Provision Launches RFI Agent

Provision Launches RFI Agent to Find Drawing and Specification Conflicts Before Tender

The fourth Provision agent reads a document package against itself, attaches the source page to every finding, and leaves the decision with the estimator. At Clark Construction, close to 22 of the first 30 findings were ones the project manager would have submitted as RFIs.

TORONTO, ON, November 9, 2026. Provision, the AI construction technology company, today announced the general availability of RFI Agent, its AI system for reviewing construction document packages before tender. RFI Agent reads drawings and specifications against each other, surfaces conflicts, omissions and unclear requirements, and ties each finding to the exact specification page or drawing it came from. It joins Scope Agent, Risk Review and Chat Agent as the fourth product on the Provision platform.

The package is bigger than the review time

On a large tender, a general contractor's preconstruction team has days to read a document set that keeps growing through addenda. Comparing a drawing against a specification means one reader holding both in mind at once. What is not caught before the price goes out is either priced in as design risk, which costs margin, or reaches the field, where it becomes a change.

RFI Agent is built for the preconstruction leader responsible for the quality of the estimate. It surfaces more than 100 potential issues from a document set in an hour, each with its evidence, so the team spends its review time deciding rather than hunting.

How it works

• Find. Upload the package. RFI Agent reads drawings and specifications against each other and raises potential issues: a drawing calling for 1200 mm of perimeter insulation where the specification says 600 mm, or block wall reinforcement the drawing requires at every course and the specification at every second course.
• Verify. Every finding arrives with the source behind it, the exact specification page or drawing detail, highlighted, so the team can confirm it in seconds and defend it in front of the owner and the design team.
• Prioritize. Filter by impact, conflict type, discipline and review status to work the findings that move scope and price first.
• Decide. The estimator sets the action on each finding. It can become an RFI, a bid qualification, a clarification, a trade coordination item, a mitigation action, or no action at all. RFI Agent issues nothing into the customer's RFI system.
• Export. The reviewed shortlist goes out as one report the owner and design team can act on.

Counts shown in the product are potential issues raised for review, not confirmed errors. Teams rarely action everything: they work down from the critical findings and send that shortlist to the design team before questions close.

Customer validation: Clark Construction

"I went through the first 30, and of the first 30 I picked close to 22 that I would have submitted as RFIs. It turned out that some of the subs we've been working with caught the same things," said Markee Foster, Project Manager at Clark Construction.

"I only expect as we get proficient using Provision it will help in countless ways. Thanks for jumping on the project so quickly. We would never have made it work without you and Provision," said Marty Sievertson, Project Manager at Clark Construction.

One platform, four agents

RFI Agent works on the same project documents as the rest of the Provision platform. Scope Agent produces scope sheets from the drawings and specifications, Risk Review runs a contractor's own checklist against the contract and specification set, and Chat Agent answers questions with a sourced citation to the sheet and detail. RFI Agent adds the question of whether the documents agree with each other.

Availability

RFI Agent is available today for general contractors and construction managers. Teams can book a demo and bring their own document package.

About Provision

Provision builds AI systems for the construction industry. Its products, Scope Agent, Risk Review, Chat Agent and RFI Agent, help preconstruction teams at general contractors and construction managers produce accurate, auditable and complete bid packages. Provision is based in Ontario, Canada, and works with customers across North America.

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