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Field intelligence for AEC leadership

AI analysis for firms that deliver projects.

AECAI covers the workflows where automation earns its keep at architecture, engineering, and construction firms: RFIs and submittals, estimating and bids, contracts and risk, invoicing and the back office. Never the stamp, never the seal.

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AI draftmachine outputStructured checkformat, references, specLicensed reviewjudgment appliedThe gatenamed reviewer, defined standardIssueleaves the firm

Machine output never leaves the firm without licensed review. From the project delivery pillar.

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Project DeliveryPillar analysis

Project Delivery Automation

Recovering PM hours from the document work around delivery, with the review gate designed before the tool is picked.

5 min read

PreconstructionPillar analysis

Preconstruction and Bid Workflows

Takeoff, estimating support, bid triage, and proposals, evaluated by the rule that the estimator owns the number.

5 min read

Risk and ContractsPillar analysis

Risk, Contracts, and Data Security

The questions that stall every AEC buying committee, converted from a standing veto into a solvable checklist.

5 min read

Back OfficePillar analysis

Firm Operations Back Office

Pay apps, AP, and timesheets: the automation lane where the return is legible in the P&L and the liability is lowest.

5 min read

Coverage

Four places AI actually pays inside a firm

Coverage follows the money and the hours: where project teams burn PM time, where the bid room races the clock, where adoption stalls on risk, and where the CFO sees the return first.

Pillar 01

Project Delivery Automation

Recovering PM hours from the document work around delivery, with the review gate designed before the tool is picked.

  • RFIs and submittals
  • Reports and minutes
  • Closeout documentation
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Pillar 02

Preconstruction and Bid Workflows

Takeoff, estimating support, bid triage, and proposals, evaluated by the rule that the estimator owns the number.

  • Takeoff assistance
  • Bid leveling
  • Proposal drafting
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Pillar 03

Risk, Contracts, and Data Security

The questions that stall every AEC buying committee, converted from a standing veto into a solvable checklist.

  • Standard of care
  • Contract language
  • Data boundaries
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Pillar 04

Firm Operations Back Office

Pay apps, AP, and timesheets: the automation lane where the return is legible in the P&L and the liability is lowest.

  • Pay applications
  • AP and timesheets
  • Project accounting
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The AECAI Briefing

The month in AEC AI. One email. Five minutes.

One executive digest on the first Tuesday of each month, written for principals, COOs, CFOs, and precon and technology directors at mid-market AEC firms.

The AECAI Briefing

First Tuesday, monthly · five-minute read

  1. 01Vendor developments across delivery, precon, and back office that could change a tooling decision
  2. 02Contract, insurance, and data security watch the developments firm counsel and leadership should see
  3. 03One deployment pattern from operating firms, with the honest caveat attached
  4. 04What to watch next month and what mattered less than the headlines