Sector
Direct answer
In a construction company or engineering practice, AI mainly helps with reading and writing: going through a tender and its special conditions, comparing subcontractor bids, writing site meeting minutes. Quantities and prices are still calculated in your estimating software; AI prepares and checks, the project manager decides.
Concrete use cases
The assistant reads the tender documents (specification, special conditions, standard items) and lists the deadlines, penalties, guarantees, departures from SIA 118 and unclear items to clarify before pricing. The project manager starts from that list, not from a blank page.
What we measure — Time spent reading a tender, and how many clarification questions are raised before the bid rather than after.
Three bids received in three different formats: the assistant puts them into one table, item by item, and flags what is missing or excluded. The choice stays with the site manager.
What we measure — Comparison time per work package, and discrepancies discovered after award.
From notes taken in the meeting or dictated on a phone, the assistant writes the minutes in the company’s format: decisions, actions, owners, deadlines. The minutes go out, reviewed, the same day.
What we measure — Time between the meeting and sending the minutes, and how many open items are followed through to closure.
What must be respected
Contract terms (SIA 118 standard, the client’s special conditions) prevail: AI flags them, it does not interpret them in place of the project manager. Clients’ plans and documents are often confidential; the tools we select make it possible to honour those commitments if data is not used for training and access is limited to the project.
Use cases for this sector
Further AI uses that concern this sector, taken from our catalogue by business function.
Recommended tools
For minutes, e-mails and Excel sheets, inside the tools the team already uses.
For reading large tender files and comparing bids received as PDFs.
Questions
A half-day workshop on your own cases: from CHF 1,900 excl. VAT. To roll it out with your teams: a subscription from CHF 1,800/month (10 h), three months minimum, or a fixed-price engagement on quotation. Details are on the pricing page.
No, not in an SME. What works: a contact point who validates usage, not a dedicated role.
It depends on what you already use. The tools we most often recommend for this line of business are shown above; the final choice is made with your IT team, depending on whether you work in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace.
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You leave with the use cases chosen for your company, the right tool and the rules of use. Price confirmed before we start.