The AI technology firm behind MantleBridge

Your file server works.
Your engineers know
where everything is.
Let's talk about what they
can't find fast enough.

Mantleway is the AI technology firm behind MantleBridge, the non-invasive tool that connects your existing project archive to the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem — without migration, restructuring, or replacing the systems your firm runs on. NTFS permissions preserved. Project history kept where it lives.

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FIG. 01 · MANTLEBRIDGE™ · IDENTITY-AWARE INDEXING TOPOLOGY YOUR NETWORK MANTLEBRIDGE™ MICROSOFT 365 [A] FILE SERVER 15+ YRS · NTFS · UNTOUCHED VOL · PROJECTS Drawings · RFIs SUBMITTALS · BODs VOL · ARCHIVE Project History CLOSED · INDEXED VOL · STANDARDS Spec Templates FIRM-OWNED LIVE · ACL · RW A UNIT · 01 · MANTLEBRIDGE™ MODULE · A ACL Mirror MODULE · B Graph Connector MODULE · C Citation Layer MODULE · D Workflow Hooks NON-INVASIVE · NO MIGRATION B [B] MANTLEBRIDGE™ connector core READ · ACL INDEX · TYPED CONSUMER · 01 Copilot Agents RFI · BOD · SUBMIT CONSUMER · 02 Teams · Outlook IN-WORKFLOW CONSUMER · 03 Power Automate FLOW · TRIGGERS [C] IDENTITY BRIDGE — ON-PREM AD ↔ ENTRA ON-PREM AD NTFS · Groups ENTRA CONNECT ACL Sync ENTRA ID Cloud · Tenant C YOUR TENANT — UNCHANGED DRAWN BY DATE MANTLEWAY 2026.Q2 DRAWING REV Bridge Topology A SCALE SHEET N.T.S. 01 / 01 MANTLE FIG. 01 MANTLEBRIDGE™ TOPOLOGY · BRIDGE
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The question no one wants to ask
Scenario 01 Senior PM · Departure

What happens to fifteen years of project knowledge
when the senior PM who remembers it
takes a job at the competitor next quarter?

The Dread

One LinkedIn announcement and the institutional memory of how your firm has solved problems for a decade walks out the door.

The Reality

Most of what they know lives in their head, in old emails, and in PDFs nobody else has read in years. None of it is searchable.

The Bridge

MantleBridge™ indexes your project archive against Microsoft Copilot — so the answers your senior PM holds become searchable by your whole team. Before they leave.

Scenario 02 Microsoft Copilot · Stalled Rollout

What happens to your Copilot rollout
when adoption stalls in week six
and nobody quite knows why?

The Dread

Forty seats licensed at $30 a month, four engineers actually using it, and a renewal conversation that nobody is looking forward to.

The Reality

Out of the box, Copilot can't read your file server. The data the AI needs is on the wrong side of a permissions bridge that was never built.

The Bridge

MantleBridge™ deploys the Microsoft Graph Connector against your file shares with NTFS permissions mirrored. Crawl quality is verified before any user sees a result.

Scenario 03 RFI Response · The Hunt

How long does it actually take to find the one detail
in a closed project archive that answers
this morning's RFI?

The Dread

An RFI that should take five minutes takes two days because the right detail lives in a 2019 submittal nobody remembers the project name for.

The Reality

You already wrote the answer. You wrote it on a project six years ago. It is in a PDF on a network share, untagged and unsearchable.

The Bridge

The RFI Intelligence agent searches every closed project, returns the relevant detail with a sheet number citation, and lets your engineer move on with their day.

Scenario 04 Basis of Design · Tribal Knowledge

What happens to your Basis of Design knowledge
when half of it lives in PDFs your
junior engineers don't know exist?

The Dread

The same design rationale gets re-derived on every project, badly, by engineers who didn't know your firm had already answered the question.

The Reality

Your firm's BOD library, spec templates, and lessons-learned documents are real. They're also, in practice, invisible to anyone who didn't write them.

The Bridge

The Basis of Design agent grounds every answer in your firm's actual standards — with citations to the original document. Tribal knowledge becomes firm knowledge.

