reads the title block and the scale off the sheet; click the corners and it measures the run.

2 · BID REVIEW

He sets the price.

Quantities arrive with no dollars. Money moves only when the estimator presses SET.

3 · CALCULATORS

Framing, foundation, roof.

A rake wall with a window, a door and two T-walls, framed to scale, with a cut list.

4 · BID COMPARE

Subs' bids, side by side.

It reads them and shows what is in the total and what is not.

The summary sheet with line 05 stamped with its source

5 · TOTAL IT

On the summary.

Each line is marked STATED (his price) or QUOTED (the awarded bid, with vendor and file).

AND ON A PHONE

The same number.

The same software on a phone. Line 05 matches the computer.

THE ASSET SHEET

What the investor steps into — each with its status, said plainly.

Mirror Engineer — the software

The general contractor pack and the back-office pack, one file each. Walked on a SAMPLE job.

BUILT · BETA

Revit families

Revit family library

An 18-month Revit build of forming-system families — aluminum and steel wall forms, footing forms, Climate-Deck, CMU, rebar, tilt-up and shoring. Families, not a product that orders equipment.

BUILT

Two U.S. patents

US 11,933,057 B2 (walls, Climate-Ties) and US 12,188,232 B2 (floors and roofs, Climate-Deck). Inventor: Alma Jessop.

GRANTED

Climate-Deck and Climate-Ties designs

Engineered and drawn. Not manufactured. On the walls, the plastics and the tie pull strength are not yet tested.

DESIGNED

no visual

Post-tension forming systems

Additional, unreleased systems.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Pictures of the hardware are renders from the design drawings.

THE ASK

One deal. $2,000,000 for Mirror Engineer.

$2,000,000 to take the packs from hand-built to a priced product with a sales motion, and to finish the takeoff engine that upgrades every one of them. The investor elects the structure: a 15% loan, or 20% equity with a Year 5–8 buyback ladder. At $2.0M and pre-revenue, this is a seed-stage / angel raise.

Option A — Debt (loan)

Capital provided	$2,000,000
Structure	5-yr amortizing
Annual rate	15.00%
Monthly payment	$47,579.86
Total repaid (Yr 5)	$2,854,792 · 1.43×

The conservative path. The monthly obligation pulls cash before revenue ramps.

Option B — Equity buyback

Investment	$2,000,000
Equity stake	20%
Implied entry valuation	$10,000,000
Monthly payments	None
Base buyback (Yr 5)	$3,500,000 · 1.75×

Recommended: capital stays working in the business, and the investor is aligned with the upside.

The buyback ladder (Option B)

Year	Buyback	Gain	Multiple	IRR	Implied value
Year 5	$3,500,000	$1,500,000	1.75×	11.84%	$17,500,000
Year 6	$3,900,000	$1,900,000	1.95×	11.77%	$19,500,000
Year 7	$4,300,000	$2,300,000	2.15×	11.56%	$21,500,000
Year 8	$4,700,000	$2,700,000	2.35×	11.27%	$23,500,000

+$400K per year if declined. Implied value = buyback ÷ 20%. These are the deal’s terms, not a forecast.

Use of funds ($2,000,000)

Use	Allocation	Purpose
Founder compensation	$600,000	~$175K/yr so the founder goes full-time — the single biggest unlock.
Software developer	$260,000	Contract developer to finish and harden the engine.
Revit operator	$220,000	One full-time operator on the family library — a second as revenue allows.
Intellectual property & legal	$200,000	Patent and IP counsel.
Go-to-market	$260,000	Marketing and the founder’s industry channels.
Operations	$160,000	~$60K/yr base cost to run the business.
Contingency / reserve	$300,000	Buffer and debt-service reserve.
Total	$2,000,000

The deployment plan for the raise; the final split is confirmed with the investor.

CLIMATE TECH BUILDING SYSTEMS

The hardware — a separate venture. Not part of this deal.

Plastic hardware that sets inside the concrete forms a crew already owns: ties for poured walls and stay-in-place foam forms with rebar hardware for floors and roofs. Two U.S. patents, granted. Engineered, not manufactured; the plastics and the tie pull strength are not yet tested. The hardware raise is $12.0M — $10M to build it, plus $2M contingency.

What this deal is and isn’t. This transaction conveys no ownership of Climate Tech Building Systems and does not include its hardware, patents or designs. The investor’s only connection to it is a first right of participation: if it later raises capital on, or sells, that hardware, the investor may match the terms in writing before it is offered to anyone else.

See the hardware at climatebuilt.com ↗

TERM SHEET OUTLINE

Draft — non-binding — not executed

For discussion and counsel review only. Not legal, financial or tax advice. Nothing is signed and no funds move through this page.

Parties	[Investor legal name] and Mirror Engineer [entity in formation]
Deal	$2,000,000 — investor’s election of Option A (5-yr amortizing loan at 15%, ≈ $47,580/mo) or Option B (20% equity, buyback Years 5–8 per the ladder above)
Hardware	Not included. First right of participation in Climate Tech Building Systems, on matching terms, within [__] days.
Funds	Released by the parties through their own banks, with dual written confirmation.

Each party should obtain independent legal and financial counsel before execution.

BUILT BY A BUILDER

Alma Jessop

30+ years in construction. Ran a framing company at 20, then became a licensed general contractor and a Parade of Homes award winner.

Helped develop earlier estimating software and demoed it at the NAHB International Builders' Show for years. Co-invented a footing forming system and was a regional sales manager for a forming manufacturer. Inventor on two U.S. concrete hardware patents.

Today he works as a lead estimator — and he built Mirror Engineer.

THE WHOLE BACK OFFICE.
ONE FILE.

WHAT IT IS

WATCH IT

WHERE IT STANDS

Works today

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What this is not

THE TECHNOLOGY

It measures.

He sets the price.

Framing, foundation, roof.

Subs' bids, side by side.

On the summary.

The same number.

THE ASSET SHEET

Mirror Engineer — the software

Revit family library

Two U.S. patents

Climate-Deck and Climate-Ties designs

Post-tension forming systems

THE ASK

Option A — Debt (loan)

Option B — Equity buyback

The buyback ladder (Option B)

Use of funds ($2,000,000)

CLIMATE TECH BUILDING SYSTEMS

TERM SHEET OUTLINE

BUILT BY A BUILDER

Alma Jessop

TALK TO ALMA