Quantity Surveying & Estimating Workflows

 Modern quantity surveying generates a flood of data; drawings, BoQ's, spec documents, pricing libraries, programme schedules. AI tools now let QS and estimating teams cut through that volume; extracting takeoffs from CAD-exported PDFs, cross-checking BoQ items against drawings, structuring pricing libraries for fast retrieval, and flagging discrepancies.

 AI works best as a specialist, not a generalist. Once a workflow like these is proven, it can be turned into a reusable skill, and packaged as a plugin your whole team can install and run. 

The more-structured data you give a large language model, the better the results: you get out what you put in.

The below are a non-exhaustive list of tested workflows, which can be tailored to specific requirements, built with the assistance of AI.