AI pursuit intelligence and proposal platform for AEC marketing teams
Kantiv, formerly Joist AI, builds AI software that helps architecture, engineering and construction firms turn past proposals and client history into stronger bids. Its stack is LLM-native: LangGraph, Crew AI and LlamaIndex for agent orchestration, Langfuse and LangSmith for observability, and Pinecone, Weaviate and FAISS for retrieval. Engineering-led hiring in India, focused on agentic proposal writing and chat latency, points to a push to productionize multi-agent workflows.
Kantiv is a San Diego-based software company founded in 2022 and formerly known as Joist AI. It sells a pursuit intelligence platform to marketing and business development teams at AEC firms. The product captures proposals, project data, staff expertise and client history, then applies them across the pursuit lifecycle, from go/no-go decisions to proposal drafting. The company is privately held with 51–200 employees and runs its backend on Python, FastAPI and AWS services including Lambda, RDS and Step Functions.
Kantiv uses Python, FastAPI, React and AWS (Lambda, RDS, Step Functions), with an AI layer built on LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Crew AI, OpenAI, Mistral, Llama and vector stores like Pinecone, Weaviate and FAISS.
Yes. Kantiv's hiring is accelerating and weighted toward senior engineering roles, with additional marketing hiring, and current openings are based in India.
Kantiv is building an agentic proposal writing platform and modular agent components, alongside voice of customer, launch excellence, and discovery and pilot programs.
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