I've done a bit of an update to my previous approach of how to get AI to read construction drawings. I basically copied an idea from BIM The original inspiration for this is I actually saw a study where they used AI for estimating and graded it on how well it could estimate and found that it did quantity takeoffs 100% accurately. I was incredibly surprised by this and then I found out that they'd actually given it a BIM model and a connector. So I dug a little deeper and found that what BIM actually is a structured database Which led me to the idea of could you actually convert your construction drawings into a structured database grouped by the physical things we were installing rather than the pages on the drawings? Which led to this approach If you want the drawing analyser skill, its in ContractorOS: https://www.skool.com/contractor-os

Hey Everybody A knew month so I thought I’d start a new welcome thread. Please comment and introduce yourself. Let me know what you are trying to achieve and if you have any questions about the resources. If you click on the “Classroom” tab you’ll get access to all the resources. My goal in June is to keep growing my consulting business and focus on re-building my construction project management course. The original is around 9 hours, but the new one I want to be around 30 hours and cover a few more important topics like software, AI and personal skills. Let me know if you have any questions!

Rework and defects eat 5–10% of a project's value. The average contractor's margin is 7–10%. So getting quality wrong can quietly wipe out everything you made on the job. Most people treat quality and completions as a box-ticking exercise. I get why — it's your ticket to play, so it feels like compliance for the sake of it. But that framing is exactly why contractors leak so much money on it. All quality really is: verifying and validating that what you built matches the design, and the design matches what the client actually asked for. You build something, you check it's correct, you close the loop. The trap is the back end. 90% of the work takes 50% of the time, and that last 10% — closing out defects, chasing records, handing over — eats the rest. Progressive close-out as you go is what fixes it. I put together a complete end-to-end guide on the system. Let me know if you have any questions. Grab the slides: https://www.skool.com/construction-contractors/classroom/6e2a1d8d?md=b93722c6932549c185db19a6f4608e18

i cant find the pdf file for the plan that is use in the video where to find it?

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