This has been a big month for me. Last week I became a Dad (super excited but sleep deprived), also feels very wierd calling myself a Dad. So this month I'm in a tiny bit of a holding pattern but I've got two main focuses this month. 1. I want to engage way more on here and restructure the classroom. We've got sample projects, tons and tons of templates and more. I really want to try and get people to use them 2. Rebuild my email newsletter so its genuinely useful for people. I'm planning on breaking each week down into three parts: news updates - what's happened in the last week of construction/AI, inform - some interesting insight or perspective change and work - a new approach or solution to a task. What are your goals for October? Comment them down below!

Wondering what tools everyone is using and how they connect their tech stack for one centralized source of truth. What flow do you find most effective and useful for your business?

Hi all, This is a great community. I just sold my first project, an AI phone assistant who will take calls, gather information, answer questions, and schedule appointments. I’ve used ChatGPT and Claude to plan out this project. But I still have two important questions for this great community. 1) What should I charge for this first project? If it goes well, it could lead to several others with the same Contractor. 2) For any of you who have built something similar, what tech stack did you deploy? Thank you.

Hi All, Has anyone set up both inbound and outbound calling for their agent? If so, how is that handled, in the prompt or through some other manner? Use case: inbound calls classify caller as prospect, current client, vendor/supplier, field technician or urgent caller and then routes call to proper workflow (get info, take message, schedule appt., forward call, etc.), updates crm records etc. If field technician, records info on job status, updates job and creates task list. Outbound: calls suppliers back, makes call based on tasks created by field technician such as calls supplier to place order, calls sub contractor to schedule work, etc.

How to Use AI in Construction Estimating Without Losing Control of the Bid A construction estimate is a commitment: we can build this scope for this price, in this time, from documents we’ve often only had for a couple of weeks. That’s why handing the whole bid to AI and hoping for the best is a terrible idea. I think there are three sensible levels: - Start with risk reduction. Use AI to check your estimate for missed requirements, gaps, double-counting and formula errors. - Use it to structure information. Build requirements and clarifications registers, then review them before they feed into the next step. - Once your data is organised, use it for more of the heavy lifting like assemblies, line-item pricing, subcontractor quote comparisons and submission documents. The important part is keeping human review between each workflow so errors don’t compound. Where are you currently using AI in your estimating process?