Westside Radar
Schematic of the four westside cities, US 26 and the MAX Blue Line Tualatin River US 26 MAX Blue Line Forest Grove Hillsboro Beaverton North Plains
Hillsboro, Beaverton, Forest Grove and North Plains, Washington County, Oregon. City positions to scale; river and routes drawn by hand.

Put AI to work in your westside business.

Practical help for local owners: win more business, get time back and serve customers better, starting from what your business actually does. With a local eye on the public work coming up nearby.

Each goal starts small: one real task, one first step, one result to check. Workflow statuses are stated as they are; nothing here is presented as finished before it is.

Five places to start

Pick the goal that matters most this season. Your plan begins there.

  1. Win more business

    Answer every inquiry, even the ones that come in while you are on a job.

    Missed-Lead Recovery picks up inquiries you could not get to, collects the job details and gets a reply ready for you to send.

    Status: In research.

  2. Get time back

    Take the repeat work out of quoting and everyday admin.

    Photo-to-Estimate turns a customer’s photos and description into a draft estimate from your own pricing rules, for you to review.

    Status: Blind-tested on invented requests; photo reading not yet tested.

  3. Serve customers better

    Make replies, quotes and handoffs consistent, whoever answers.

    Estimate Follow-Up keeps track of open quotes and gets follow-ups ready, so good jobs do not go quiet.

    Status: In research.

  4. Modernize how you work

    Connect the information and tools that are scattered across your business.

    Your AI Advantage Plan names one change to try first, sized to your team, with what to measure.

  5. Find new opportunities

    Spot the local work that fits what you do, and decide what is worth chasing.

    Radar reads westside public records each morning and matches them to your work. The Opportunity and Bid Assistant builds on that.

    Status: In research.

Custom implementation is optional and quoted separately. When you generate a plan, what you write may be sent to our AI provider; we say so before you start.

How AI Advantage works

  1. Bring one routine task. Tell us your goal and a real example of how the work goes today.

  2. Check what we understood. You see what Radar read about your business and correct it first.

  3. Get your AI Advantage Plan. A person at Radar reviews it and suggests one useful improvement to try first.

  4. Try it and keep score. Track what happens, then use the result to choose your next step.

Oregon Secretary of State and Construction Contractors Board registries, read November 5, 2026, for August 7 to November 5. Assumed business names are not counted.

1,034 new businesses registered in the four cities in the last 90 days.

And 92 new construction contractor licences. The westside is starting up. It is a good season to decide how your business will use AI.

Read on November 5, 2026. Each title links to the agency’s own record. Only business fields are kept; owner and applicant names are never collected.

A local eye on public work

Every morning Radar reads westside public records, from city permits to council agendas to new registrations, and keeps the ones that fit your work. A few from this week:

  1. Permit

    Jacquelin Drive storm and sanitary sewer replacement

    Hillsboro, Oct 14

    Public improvement permit PIP26-0036, a City of Hillsboro capital project. Engineer: Brown and Caldwell. In review.

  2. Permit

    Henry Street Apartments

    Beaverton, Oct 6

    Commercial site development permit SDCOMM2026-00380. Approved for permit issuance.

  3. Agenda

    Data center moratorium next steps

    Forest Grove, Oct 26

    City Council meeting, presentation item. Public meeting record, not a bid.

Sources: the Oregon Secretary of State and Construction Contractors Board, Beaverton and Hillsboro permit maps, and council agendas. Nothing behind a login.

Westside Radar is the second service area on the Radar platform, after Borderland Radar in El Paso and Las Cruces.

Founding members, by application

A first group of westside owners who want to put AI to work, and to shape Radar around what local businesses actually need. Founding members get a person-reviewed AI Advantage Plan and help trying the first step, introductions both businesses agree to, and the morning read of public work matched to their business.

Founding applications open with the pilot. Borderland Radar members can already apply at borderlandradar.com.