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14d •
Goldmine!
Hey Tim, great job with this community and classroom. Very valuable info. I am currently working on automated estimating process for electricians, and it is obviously quite complex.
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@Sam Bird This is interesting and i'll love to collaborate to gain some knowledge in the electrical field. how do we connect? Built something similar for a landscaping business, that one person operates with claude cowork.
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@Sam Bird Awesome you're building your own tools. Do you have any public material you can share about your builds in the electrical field, want to familiarize myself with the field and learn from those already building in it.
11d •
A simple workflow for consistent high quality and branded listing
Before: An agent pasted a property's draft and photos into an AI chat, then polished it separately for WhatsApp, Instagram, Jiji, and PropertyPro.Then manually edited that output to fit every platform's limits, with no shared procedure and no way to compare or improved what worked. Too many times, listings have went out with no price, drawing messages from buyers whose budget never matched, while unexplained local terms and vague availability dates left diaspora readers confused or chasing units that weren't ready. Now: Built the Apex Haven Listing Editor on ICM Framework, a single pass system that catches every gap before a caption gets drafted, keeps a log of all listing messages, tailor listing write up to different channels while following their policies. Now the former system of a two hour chain of separate platform edits is now one review that clears in about thirty minutes, at a fraction of the API cost plus branded messages. Opensourced the portable format here https://github.com/Taufekh/Propcast
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How Titan Group dunplicated their processes into a ICM workflow
Titan Property Group's preconstruction team reviewed owner's briefs, geotechnical reports, and trade scope notes one project at a time, cross checking each by hand before a package moved to estimating. The reviewers read line by line across three separate documents, holding scope overlaps and missing information in their head and on scattered paper. A missed scope gap or an unflagged site condition can turn into a costly mid build correction, the kind of near miss preconstruction teams rarely catch until rework which almost always gets expensive. So we built the Titan Pre-Construction Package Editor, a portable ICM workspace that reads a full document set in one pass and returns prioritized flags, a draft package summary, and a closing note on what still needs a human decision. That same review now returns a full set of flags in under 10 minutes, ready before the estimating team opens the file. We realized the bottleneck was never the review itself, it was cross checking three and more documents by memory instead of by a consistent system that knows how you work, what to look for, and bring all the needed information into a single packet. The workspace is attached, you should modify it to your business for use.
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@Tim Fairley ICM stands for Interpreted Context Methodology, it's a system of building orchestration and routing applying the basic principle of sofware engineerig. It's basically folders and text files that tells any ai agent what you want to do and some guardrails it should work within. With the attched workspace as sample, It's a set of plain text files (identity, rules, examples, reference docs) that tell the AI exactly how to review a project, instead of one long prompt trying to do everything at once with a good chance of the ai later hallucinating and going offrails. For Titan, the workspace has a rules file with 17 numbered rules, a fixed list of flag types and severity levels, and an output schema the AI has to follow every time. So the review comes out the same structure every time, not different depending on the day or ai model used. One point to mention though: it's not analyzing drawings. It's reviewing text documents, the supervisor's brief, the geotech report, and trade scope notes, and checking them against each other for missing info, scope overlaps, and schedule risk. The reason this beats a typical AI tool: most tools are a black box, you don't know why it flagged something. Here every flag has to quote the source document. You can open the rules file and see the exact logic. No orchestration software, no hidden steps, just files you can read and edit yourself. check out this video, he explains the icm framework better https://youtu.be/KPVaUuBkPz8?si=U-JDygQMU9H4sj0X
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@Tim Fairley You're welcome.
Jun 1 •
What do you want to get out of the community? (And Welcome)
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!
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Hello everyone, Taofeek here. I build custom workflows for infrastructural real estate and share my works to help the community. Also looking forward to learn from you all.
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@Tim Fairley i've been building systems to improve accuracy and faster process for the admin paperwork in real estate companies. Will keep sharing what my builds here for feedback and usage.
13d •
Overusing AI in Construction Estimating
The biggest trap I see with AI in estimating is overusing it. And that's from someone who genuinely loves Claude. You've probably heard the line that using an AI model is like having a room full of brilliant graduates. It's not quite right. These graduates have no common sense, they have amnesia, and they don't learn anything unless you explicitly tell them to. I ran into this on a battery project. I had a detailed commissioning estimate and asked Claude to check nothing was missing. It came back with 50 recommendations — most of them already covered in my construction cost or built into my overheads. Any estimator who understood the project would have known that instantly. So the way I use it now is simple. Narrowly define the task. Give it the background it needs. Define the process. Specify the output. AI does the heavy lifting, you do the steering. Which means you still have to understand the estimating process yourself. Here's the full workflow I run on real projects: https://youtu.be/VrSs8mGI8ss Let me know if you have any questions.
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This is a silent truth. Sometime the simplest effective solutions are the ones we are already using. AI is awesome and it truly isn't the best in every situation.
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