Test revisions
Include old and new documents and budgets to check version selection.
CONSTRUCTION / PROVE
Construction and installation
AI discovery and PoC.
Choose one document type or one cost work package within a project. Can evidence and revisions be shared without increasing site reporting effort?
Explore the delivery scope ↓OPERATING MODELILLUSTRATIVE
- 01Reports, orders & revisions
- 02Align projects and work types
- 03Budget, actuals & forecast
- 04Review progress and changes
Conceptual data-to-operation flow, adapted to the agreed project scope.
THE DECISION TO MAKE
Can evidence and revisions be shared without increasing site reporting effort?
Choose one document type or one cost work package within a project.
A PoC should produce evidence for the next investment decision. Business owners, data owners and users agree on normal tasks and exceptions, rather than treating a working screen as proof of value.
INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC TESTS
Include the conditions that matter.
Review at the site
Evaluate mobile access to evidence in the real task sequence.
Reconcile totals
Test partial acceptance and additional work for duplicate or unrelated costs.
BASELINE & ACCEPTANCE
Choose measures for the selected topic.
Project cost and progress data
| Candidate measure | Method |
|---|---|
| Reconciliation | Explain differences from accounting and registers |
| Unfinalized cost | Separate pending approval and uninvoiced commitments |
| Review time | Site and office time to reconcile the same figures |
Site documents and reporting AI
| Candidate measure | Method |
|---|---|
| Source agreement | Answers supported by current in-scope documents |
| Verification time | Time to locate and check the original |
| Version errors | Use of superseded or unrelated project documents |
Set targets from your own baseline. Hold evaluation evidence separate from tuning and fix the assessment period and scope. Record failures, abstentions and untested conditions alongside successes.
GO / REVISE / STOP
A decision to stop is useful evidence.
Resolve missing project IDs or revisions first. If capture adds workload, revisit form consolidation and reuse of existing records.
Proceed to build
Core criteria pass, with owners, interfaces and remaining issues understood.
Validate further
There is a promising signal but insufficient coverage; define a bounded follow-up.
Choose another approach
Value does not exceed the baseline; compare data cleanup or improvements to existing tools.
A defined engagement and usable deliverables.
The PoC scope defines the workflow, source material, environment, evaluation and prototype/report deliverables. Production development is a separate decision.
- Workflow and data definitions with assumptions
- Reproducible prototype, evaluation and exceptions
- Evidence for implementation, further testing or stopping
QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU START
Questions before starting
Can we start without BIM?
Yes, using registers, reports, spreadsheets and PDFs. Model integration requires a separate scope and data-access review.
Can an active project adopt this?
Start with read-only reporting after assessing disruption; preserve agreed submission and approval procedures.
RELATED FIELD GUIDE
CONSTRUCTION / GUIDE
Avoiding double counting in project cost reporting
Before moving a project register into a dashboard, distinguish commitments, payments, additional scope and budget revisions. Build figures that sites and head office can reconcile.
Read the guide ↗YOUR OPERATION / OUR STARTING POINT
Start with the work you do today.
Tell us about the workflow, systems and reporting or documents that need attention. We will define a suitable phase, deliverables and assumptions.
Construction and installation — discuss your project How scope and estimates work ↗