Construction Agent

Construction Agent reviews quantity take-off schedules, progress-payment PDFs, and unit-price entries, flagging deviations between what was billed and what the schedule supports.

What Is the Construction Agent?

Construction Agent is the specialist behind the quantity and site-execution screens in Construction & Field Operations — it reads take-off schedules, progress-payment PDFs and unit-price entries and flags where what was billed drifts from what the schedule supports.

Quantity Take-off — Every billed quantity traced back to the take-off
Progress Payments — Progress payments that match the work on site
Unit Prices — Unit prices that stay on the agreed list

In one sentence

Take-off-aware checks on every progress payment — one specialist behind the quantity screens in Construction & Field Operations.

How the Agent Builds Its Context

Every screen in Construction & Field Operations follows the same two-step approach, and Construction Agent always provides the second step:

Step 1 — Find the relevant records → Step 2 — Construction Agent reasons over them

Step	What it does
Step 1	Searches the tenant's own live records for the ones relevant to the item being reviewed, entirely on the user's own device.
Step 2	Takes the most relevant matches and reasons over them the way a specialist in that field would, producing the structured finding the screen displays.

The candidate pool is always the tenant's own records

Construction Agent works with the records already on file for the tenant rather than an external archive, so every finding can be traced back to something the team can open and verify.

What Construction Agent Checks

Each area below is backed by its own dedicated reasoning, grounded in the same kind of records a specialist reviews every day:

Area	Check	What it looks at
Quantity Take-off	Schedule parsing	take-off lines read from files
	Line matching	billed lines tied to the schedule
	Overbilling flags	quantities above the take-off
	Missing items	scheduled work not yet billed
Progress Payments	PDF reading	tables extracted from payment files
	Milestone check	billed progress vs. site logs
	Cumulative totals	carried over from earlier payments
	Deviation report	a summary for the approver
Unit Prices	Price list match	entries compared to the list
	Price creep	trend across payments
	New items	prices without an agreed rate
	Rounding errors	small gaps that add up

Where Construction Agent Fits

Construction Agent has no ledger of its own — every record lives in the add-on's own tenant-scoped store. Its job is strictly the reasoning step: given the context a screen already assembled, produce a structured judgment and hand it back to the person responsible for that record.

A reasoning layer, not a data layer

Construction Agent never reads or writes stored records directly — it receives the context the calling screen assembled, reasons over it and returns a result. Saving that result and any follow-up action remain the screen's responsibility, and every finding is handed back to a person rather than acted on automatically.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Construction Agent specific to Construction & Field Operations?

Today, yes — its capabilities exist to serve the Construction & Field Operations screens. The same two-step pattern is used by Patent Agent, Customs Agent and Compliance Agent in other parts of TotalApp.

Does Construction Agent make final decisions on its own?

No. It returns findings — a flag, a discrepancy, a recommendation — and hands them back to the person responsible. Nothing is filed, paid, approved or sent automatically.

What happens if the agent finds no relevant records?

It says so instead of guessing. The finding is returned with a note that no supporting records were found, so the reviewer knows to check manually.

Where can I see Construction Agent in action?

On the Construction Agent product page, which walks through a typical session, or directly in the app on the Construction & Field Operations screens.