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Math checks, cost books, meeting minutes, and project records.
Software
The Texas contractor's in-house AI assistant now reaches 705 people a month and reads Procore, scheduling, estimating and Microsoft 365, by company figures published Sept. 1–2, 2026. The counts are the company's own and unaudited.
People
The innovation chief of a 400-person California GC spent August explaining Sentinel, the system Novo built instead of buying, and the AI on it: insurance certificates 99 percent automated, RFIs drafted from 14 years of Novo's writing.
Field
Procore split the log on 18 August, OpenSpace added dictation and auto-location, and a superintendent posted numbers from an app he built to push photos into the record. What changed, dated, and what to ask before September.
Software
Business AI plans can keep company files out of model training and still retain prompts, uploads, or application state. Contractors need the exact rule for each product, feature, and data class before a project file enters the chat.
Benchmarks
Anthropic's September 2026 release scores 31.4 percent on AutomationBench against 17.1 for Fable 5. Part of the gap is a safeguard. Cache reads cost 75 percent less. Zero data retention depends on where you buy it.
Software
A value-engineering pass cut the division totals and left the line items alone. The desk that caught it now keeps the arithmetic in code and the prices in a cost book that a person approves.
Software
Procore agreed to buy DroneDeploy on 29 July 2026, the day it reported its first GAAP operating profit. Its agents could read every document on a project. They could not see the work.
Field
McKinsey's estimate and DEWALT's survey measure different things. The contractors who have published their own numbers count weekly use, in hours, on a single tool, and they are the large ones.
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