Construction and engineering
Construction runs on the version of the drawing that's current, and the version isn't always the one in the field notebook. The schedules read like fiction to the person on site.
The estimating problem is the one that gets sold — the docs obsolete to submit to the trades — but the harder truth is how the supply of decision data works. Everything the site generates arrives late: the daily log tonight, the submittal approval next week, the change order next month. Decisions made on the oldest copy is the normal state of affairs.
AI has to be good at two things here: making the lag visible, and reconciling the current 'truth' without claiming it is the future. The job with yesterday's approved drawings is not a data problem; but it is a discipline problem the data can anchor.
What you get
The promise, kept honest. Direction, not invented numbers.
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Submittal and AP flows that check stale, approved, and current copies with mechanical certainty
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Schedules laid over the actual jobstate, so 'best case' and 'what was committed' are not conflated
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Estimates that reconcile to end-of-project cost, so the margin is known while it can still be worn
The constraints
The parts that make this industry different. If one of these sounds like your problem, that is the conversation to have.
- The current revision is spread across email, stamps, and printed field notes — 'current' is a convention
- Schedules lie in the direction that will win the bid; the model must not inherit the lie
- Documents today are produced by people who enter data after the fact
- Multi-trade coordination means a change for one triggers a claim for several — timing is money
How we deliver
The engineering gates that separate a demo from a deployment in this industry.
- A doc-truth layer that can make the lag visible before the model answers the trade
- Change orders treated as revision events with timelines, not as document frames
- Schedule math carried as ranges — the model says what is uncertain, not what is fine
Call us when
- The field notebook, the email thread, and the latest drawing do not agree on the revision
- Schedule updates are a meeting, not a stream
- Estimator says the numbers are on the drawing; finance says they are on the P.O.
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