Build a technical submission that answers the scoring grid.
Go/No-Go, a requirement-to-evidence matrix and the technical submission: a method for preparing a reasoned response with AI.
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Cases. Documents. A method.
Start from a task you already know: preparing a calculation, producing a take-off, writing a specification or answering an enquiry. See how to frame the work AI does, and how to check the result.
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Trace your quantities and your rates back to their sources.
Clean a BIM export, find where a rate came from and explain a variance in an estimate without losing track of the assumptions.
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Prepare a design calculation backed by evidence.
Sourced assumptions, an executed calculation and independent checks: give AI a precise place in your structural work.
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Produce a specification consistent with the project documents.
Start from your own library, identify what needs adapting, and cross-check requirements, drawings and the priced breakdown.
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Organise your design reviews and technical comments.
Admissibility, revision comparison and comment tracking: a structured document review, with no automatic approval.
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Write prompts you can genuinely check.
Named documents, a bounded task, an imposed format and a source per line: prepare requests suited to construction work.
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The common thread
Producing faster starts with framing better.
A useful prompt states the task, the documents to read, the sources to cite and the limits of the result. An output becomes usable only after your own checks.
- Document. Name the drawings and reports, their revisions, and what is missing.
- Produce. Ask for a bounded deliverable, with a source for every piece of information.
- Check. Recalculate the figures and reopen the references.
- Decide. Keep control of the trade-offs and of what gets issued.