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Best use of notebookLM for a project?
I’m wondering if anyone use Google notebookLM as RAG search for a project? What are the best use of notebookLM in construction? I’m testing notebookLM and project feature google drive. But I cannot find other use cases besides searching files, info.. using Gemini chat.
1 like • 6d
The studio out puts are nice. Audio overview, video overview, slide deck, infographic, mind map. But in construction specific i use it as spec/drawing review before bid- dump the spec book and drawings into a a notebook, generate a audio overview and listen to it on way, can also ask the chat to pull specifics. New Hire/apprentice onboarding- load safety manual, NEC relevant SOPs and jobsite procedures into one notebook, new guys query it in plain English. bid/proposal reuse- feed it past winning proposals plus new RFP/ITB ask it to map requirements to existing capabilities and pull matching languages from past submissions, will help cut time on writing proposals. meeting notes to briefing doc- can record or transcribe meeting, put in notebook and develop briefing doc and share immediatly after, or can take same idea put into specific notebook for project updates and out to client or team to keep everyone updated. contract/departure pass- load client contract plus standard terms and ask it to flag clauses that deviate. Pretty good use for a first pass on a contract (doesnt replace actual human eyes for final draft) Code research- Load NEC, city amendments, and any other specifics and can be your knowledge bank for code research. Also can change any into podcast, upload project documents as a project manager or foreman is on way to walk the site and do podcast of it while they drive.
Lookahead schedule software
Hey everyone! On all the projects I’ve worked on, we maintain a baseline/master schedule, but every week we also create a weekly work plan and a 3-week lookahead schedule. This approach has worked well for lean planning, keeping subcontractors informed, and identifying constraints ahead of time. However, I feel like we’re still doing the lookaheads in a very old-school way. Our master schedule is maintained in P6, but our lookahead schedules are created in Excel, which can be a bit of a pain. Does anyone know of any inexpensive or free software that could help streamline this process? I'm mainly looking for something that makes it easier to update and rearrange lookahead activities
0 likes • 6d
my quick fix for now was using my notion connected with claude, update claude through chat on tasks we have and plans ahead of time (made a board specific for schedules) and had claude update my notion tasks. I created dashboard connected to notion, have a operations dashboard, field dashboard and executive dashboard, project dashboard. Thing im struggling with is getting everyone to use the technology. Figure i try this way before i go all in developing one
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also using whats app for voice notes in workflow to update
What’s the coolest thing you’re building right now?
I’ll go first. I’m building a system to have AI dig through years of my old supplier and labour invoices and back-calculate what my work actually costs — real unit rates pulled from jobs I’ve already done, not gut feel and a sharp pencil. Tested it on a few invoices so far and it works. Pulled the labour hours, tied them to the right cost codes, spit out a rate. Now the job is scaling it across the whole pile. The thing is, every contractor already has this data. It’s just buried in years of PDFs nobody ever opens again. Mining it turns estimating from guessing into pricing off your own history. Early days, but even those first few invoices had me realizing how much I’ve been leaving on the table. What are you building? Doesn’t have to be finished — what’s the project that’s got you going “if I can pull this off…”?
1 like • 21d
Currently using harness repo from github, helped develop AI brain for operations, and 6 sub agents for electrical contractor im working at. Developing several skills inside of that. Bid intel (scraps web for intel on other competitors using firecrawl and playwright (gonna add in huggingface soon) with those im testing to see if i can get into permit portals and stuuff so you can get through paywalls to get a bunch of intel... also using same for client intel for possible intel on customizing sales calls, cold emailing or follow ups. But overall i have 54 workflows planned for operations, have it down to 50 now lol.... work in progress.
2 likes • 17d
@Jackson Franklin I honestly just kinda look at groups like this get ideas, joined few on Facebook too. Asked Claude few questions and had it break down to steps for me, how I put Claude code and all that on my computer locally was through steps Claude gave me basically, and also had it teach me on way. Expanded a bit more since this comment, made a local hosted operations dashboard and my bosses dash board for tasks we have cause how much we doing and have it connected to notion, to help with our daily. I’m more than open for a chat if you wanna talk on ideas.
Introduce Yourself
I'm keen to hear who everybody is, and what their goals are I assume you already know who I am. But if you don't I'm Tim. I worked for 8 years for big contractors on road, rail, renewable energy projects. I've always worked for head-contractors. I recently worked for some smaller contractors as a consultant when I left my job doing estimating and contract management. It was good, but I found it hard to see a path to scale (other than just starting a contracting business myself) So I instead decided to build software, and found that that's 100x harder than I thought and a very easy way to lose money
Introduce Yourself
3 likes • 29d
Im Zach, Just started role as Operations manager for a Electrical Contractor start up, and in start ups you go outside of your role so looking for tool ideas to develop on own, what others are doing to help with daily tasks and to learn from others. I currently mostly develop skills and vibe code apps to help with some taks but looking to expand on those abilities.
1 like • 28d
@Tim Fairley Nothing to crazy as of yet, made app for quotes, like basic ones, gathering ideas to make it univeral internally now, but was also my first one so doing trial and error right now, built the structure througha claude skill then ran it through manus.
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Zachary Mills
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Starting my journey to be solo and looking for anyway to make day to day operations easier

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