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construction.live is a specialist AI engineering team for construction tech companies. We work inside your product team to build the harness, memory, cost and review layers that take an AI feature from demo to production: drawing takeoffs, estimates, contract review and field data, at the scale of your customers' real projects.

Software companies selling to builders.

Founders, CTOs and product teams with AI on the roadmap and customers waiting for it. You know your product and your market. We bring the AI engineering and ten years of knowing how the work is actually done on site.

  • Takeoff and estimating
  • Preconstruction and bidding
  • Project management
  • Document control and RFIs
  • Field reporting and safety
  • Scheduling
  • Contract and claims
  • Construction ERP and finance

Agents that finish long construction tasks inside your product.

A takeoff across a full drawing set, an estimate or a contract review is hundreds of steps, not one prompt. We build harnesses that keep the model on a defined path, so long jobs finish correctly on every customer's project, not just the demo set.

  • Built for long-horizon tasks: drawing takeoffs, estimates, contract and specification review.
  • Full control of the run: defined steps, permitted tools, and validation at every stage.
  • Checkpoints and resumable runs, so hours of work survive a failure instead of starting over.
  • Evaluation suites built from real drawing sets, specs and contracts, so you measure accuracy before every release.
  • Fits your stack: your backend, your queues, your APIs, and the integrations your customers already use.
Plan
Act
Verify
Checkpoint
Eval suite
→
Release

Memory that respects every customer, project and user.

AI is only as good as what it remembers, and who it is allowed to remember it for. In a multi-tenant product that is an infrastructure problem. We design memory in layers and engineer how information moves between them.

  • Tenant isolation enforced in the data layer, not in the prompt. One customer's data never reaches another's.
  • Inside each customer, information moves up only when someone promotes it, and down only to people cleared to see it.
  • A private working note never surfaces in another team's estimate. A company-wide rate change reaches every live project.
  • Mapped onto your existing auth and permission model, so there is one source of truth for who can see what.
CustomerTheir standards, rates, lessons learned and past projects. Isolated from every other tenant.
ProjectDrawings, RFIs, change orders, logs and decisions. Shared with the project team.
UserWorking notes, drafts and preferences. Private by default.

Unit economics that leave you a margin.

Model prices differ by orders of magnitude. Across thousands of users and drawing sets, that difference decides whether an AI feature grows your gross margin or eats it. We measure cost per task and engineer it down.

  • Routing: each step goes to the smallest model that does it reliably. Frontier models only where they earn it.
  • Smaller specialised models, trained on construction work, for high-volume steps like sheet classification and extraction.
  • Caching and batching for repeat work across drawing sets and revisions.
  • Cost per takeoff, per estimate and per review, tracked per customer, so you can price AI tiers with confidence.
StepModel
Sheet classificationSmall, fine-tuned
Quantity extractionSmall to mid, specialised
Estimate assemblyMid-tier
Scope and contract risk reasoningFrontier

Review flows your customers will actually use.

In construction, who signs off matters as much as what was done. Your customers will only rely on AI output their own people can check and approve. We build that verification into your product, following their chain of authority.

  • Role-based authority mapped to your permission model: each person sees and approves only what their role allows.
  • Layered review: an estimator checks the takeoff, a PM approves the estimate, a director signs off the contract position.
  • Low-confidence items flagged and routed for review, so people check what matters instead of everything.
  • A full audit trail of every AI action and human decision, and corrections fed back into your evaluation suites.
AI drafts
Estimator verifies
PM approves
Director signs off

Proven building blocks, so you don't start from a blank repo.

AI should not sit in a chat box next to the real work. We have built the pieces that put it inside the tools, running alongside people on the same drawing, document and record, and we bring them to your build.

  • Takeoff Beam: our takeoff tool. The AI marks up the drawings and estimators verify them.
  • Our own collaborative document editor, built on Tiptap, where AI and people draft proposals, reports and contract reviews together.
  • Field capture by voice, photo or message, flowing straight into the office record.
  • Connectors for the platforms contractors already run, such as Procore, SharePoint and Google Drive.

An extension of your engineering team, not a black box vendor.

  1. 1

    Architecture review

    We go through your AI roadmap, your data and your stack, and pick the feature with the most at stake for your customers.

  2. 2

    Build with your team

    Our engineers work in your repo and your cloud, alongside your product and engineering teams, shipping to your customers in stages.

  3. 3

    Hand over

    You own the code, the evaluation suites and any models we train. Your team runs it and extends it.

Rahul Vaishnav.

Ten years lived on mining and construction sites, and deep AI engineering. We know what your customers do on site and what it takes to make AI do it with them. Behind us, a team across intelligence, cyber security, engineering and claims.

Proven on live projects.

Every one of these ran on real construction work, which is the bar your customers will hold your AI to.

Multilingual voice and chat for daily updates on a major international airport. The AI read the crew's messages, called whoever had the gaps, and wrote the daily report.

Daily updates tied to schedule and change orders. Flagged a welding method that differed from the contract, worth more than $100k.

Lessons learned initiative automated for a major GC. From 20% reporting to fully compliant.

A GC on a previously abandoned project got workers up to speed within one month.

Proposal writing reduced from 3 days to 6 hours.

Drawing takeoff. Estimators now spend their time verifying the AI-marked drawings.

A multi-billion dollar hospital, two or three drawing revisions a day, and a $100k-a-day delay risk. Scope change detection went from days to a few hours.

Technical report writer for an energy consultant. Reports drafted with 70% less writing time.

Building AI into a construction product? Bring us the hardest feature on your roadmap.

A working session with our engineers. Bring one feature, a takeoff, an estimate, a contract review or a field workflow, and we will walk through how we would build its harness, memory, cost model and review flow inside your product.