AI for Contractors

AI for General Contractors

Practical AI for preconstruction, project management and field teams. We find the paperwork worth automating, build small pilots on your real project data, connect them to the platforms your jobs already run on and train your people to use them.

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Where AI helps a GC today

Preconstruction

Compare subcontractor bids against your scope sheets, flag exclusions and draft bid-leveling summaries for your estimators to check.

RFIs and submittals

Pull the right spec sections and drawing references into RFI drafts, and check submittals against the spec before they go to the architect.

Field reporting

Turn superintendent notes, photos and voice memos into daily logs, meeting minutes and owner reports.

Change orders and closeout

Track change events back to the RFIs and contract language behind them, and assemble O&M and closeout packages faster.

Our AI services

AI Readiness Assessment

Where you stand, what to automate first and what it takes. The starting point for every engagement.

Workflow Automation

Pilots that take RFIs, submittals, daily logs and meeting minutes off your team’s plate.

Forma and AI Integration

Custom automations on Autodesk Platform Services that move data in and out of Autodesk Forma.

Private AI

AI models that run on your own network, for project data that cannot go to the cloud.

AI Policy and Training

Clear rules for which tools see which data, and training for office and field staff.

How an engagement runs

  1. Assess. We review your data, software and risks, and interview estimators, PMs and superintendents.
  2. Pick. We rank use cases by time saved and effort, and choose one or two to start.
  3. Pilot. We build on your real documents and measure against how the work gets done today.
  4. Roll out. We connect what works to your platforms, write the policy and train your team.
  5. Measure. We track hours saved and error rates, then plan the next round.

Why VDC Experts

We are a construction technology firm, not a general AI agency. We set up and train contractor teams on Autodesk Forma and BuildingConnected, and we use AI in our own production work every week. We know where a GC’s project data lives, how messy it gets and what a superintendent will actually use.

We also run local AI models on our own hardware. If your contracts or owners do not allow project data to leave your network, we can show you what a locally hosted setup can and cannot do.

Questions we get

Do we need clean data before we start?

No. The readiness assessment tells you what shape your data is in and what needs fixing for the first pilot. Most contractors start with one well-defined document type, like RFIs or daily logs.

Will AI replace our staff?

No. The goal is to take repetitive typing and searching off your PMs and supers so they spend more time running the job. People still review and sign off on everything that goes out.

Is our project data safe?

That is part of the policy work. We set clear rules on which tools can see which data, and we can keep sensitive work on locally hosted models.

How long does a pilot take?

It depends on the use case and access to your systems. We set the timeline in the assessment, before any build work starts.

Start with a readiness review

Tell us what your PMs, estimators and supers spend too much time on. We come back with where AI fits and where it does not.

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