Registers are often the first thing to slip when things get busy. That was my experience as a PM, and an out of date register is essentially useless. Scheduled tasks are great for making sure they're kept current. I don't schedule a prompt, I schedule a skill. The instruction in the task is one line, run the document controller, and the skill carries all the detail. Three things to work out before you build one: - Where the information comes from. Project inbox, registers, daily site reports, meeting minutes. - Where it ends up, and whether you review it first or it writes straight to the register. - How often it runs, because when you open the register you need to know what window it covers. Then run it manually for a few days. Once you stop tweaking it, that is when it goes on a schedule. You still want to check in on the outputs though. I went into more detail in this video.

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/

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

Hi community! I will move to Canada in a month, I have civil engineering experience in Germany and USA but I want to know more about the industry in Canada, see if I can get my PE in Ontario because I will study my master at York. If possible also find short term jobs remote or on site to learn while still studying.

Hey All! Since @Josh Turner and I are starting to get really busy with our consutling business We are looking to hire somebody I put a job post here that describes roughly what we are looking for https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~022081210334467158603 Long story short, we want some enthusiastic about AI/construction that can help us with some small proejcts to start with and grow from there Feel free to DM me too!