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Jun 21 •
👋 Start Here — Welcome to AI Tradie
Welcome to the AI Tradie Construction Course community. You're in the right place. This community is where the real learning happens — the lessons give you the tools, the community is where you actually use them. Before anything else, do these 3 things: 1. Introduce yourself — post in the 👋 Introductions category and tell us: - Your name and role (e.g. "Jake, PM on a $14M road job in NSW") - Your biggest weekly admin pain point - Which Day of the course you're starting on 2. Bookmark the Classroom — all 20 lessons are in the Classroom tab above. Start with Day 1 and work through in order. Each lesson is short. Each one has a prompt you can use today. 3. Come back and post your first win — when a prompt saves you time, recovers a variation, or just produces something you're actually proud of, share it in the 💡 Prompt Wins category. Even one sentence. It helps everyone. How the community is organised: 📣 Announcements — updates, new tips, and course news from Alex. Check here first. 👋 Introductions — say hello, tell us who you are and what trade you're in. 💡 Prompt Wins — share a real result. Before/after, time saved, money recovered — anything goes. ❓ Questions & Help — stuck on a lesson, a prompt, or how to apply something to your job? Ask here. One last thing: AI in construction isn't about replacing anyone. It's about getting home on time. That's what this course is for. See you in the community — Alex
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May 24 •
Welcome
Those working in the Australian construction industry are drowning in admin. Estimators are pricing tenders at 8pm. Project managers are writing variation letters between phone calls. Accounts are chasing debtors that should already be paid. HSEQ are rewriting the same SWMS for the fourth job this month. Everyone's busy. Nothing important is finished. This course is the antidote — 20 short lessons that teach your office team how to use AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot) on real construction work. Not theory. Not hype. Just leverage. Each lesson gives you a copy-paste prompt you can use on a real job today — on tenders, variations, SWMS, ITPs, debtor letters, weekly reports, the lot.
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Friday Prompt - The Extension of Time Notice You Keep Putting Off
Delays don't cost you when they happen. They cost you when the notice goes out late - or never. Most contracts have strict time bars on extension of time claims. A rough site diary entry won't protect you. A proper notice will. Here's a prompt that turns your delay notes into a draft EOT notice in a few minutes: Draft a formal EXTENSION OF TIME notice for an Australian construction project. Project: [name and number] Principal / Superintendent: [names or placeholders] Date delay event began: [date] Delay event: [e.g. late design information, wet weather, principal-directed change] Facts: - [what happened] - [who was notified and when - include site instruction or email refs] - [which critical-path work was affected] Delay to date: [number of days] Extension claimed: [days - your number, don't let AI guess] Contract clause relied on: [clause number, or write "unsure" and mark it [VERIFY]] Format: Formal letter. 1 page. Factual, no blame language. Sign off: [your name, role, business, date]. Two rules before you send: • Check the notice period in your contract. Time bars are unforgiving and AI doesn't know yours. • Every clause reference gets marked [VERIFY] and checked against the actual contract. Try it on a delay from the last month that never got a proper notice. Tell us in the comments how many days it turned out to be.
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Did You Know - AI Will Flag Scope Ambiguities You Missed
One of the most underrated things AI does in construction isn't writing - it's reading. When a Sunshine Coast PM pasted 14 rough notes from a tender walkover into ChatGPT, AI returned not just clean meeting notes - it flagged: "The principal mentioned cleaning up the existing carpark surface but didn't specify whether this is included in scope or a variation. Recommend confirming." He emailed the principal that afternoon. The principal confirmed it was a variation. The carpark cleanup ended up being a $25k extra. Without AI's nudge, the PM would have priced it as included and found out 4 months later. This is what the Day 13 prompt does. Paste your rough meeting notes in. AI structures them and flags the things that could become disputes. That's the one that pays for this course in a single meeting.
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Chase a Debtor Without the Awkward Phone Call
Accounts: Here's the one that gives you your Mondays back. AI writes firm, professional follow-up emails that chase payment without burning the relationship - and faster than you can find the invoice number. Draft a professional overdue payment follow-up email for an Australian construction business. Invoice number: [number] Invoice date: [date] Invoice amount: $[amount] Due date: [date] Days overdue: [number] Client name/company: [Client - use a placeholder if preferred] Previous follow-ups: [none / one call on [date] / two emails already sent] Tone: [firm but professional - I want to preserve the relationship / very firm - this is the final notice] Keep it under 150 words. Direct. No apologies for chasing what we're owed. Tip from Day 6: if this is the second or third follow-up, ask AI to add a line referencing the security of payment legislation - it gets a response faster than anything else.
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