pdf The Digital Estimator: How AI Is Elevating the Estimating Profession (English Edition)
por Keith A. Stratton
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Descrição do livro
The estimating profession is changing. The only question is whether you lead that change — or get left behind by it.
AI is already showing up in how estimates get built, and it's not going away. This book is a working guide to using it well — written for the people who actually build the numbers, not for executives looking at the industry from a distance. Most of the AI-in-construction books out right now are aimed at leadership. This one isn't. It's practical, not hype, and it shows you exactly where AI speeds up your work — and just as importantly, where your judgment still has to make the call.
Inside, you'll see how to put AI to work on:
The book walks the full 11-step estimating workflow from first take-off through final bid submission, organized across three parts. Part One gets you grounded in how these tools actually work and where they fit into your process. Part Two is the workflow itself, step by step. Part Three looks ahead, at how AI is reshaping the estimator's role and where the profession is headed.
There's also a Super Appendix (D1–D8) you'll find yourself returning to long after the first read — workflow templates, an AI tool directory, and a glossary built for construction terminology. And a library of 35 ready-to-use prompts covering things like scope gap analysis, bid leveling, risk register generation, and subcontractor comparisons. Copy, paste, adjust, done.
Whether you're new to estimating and still learning the craft, a few years in and looking to work faster and bid more accurately, or a seasoned pro who's rightly skeptical of the next "revolutionary" tool, this book meets you where you are. It respects what experience has already taught you, and shows you how to build on it — not replace it.
The estimators who use these tools consistently will outperform the ones who don't. Not because they're smarter. Because they're better prepared.
This wasn't written to replace the estimator. It was written to elevate the estimator.
If you build estimates for a living, this is your guide to doing it in the AI era.
AI drafts. You decide.
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