AI & Automation Advisory

Construction is being pitched AI faster than it can absorb it.

Construction runs on fragmented workflows, inconsistent data, and too many reporting loops. That makes it a natural target for AI and a difficult place to adopt it well.

The result is a predictable pattern: a platform gets bought, a pilot gets launched, a few teams try it — and then it dies quietly. Not because the model failed. Because no one changed how work actually moves: who decides, who owns the output, and how it fits into the workflow.

Most AI advisors have never sat inside a buyout meeting, OAC meeting, coordination call, or closeout scramble. Most construction teams do not have the time or internal fluency to translate vendor claims into operational decisions. That gap is where most AI initiatives stall and where this work lives.

What I Help With
A

We're getting pitched AI tools constantly and don't know how to evaluate them.

I help firms evaluate AI against actual construction workflows: estimating handoffs, submittal review, meeting prep, schedule reporting, field documentation, and owner communication. The question is not whether a demo looks impressive. The question is whether the tool changes a real decision point without creating more coordination overhead.

B

We started an AI initiative. It's not going anywhere.

Most stalled pilots break for familiar reasons: nobody owns the workflow, the data is inconsistent, the approval path is unclear, or the field team was never going to use it the way leadership assumed. I identify where the initiative actually failed and what has to change structurally before the tool gets another chance.

C

We need someone who understands both AI and construction in the same room.

I work between AI consultants, software vendors, and construction leadership when each group is describing the same problem in different terms. That usually means translating between what the tool does, what the project team actually has time for, and what leadership thinks is being bought.

Who This Is For

General contractors and construction firms evaluating AI tools, sorting through vendor pressure, or trying to restart pilots that stalled between preconstruction, operations, and the field

Owner-side capital programs hearing claims about digital twins, predictive reporting, or AI-assisted delivery and needing a clearer read on what is real, what is premature, and what would have to change operationally

AI and technology consultants who understand the tool but need construction domain depth before advising teams responsible for schedules, coordination, closeout, and project controls

How I Work

Advisory sessions

Structured working sessions to evaluate a platform, diagnose a stalled pilot, or test a vendor claim against how your team actually buys out work, coordinates trades, reports status, or turns over a project. Hourly or half-day.

Workflow design

Redesign a specific process before the tool is deployed: who owns the input, where judgment still sits, what gets standardized, what gets escalated, and how the output enters the job without creating another side system. Scoped by process.

Domain partnership

Ongoing collaboration with AI or technology consultants serving construction clients who need someone in the room with real construction pattern recognition. Structured as a non-exclusive partnership around shared client work, not a packaged service tier.

Start The Conversation

If you're trying to sort out whether a tool belongs in your workflow, why a pilot stalled, or what would actually have to change before AI becomes useful, we can start with one conversation.