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Two senior engineers reviewing drawings on a bridge deck at dusk

About

A small practice, on purpose.

Sharpest Pencil is senior proposal and resume support for design-build civil work. No bench, no template library, no marketing layer.

Denver, Colorado — engaged nationwide

$14B+
Civil work reviewed
4
Concurrent pursuits, by design
48h
Screening turnaround

No handoff

The person who frames your proposal is the person who edits it.

Written, dated

Every recommendation carries an author and its assumptions.

Held capacity

Four pursuits at a time, so submission week is never a queue.

Cable-stayed bridge under construction at dusk

Thirty years of large civil work, applied to one proposal at a time.

The practice

Work with us on the next one.

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