A mid-market general contractor handed us a full multi-discipline construction document set. One automated pass turned it into trade takeoffs, coordination findings, and ready-to-send RFIs. An afternoon of compute, not a week and a half of skilled labor.
A full set lands: civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, plumbing, fire, electrical. Someone has to read all of it, take off the quantities, catch the conflicts between disciplines, and write the RFIs. On a set this size that is roughly a week and a half of a project manager and an estimator's time, and the conflicts that slip through become change orders in the field. We pointed one automated pass at the PDF.
Reads every sheet: type, scale, schedules, materials, cross-references.
Builds a queryable database and concept wiki of the set.
All-trade quantities, every line confidence-scored.
Surfaces cross-sheet conflicts automatically.
Writes formal RFIs and routes them to the right designer.
The contractor opens a dense foundation plan. Seconds later the AI has read every footing tag off the vector layer and placed all 80 footings and pedestals with coordinates. That placement is the start of the takeoff, and it is exact, not eyeballed.
Foundation plan, title block removed for confidentiality. Marker color and labels are the AI's, one per counted footing.
Eight tables: sheets, schedules, instances, relationships, design basis, notes, placeholders, coordination. Every fact carries a reliability score.
The same pass produced the real deliverables below. The left side is the manual reality. The right side is what the AI handed back, shown exactly as it came out (anonymized).
HIGH from vector tags and schedules. MEDIUM from vision or a single source. LOW where scaled or derived.
It quantifies what it can prove and flags the rest. The estimator verifies before pricing.
*Manual hours are a conservative first-pass estimate for a project manager and estimator on a 71-sheet set. The AI pass produces the same first-pass output in a few hours, including human review of every flagged item before anything is priced or sent. Labor value at a blended rate near $95 per hour loaded. Figures are illustrative. Your set, trades, and rates will differ.
The same workflow runs on every bid. Faster turnaround, fewer missed scope items, cleaner margins.
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