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Construction and engineering firms are well placed to take advantage of AI and automation solutions. With a high overhead of administration, technical documentation, reports and compliance - construction and engineering companies in the UK have key efficiency challenges that AI automation can solve.

Examples of specific automations for the construction and engineering sectors include: Automatic report generation that can deal with your regulatory end of project reports, AI voice agents that can triage inbound calls to route through to the right department, AI procurement and margin agents that analyse your material costs identifying any over or under charges from suppliers and automatically alerting you, or even a RAG document retrieval system which can organise all of your technical design documentation so you have historical information at your fingertips.

More complex app based systems such as site area calculations, on-site data capture and design work can be built to enhance efficiency within your internal and external operations. Talk to us to discover what works for your construction or engineering challenges.

Whether you use Procore, Autodesk, Servicem8, or other ERPs/CRMs - flowio can integrate AI automations directly into your system via APIs. APIs offer a wealth of data and information that can be used to fuel automations and apps from your existing system. A modern system would mean AI overlays sit on top of your existing ERPs to clean data, automate RFI logs, or sync schedules without requiring full software migrations.

We've built many integrated systems into existing tech stacks using API access for construction, engineering and trades firms that help sync data, clean pipelines and provide enhanced business intelligence.

Construction firms typically see a 20-30% reduction in rework costs and a 15% improvement in schedule accuracy. Automating tasks such as job scheduling can cut down a 30 minute manual task to under 2 minutes saving significant overheads monthly. Margin and procurement agents can save tens of hours wading through Xero and sales invoices to uncover overcharges, and in some cases we've been able to uncover over £20k in monthly material cost savings. ROI will be specific to your business objectives and current cost base - however we typically see positive returns upwards of 40% after 3 months of deployment.

AI doesn't replace workers like for like - it enhances capabilities and reduces manual overload. Low value and repetitive manual work can be replaced by AI assistants and automations which can free up valuable time for your staff to focus on higher value growth work. Whether that is freeing up 40 hours per month from your admin team to focus on customer upsell, or enabling your CFO to generate financial intelligence reports from a teams message - your capacity, and efficiency improves with AI-assisted automations.

Yes, AI has the ability when fine-tuned and trained to your business knowledge to understand even the most complex technical diagrams. OCR and computer vision enables AI automations to categorise, and retreive diagrams, plans, images, schematics and other engineering documentation with high accuracy. An example of this would be a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system for an engineering firm. This system embeds over 10+ years worth of historical client schematics and plans, enabling their team to simply ask within a chat interface "What previous client used this particular schematic?". A system such as this breaks down the time taken to search and find key information from large technical documentation with ease.

If you choose an experienced AI solutions partner - yes. Enterprise AI solutions designed for the construction sector are highly secure, provided they are SOC2 compliant and utilise private instances. Unlike public tools (like the free version of ChatGPT) professional construction AI automations do not share your proprietary data, bid strategies or client lists to the public, not does it use your data to train models. All of our AI automation solutions for the construction sector are UKGDPR, SOC2 compliant. Talk to us about your security concerns or challenges.

There are multiple options to engage with flowio for AI automation, typical per-project rates start from £1,500 - £25,000. This depends on the complexity, integration, security and compliance requirements. Retained models that can offer multiple projects are between £3k - £10k per month dependent on requirements, whilst flowio also offer AI consultancy to help you level up your AI or automations within your current setup. Speak to us for an accurate quotation based on your timelines and budget.