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Leadership TrackTuesday, Sept 15 · 1:00 – 1:45 PM

More Bids. Better Margins. Construction Takeoffs With AI.

Every hour your estimator spends counting is an hour they aren't pricing the next job. Turn plans into checked quantities faster — and protect the margin before the number goes out.

About This Session

Bid more work without gambling your margin. Put a real plan set on screen and watch AI turn the current sheets and addenda into reviewable counts, lengths, areas, and assemblies — with every quantity linked back to its source. Your estimator verifies scale, units, gaps, and low-confidence items before anything moves into pricing.

What We'll Cover

  • Draw the line: a takeoff measures scope — it is not yet an estimate or a bid
  • Intake check: plans, specifications, addenda, drawing dates, scale, and units
  • Live takeoff: AI extracts counts, lengths, areas, and assemblies with sheet references
  • Revision check: compare sheets and addenda, flag quantity changes and scope gaps
  • Estimator verification: spot-check measurements, resolve uncertainty, document exclusions
  • Export a standardized quantity inventory with its source trail

You Leave With

A checked, source-linked quantity takeoff and the review checklist to trust it

Who Should Attend

Construction company owners and estimators who turn down bids because there aren't enough estimating hours in the week. A real plan set goes on screen, and AI extracts reviewable counts, lengths, areas, and assemblies — with your estimator staying in charge of verification.

Part of a Full Day of Hands-On AI Training

This workshop is one of 20 at the AI Business Retreat — a one-day, hands-on AI training for business at The Island in Spooner, Wisconsin, within driving distance of Minneapolis–St. Paul, Eau Claire, La Crosse, Duluth, and Hudson. Can't make the drive? Every session, including this one, streams live for remote attendees.

Presenters and final session materials are being finalized and will be announced closer to the retreat.

Session Details

When
Tuesday, Sept 15, 2026 · 1:00 – 1:45 PM
Track
Leadership Track
Where
The Island · Spooner, WI (or attend live remote)
Who it's for
Built for construction owners and estimators

One registration covers the full retreat — every session, every track.

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Construction Takeoffs With AI — Questions & Answers

AI can extract counts, linear measurements, areas, and assemblies from plan sets fast — with every quantity linked back to its source sheet. Accuracy comes from the workflow around it: intake checks on scale and addenda, revision comparison, and estimator verification of low-confidence items before anything moves to pricing. This session demonstrates that full checked-takeoff workflow on a real plan set, not a black-box price guess.
No — it changes what they spend hours on. Counting and measuring is the part AI accelerates; scope judgment, unusual assemblies, addenda interpretation, and final verification stay with your estimator. Every hour not spent counting is an hour spent pricing the next opportunity, which is how AI takeoffs turn into more bids at protected margins.
This workshop is part of the AI Business Retreat on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at The Island in Spooner, Wisconsin. One registration covers the full day — all 20 sessions across the Leadership, Sales & Marketing, and Builder tracks, including this one. In person is $495 (working lunch included); attending live online is $250. Seats are limited.

This session is one of twenty.

One registration covers the whole day — every track, every workshop, the working lunch, and your written 90-day roadmap. Sept 15, 2026 · The Island, Spooner WI.