A successful AI rollout shouldn't be a migration, a restructuring, or a five-figure pilot deck. Every Mantleway engagement ends with your in-house team holding the runbook, the agent definitions, and the credentials.

Powered by MantleBridge™ · The Non-Invasive Connector for Microsoft Copilot & Your File Server
01 Where We Fit

Not the Microsoft partner. Not the AI agency. Not the IT consultancy. A different animal.

The Microsoft Partner The AI Agency The IT Consultancy Mantleway
Pitch "Buy more Microsoft licenses." "Let's build a custom GPT." "We'll manage your migration." "Activate what you already own."
Where Your Data Lives Migrated to SharePoint. Copied into a vector DB. Lift-and-shift to cloud. Stays on your file server.
The Deliverable Reseller margin and a license bill. A demo on synthetic data. A 12-month roadmap. A working agent on your real files.
Pricing Model License resale plus billable hours. Discovery sprint, then SOW. T&M with budget caps. Fixed fee, fixed scope.
Engagement Velocity Quarters. Months of "alignment." Phased over a year. Two weeks to working software.
Exit Posture Locked in. Locked in. Locked in. Built to be handed off.
02 The Problem

More than nine in ten Copilot deployments at engineering firms under-deliver in the first year — because the data the AI needs is on the wrong side of a permissions bridge that was never built.

Project Archive
15yr+
of project archive sitting on file servers Copilot can't read by default.
License Spend
$30/u/mo
spent on Copilot licenses, mostly to summarize emails and rephrase Teams messages.
Grounded Queries
<8%
share of typical Copilot queries that touch project-grounded data — the work the firm is paid for.
The Thesis
The Copilot licenses aren't the problem. The problem is that making them useful requires bridging on-prem identity, on-prem data, and cloud AI in a way that Microsoft documents but doesn't deliver. The bridge is the work.
— Mantleway · Operating Principle №1
03 The Method

The Mantleway Method — a four-stage activation that gives your firm a working AI capability, not a five-figure pilot deck.

01 / AUDIT

Map what's actually there.

We map what's actually in your file server, what your Microsoft 365 setup can support today, and what has to be fixed first. NTFS permissions, identity model, license gaps, capacity. Two weeks. Fixed fee.

→ The deliverable is a written report your IT lead can act on with or without us.
02 / BRIDGE

Connect the systems that weren't talking.

We deploy and configure the Microsoft Graph Connector against your file shares with NTFS permissions mirrored, identity properly bridged, and crawl quality verified before any user touches the system.

→ Engineers see exactly what their NTFS permissions allow — nothing more, nothing less.
03 / BUILD

Four production agents, grounded in your project history.

RFI Intelligence, Submittal Review, Proposal Drafting, Basis of Design — each grounded in your real project archive, designed against your firm's actual workflow, with citation requirements baked in. No invented specifications.

→ Every agent output ends with a sheet number, detail reference, or document citation.
04 / WIRE

Put the agents where engineers already work.

Power Automate flows that put the agents inside Outlook, Teams, and your CRM — so engineers use the system from where they already work, not in a separate app they'll forget to open by Tuesday.

→ Pipedrive, Planner, and SharePoint integrations ship with the engagement.
MantleBridge™ Capability Brief Technical Summary · Full Architecture available under MNDA

What the bridge actually does once it's running in your tenant. Documented to the interface, proven against your real environment during the Readiness Assessment.

  1. 01
    Indexing

    Identity-Aware File Indexing

    Microsoft Graph Connector with verified ACL mirroring across your existing AD groups. Engineers see exactly what their NTFS permissions allow — nothing more, nothing less. Indexed content; data never copied.

  2. 02
    Agent Design

    Citation-First Output

    Every agent output ends with a sheet number, detail reference, or document citation. No invented specifications. No confident answers from general engineering knowledge. Refusal-rate is a measured deliverable.

  3. 03
    Workflow

    In-Workflow Integration

    Power Automate flows trigger from Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint. Pipedrive and Planner integrations ship with the engagement. Engineers use the system from where they already work.

  4. 04
    Handoff

    Built-In Handoff

    Every engagement ends with a runbook, an admin training session, and credentials transferred to your IT lead. The system is yours, not ours. We do not retain access after the handoff.

