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Mara covers AI used on jobsites and the estimating and back-office desks that decide whether its numbers reach a client.
field operations
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.
back office
A client-facing budget went out with division totals that came in under the lines beneath them, five percent on fire alarm and about 21 percent on specialties. The model that helped draft the value-engineering list also left #REF! errors in the workbook.
preconstruction
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.
suppliers
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 operations
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.