Heuristics AIWorker file / 009
OperationsEstimator.
A defined role. Discovery, implementation and configuration come before deployment. Not running for a customer yet.
- Reports to
- Your estimator
For contractors: Takes quantities off plans and drafts a priced estimate from your own rates.
01 / The assignment
A clear job. A named supervisor.
We hire this worker to take quantities off your plans and draft a priced estimate from your own rates. It shows its measurements and assumptions so your estimator can check them, and it flags anything it is unsure about instead of guessing.
02 / Scope of work
What it does.
Read the plans and drawings you supply and pull quantities from them.
Match each item to a line in your price list.
Apply your rates, waste factors and labor assumptions.
Draft the estimate in your own spreadsheet.
Flag items that look unusual or that it measured with low confidence.
List every assumption next to the number it affects.
Compare against similar past jobs so differences stand out.
03 / Tools and information
Works where the job lives.
Access and permitted actions are agreed during setup. Only the information and systems this job needs.
Your drawings
Your price list
Your estimating spreadsheet
04 / Safeguards and supervision
Built with
boundaries.
These limits are part of the job description.
Your estimator
What it will never do
- Set markup or margin.
- Send an estimate to a customer.
- Hide a measurement it is unsure about.
- Change your rates or your price list.
- Treat a drawing it cannot read as clear.
Hands to a person
- An estimate with its assumptions
- Low-confidence items, flagged
- Items missing from your price list
Approval and follow-through
If nobody reviews it, the estimate stays a draft and the estimator gets a reminder. It never releases a number to a customer.
05 / A week on the job
The shape of a working week.
A typical week.
- Mon
Receives a drawing set and pulls quantities for the first area.
- Tue
Matches items to the price list and flags two with no matching line.
- Wed
The estimator reviews the draft, corrects one measurement and answers the flags.
- Thu
Compares the new estimate with two similar past jobs and notes the differences.
- Fri
Saves the estimate with its assumptions and lists what still needs a decision.
06 / In practice
You set the level of supervision.
The role's boundaries stay in place at every setting.
Supervision
Pick a setting to see which steps still go to a person. What a worker may do on its own is agreed during setup.
3 of 5 steps go to a person2 done by the worker
- 01
Plans and drawings arrive.
Worker does it - 02
It pulls quantities.
Worker does it - 03
It prices them from your rates.
Person approves - 04
Markup is set.
Always a person - 05
The estimate is saved with its assumptions.
Person approves
Approve: the worker does each step, and nothing leaves or changes until a person approves.
07 / Getting started
Like bringing on a new hire.
Stop after any step.
- 01
Map the process
We sit with your team and draw how this job moves today. You keep the map.
- 02
Run a work sample
The worker does a few of your real past tasks. You compare the results with your team’s.
- 03
Connect your tools
Only what the job needs: your drawings, your price list, your estimating spreadsheet. Revoke access any time.
- 04
Supervised trial
Your team reviews everything before it goes out, and we adjust the rules each week.
- 05
Go live, at your pace
Raise how much it does on its own where the trial earned it. Or keep approving every step.
08 / Commercial terms
How it is priced.
Monthly subscription.
- Setup
- A one-time setup, where we map your process and configure the worker.
- Monthly
- A monthly subscription for this worker.
Quoted after a discovery call.
Talk through the scope09 / Questions
Before you bring it on.
What does an AI estimator do?
It reads your plans, pulls quantities, prices them from your own rates and drafts an estimate. It lists its assumptions and flags anything it is unsure about, and your estimator checks the result.
Can AI take quantities off drawings?
It can draft quantities from drawings you provide, and it marks anything it measured with low confidence. A person checks the numbers before they are used.
Does the AI estimator use my prices?
Yes. It uses your price list and your rates. It does not set markup or margin, and it asks when an item is not on your list.
Will the estimator replace my estimator?
No. It works beside your estimator and takes the repetitive measuring and pricing, so your estimator spends time checking and deciding.
/ Yours. The next worker
is drawn around your process.
The next assignment / Yours
Your process looks different? That's normal. Tell us about it.
Show us how the work moves today. We'll help define the right worker and where your team stays in control.