AI document automation
Draft, structure and quality-check construction documents in a fraction of the time, with your standards baked in.
See how it works →AI for the built environment
AI that understands how construction is actually delivered.
We help UK contractors and consultants with 1 to 50 staff cut the admin out of delivery, wherever they are in the UK. Document automation, site reporting and workflow automation, built by people who have run projects, not by generic software consultants.
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Platforms we work with
- Microsoft 365
- SharePoint
- Outlook
- Teams
- Power BI
- Power Automate
- Google Workspace
- Gmail
- Sheets
- Airtable
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- n8n
- Make
- Zapier
- Notion
- Dropbox
- Autodesk
- Trimble
- Procore
- Solibri
- Fieldwire
- DroneDeploy
The Drawing Board
What wastes your team’s time?
Describe a repetitive process, upload an example or try one of ours.
Or open the full Drawing Board to upload an example and build the business case.
How we work
Three steps, grounded in delivery
01
Understand the delivery
We start on your ground, not ours. We map where the hours and errors actually go across bids, site reporting and admin, and agree where AI genuinely pays off.
02
Build on live work
We automate the highest-return work first and prove it on real projects, with your people in control and your standards encoded, before we expand.
03
Embed and train
We hand over documented, maintainable systems and train your teams so adoption sticks long after we leave, rather than fading back to old habits.
What we do
Services
AI for estimating and take-off
Faster, checkable take-off and pricing for estimators and QSs: quantities measured from the drawings, structured into a bill and priced from your own rates.
See how it works →WhatsApp site assistant
Capture what the site team already writes in WhatsApp and turn it into a structured daily diary and searchable record.
See how it works →SharePoint and CDE setup
A clean, well-governed SharePoint and common data environment that people trust and AI can actually use.
See how it works →Workflow automation
Remove the repetitive admin and handoffs between your systems so people do the work only software should.
See how it works →AI training for construction teams
Practical, role-specific AI training that builds real confidence and adoption, using your projects as the examples.
See how it works →Flagship product
Construction Metric
Your site team already writes the diary. They just do it in WhatsApp. Construction Metric captures those messages, photos and voice notes and turns them into a structured daily site diary and a searchable project record, with no new app to learn.
- Automatic branded daily site diary
- Photos and voice notes captured against the right project
- Searchable record for delays, instructions and progress
- Stronger contemporaneous evidence for claims
We build what we recommend
AI Metric designs, builds and runs its own software, on the web and on the App Store.
Live
Construction Metric
The site diary that writes itself from WhatsApp, from £199 a site a month.
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Free on the App StoreWeather Metric
Site weather for UK construction, checked against your crane, pour and rain limits. Free on iPhone and the web.
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Metric Takeoff
Measure and price drawings in the browser, every quantity traced to its mark.
See Metric TakeoffWhat clients say
Chris did an amazing job on my website and I couldn’t have been happier with the results. Top work
What we built: Website, AI agents and automations
- Automations that pull his new gig dates and YouTube videos onto the site every night, with nobody touching it.
- An AI agent that searches other listing sites each week for dates he has not added, and holds each one back until he approves it.
- An AI agent that takes a change request written in plain English, makes the edit and publishes it.
- A visual editor, so text can be changed on the page itself and seen before it goes live.
Latest writing
From the blog
RICS Says AI Changes What Comes Before the Signature. What Should Your Reports Show?
RICS says an AI draft is not advice until a named professional tests it. What that means for report writing, our 20/60/20 split and where to start.
Read the article →Farrans and Arup Both Blamed Problem Contracts. Can AI Spot a Losing Job Sooner?
Farrans posted a £36m loss on legacy contracts and Arup's profit hit a 13-year low. Where AI can surface a losing job earlier, and what it cannot fix.
Read the article →The Cladding Bill Eases Claims Against Manufacturers. Can Your Records Prove What Was Installed?
A new Bill would make it easier to claw back recladding costs from manufacturers. Claims still need proof of what went where. How AI helps build that record.
Read the article →Questions
Frequently asked
Who can help my construction company use AI?
AI Metric works with UK contractors, specialist subcontractors and construction consultants with 1 to 50 staff, anywhere in the UK, working remotely. We start with the one workflow costing you the most time, such as reports, site diaries, tender reviews or take-offs, build it into the software you already use, and measure the hours before and after. The first step is a paid discovery and AI implementation workshop, £1,500, taken off the build price if you go ahead; base builds start at £2,950. The founder, Chris M., has spent more than twenty years in Tier 1 construction delivery.
Do you only work with construction firms near Liverpool?
No. Our registered office is in Liverpool, but we work with construction firms anywhere in the UK. The work happens remotely, on Teams calls and inside your own systems, so where you are does not change how we work.
What makes AI Metric different from a generic AI consultancy?
We come from twenty years in Tier 1 construction delivery, including commercial management, not from software. We understand tenders, take-off, RAMS, CDEs, RFIs and site reporting, so we automate the work that actually costs you time rather than selling generic tooling.
Can you help our estimators and quantity surveyors?
Yes. We automate the mechanical parts of estimating: reading tender packs and flagging the clauses that carry cost or risk, structuring measured quantities into a bill to NRM2 work sections, and pricing it from your own rate library. We also build our own take-off software, Metric Takeoff, which is in private beta with invited teams, so we know where automated take-off goes wrong and how to keep every quantity checkable.
Do we have to replace our existing systems?
Almost never. We make the tools you already own, such as SharePoint and Microsoft 365, work properly, and automate the flow between them. We only recommend change where a tool is genuinely holding you back.
Can you handle golden thread, CIS and RICS work?
Yes. We build golden thread records that keep building information current with a record of who changed what, check subcontractor CIS status, insurances and accreditations before they start, and draft survey reports in RICS formats for your RICS member to sign. Data and AI processing can be kept in the UK or EU.
Which software do you work with?
Microsoft 365 today: Word, Excel, SharePoint, OneDrive and Outlook. Your templates stay in Word and Excel, files come from and go back to SharePoint, and sign-in can use your Microsoft accounts. Other systems are looked at case by case in the workshop.
Do you help leadership teams plan AI across the company?
Yes. Board-level briefings and a company-wide AI roadmap, written by someone who has run construction projects, so the plan starts with the work that costs your business the most time rather than with the tools.
Is our project and client data safe?
Yes. We design everything we build so your data stays in your environment and is never used to train public models. A named person stays in control of every output.
How quickly do we see results?
The workshop sets AI up on your highest-return workflow with your team straight away. A base build goes live on real work in about six weeks, and we measure the hours it saves before anything else is built.
Ready to take the admin out of delivery?
Book a call and we will talk through where AI can save your teams real time, with no jargon and no obligation.
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