Construction Critical Path Analyzer
Identifies your schedule's critical path, calculates the float of every activity, and works out the real impact in days on the delivery date if a critical activity slips.
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Reads a construction contract and extracts the payment, schedule, and risk clauses with real impact, flagging which ones are unusual or unfavorable compared to standard industry practice.
Analyzes the status of your issued certifications, payments received, overdue amounts and the impact on the project's cash flow — just by pasting your data into ChatGPT or Claude.
Cross-references several closed projects to find which cost categories systematically run over, and how much contingency to add to your next estimate.
Compares site photos against the planned schedule, describes real progress by area, and detects visual safety or housekeeping issues worth verifying on site.
Compares actual labor productivity by trade against what was budgeted, and identifies where margin is being lost before it's too late to correct it.
Compares real productivity across crews on the same task, adjusts for quality, and tells you who to assign the next critical task to.
Analyzes the real profitability of several closed or in-progress projects to find out which project types, clients or areas actually leave margin — and which ones just keep you busy.
Analyzes the deviations between your baseline schedule and actual progress, classifies delays by type and cause, and calculates their exact impact on the handover date.
Analyzes the financial and schedule performance of every active subcontractor to identify which ones are generating cost overruns or delays before the problem escalates.
Estimates your project's carbon footprint from the quantities of materials used, with reference emission factors, and flags where the impact is concentrated.
Estimates how many stoppage days from rain, wind, heat, or cold your schedule might face based on location and time of year, and calculates a recommended contingency margin.
Calculates the real margin of a project in progress, projects the closing margin, and flags what is eroding profitability before it's too late to act.
Calculates your project's schedule, cost, and quality/safety KPIs and combines them into an executive dashboard with a status indicator, ready for the progress meeting.
Turns your time-phased budget and real progress into a cost-and-schedule S-curve, and tells you plainly if you're ahead or behind and spending more or less than you've earned.
Processes the clash list exported from your BIM software, classifies by severity and discipline, and prioritizes resolution before clashes reach the field.
Calculates the total cost of an activity from its labor, material, and equipment resources, and compares it against the assigned budget.
Keep your construction company's own unit price database current: real costs from finished projects, grouped by division, with alerts for outdated prices.
Interprets an export from your construction ERP, cleans and structures it, and answers a specific business question with the calculation behind it.
Turns a dense spec section, finish schedule, or technical specification into a structured list of verifiable requirements, with acceptance criteria.
Turns loose notes from a site meeting into formal, structured minutes ready to distribute to every attendee.
Generates the monthly payment certification from real progress by line item, calculating the amount to certify, the retention, and the net amount due, with alerts if progress isn't consistent.
Compares the bids received for a line item, normalizes each one's scope, and issues an objective award recommendation based on technical and economic criteria.
Turns completed daily site reports into a physical progress report: % complete per work front vs. plan, day-over-day comparison, and alerts for stalled fronts.
Score your own tender bid against the specs before you submit it, and see which technical, price and schedule criteria cost you the most points.
Generates the monthly progress report from your schedule, actual status and financial progress data — ready to send to the developer and the design supervisor.
Generates the daily site report from labor, work completed, tomorrow's schedule, issues and safety status — ready for the developer, the design supervisor and company leadership.
Logs equipment and site installation breakdowns, calculates the cost of every hour of downtime, and prioritizes what needs fixing now versus what can wait.
Analyzes a project's change orders and extra work, calculates their cost and schedule impact, and prevents an executed change from going undocumented or unbilled.
Processes a project's RFI log, flags the ones blocking work, identifies recurring patterns, and generates a status report with priority actions.
Processes the log of which drawing revision was sent to each trade and when, flags who is still on an outdated version, and generates the alert for which work fronts may be building from outdated drawings.
Reviews your project's regulatory obligations, verifies which ones have real documented evidence, and prioritizes the pending ones by risk if not met.
Reviews your project's pending as-built documentation, identifies what's blocking for handover, and generates a week-by-week documentation closeout plan.
Compares real material consumption logged on site against what was purchased, flags waste that falls outside the normal range by material type, and its cost.
