10 Ways You Can Use AI In Your Construction Business

First of all, congratulations for wanting to simplify your work and using all the resources you have for that.

Implementing AI (Artificial Intelligence) in your construction business will remove a lot of labor and tasks that can be automatized, ultimately freeing up a lot of your time to do what’s truly important.

Let’s see how you can take advantage of AI in your contracting business too…

10 Awesome Ways AI Can Help Your Contracting Business

Before you learn how to implement AI in your construction business, you first need to know how it can help.

There are hundreds of applications for AI already, but I’ll list the 10 most important ones in any contracting business.

#1. AI-generated SEO Content

Writing an article for your website’s SEO is time consuming. And you’re not a writer, you’re a business owner. You have other things to do.

But AI can spit out a decent blog post that has a decent chance of ranking on Google and helping more prospects find your business.

Of course, after the AI-content is ready, you might want to edit it, and you’ll need someone to publish it on your website. There’s an AI for that too, but it requires setting it up and doing some automations. Difficult? Yes. But far from impossible.

Some of the best AI tools for writing SEO content are Jasper, Agility Writer, Surfer, or Copy.ai.

#2. Use AI For A Website Chat Assistant

This 24/7, live chat within your website works like your personal customer support expert. It’s simply a window where people can ask any sort of question, and the AI integrated in your website will pull out the information.

This AI would need a bit of training, but it’s fairly easy to do it, especially if the tool offers human assistance to set it up.

Some of the best live AI chats for websites are ChatBot, StructChat, Tidio, ManyChat, and Landbot.

#3. Use AI In Your CRM

Using AI in your CRM gives you an unlimited number of possibilities. I’m not kidding, there’s just so many things you can do with it that I don’t even know where to begin…

You can:

Most CRMs these days are already using AI and teaching their clients how to do it too. Whether it’s JobTread, Go High Level, Pipedrive, Buildertrend, or something else, ask them about AI integrations and what you can do with it.

#4. Filter Leads Based On Quality With AI

When you get to a point where you’re scaling fast and you get a ton of leads, that’s when you need to be filtering your leads.

Luckily, there’s an AI that can do that as well.

Naturally, it needs some training so it can understand what’s a good lead or a bad lead, but the rule is simple.

If the message is relevant to your services, the AI can put that lead in the ‘good leads’ bucket, and if the message is spam (them trying to sell you something), the AI puts it in the ‘bad leads’ bucket.

From there, you can take the filtering even further, based on the client’s budget, start date, project, ZIP code, etc.

#5. Let AI Do Social Media For Your Construction Business

Create an engaging post for your Instagram, Facebook page, or TikTok, add a video from production or a photo of the end product, and schedule the AI to post it for you, whenever you want.

Being highly active on social media increases your brand awareness so more and more people in your area know your business. This is how you remain their top choice when they’re ready to start remodeling or building a deck or an addition.

To create, schedule, and post social media content on any platform, use Buffer, Hootsuite, Predis.ai, and Vista Social.

#6. Streamline Construction Processes

Maybe we should’ve place this one first, considering most of our clients want a streamlined, predictable process that allows them to grow.

AI will allow you to streamline every process, from hiring workers to closing sales.

While this might be more difficult to implement, the possibility is there and leverages AI to get it done will have a huge advantage over all of his competitors.

#7. Use AI For Video And Image Editing

Whether it’s for social media, your website, or other marketing channel, you can use AI to create some engaging, memorable videos or images.

For this, all you need to do is record videos and take photos of your projects.

Make sure you have the homeowner’s approval to film on his property. Many of our clients offer a 15% discount for homeowners who allow them to film and take photos for marketing purposes.

Here are some content ideas:

#8. Use AI To Estimate Construction Or Remodeling Jobs

There are several AI tools that take your past projects, analyses them, and creates an estimate for any remodeling or construction job.

While it might not be accurate from the get-go, you can train it so in time (and after several jobs), it’ll predict more accurately the cost of every aspect of a job.

This would work based on labor cost, square footage (or linear feet), materials, profit margins, markups, and more.

Some of the best tools for estimating construction work are Houzz Pro, ProEst, StackCT, Buildertrend, and Joist.

#9. Use AI To Enhance Designs and 3D Modeling

Creating the design or a 3D render takes a lot of time. And while it’s totally understandable that you want the design to look great, you can still get it done quicker with AI, without sacrificing quality.

There are several tools for this. For the best of them, you’ll need to pay a subscription, but the time and effort it will save you are well worth it.

Some AI tools for construction design and 3D modeling are Autodesk Revit, Spacemaker AI, Foyr Neo, Enscape, Twinmotion, AI House Designer, and more.

#10. Use AI-Powered Tools In Production For Your Construction Business

We left this the last one, but only because there’s a lot to talk about here.

As we said in the beginning of this article, AI is advancing fast in both production and management.

However, the real AI-powered tools are in production.

Let’s see some of the most intelligent tools you can get to make your work easier, eliminate labor, and become more efficient and fast.

Dusty Robotics

This is a great tool that helps contractors automate floor plan markings on job sites to high accuracy in layouts. It works for walls, plumbing and electrical.

Dusty Robotics is a great solution for automated construction layout, with every capability needed on the jobsite.

Hilti Jaibot

The Hilti Jaibot is a semi-automated drilling robot that adds more productivity to your installation projects.

Using digital plans, the Jaibot marks and drills holes, relieving construction workers from the strenuous task of overhead drilling and allowing them to focus on operation of the construction robot.

It is designed for mechanical, electrical, plumbing and interior finishing installation work and can work for 8 hours straight.

Canvas

Canvas is the world’s first robotic drywall finishing robot. It delivers both Level 4 and Level 5 finishes with improved quality, speed, and safety. It eliminates a lot of labor and improves the efficiency of your team.

Canvas’ newest machine, the 1200CX, is their most compact, modern, and useful machine to date, used in both commercial and residential spaces.

It has:

So, How Do I Integrate AI In My Construction Business?

If you want to integrate some of these AI hardware in your toolbox, you can do it a lot easier. Most of these companies will lease their products to companies.

If you want to integrate AI in managing and growing your business, things get a bit more difficult.

Even so, most of the AI tools on this list will provide support and guidance so you can implement and start using them right away.

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