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Software
A client-facing budget went out with division totals below their own line items—five percent on fire alarm and roughly 21 percent on specialties. The AI-assisted value-engineering workbook also contained broken spreadsheet references.
Field
An estimator uploaded the bid set and then the permit set to a chatbot, one file at a time, and prompted his way past the sheets the model preferred to discuss. A curb had changed, and the bid did not include it.
Software
A chatbot caught a missing pizza-oven hood in a subcontractor proposal. The tool built out of that afternoon does not force a yes or a no on the items it cannot resolve.
People
Tim Fairley has published more than 95 Claude skills for construction. Takeoff is the one estimators ask about first, and it is the one he puts a limit on.
Software
On 30 July 2026 Procore announced a roughly $845 million cash purchase of DroneDeploy and, the same day, GAAP operating profitability. What the deal adds is the input its agents did not have.
Field
McKinsey's July 2026 AEC paper puts 39 percent of construction desk work within reach of automation. The daily-use figure traveling with it is nine percent. Both describe the same industry.