Short answer: Tristan Wilson says civil contractors get tens of bid packages a week. Agents give a structured summary of whether a job fits what they normally bid, saving 30 to 45 minutes on jobs they will not pursue.
Watch this answer from Episode 16 (starts at 13:30) · Episode 16 notes and transcript
From Episode 16: AI Agents Reinvent Construction, starting at 13:30.
Jordan Metzner [13:30]: That's awesome. It's a great application of AI, and it seems like a lot of these things, as you mentioned earlier, just would not be possible without AI previously. And I guess one also question here is, I mean, if it took so long previously to do a bid, I guess you'd have to be selective on which bids were worth, like, worth working on. And maybe with Edgevanta, you can bid on more jobs, simply since they take so much faster to bid on as well. Right?
Tristan Wilson [13:57]: Yeah. So part of another thing that we have helped with is the go, no go process. So, like, you get, like, our customers. So who are our customers? They're civil contractors, so they do site. They move dirt. They put in pipe. They lay pavement. So it's a lot of kinda heavy infrastructure, site work, road building, that those types of folks. And they get tens of bid packages in the door per day or, per week, sometimes even per day. And it's really hard to keep track of it all. I mean, it's it's like a constant flow of is is this interesting to us? Like, does it have something that we might be, worthwhile looking into? Part And of what we've done is really helped with that go, no go process the way it used to work. Like, I remember when I was an estimator, somebody would be like I would get, like, five emails, they'd be like, look at this job. Look at this job. And I'd to, like, download the plans and go, like, look at it, and the plans are, like, sideways, and you're, like, trying to click through and be like, alright. Is there anything that's of interest into us in this job? With these agents, we can just upload the documents and ask it a question, or even better, we can get a structured output that gives us a summary of the bid that says, yeah. This is what you normally bid on.
Tristan Wilson [15:07]: This is definitely gonna be of interest to you, or, this job has nothing. It's a, medical building or something. Like, this doesn't have anything that you might be interested in. So even, just getting those cup even that, thirty, forty five minutes back really adds up over time. You look at the volume of bid packages that people are going through it, AI is really, really good. Our AI specifically is really, really good at helping kinda assist that. So you may not necessarily bid more jobs, but you're able to not waste time on the jobs that you're not bidding. Right? So really really important time.
