Alder AIAlder AI

AI for Construction

AI that connects your project tools and gives your team instant answers

We build custom AI that connects Procore, Bluebeam, and all your tools — so your team gets instant answers instead of digging through disconnected systems.

Example buildout

Example: A $50M General Contractor

A GC running 8-12 active projects at any time. 6 project managers, 10 superintendents, 4 estimators, and 8 office staff. They use Procore for project management, Bluebeam for plans, Sage 300 for accounting, Outlook for email, and Dropbox for overflow documents. PMs spend 2+ hours/day searching for information. Estimators build every bid from scratch because historical data is inaccessible. Change orders slip through cracks, costing $200K+ per year in unbilled work.

What we could build:

1

An AI project assistant that connects to Procore, Bluebeam, Sage, Outlook, and Dropbox simultaneously. Any team member can ask 'What's the status of the fire suppression RFI on the Main Street project?' or 'Pull up the electrical spec from the Johnson drawings' and get an instant answer with the source document linked.

2

A change order detection system that monitors field reports, daily logs, emails, and meeting minutes for scope changes — flagging potential change orders before they're forgotten. Every potential CO gets tracked, priced using historical data, and routed for approval.

3

An estimating intelligence engine that gives estimators instant access to actual-vs-estimated costs from all completed projects. When bidding a new medical office, the system surfaces costs from your last 5 similar projects, adjusted for current material prices and location factors.

4

A superintendent field app with voice-to-everything: daily logs, safety reports, and RFI responses captured via voice note and auto-formatted into Procore entries. Supers spend their day on the jobsite, not on a tablet.

5

A project financial dashboard that pulls real-time data from Sage and Procore — showing budget-to-actual, committed costs, projected final costs, and cash flow forecasts for every active project on a single screen.

The result

PM information-hunting time drops from 2+ hours/day to 15 minutes. Change order capture improves by $200K+/year. Estimating accuracy improves 15% from historical data access. Superintendent field reporting time drops 70%. The company takes on 2 more projects per year without adding overhead.

A day for a project manager

Before

Owner asks about the HVAC submittal status. PM opens Procore, searches submittals. Not there. Checks email. Finds it was discussed in a meeting. Opens the meeting minutes in Dropbox. Finds the sub promised it last Tuesday. Calls the sub. 25 minutes gone.

After

PM asks the AI: 'HVAC submittal status, Riverside project.' Gets the answer in 10 seconds: 'Submitted by ABC Mechanical on 2/15, currently with the architect. Follow-up sent automatically yesterday. Expected response by Friday.'

Before

Super calls from the field: 'The architect changed the ceiling height in the east wing.' PM writes it down. Means to create a change order. Gets pulled into 3 other fires. Remembers a week later. $15K in unbilled work.

After

AI detected the scope change from the architect's email and the super's daily log. A draft change order was created automatically with estimated cost from similar changes on past projects. PM reviews and sends to the owner that afternoon.

Before

Bid day: estimator needs to price a new retail buildout. Searches for costs from a similar project 2 years ago. Can't find the final cost report in Sage. Asks the PM who ran it. PM doesn't remember the details. Estimator guesses.

After

Estimator asks the AI: 'Show me actual costs for retail buildouts over 10,000 SF in the last 3 years.' Gets a breakdown by CSI division with actual vs. estimated variance. Bid is 15% more accurate.

Before

End of day: super fills out a daily log on a tablet. Takes 30 minutes. Uploads 12 photos to Procore manually. Writes an RFI response in email that nobody can find later.

After

Super records a 3-minute voice note walking the site. AI generates the daily log, tags and uploads photos to the correct Procore folders, and files the RFI response where it belongs. Done before the super reaches the parking lot.

Common problems we solve

Information Scattered Everywhere

Project data lives in Procore, Bluebeam, email, Sage, Dropbox, and people's heads. PMs spend 2+ hours/day hunting for answers that already exist somewhere.

Our solution: AI connects all your systems into a single queryable layer. Ask a question in plain English and get the answer with source documents. No more digging.

Change Orders Falling Through Cracks

Scope changes happen in the field, in emails, in meetings. Without a system to catch them, they become unbilled work. $200K+/year walks out the door.

Our solution: AI monitors all communication channels for scope changes and auto-generates draft change orders with cost estimates. Nothing slips through.

Estimating Without History

Your company has completed hundreds of projects, but estimators can't easily access actual costs. Every bid starts from scratch instead of learning from the past.

Our solution: AI indexes all historical project costs and makes them instantly searchable. Estimators bid from data, not memory.

Field Staff Buried in Admin

Superintendents spend 45+ minutes/day on daily logs, safety reports, and documentation. That's skilled leadership time wasted on data entry.

Our solution: Voice-to-everything: walk the site, talk, and the AI handles the rest. Daily logs, photos, RFIs — all filed correctly in seconds.

Example tech stack

Every solution is custom-built for your business. Here's what a typical construction build looks like under the hood.

AI & Automation

Custom LLM agents, speech-to-text, NLP for change order detection, document classification

Integrations

Procore API, Bluebeam Studio, Sage 300/100 API, Outlook/Exchange, Dropbox API, PlanGrid

Field Tools

Mobile voice capture, photo auto-tagging, digital daily logs

Estimating Intelligence

Historical cost database, material price feeds, location factor adjustments

Infrastructure

Cloud-hosted or on-premise option, encrypted data, role-based access by project

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