AI for demolition and construction services.
Built for how the work actually runs: quoting and estimation, crew and plant scheduling, compliance paperwork such as SWMS (safe work method statements), and chasing payment. The reason a general assistant is useless at estimating your work is not that it cannot write. It is that it has never seen a job you have priced.
We work with any business. The sector pages are worked examples of the method, not limits.
- Project mgmtProgramme, variations, site diary. The nearest thing to what actually happened on site.
- EstimatingThe sheet the quote was built on. Usually a file per job, named by whoever built it.
- AccountingInvoiced and paid. The only place the real cost eventually shows up.
- ComplianceInductions, licences, SWMS, asbestos register. Current until the week someone needs them.
- InboxWhere the variation was agreed, and the only record that it was.
- Plant registerMachines, pre-start checks, service history. Often a spreadsheet and a clipboard in the cab.
- The estimatorWhich streets are difficult, which subbies hold rate. Never written down.
The marked row is usually the system of record. Establishing which one actually is, per question, is most of the first fortnight.
Where the day actually goes.
Quoting and estimating from scratch each time, because finding the comparable job is harder than rebuilding it. Crew and plant scheduling by hand. SWMS, site diaries and compliance records eating into time on site. Cash tied up because invoicing and follow-up lag behind the work.
And the knowledge that makes any of it work sitting in a few people's heads and inboxes, where nothing can reach it.
That is not a failure to fix. It is value already sitting in your business, unreachable.
What an AI would have to know before it can price a job for you.
This is the list we work through in a review. Every item already exists somewhere in your business, and none of it is reachable by a general assistant.
- 01Estimation precedentWhat you quoted for a job of this shape, what it actually cost, and which line items you consistently under-price. Most of this is in closed-out jobs nobody reads again.
- 02Site and access conditionsWhat made the last job on this street difficult (access, neighbours, services left live, hazardous material found mid-strip) and whether that was priced in or absorbed.
- 03Subcontractor historyWho turned up, who held rate, who caused rework. Usually a judgement held by two people, not a record.
- 04Compliance stateWhich inductions, high-risk work licences, SWMS and asbestos records are current, and which are about to lapse on a crew you are scheduling next week.
- 05Client and commercial termsRetention, payment behaviour, variation history, and which clients argue every claim.
- 06Current stateWhich crews are committed, what plant is available, what is invoiced and unpaid, and which job is slipping.
Admin first. Then one project brain. Then agents.
Automate the admin
A governed assistant and first automations on quoting correspondence, document handling and scheduling. Hours back while the deeper work is scoped.
One project brain
The context layer over project management, site diaries, the plant register, accounting, email and phone. Ask anything about a job, a client or the numbers and get an answer with a source.
Agents on the busywork
Agents for quoting, estimation, admin and customer response. Each task starts at L2 Propose and moves to L3 within written bounds only on its own shadow-mode record. Money, safety and people stay at L4.
Autonomy tiers: L1 Assist · L2 Propose (the default) · L3 Act within written bounds · L4 Approval required always. What each tier means
Estimation, because that is where the money is.
Estimation is the highest-value place to start in this sector, and it is also the one that most obviously depends on context. A first-draft quote assembled from your own closed-out jobs, with the comparable jobs cited so an estimator can check the reasoning, is worth more than a faster way to type.
It also has a useful property: you can test it honestly. Run it in shadow mode against jobs you have already priced and compare. If it does not hold up, you have lost a few weeks rather than a year.
A model that has never seen a job you priced is not an estimator. It is a confident stranger with a calculator.
Beyond the quote: the questions a site raises every week.
The same layer that prices a job can answer for it once the crew is on site. Each row is what the layer would read and what it would answer with. Every answer cites its records, and anything it cannot find is shown as a gap.
| Track | What it reads | What it answers with |
|---|---|---|
| Site diary and SWMSWas the SWMS for Level 3 strip-out reviewed before the crew started? | Site diary entries, the SWMS register and its versions, sign-on sheets, crew inductions. | The SWMS version in force that day, who signed on and when, and any diary entry that records a change of method without a revised SWMS. |
| VariationsWhich variations on this job were agreed but never claimed? | Inbox threads, site diary, the variation register, progress claims in the accounting package. | Each variation with where it was agreed, whether it was priced and claimed, and the email or diary entry it rests on. |
| Plant registerWhich excavators are free next week, and are they fit to go? | The plant register, pre-start checks, service history, the programme. | Available machines with their service and inspection status, and any that fall due for service partway through the job. |
| Incident reconstructionWhat do our records show about Tuesday's near miss at the exclusion zone? | That shift's site diary, the SWMS in force, sign-on sheets, plant pre-starts, photos and messages. | A timeline with every line cited, the records that are missing, and a label that says it is a reconstruction from records, not a finding. Only people cleared to see the incident can ask. |
None of this notifies a regulator, closes an incident or stands a crew down. Those stay with a person, at L4.
What we will stand behind.
We baseline these before anything is built, then show the change against your own figures. Nothing is projected from an industry average.
Start with a conversation about your jobs.
Tell us how a quote gets built today and who has to be involved. We will tell you what a first stage would realistically look like, or that there is not one worth doing yet.