Cross-references your material orders with real deliveries, detects quantity or schedule deviations, and calculates the risk of a work stoppage due to missing material before it happens.
Analyzes your equipment's usage, cost, and availability, identifies underused equipment with rental overspend, and calculates the potential monthly savings.
Tracks warranty issues reported after a project's handover, calculates what period applies to each element, and prioritizes follow-up with the responsible party.
Log minor accidents, third-party damage and client claims, flag overdue response deadlines, and calculate the total cost exposure across your project.
Processes a project's outstanding punch list, flags which items are blocking handover, analyzes workload by owner, and calculates the retention held up by each open item.
Processes the documentation checklist for project closeout: as-built docs, permits, warranties, subcontractor accounts and client handover. Flags the blockers.
Analyzes the non-conformance and rework log, calculates its real cost, identifies the most frequent root causes, and proposes actions to keep them from repeating.
Analyzes your subcontractors' payment status, calculates accumulated retention, detects overdue certifications, and prioritizes who to pay first.
Reviews the status of your construction permits and licenses, calculates whether they'll be ready in time based on the agency's review period, and prioritizes what to follow up on first.
Analyzes purchases against the materials budget, flags deviations by supplier and line item, and identifies where margin is being lost in procurement.
Analyzes the period's safety indicators, flags gaps in safety plan compliance, and highlights uncontrolled risks that need immediate action.
Processes the checklist from a site safety inspection, flags non-compliant items by severity, and generates the report with the corrective action plan.
Generates the 5-minute toolbox talk before work starts: the day's actual task risks, PPE, a check-in question, and an attendance sign-off sheet.
Tracks your submittals' approval cycle, detects the ones overdue in review, and calculates the real margin until the site needs them.
Cross-references your trades' availability against the weekly schedule needs, detects capacity shortfalls and surpluses, and proposes a reallocation when it's technically reasonable.
Cross-checks worker availability by trade against the weekly schedule's needs, flags imbalances, and proposes the optimal crew assignment.
Analyzes the status of contractual milestones, flags non-compliance risks, calculates the impact of delays on the handover date, and proposes concrete recovery measures.
Analyzes the week's delivery and access schedule, flags crane or access overlaps that block the site, and proposes how to reshuffle the time slots.
Cross-checks the material needs of upcoming work against site stock on hand, and generates an order calendar to avoid stoppages due to supply shortages.
Calculates the deadline to approve shop drawings and place the order for prefab elements, and flags which ones will arrive late for installation.
Analyzes a candidate subcontractor's documentation and track record before hiring them, calculates a prequalification score, and flags what to verify before awarding.
Projects the month-by-month cash position from the project's collections and payments calendar, and flags liquidity strain before it happens.
Generates the look-ahead for the next 1-3 weeks from the schedule and actual progress, and prioritizes the actions to unblock what is at risk.
When the project is running late, ranks recovery options by cost per day gained —extra crews, extra shifts, overlapping tasks— with the risk of each one.
Turns a quick note into the right formal email: to the site architect, subcontractors, the developer, or suppliers, with a firm tone and a response deadline.
Leadership answers 20 questions on budgeting, site work and purchasing, and the AI returns the maturity level per area plus the top 3 highest-impact, lowest-effort fixes.
Scores every project risk by probability times impact, ranks them, assigns an owner and mitigation, and flags critical risks with no plan in place.
Generates the inspection plan for every unit of work to execute: what to check, when, where a mandatory hold point applies, and who signs off.
Maps a rough scope list to CWICR division and category codes, structures the full coded work breakdown structure, and flags items that need a custom code.
Normalizes CWICR-coded bids from different subcontractors, compares rates line by line, and flags scope gaps that hide missing work behind a lower total.
Prices CWICR-coded construction line items against a rate table, rolls costs up by division, and flags missing rates or inconsistent quantities before a bid.
Recalculates a CWICR-coded estimate for a new city or region using your own cost index table, division by division, and flags the biggest swings.
Flags CWICR line items and divisions with a disproportionate cost share, suggests generic substitution categories, and estimates savings per VE candidate.
Calculates a risk-weighted cost contingency per CWICR division from probability and impact, rolls up the total, and flags disproportionate divisions.
