Where should a construction company start with AI?

With enquiries that come with a bill of quantities and wait for the estimator. In the review we count how many you turn down for lack of time.

How much does quote automation in construction cost?

From €3,000 net, paid once. After the 5-day test the build takes 2 to 6 weeks. You get a fixed price before the contract: 50% on signing and 50% after acceptance on your own enquiries.

ChatGPT does not know your prices from past jobs. The system finds the basis for each price in your estimates and shows it to the estimator. Your office on ChatGPT or Claude is a second step, from €1,150 net.

When does it not pay off?

Below 5 enquiries a month the payback takes more than a year. Then it is better to start with ChatGPT or Claude for the team, from €1,150 net, with training on your own tasks.

What do we need to prepare?

20 to 100 enquiries with the estimates made from them, and your current rates.

Construction · Rollout scenario · Updated 22 October 2026

AI in construction

Enquiries with bills of quantities wait for the estimator. The system prices the lines from past jobs and rules, and the estimator approves the quote.

Automation, paid once: from €3,000 net

Test on your process: €0
You pay 50% after acceptance

How much does AI for a construction company cost, and when does it pay back?

Short answer

AI for a construction company costs from €3,000 net. In our scenario it pays back in 1 month. Today, quoting 50 enquiries by hand costs €3,490 a month. With the system, the same work costs €525. The estimator sets the price and the risk. A line without a basis does not go into the quote. The test on your process is free.

Statistics

Construction, tenders and AI: statistics 2026

10.8%
According to Eurostat (2025), construction had the lowest share of EU enterprises using AI: 10.8%.
Source: Eurostat, AI use in enterprises 2025 (2025) ↗
9.7%
According to Eurostat (2025), 9.7% of EU construction enterprises that did not use AI had considered it, the lowest share of any sector.
Source: Eurostat, AI use in enterprises 2025 (2025) ↗
15%
According to the European Commission (2024), public procurement accounts for about 15% of EU GDP.
Source: European Commission, Single Market Scoreboard (2024) ↗
28%
According to the European Commission (2024), 28% of public contracts in a typical EU country were awarded with a single bidder.
Source: European Commission, Single Market Scoreboard (2024) ↗
90%
According to the European Commission (2026), 90% of companies using AI say people take the decisions. In these companies, 2% of decisions are fully automated.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer (2026) ↗

Figures checked: 22 October 2026

Cost today · Scenario

What quoting enquiries costs you today

€3,490

a month for quoting 50 enquiries by hand

Payback: 1 mo.

In your company

Company of 10
15 enquiries · €1,047 a month
3.4 mo. payback
Company of 50
50 enquiries · €3,490 a month
1 mo. payback
General contractor
150 enquiries · €10,470 a month
0.3 mo. payback

The team gets back about 85 hours of work a month, or 11 working days, and the company €35,584 a year. We count after the time a person spends checking and after the model cost. The process also brings money: the extra sales margin in this scenario is about €1,721 a month (see the assumptions under "How we calculate it"). According to Harvard Business Review (2011), in a study of 1.25 million sales leads, firms that tried to contact a lead within an hour were nearly 7 times as likely to reach a decision-maker as firms that tried an hour later.

Source: Harvard Business Review, The Short Life of Online Sales Leads (2011) ↗

How we calculate it

50 × 120 min = 100 h × €34.90 = €3,490 a month. With the system, a person checks the output in 15% of the old time (€524) and the model costs €1. That leaves €525. The saving is €2,965 a month, so €3,000 pays back in 1 month. On top of that, the extra sales margin in this scenario is about €1,721 a month, which the payback leaves out.

Assumptions: 2 hours to quote an enquiry with a bill of quantities and checking in 15% of the old time are our assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: reading the enquiry in our quoting system (about €0.0008) plus pricing the lines (Claude Sonnet 5.5, about 4,000 + 1,500 tokens), at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026. The extra margin is a scenario: we assume 1 in 100 enquiries quoted before the deadline ends in an order that a slow reply loses today, with a margin of €3,442. In the review we count it on your sales process.

Book a free process review (30 min)

We will calculate it on your enquiries.

How it works

What changes in pricing works

Today

An enquiry with a bill of quantities in Excel
Client
The estimator looks for prices from past jobs
Team
Calls the subcontractors
Team
The quote misses the deadline
Team
The job goes to another company
Client

With the system

An enquiry with a bill of quantities
Client
Splits it into lines
AI
A price from past jobs and rules
System
The estimator approves
Person
Lines without a basis are flagged
System

What stays with people: The estimator sets the price and the risk. A line without a basis does not go into the quote.

Client results.

All projects →

customer service

foap.com customer service: 95% of replies are sent automatically.