04 Why it's the safe choice

Mantleway is engineered for the principal — a low-blast-radius answer to the question "should we actually be doing AI yet?" that your competitors are still avoiding.

Guarantee 01

Audits with reversibility.

Reversible at every step. Nothing migrated, nothing destroyed. If you decide to walk away after the assessment, your file server is exactly as you left it — every permission, every share, every directory.

→ No cutover. No rollback plan. Nothing to undo.
Guarantee 02

Builds with rigor.

Every agent ships with a test set drawn from your real project history. We measure citation accuracy and refusal rate before anything reaches a user. Output traceability is a deliverable, not a hope.

→ No demos on synthetic data. No "proof of concept" that doesn't survive contact with your archive.
Guarantee 03

Data integrity, by default.

Your project files never leave your network. Microsoft's connector indexes content where it lives; agents query the index. We don't copy, snapshot, or retain your data — and the indexed content respects every NTFS permission you've already set.

→ Engineers see what they always saw. The AI sees no more than the engineer querying it.
05 Engagement Tiers

Enter at your risk tolerance. Scale when the work earns it.

Mantleway engagements are structured as a deliberate ladder. Every tier has a fixed scope, a fixed deliverable, and a defined off-ramp. You move up the ladder because the work has earned the next step, not because the contract forces it.

Group A

Entry Point — How we start.

A two-week, fixed-scope engagement that audits your file server, validates your Microsoft 365 setup, and stands up a working Copilot agent on your real project files.

  1. Tier 0

    Mantleway Readiness Assessment

    Audit your file server, validate your Microsoft 365 setup, and stand up one working Copilot agent grounded in your real project archive. Two weeks. Fixed scope. You keep everything we produce.

    $5,500 Fixed · 2 weeks
Group B

Implementation — Where we build.

Production-grade engagement scoped to your firm's actual workflow. Pricing is determined during the assessment based on permission complexity, archive size, and which agents you prioritize. No surprise SOWs.

  1. Tier I

    Method Implementation

    The full four-stage Method — Audit, Bridge, Build, Wire — delivered against your firm's environment. MantleBridge™ deployed in production, four agents grounded in your archive, Power Automate flows wired into Outlook and Teams, full handoff to your IT lead.

    Quoted Fixed-fee · Post-assessment
Group C

Ongoing Support — How we stay.

Monthly retainers for post-deployment support and long-term relationship. Terminable quarterly. The retainer earns its place or ends — no multi-year lock-in.

  1. Tier II

    Mantleway Care

    Architectural review cadence, agent maintenance, new agent build-outs, priority access to the founder, and incident response for clients running MantleBridge™ in production.

    From $2,500/mo Terminable quarterly
First Two Engagements at Launch Rate · 2026

Mantleway is a new practice. We are taking on our first two engineering-firm engagements at the published launch rate. Every tier is fixed-price at engagement; published rates are starting points and may scope higher for complex environments, always disclosed before signature. There are no hidden change-order mechanisms.

Start Here · TIER 0 · ASSESSMENT

Mantleway Readiness Assessment

A two-week, fixed-scope engagement that audits your file server, validates your Microsoft 365 setup, and stands up a working Copilot agent on your real project files. No migration. No restructuring. No multi-month commitment at the door.

Investment
$5,500fixed fee
Duration
2 weeksactive work · scheduled to your calendar
What You Keep
Everythingreports, agent definitions, runbook — yours whether you continue or not

What's included

  • 01
    File Server Readiness Report — data inventory, permission complexity audit, identity model assessment. The document your IT lead needs.
  • 02
    Microsoft 365 Configuration Assessment — Entra Connect, license gaps, capacity, prerequisites. Honest read on what works today and what has to be fixed first.
  • 03
    Top 3 Workflows Analysis — RFI, Submittal, Proposal, or Basis of Design — whichever three matter most to your firm. Scoped against your actual workflow.
  • 04
    One working Copilot agent deployed to your tenant on your real project files. Plus a fixed-fee implementation proposal — no obligation to proceed.
Prerequisite-Pause Clause

If discovery reveals prerequisite work — hybrid identity, permission remediation, license gaps — we deliver the assessment and pause the agent build until prerequisites are resolved. No additional cost. The agent build credit carries forward.

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