Matches estimated vs. actual quantities by CWICR code, flags overrun beyond your threshold, and separates plan-change variance from waste or estimating error.
Organizes raw, unstructured takeoff quantities into CWICR-coded, division-grouped lines and flags likely double-counts and unit mismatches before pricing.
Builds the CWICR scope-to-subcontractor matrix, flags codes with no subcontractor assigned and codes double-assigned, before subcontracts are finalized.
Benchmarks a new estimate against actual costs from past projects by CWICR code, flags outlier rates as budget or competitiveness risk, and flags thin history.
Calculates the cost delta of proposed material substitutions on a CWICR line item, flags tradeoffs needing review, and ranks candidates by net savings.
Rolls up a CWICR-coded estimate by division, ranks the 5 highest-cost divisions, and writes a plain-English one-page executive summary for owner presentation.
Estimates construction waste volume and disposal cost from your own waste factors and tipping rates, and flags materials worth investigating for recycling.
Computes the fully-loaded bid price by CWICR division from your direct costs, overhead rate, and markup, and flags small-dollar divisions with unrealistic profit.
Rolls up cost and schedule impact by CWICR division, flags change orders pending too long, and flags divisions with disproportionate CO volume.
An operational AI manual for site management: 100 prompts organized into 10 blocks, plus the context engineering system, maturity levels and quality control behind them so they work with real data.
A pack of 100 prompts for timber construction companies: technical documentation, budgets and communication with architects and developers, without correcting the sector's vocabulary in every response.
A pack of 100 prompts for installation contractors, with dedicated material for each specialty: electrical, plumbing and drainage, HVAC and refrigeration, telecommunications, renewables and home automation.
20 prompts for the site cost-control area, built for anyone who already has the numbers and needs to turn them into documents that read clearly the first time.
30 prompts so a project manager can turn every site deviation into a clear, timely document — before the pressure of the moment complicates the drafting — with specific prompts for each type of issue.
Prompts ready for the specific documentation of roads and highway infrastructure — different from building work — without losing time adapting each report to the right terminology.
30 prompts to keep quality documentation current on site: from the quality plan to the evidence an ISO 9001 audit asks for, with each defect's root cause properly documented.
Prompts to get the technical documentation of every concrete pour phase ready — from the plan for columns or slabs to the final field report — written with the regulatory vocabulary the site demands.
30 prompts so the safety team can go from a site talk to a formal document without losing time or precision: safety coordination, accident investigation and risk communication to subcontractors.
Prompts to manage supplier relationships at a construction company: requests for quote, comparisons, formal purchase orders and negotiation when the supply chain gets complicated.
50 prompts so communication with the developer doesn't depend on the mood of the moment: the progress update, the response to a complaint and the project close-out, already drafted and ready to adapt.
50 prompts that turn the BIM model into project documentation: design reports, material spec sheets, LOD specifications and the technical reports that need to be shared with structural and MEP teams.
Prompts to support a full-scale renovation company from the first quote to handover: weekly updates, last-minute changes and the most delicate conversations with the client.
Prompts to manage subcontractors on site: requests for quote, contracts, technical instructions, issue communications, and supplier approval and evaluation.
Prompts that solve the documentation surrounding every Revit model: from the design report to the system spec sheet, including the regulatory query you need to justify in the project.
AI prompts and checklists to manage site invoices: reviewing subcontractor invoices, controlling certifications, catching errors and communicating with suppliers.
The exact prompt to generate your client or developer's weekly progress report in minutes: executive summary, progress by front, next steps and alerts, ready to paste into ChatGPT or Claude.
The exact prompt to draft a formal, well-argued deadline extension letter, with facts, cause, timeline and requested days justified, ready to send without rewriting it.
The exact prompt to answer a technical RFI clearly and with solid backing, citing the relevant code reference and the impact on execution, so it closes the question on the first try.
The exact prompt to flag a detected cost deviation in time, with cause, figure and impact explained and the proposed action already included, without sounding defensive.
The exact prompt to generate a prioritized agenda for your weekly meeting, based on delays, crew overlaps and pending decisions, ready to read out loud when the meeting opens.