Users from several countries write to foap.com, in several languages. The system reads the entire conversation and the terms of that person, and then sends a response in that person's language. Questions about money and exceptions go to the team with a ready draft, so they have to check and send them.

the system sends the answers itself, without human typing: 95%; the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median): 30 s; time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft: 100%; e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate): 47 h; less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)

Data from foap.com production, October 20-21, 2026. Estimate: 3 minutes for handwritten response.

How foap.com customer service works →

Sample messages. Money matters always come to the person.

Other implementations

jaktako.design

studio projektowe

−87%

Time to look for new customers, every day

4 hours → 30 min

approx. 73 hours less per month (21 days of work)

according to the studio

How the agent loop works →

real estate

approx. −90%

Operator time spent browsing portals, per day

2–3 hours → 20 min

approx. 45 hours less per month (21 days of work)

respect · contact the seller 5 minutes after the announcement

How the agent finds property listings →

HR team

firma technologiczna, NDA

−3–4 h

Recruiter's work for each candidate

the first conversation is conducted by a voicebot

How voicebot conducts recruitment →

Staffing agency

NDA

almost −1 h

Work for each person registered

CRM updates after each conversation

How voicebot calls candidates →

Who already works this way

Our systems already work for clients

What this scope builds on

The quoting system we have already built

It splits an enquiry into lines and looks for the basis of each price in past quotes and approved rules. A line without a basis stays unpriced and goes to the person who quotes. Reading one enquiry costs about €0.0008.

See the quoting system →

Kuba Koziej, CEO and co-founder of MoreGrowth and board member at Natu.Care — Kuba KoziejCEO and co-founder, MoreGrowthView the original training review on LinkedIn ↗

„I already use AI.”

Your people too. Just no rules.

From our conversations with companies

5 na 10 employees paste sensitive data into private AI accounts: contracts, invoices, customer data.

In ESET survey (2026)

1 na 10 admits this in the survey.

Customer data pasted into a private AI account without an data processing agreement is a violation of the GDPR.

Don't worry, we won't tell anyone :)

What do we see in companies that "already use"

Only ChatGPT or Claude accounts, without plugins, skills, integrations and MCP servers with company tools.
Company programs are not connected to AI. People still click through systems and Excel, and enter chat data manually.
Lack of company standards: everyone writes instructions in their own way, no one shares what works.
No rules for personal data, GDPR and company secrets.
No limits and no visibility: no one knows who uses AI, how much and for what.

62% Polish employees use AI at work · 27% companies have written rules for working with AI.

Source: ESET and DAGMA, Cyberportrait of Polish business 2026 (March 2026, 1,026 people) ↗

ChatGPT or Claude space review

Accounts, permissions, rules for working with data and 5 tasks set for the team. 1 day.

€450 net

ChatGPT rollout →Claude rollout →

Company accounts, rules of working with data and team training in 2 weeks, from €1,150 net.View implementation for the team →

How to start

How to start. The first two steps are free.

1 · 30 min
Free process review
€0
An engineer works out the cost of the process with you. Written plan within 2 working days.
2 · 5 days
Test on your process
€0
We run 20 to 100 cases your team has already handled.
3 · 2–6 weeks
Build
from €3,000
Fixed price in the contract. 50% on signing, 50% after acceptance on your test set.

Book a free process review (30 min)

or call+48 888 78 48 78 WhatsAppMon–Fri 9:00–17:00 CET

You will see the slots in your time zone.

Included in the build

Reading enquiries from emails and attachments
A price from past quotes or a rule
Lines without a basis for the person who quotes
The quote in your template

What happens to your data

You choose the test cases. We anonymise them on request.
They stay in the EU and we delete them after the test.
We sign the NDA and the data processing agreement before we receive anything.

After acceptance you keep the code, the test set and the documentation. You pay for licences and model usage directly to the provider. Your site office on ChatGPT or Claude: from €1,150 net for a team of up to 10 people.

Questions

Where should a construction company start with AI?
With enquiries that come with a bill of quantities and wait for the estimator. In the review we count how many you turn down for lack of time.
How much does quote automation in construction cost?
From €3,000 net, paid once. After the 5-day test the build takes 2 to 6 weeks. You get a fixed price before the contract: 50% on signing and 50% after acceptance on your own enquiries.
Is ChatGPT enough?
ChatGPT does not know your prices from past jobs. The system finds the basis for each price in your estimates and shows it to the estimator. Your office on ChatGPT or Claude is a second step, from €1,150 net.
When does it not pay off?
Below 5 enquiries a month the payback takes more than a year. Then it is better to start with ChatGPT or Claude for the team, from €1,150 net, with training on your own tasks.
What do we need to prepare?
20 to 100 enquiries with the estimates made from them, and your current rates.

Let's talk

Just write, call or choose a date.

We work fast because we hate corporate cotton wool. We don't have salespeople or managers to keep an eye on managers. You talk immediately to engineers who then build your system. We respect each other's time and yours too.

We will accept 3 more companies by the end of the year.

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