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AI Tackles Construction Budgets: One Developer’s Quest to Cut 20 Hours Down to 8 Minutes

December 29, 20254 Mins read1.9k
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Jake Heller wasn't trying to replace his estimator. The commercial real estate developer and AI consultant just wanted to know if artificial intelligence could handle one of the most time-consuming tasks in development: creating a preliminary construction budget from architectural plans. So he ran an experiment. He took a 32,500 square foot affordable housing project in […]

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