The exact prompt to set up a field FAQ assistant that answers crew questions over WhatsApp: where to find materials, who to ask, and which PPE applies in each work zone.
A guide to 50 AI tools organized by area — planning, BIM, cost, safety, quality and communication — with a practical assessment of each one for construction companies and developers.
Five custom GPTs, already tested, for the work of an architecture studio: CTE code queries, design report drafting, BIM coordination and project management, each one in its own assistant.
A practical guide to working with Claude on BIM projects: how to give it project context, review specifications and regulation, and turn model information into ready-to-use technical documentation.
A practical guide to combining Claude and Excel in site management: analyzing budgets, controlling cost, tracking progress and turning spreadsheet data into reports ready for leadership.
A framework to support AutoCAD work with AI: extract the technical information from a drawing and turn it into reports, specifications, material lists and site communications.
A framework to turn a Revit model into technical documentation: reports, family spec sheets, BIM protocols and reports, all from the parameters and schedules already in the project.
A guide to bringing AI into the Last Planner System, waste reduction, and site decision-making based on production data instead of estimates.
A playbook with the concrete decisions for each of the 7 phases of launching a technical AI chatbot at a construction company, from the first analysis to the pilot and continuous improvement after launch.
A video tutorial for building, without writing code, a CO2 emissions estimator using n8n, AI and a database of emission factors by material.
A practical guide for construction, renovation and service companies that get most of their inquiries over WhatsApp: lead qualification, automated support, follow-up and a clean handoff to a person.
25 occupational health and safety checklists for construction sites, aligned with Spain's RD 1627/1997 construction safety regulation and Law 31/1995 on workplace risk prevention, ready to print or open on a tablet during inspection.
Operational checklists for the critical stages of a project: staking-out, structure, envelope, MEP systems, finishes and handover, in a format built to print or fill in on a tablet.
Technical control checklists for civil works: earthmoving, bridge structures, drainage and paving, written with the technical vocabulary a set of specifications demands, not manual generalities.
A line-item budget in Excel with labor, materials and equipment broken out, the correct cascade of indirect costs, overhead, contractor profit and VAT, and a variance column once you enter actual cost.
A weekly plan in Excel by task, crew and day, with a workload summary per crew and visual detection of overallocation — no complex Gantt chart required.
A daily site report in Excel: staff and man-hours, equipment, materials with delivery notes, work completed and planned, health and safety, and dual sign-off — numbered, not a loose sheet.
An RFI template in Word with a real filled-in example, fields for impact, deadline and acknowledgment of receipt — for raising technical questions with the design team in a way that leaves a paper trail.
A final walkthrough punch list in Excel: area, deficiency, trade responsible, priority and status (pending/fixed/verified), with an automatic summary of how many high-priority items are still open.
An Excel template to draft the site visit record on the spot, with the fields the execution supervisor needs: work completed, control points, issues and resolution commitments.
A five-dimension status indicator, KPIs with deviation and trend, this week's and next week's activities, active risks: everything a weekly site report needs, already built in Excel instead of a template you still have to build.
An Excel file to bring together in one place the zoning, geotechnical, hydrological and environmental constraints of an infrastructure project, with a dedicated block for whatever is still pending confirmation and who needs to confirm it.
An Excel technical specification file per type of prefabricated element: identification, dimensions and tolerances, transport and lifting conditions, assembly interfaces and planned maintenance over its service life.
An Excel file that calculates, using your hourly rate, how many hours and how many euros a month go into six administrative tasks a Building Surveyor handles that AI can speed up.
Everyone assumes AI saves time on project management, but few have translated that into their own hours and euros. With your rate and how often you do six management tasks, this Excel does that math for you, every month.
An Excel file that converts into hours and euros what it costs a civil engineer to draft six recurring technical documents, using your rate and each task's real frequency.
An Excel file that calculates, using your hourly rate, how many hours and how many euros you'd recover by using AI to automate six documentation tasks in the industrialized process, from the spec sheet to the phase acceptance record.
An ebook written for site directors, production managers and construction company leadership: where to apply AI in budgets, technical reports, bid comparisons and site control without disrupting work already underway.