Your AI drafts the progress report from today's site photos.
It reads the site diary, checks a subcontractor's invoice against the signed variation, and tracks which drawing revision is current. Self-hosted document control costs a server, not another seat per engineer.
What your AI would do in Construction.
Concrete jobs an AI operating system set up around your business could take on, including the ones that catch a problem before it lands on your desk.
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Reads site diaries and photos and drafts the weekly progress report for the client.
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Checks a subcontractor's invoice against the signed variation order before it goes for payment.
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Tracks which drawing revision is current and flags anyone working from an old one before they pour concrete on it.
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Watches the programme against actual progress and flags a trade falling behind before it delays the next one.
83%.
of surveyed Eastern Cape contractors said late payments result in suspension of work on-site
Cumberlege, Botha and Bentley, Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation, 2018
What your AI does about it:
It checks each subcontractor invoice against the signed variation order before it goes for payment, so disputes surface early.
Imagine it. Here it is.
See it work.
A short, fictional scenario. Watch the AI handle it end to end.
R 1.84M
Typical annual licence spend
Across 8 common construction tools
R 1.65M
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The construction stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical construction firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Construction stack
8 tools · R 1.84M/yr in licences
Replace
Revit
CAD / Engineering · R 648K per year
With
FreeCAD + BIMserver
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 583K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 1.84M
Estimated OSS hosting
R 184K
Annual savings
R 1.65M
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where construction time and money leak
What we hear on every construction discovery call.
Progress reports written from memory on a Friday
The weekly client report gets pieced together from memory and old photos at the end of the week. An AI drafts it from the site diary as the week happens.
CAD licences per-engineer per-year
AutoCAD, Revit and SolidWorks seats hit R30k to R60k a year each, hard to justify for a team that drafts 20% of the time.
Drawings and site documents on consumer cloud
Critical revision-controlled drawings living in Dropbox folders. One wrong link and a subcontractor builds from an old revision.
How we handle the construction edges
The sector-specific things we get right.
Now it's real.
Four things stay true, whatever we build for you.
Your hardware or ours
On your server, on ours, or on a machine in your office running an open model. Your call.
A person approves what matters
Payments, deletions and anything going to a client wait for a yes from you or someone you choose.
Every action logged
You can see what it read, what it did and why, for every task.
Built with POPIA in mind
We set it up the way we set up any system that handles personal information, with the same care our compliance work gets.
Questions people ask
Does the AI approve payments on its own?
No. It checks the numbers against the paperwork and flags mismatches. Someone on your team still approves every payment.
How does version control protect us in a dispute?
Git-backed revision history gives cryptographic proof of who changed what and when, which is the evidence that matters in a contractual dispute.
Does it work when site connectivity drops?
Yes, self-hosted tools keep working offline and sync once the connection returns. No dead tools on a rainy Tuesday.
Can subcontractors get access without a per-seat licence?
Yes, bring 30 subs on for a month and switch off access when they leave, with no SaaS licence juggling.