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Every drawing, clause, application and diary entry on your projects, read and embedded. Ask our agent, Claude or Copilot, and the answer comes from your records, with the citation. Ask for the work, and it lands in your system of record for you to sign off.

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Construction AI·Larkspur House › Project knowledge
Project knowledge
Larkspur House · 14 specifications · 473 drawings · 48 communications · searchable by meaning
Query fire rating of the corridor partitions, and the sheets that show them
NBS K10 · 610 Fire-rated systems · p.80.91
Partitions to corridors and stair enclosures: 60 minutes integrity and insulation to BS EN 1364-1. Elsewhere 30 minutes unless noted on the drawings.
NBS K10 · 310 Partitions · p.40.84
Partition types PT1–PT4 as scheduled on LH-LRD-ZZ-01-DR-A-2301. Fire-rated types carry the suffix F.
LH-LRD-ZZ-01-DR-A-2301 rev C · notes0.78
Corridor partitions PT2F to underside of slab. Deflection head per K10/310. See RFI #004 for the reception bulkhead.
Answer
60 minutes to corridors and stair enclosures, 30 minutes elsewhere K10/610 p.8. The corridor type is PT2F, to the underside of the slab A-2301 rev C. The sheets: A-2301 and the three 23xx partition sheets. The reception bulkhead is a separate question, answered on RFI #004.

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Construction AI·Larkspur House › Project knowledge
Project knowledge
Larkspur House · what the platform has read · searchable by meaning
Construction AI
Drawings· 473 sheetsembedded
title blocks, the text layer, CAD geometry, section links
Specifications· 14 documents · 2,340 clausesembedded
sections detected, every clause embedded
Main contract· 214 pages · 11 clausesembedded
key terms extracted, text searchable
RFIs, communications, submittals· 48 · 31 · 18embedded
the question, the reply, the linked records
Site diaries, inspections, snags· 45 · 6 · 14embedded
dictated and written up, with photos
Applications, ledger, CVR· 4 · 12 · monthlyembedded
the money, by cost code
Drawing issue 12· 6 sheets · today62%
reading title blocks…
Platform knowledgeCDM and HSE guidanceNBS structureLabour normsCarbon factorsScope and DRM templates
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Everything you record, read once and searchable by meaning

Drawings are read from their title blocks, text and CAD geometry. Specifications and contracts are split into clauses. Diaries, RFIs, applications and the ledger are indexed as they are written. All of it embedded in your own tenant, none of it re-typed.

  • A new issue or upload is read within minutes and joins the index.
  • The platform’s own libraries sit beside yours: CDM guidance, NBS structure, labour norms, carbon factors.
  • Search finds the clause about fire ratings whether or not it says “fire rating”.
How the AI knows your project
Construction AI·Larkspur House › Drawings
Drawings
Larkspur House · 473 sheets · 12 issues
LH-LRD-ZZ-00-DR-A-2000 · P6
LH-LRD-ZZ-01-DR-A-2001 · P6
LH-LRD-ZZ-01-DR-A-2301 · P4
LH-BME-ZZ-01-DR-M-5101 · P3
LH-BME-ZZ-01-DR-E-6101 · P3
LH-LRD-ZZ-XX-DR-A-4010 · P2
Construction AI· DrawingsSession saved
Which sheets changed in issue 12?Measure the corridor partitions on A-2001Raise an RFI on the reception bulkhead
Which sheets changed in issue 12 and what moved?
list_drawing_revisions · get_drawing · search_project_knowledge
Two revisions in issue 12: the L00 and L01 GAs go to P6 A-2000 · A-2001. The reception bulkhead moves 300 mm east and door D1.14 is rehung; the notes cite AI-023. The other four sheets are new. Nothing on the programme moves.
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Docked where you are, with that module’s tools

Open the Construction AI panel on the drawings register and it knows the drawings: which changed, what a sheet shows, what the spec says about it. Open it on an application and it knows the money. Dictate, attach a file, snip a region of a drawing.

  • Fourteen specialist modes: pricing extraction, drawing analysis, RAMS, scope, RFI and more.
  • Sessions are saved; pick a conversation up tomorrow where you left it.
  • Every answer cites the record it came from, and the citation opens it.
Specialist modes
Construction AI·Larkspur House › Documents › Scope 4000
Scope of Works · 4000 Drylining
Larkspur House › Documents · v3 · from K10 rev P02 and the 23xx sheets
Staged · awaiting review
Scope of Works — Drylining, partitions and bulkheads
Northgate Contracts Ltd · P26001 Larkspur House · package 4000 · rev v3
1Extent of the works. Partitions PT1–PT4 and bulkheads to levels 1–3 per A-2301 and the 23xx sheets.
2Specification. NBS K10 rev P02 in full; clause 610 fire ratings apply to all F-suffix types.
3Fire-rated partitions. 60 minutes to corridors and stair enclosures, 30 minutes elsewhere; deflection heads to K10/310.
4Access panels and bulkheads. Access panels per K10/320; reception bulkhead to detail A-2104/07 (RFI #004).
5Interfaces. Ceilings package 4100 above; M&E 5500/5600 penetrations fire-stopped by this package.
6Attendances. Unloading, distribution and waste per the attendances schedule.
v3 staged by Claude for Sam Okafor · v2 stays current until you commitCommit v3Discard
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Documents drafted from your records, staged for a person to commit

Ask for a scope of works and the agent writes it from the specification and the drawings, then stages it as a new version. The current version stays current until you commit. Nothing an agent writes goes live on its own.

