AI consulting for construction, engineering and facilities firms
We help project and facilities teams find the one workflow where software will save the most staff hours, then build it and measure the result. It starts with a two-week Workflow Assessment at a fixed $4,500, credited in full to the pilot if you go ahead within 30 days.
What it covers
What the assessment covers
1Interviews with the people who do the work
Up to 8 staff, about an hour each: project managers, engineers, coordinators, whoever owns the job. We watch the work, not a description of it.
2A measured baseline
How many hours each candidate workflow takes today, per person and per week, with the method written down so you can repeat it after the pilot.
3Workflows ranked by payback
Three to five candidates, each with hours at stake, effort to build, the systems it touches and what a person must still approve. Ranked by hours saved against effort.
4A clickable prototype of the top one
Enough to put in front of the people who will use it and hear what's wrong before anything is built for real.
What you get
What you get at the end
A written report your CFO can read in ten minutes. The heart of it is one page: the workflows we measured, ranked. Here is the format.
Ranked workflows
Sample page. The firm and every figure are invented.
| Rank | Workflow | Hours a year today | Effort to build | Systems it touches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weekly status report | 1,730 | Low | Schedule, cost, daily logs |
| 2 | RFI log and chasing | 1,150 | Medium | Email, RFI log |
| 3 | Closeout document check | 620 | Medium | Shared drive, spec |
| 4 | Spec lookups from the field | 410 | Low | Spec books |
Each row in the real report links to the interviews and timings behind it, the assumptions, and what a person would still approve.
- The baseline, with the method, so anyone can measure again.
- The ranked list, with the math behind every number.
- The prototype of the top workflow, yours to keep.
After the assessment
How the pilot follows
If the top workflow is worth building, the pilot builds it: 10 hours a week for 3 months, $7,500 a month ($22,500 in all), with a working demo every week. At the end we measure the same hours again. If they haven't moved, we tell you not to scale it.
2 weeks
3 months
Ongoing
1 · 2 weeks
Workflow Assessment
We interview the people who do the work, measure how long it takes today, and rank three to five workflows by hours saved and effort. You get a written baseline, a ranked list with the math behind it, and a clickable prototype of the top one.
2 · 3 months
Pilot
We build the top workflow for real, connected to your systems, with a working demo every week. At the end we measure the same hours again and give you the before-and-after.
3 · Ongoing
Build-out
If the pilot paid off, we take on the next workflows and train your team to run and extend what we built.
Comparison
How we compare
Honestly, each option has a place. This is how we see the trade-offs.
| Option | Good at | Watch for |
|---|---|---|
| Large consulting firms | Breadth, and a name the board knows. | Long engagements, a strategy deck before anything is built, and senior people who hand off to junior teams. |
| General AI development agencies | Build capacity and speed. | Often new to how project and facilities teams work, and paid to build rather than to measure whether it helped. |
| Doing it in-house | Your people know the work best, and you keep the skill. | Your IT team is already full. Pilots tend to stall between the people who know the work and the people who can build. |
| LastLap | One senior product lead who builds, a published price, and a measured before-and-after. | Small on purpose: we take on a few clients at a time, and we are not the right fit for a large on-site team. |
Fit
Who it's for, and who it isn't
A good fit
A CIO, head of innovation or head of digital at a construction, engineering or facilities firm of 500 to 5,000 people. You've been asked to do something with AI, a pilot or two has stalled, and you need one result you can show the CFO this quarter.
Not a fit
Firms that want a strategy deck with no build, or a large team on site full time.
See also what we build and what it costs.
Questions
Questions about the assessment
What do you need from us during the assessment?
About an hour each with up to 8 people who do the work, read access to the systems involved (or screenshots, if access takes too long), and one person on your side who can make decisions. Most of the two weeks is our time, not yours.
What if the assessment finds nothing worth building?
Then the written report says so, with the numbers. You keep the baseline, which is useful whoever you work with next.
Is the assessment fee really credited?
Yes. The full $4,500 comes off the pilot if the pilot starts within 30 days of the assessment report.
We already pay for Microsoft Copilot. Why do we need this?
Copilot helps one person with one document. The work that eats hours is usually a handoff between people and systems, like a report built from three tools or an RFI waiting on two people. That needs a tool built around your process. We often build on top of what you already pay for.
You're in Europe. Will that work?
Geoff is based in Spain and keeps US hours every weekday: 8am to noon Pacific, 11am to 3pm Eastern. Most of the work is async with a weekly live demo, and we visit for kickoff when it's worth it.
Pick the workflow. We'll measure it.
Tell us which job eats the most hours. We'll reply within one business day with a yes, a no, or a question.