AI agents for general contractors and builders

A small builder runs several jobs at once. The owner plans, budgets and schedules, hires the subcontractors and answers to the clients. The superintendent runs the site, keeps the daily log and runs the safety talks. An estimator reads drawings and puts bids together, and someone in the office handles pay applications, lien waivers, preliminary notices and certificates of insurance.

The paperwork is what falls behind. Field questions go to the architect by text and the answers get lost. Submittals sit untracked. Extra work starts before anyone writes the change order. Homeowners living through a remodel hear nothing for a week and start calling or dropping by the site. Costs get coded loosely, and nobody compares them to the budget until the last bill is paid.

An agent works from your logs, schedule and accounting exports, and hands every draft to a person.

• Turns the superintendent's site notes into clean RFIs, keeps the RFI log, and chases answers that are overdue.
• Writes the daily log from voice notes and photos, and drafts a weekly update for each homeowner from the logs and the schedule.
• Turns field notes into a change-order draft for the project manager to price and the client to sign before the extra work starts.
• Watches each subcontractor's certificate of insurance for expiry dates, limits and missing additional-insured endorsements.
• Before a payment is released, checks that it matches a lien waiver and any preliminary notice on file.
• Compares each job's costs to budget by cost code every week, and flags jobs in pre-1978 homes that need lead-safe work and records.
• Sends bid invitations by trade and shows which trades still lack coverage before bid day.

Pricing, contract terms and the amount and approval of every change order stay with the owner. The agent never reads lien law, notices or waiver forms as a lawyer would. Lien rules differ by state, conditional and unconditional waivers are not the same thing, and an attorney or the owner makes those calls. A certificate of insurance only describes coverage, so whether it satisfies the contract is a person's judgement. Safety decisions on site belong to the superintendent and the safety lead under the OSHA construction standards. At the start, every message to a client or subcontractor is drafted by the agent and sent by a person, and details of occupied homes, such as access codes and schedules, stay in your own systems.