AI in construction

BuildOps launched three AI agents for commercial contractors that look for money lost between the service call and the invoice: work that never got quoted, jobs that stalled and charges that never got billed. Here’s what they do, and the same checks any trade shop can run.

Most builders on Buildertrend connect it to QuickBooks and stop there. The sync keeps records matched, but the WIP schedule, the draw check and the answer to “how is this job really doing?” still happen in a spreadsheet. Here’s how the pieces fit, and where AI belongs.

Plenty of builders moved from QuickBooks Desktop to Online and found the same slow bookkeeping, just in a browser. The speed comes from the AI that Online now includes, set up around how a construction office actually works.

Ten months after buying Datagrid, Procore is selling AI agents that review submittals, draft RFIs and write daily logs. Here’s what they do and how the pricing works.

Houzz spent 2026 adding AI to almost every part of Houzz Pro, from the first estimate to the daily log. Here’s what’s there now and what’s worth turning on.

Procore launched a voice-first jobsite app at Groundbreak 2026, plus a closed test on Meta’s AI glasses. Here’s what crews can actually do with it today.

A new benchmark gave leading AI models raw construction drawings and asked for takeoffs. The best one scored 34%. That’s a useful reality check for anyone pricing work.

Buildertrend announced four AI tools and two financial features on September 29. Here’s what each one does and where a residential builder should start.

Autodesk University 2026 was full of AI agents. Most of what was shown is a preview, with rollout details promised for 2027. Here’s how to separate the demo from what you can buy.

Trimble agreed to buy Document Crunch in April, and in October Document Crunch started reading drawings too. Procore has a contract review agent of its own. Here’s what these tools are good at.