For estimators, QS and contract administration
The margin leaks between the estimate and the claim.
Takeoff under time pressure. Variations, requests for information, progress claims and time bars that swallow the week. I build AI support for estimators, quantity surveyors and contract administrators, inside the systems you already run.
The load
Where the margin goes
The estimate was sound. What happened between it and the final claim is where the money went.
Takeoff under time pressure
A tender window that was never generous, and a scope that changes inside it. Speed and accuracy pull against each other and one of them loses.
Variations
Identified late, priced in a hurry, and argued about later because the record of what was instructed and when is spread across email, site diaries and memory.
Requests for information
Raised, chased, answered, and then not reflected in the documents everyone is working from.
Progress claims
Assembled from the same information every month, in the format the contract requires, under a deadline that does not move.
Time bars
The clause that quietly turns a legitimate entitlement into nothing at all, because a notice was late by two days.
How it fits
Inside the systems of record, not beside them.
Your project management and contract systems hold the instructions, the correspondence and the programme. What I build reads them, drafts the notice or the claim, flags the date that matters, and hands it to a person to send. The obligation stays with the person who holds it.
Evidence
A worked example
Agentic AI taken from proof of concept to live workflow in one week for a safety-critical construction process, delivered as contract work, not ARK360 client work. The bounds and the hand-back conditions were written down before it ran. Now in design and build for production.
What I build
Start at the smallest thing that is genuinely useful.
Three sizes. Each is a real answer rather than a step on a ladder you are expected to climb.
- 01
An agent
One assistant doing one job for a team, inside the licensing you already hold. The smallest thing that is genuinely useful, and the fastest way to find out whether an idea survives contact with real work.
- 02
A workflow
An agent plus the connected steps and approvals around it. Work moves through the systems that already hold it, a person approves what matters, and the record of what happened is written as it goes.
- 03
An agentic system
Multiple agents with real authority inside real boundaries, built in your own subscription. Each has its own identity, its own bounds and its own audit trail, and the whole thing stays answerable to a person.
- Two decades of enterprise Microsoft delivery
- Federal government, civil construction, property and development
- You own the tenancy and the data
- Data resident in Australia
- A human always in command