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Manual Spec and RFI Review

Construction and engineering teams waste time manually reading long spec books, submittals, and RFIs to extract requirements and check compliance, leading to errors and delays.

In their words

Now I run it through Claude and it spits out all discrepancies within our design and specs.

r/MEPEngineering on Reddit

The CIP process in FAM leaves a lot to be desired as well (there isn't one).

r/Netsuite on Reddit

I am a project manager in construction, and I do not have an assistant, so a lot of my day gets eaten up by administrative tasks, document review, logs, submittals, RFIs

r/ClaudeAI on Reddit

I want to empower them to catch minor omissions themselves so that I can focus on truly guiding them and the project.

r/AppDevelopers on Reddit

It's niche, for a specific sector of home construction, very niche and serves 1 true purpose.

r/vibecoding on Reddit

our proposal/contract is just 3 pages... I just don't think it's going to cut it once the jobs get bigger and more complicated

r/estimators on Reddit

spec says see drawings. drawings say see spec. i'm in a loop help

r/estimators on Reddit

I was basically needing to review every single job each day to see if the notes make sense

r/ClaudeAI on Reddit

we spend drastically more billable hours chasing down PMs and municipal reviewers for digital signatures on submittals than we do actually running civil 3d

r/civilengineering on Reddit

the exception is for me to provide a full QC on all developer submissions

r/civilengineering on Reddit

everything has to be cheaper and faster and take up less and less and less space, with little to no information, but still provide construction documents

r/MEPEngineering on Reddit

cross discipline code conflicts are basically our whole life honestly. by the time we align on what governs the design has usually already moved

r/StructuralEngineering on Reddit

Features like detailed framing plans, siding/wall/roof/insulation/etc all the detail cross-section drawings would be welcome additions.

Hacker News

Construction and engineering teams

Where they talk

  • r/MEPEngineering
  • r/estimators
  • r/ConstructionManagers
  • r/civilengineering
  • r/Construction
  • r/bim
  • r/CommercialAV
  • r/automation

Tools they use today

  • Claude
  • Excel
  • Procore
  • Bluebeam
  • Copilot
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • SharePoint

Why those fall short

  • AI hallucinates and misunderstands structural conditions
  • notes quality varies; review takes 5-30 mins per job
  • internal routing so clunky senior PEs bypass it entirely
  • standards not published, reviewers apply personal preferences
  • still must read line by line; AI errors need verification