  • Scopes, design responsibility matrices, letters, RFIs, submittals, tender queries.
  • Every staged version records who asked, which agent wrote it and what it read.
  • Commit, edit first, or discard. The trail stays either way.
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The same intelligence in the assistant you already use

Add Construction AI as a connector in Claude or Microsoft 365 Copilot. Sign in as yourself, and from then on your assistant reads and writes your projects with the same tools and the same permissions as the in-app agent.

  • One URL, a sign-in, no installer; revoke the token any time.
  • 132 tools, read and write, for every client.
  • Claude Desktop, Claude on the web and Copilot are tested end to end.
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Construction AI·Mission Control › Sam Okafor
Mission Control
Sam Okafor · Thursday 10 September · briefed at 06:30
Construction AI
Two things need you today and one needs a decision. RFI-042 has been open nine days and Marlow cannot fix the deck steel without it; certificate 4 is ready to sign. The plinth drawing moved without an RFI — that is the one to look at.
Needs you · 3
Answer RFI-042 on the AHU plinth loads — Marlow are waiting on it before the deck steel is fixed
RFI-042 · 9 days openDue Fri
Confirm the reception bulkhead detail before CCI 003 is instructed
Diary DB-035 · CCI 003 draftDue Mon
Sign certificate 4 — £437,204 net, final date for payment 27 Sep
Application 4Due 24 Sep
Escalations · 2
Drawing 63001 revised to P05 without a linked RFI while RFI-041 and RFI-042 on the same plinths sit unanswered
Drawings · RFIs
Inspection IN-012 two days overdue with the crane lifts a fortnight away
Inspections · Programme
Briefings can be wrong. Every line cites its source; the record is the truth.
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Briefings, summaries and the brief, written on a schedule

Inside the platform, managed agents read each project on a cadence: the brief, the project knowledge and its history, the weekly and monthly summaries, and every person’s Mission Control briefing, with each line cited.

  • A briefing is written for one person: what needs them, what needs a decision.
  • Agents analyse; people escalate. Nothing acts silently.
  • Every output is a version with its trail, signed off by a person.
Why oversight has to change
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  • Projects
  • Drawings and specifications
  • Programme
  • Communications, RFIs and submittals
  • RAMS
  • Site management
  • Tender packages
  • Library and project knowledge
  • Financial headers
Advanced — commercially sensitive
  • Financial detail — CVR, margin, valuationsoff by default
  • Pricing — tender and contract pricingoff by default
  • Purchase ledgeroff by default
  • Write: library, projects, documents, contactsoff by default
  • Ask the in-app assistantoff by default
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An agent sees what you can see, and only what you grant it

Standard scopes come on by default. The sensitive ones, financial detail, pricing, the purchase ledger, writes, are ticked one at a time, restricted to projects if you like, with an expiry. A subcontractor’s agent sees a subcontractor’s data.

  • Scopes follow your role: an agent never sees more than you do.
  • Grants expire; revoke one and the client loses it at once.
  • Every call is in the usage ledger: who asked, what ran, what it cost.
Scopes explained

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Platform Knowledge Libraries

Questions

Do I need my own API key?
No. AI is included in your plan and metered as credits, so every seat has the agent from day one. If you would rather bring your own Anthropic key, you can, and the usage bills to your account instead of your credits.
How does the AI know about my project?
Every record you create or upload — drawings, specifications, contracts, RFIs, diaries, applications — is read, chunked into meaningful sections and embedded in your own tenant database. A question is answered by searching those records by meaning, and the answer cites the clause, sheet or record it came from.
Which agents can I use?
Three. The Construction AI agent inside the platform, docked in every module with that module’s tools. Claude, on the desktop or the web, connected over MCP. And Microsoft 365 Copilot, the same way. All three see the same records and the same tools, under your permissions. Managed agents also run on a schedule inside the platform: the brief, the project knowledge, the weekly summary and each person’s briefing.
Can subcontractors use the AI?
Subcontractors on the platform only see data scoped to their cost codes, and the AI respects the same boundary. A subcontractor asking a question gets answers from their own packages, never from another trade’s or the project’s commercial position.
Is my data private?
Every organisation’s data lives in its own database with full tenant isolation; nothing crosses between tenants. Your records go to the model only to answer your request and are never used to train it. Every AI call is logged in your usage ledger, so you can see what was asked and what it cost.
What if the AI service goes down?
A circuit breaker is built in. If the model is unavailable or rate-limited, the AI features fail gracefully and the rest of the platform carries on. Nothing you have recorded depends on the model being up.

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