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AI Agents Aim to Speed Preconstruction Scoping in Bid Preparation

ENR's Jeff Rubenstone speaks with ProWest Constructors president Michael DeMarie about why full scoping is the part of bid preparation that quietly gets skipped, and how Scope Agent lets his estimators scope jobs before they bid them.

The Productisation of Construction Expertise

A conversation with CEO Luigi La Corte on why the hard engineering problems are largely solved, why the real leverage lives in pre-construction documents, and why Provision builds products instead of selling services.

Exclusive: Construction estimate startup Provision closes $7M seed

Axios Pro broke the seed round, reporting the $7M raise led by Cercano Management and Provision’s move to bring AI to the estimating desk.

Provision raises $7 million USD to build AI co-pilots for pre-construction estimates

Josh Scott covers the seed round and why Provision aimed at estimators first. As Luigi La Corte puts it: "We originally started to help reduce risk across projects, but we found that estimators had the biggest incentive to get this right during their process."

Provision launches Scope Agent, AI tool to close construction's multibillion-dollar scope gap

Edward Domain digs into the engineering: reading drawings element by element rather than as flat pages, and why trust rather than capability was the bar to clear. "A 97% accurate scope sheet with full traceability is a document you can put in front of a subcontractor," Luigi La Corte says. "A 73% accurate scope sheet with fabricated model numbers is a liability."

Toronto startup Provision launches AI scope extraction tool, claims edge over Claude

Leads on the benchmark, and on what ProWest Constructors found when they ran it on a live job. "It saved him three or four days on a project that size, and we noticed four or five items we had missed," says president Michael DeMarie.

Canadian Company Provision Launches Specialized AI Tool for Construction Scope More Accurate than Claude

On the case for purpose-built tooling over a general-purpose model, including the 40 hours of manual scoping work that Scope Agent compresses into minutes.

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E163: Luigi La Corte, Co-Founder and CEO at Provision

Recorded live at Advancing Preconstruction 2026 in Phoenix. Gareth McGlynn and Luigi La Corte get into why scopes are genuinely hard for AI, the dataset behind Scope Agent, and what automating rote review does and does not change for the estimator.

Embracing AI to Transform Risk Management in Construction

Riccardo Cosentino and Luigi La Corte on the claims that eat 2% to 4% of a project budget, and why so much of construction's risk stays locked inside unstructured documents.