Hi! Excited to be here. I am the co-owner of a pool construction company in North Texas. We are a small design/build firm, 100% woman owned and operated. I am always looking for more efficient ways to streamline our processes, automate what we can automate, and give Claude more work to do.

Hey what's up guys, Moe here. I'm really big on using AI in construction and I had some questions for those more experienced in the field (construction) - Do you guys do progress reports or know anyone that does? - if so, how often (is it daily?) - How long does it usually take? and how do you take it? (typing, calling, etc..) I've been looking online for an answer, cant really find anything useful, so I thought I'd ask y'all! Thanks!

Hey everybody, thought I would kick off a new post for August. What are your goals for this month and what are you trying to get out of the community? Mine are pretty simple and straightforward 1. Keep experimenting with AI and sharing what I'm learning 2. Keep making a ton of youtube videos 3. Keep learning about construction project management and working out the best way to deliver projects and run a construction business Keen to hear what you're goals are and what you want to get out of the community

Which model is best at reading and understanding construction drawings? @Josh Turner and I just launched an AI benchmark for construction tasks. If you've not come across a benchmark, it's a way to score AI models. There's benchmarks for software engineering, legal, maths, etc. For our benchmark, we went through multiple sets of large construction drawings and created a database of questions and answers (Very time-consuming). Questions like "how many footings are in the slab" or "what are the cable tray specifications. We then scored each model based on what percentage of questions they answered correctly and the cost of the analysis. So far, we've tested 9 recent mods. GPT 5.6 won. Surprisingly, Opus 5 and 4.8 both beat Fable 5. One caveat: we tested the models via the API, so you would likely get different performance (almost certainly better results) if you used the harness (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) We'll be running and updating this for every new model that comes out. We will also be adding more domains to our analysis - take-offs, estimating, scheduling, etc. We've got come up with some pretty interesting ways to test them. Check out the results here: https://contractoros.build/benchmarks/

Curious what everyone’s running. Here’s mine: • JobTread — PM, estimating, budgets, and the file system: plans, drawings, receipts, job docs all live here • QuickBooks — accounting • Notion — business brain / SOPs + cost history • Airtable — Contractor OS data layer • Claude / ChatGPT — the glue. Skills + MCP connectors so I’m not re-entering the same data three times Google Drive is still in there, but honestly it’s redundant — it only exists as a staging spot until I get receipt capture running properly through the agents. Once that’s clean it comes out. What are you running — and what’s sitting in your stack that you know you don’t actually need?