About

The engineer shipping your engine is the engineer scoping it.

Metabus sets up and operates sales engines for architecture and engineering firms. Founded by Jason Deichert, software engineer based in Alberta, Canada.

Who we work with

Principal-led businesses where the principal's craft is the value. Your work pays and your clients refer you. The bottleneck is a customer-acquisition motion that runs without you.

Who we don't

Generic SMB consulting. Standalone AI products where the cleverness of the AI is supposed to be the value. We set up the engine that drives your sales motion. AI is how we ship it fast.

Why Metabus

The name means meta-business. We set up the systems that run your business. The sales engine is the system we ship first, because revenue is the system most firms feel the leaks in first. Operations, document review, qualifications packages, repeat-client reporting all share the same engineering. Once the engine is live, the same monthly retainer rolls out the next surface as your motion is ready for it.

Engine first, more later, on one bill. No platform handover. No second vendor for the second tool. The firm sees the next decision on the dashboard. The toolchain underneath stays our problem.

Jason Deichert, software engineer. Ten years shipping production systems.

Cofounder of BuildGravity with Jamie Banks, principal at Banks Architecture. Keystone is the construction PM platform we ship and Banks runs every day. Jamie has worked on $750M of project value across his career.

Before BuildGravity: five years at Phreesia (NYSE: PHR), shipping healthcare scheduling at hospital-network scale.

Metabus is the studio. Jason plus a tight bench of operators trusted with real client work. Small enough to ship in a week. Honest enough to say when we're not the right fit.

What we ship

Production systems behind the work. Each one is the same engineering we point at your sales engine.

Architect

Keystone (BuildGravity)

Keystone is the construction PM platform we built and run for Banks Architecture, an active Vancouver studio. Hundreds of construction projects tracked, 500+ invoices issued through the platform, in production daily. The principal architect has worked on $750M of project value across his career. The platform handles billing, qualifications, document review, and proposal workflows on one surface.

Cleantech / Public Sector

Confluence AI

$20M+ raised across the Confluence AI CEO's career. CEC-approved technology vendor (Grant ARV-24-015). We built and operate the marketing site, intake flow, and application-tracking surface backing the next round. CEC modules accepted with reviewer-tuned voice. Same engineering ships the qualifications package an AE firm submits every quarter.

Campaign / Custom Tool

DVW4EA

Photo-contest entries captured through paid Meta ads. A sixty-second SMS routes the response to the operator before the prospect closes the browser tab. Scoring rules qualify entries as they arrive. No ops headcount on the firm side.

DVW4EA proved the engine catches a lead at scale and routes the right human to it. The same mechanism, configured for your firm: an RFP-intake portal that catches the public RFP the moment it posts; a qualifications-package tool that pre-fills 80% of the boilerplate; a referral-tracker that surfaces dormant relationships before the next pursuit window.

Specialty Trades

Tangle Pools

Site visits booked on the owner's calendar through a paced 3-9 month close window. Tangle Pools is a residential trades installer. The principal sells the installation. We set up the engine that catches the lead and lands a qualified site visit on the owner's calendar. For an architecture or engineering firm the same engine catches your referral and paces it through a long close window.

GIS / Spatial

PermitCheck + GreenMap

We built the spatial layer for PermitCheck, a parcel buildability tool for Vancouver. It calculates what's actually permitted on a parcel from the zoning, the footprint, and the envelope. The same engine runs GreenMap for Don Valley West Environmental Action, live at greenmap.buildgravity.ca collecting community photo submissions for their Spring Photo Competition (deadline June 21, 2026). For an architecture or engineering firm bidding public-sector or community-engagement work, the same engine ships the client-facing tool you need inside the RFP window.

Our own engine

Metabus dogfood

You're reading the proof. Book the call. The confirmation SMS arrives within a minute. The booking calendar above and the operator workbench behind it are the same system we install for clients. If the engine breaks here, we find out before the next prospect does.

How we work

The process is straightforward. A free 30-minute fit-check call to see if there's a match. A paid discovery sprint of about a week to learn the business and write the GTM plan. Then a customized set-up live inside two weeks: build fee $8K-$15K, fixed scope, fixed price. Ongoing operation runs $2K-$5K per month.

Qualified leads inside month one or the build fee and the first month of retainer come back. The definition of a qualified lead is set in the GTM plan and signed by both sides before the set-up week starts. Your firm keeps the plan, the landing page, the booking flow, and the contact data either way.

Get in touch

Send a note about what you're trying to solve. If there's a real fit we'll set up a call. 30 minutes, no pitch deck.

Book the 30-min call jason@metabus.ca