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Using AI as a construction project manager

A PM's week mostly goes on admin, like minutes, registers, reports and chasing people, and on the surprises nobody picked up until they cost days and money. AI is good at the admin, and set up properly it helps with the surprises too.

You don't need to start with anything fancy. I'd build up in this order:

Give it one job, like turning a meeting transcript into action items or a first pass on a submittal review.
Connect a Claude or ChatGPT project to a desktop copy of your job folder. It finds the LDs itself and pulls the spec and site diaries into an RFI draft.
Have it review your work. Check a bid against the spec for anything missed, or list the week's must-do actions.
Turn the jobs you repeat into skills, saved step-by-step instructions with your templates that the AI follows every time.
Schedule the ones that keep track of things, like a daily register pass that proposes updates for you to approve.

My first must-do list came back far too wordy. Start with a short prompt anyway and tune it from there.

Once you have a few skills, one's output feeds the next. I check each before it moves on, because you're responsible for what goes out.

I go through the whole thing in the video.

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Using AI as a construction project manager