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Real Intelligence, Nothing Artificial... (RINA)

Video about construction bidding

The social media feeds are suddenly filled with advisors and experts who want to sell you a technology that is not yet proven, and sometimes it's still a dream. The reality in construction is that accurate and contextual data simply does not exist in most companies. The AI agent doesn't usually have video tape of your complete operation to analyze, nor does it generally have digital access to your records. Contractor's production records are generally vague and often non

"What's it going to take to get Heavybid into R.E. Monks?" John Davis, VP at HCSS, asked me in a phone call just a month or so after I had left Sundt and started as chief estimator for R.E. Monks Construction in Arizona. That conversation happened in the summer of 1997 and to understand the background, we need to go back to 1992 when Ken Brunker had been promoted to VP over the estimating group at Sundt Corp. Ken's predecessor had purchased several seats of Hard Dollar with

The basic process of bidding work has not changed, technology has only quickened the pace of making mistakes.

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