AI automation for construction & specialty trades.

Construction is one of the largest sectors of the economy and one of the least digitized in how it actually runs. IBISWorld puts US construction revenue at roughly 3.3 trillion dollars in 2024, spread across about 814,557 businesses with employees and more than 8 million workers, yet a large share of the work is still coordinated on spreadsheets, PDFs, phone calls, and paper that moves between the jobsite trailer and the back office. Margins are thin, schedules are unforgiving, and the administrative overhead that sits on top of the actual building, RFIs, submittals, change orders, daily reports, safety logs, and payroll, is where projects quietly lose money.

The paperwork is expensive and it is measurable. The Navigant Construction Forum, reviewing 1,362 projects that generated more than a million RFIs, found the average RFI costs about 1,080 dollars to receive, log, review, and respond to, that a typical project can carry roughly 859,000 dollars in RFI processing cost, and that nearly one in four RFIs never receives a reply. Rework compounds it: the Construction Industry Institute puts direct field rework at an average of about 5 percent of total project cost, and once unreported corrective work is counted the real figure is closer to 9 percent, contributing to more than half of total cost growth on a typical project. Change orders are the other leak, running 10 to 15 percent of contract value on major jobs, and roughly 85 percent of projects finish over budget. Then there is cash: the Construction Financial Management Association reports days-sales-outstanding around 83 days, well above the roughly 60-day all-industry average, so a profitable contractor can still be starved for working capital.

This is exactly the work AI is good at, and it spans both the field and the office. Estimating agents turn a plan set and a scope into a first-pass takeoff and bid so more qualified opportunities go out the door against a hard-bid win rate that typically runs 10 to 20 percent. Field agents let a foreman capture a change, a delay, or a daily report by voice or photo from the site and turn it into a structured, time-stamped record instead of a note that gets forgotten. Document agents log and route RFIs and submittals, track ball-in-court and response deadlines, and flag the ones about to slip. Back-office agents assemble certified-payroll reports, draft lien and prompt-payment notices before the statutory clock runs out, and reconcile change orders against the budget. The tooling now integrates directly with the systems contractors already run, from Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud on the project side to Sage 300 CRE, Foundation, and QuickBooks on accounting and Bluebeam on documents.

Compliance and safety are the gate, and both leave a paper trail that has to hold up. Construction remains one of the most dangerous industries: the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded 1,075 construction fatalities in 2023, the highest since 2011, with falls alone accounting for 421 of them, so OSHA recordkeeping, toolbox-talk logs, and incident documentation are not optional. On public and federally funded work, the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts require weekly certified-payroll reports on Form WH-347, filed within seven days of each pay date and retained for three years, along with prevailing-wage and apprenticeship documentation. Getting paid is its own regime: mechanics-lien and prompt-payment laws set hard deadlines that vary by jurisdiction, and in Alberta the Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act, in force since August 29, 2022, requires owners to pay a proper invoice within 28 days and contractors to pay subcontractors within 7, with binding adjudication for disputes. We are a Calgary-based agency serving contractors across Canada, the US, and worldwide, so we build these audit trails and deadline tracks in from day one and keep a human in the loop on anything that gets filed, signed, or sent to a client.