RFI Agent Is Now Available

Starting today, RFI Agent is available to Provision customers. It reads a document package's drawings and specifications against each other, raises the places where they conflict, omit something, or stay unclear, and ties each finding to the exact specification page or drawing it came from. Your estimators review the findings and decide what to raise with the design team before the price goes out.

Why we built this

On a large tender, a 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 surfaces more than 100 potential issues from a document set in an hour, each with its evidence, so the review time goes on 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 your 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.

What Clark Construction said

"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 Provision. Scope Agent produces scope sheets from the drawings and specifications, Risk Review runs your 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.

Get started

RFI Agent is available now for general contractors and construction managers. Book a demo and bring your own document package, or see how it works on the RFI Agent page.

Related

• RFI Agent: how it reads drawings and specs against each other
• Scope Agent
• Risk Review
• Chat Agent