FIELD NOTES

Notes from the yard on AI, takeoffs, and getting bids out faster.

How precast takeoffs, submittals, and production scheduling actually get faster, from the people building it.

BUYING GUIDES · 6 min

STACK Alternative for Precast Producers: What to Compare

STACK gives your estimator better counting tools. A precast-specific AI does the counting. An honest comparison, with public pricing and real numbers.

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ODOT CATCH
SPEC LIBRARY · 7 min

ODOT Catch Basin No. 2-4 Dimensions: 4x4 Inside, Verified

ODOT CB No. 2-4 is a 4 ft x 4 ft inside square catch basin for 30 to 36 inch outlets. Dimensions, walls, grate, and the full 2-N size ladder, verified.

CAN AI
ACCURACY · 6 min

Can AI Read Civil Plans Accurately? A Real Benchmark

We benchmarked our AI against a 30-year estimator on real civil plan sets. Honest results: the run it aced, the plan that took eleven tries, and why.

AI-assisted
AI ESTIMATING · 8 min

Why precast estimating is still stuck in 1995, and what finally changes it.

Estimators still retype line items off PDF plan sets by hand. Here is why that survived this long, and the workflow that ends it.

Reviewed
ACCURACY · 5 min

The missed-structure problem, and how to never have it

A single skipped catch basin can cost a bid. Here is how a second independent read catches it.

0 retype
WORKFLOW · 4 min

From takeoff to pour schedule without retyping

The approved package should become production orders automatically. Here is the handoff.

Spec-checked
SUBMITTALS · 7 min

Validating submittals against the spec before the stamp

Spec checks should be automatic and complete. What a real validation pass looks like.

30 days
DELIVERY · 5 min

Why we ship in 30 days, not 30 weeks

A working AI workflow trained on your catalog, live in a month. The Sprint, explained.

1 shop
DATA · 4 min

Your plans, your catalog, your pricing, yours alone

How we build for one shop at a time and never pool or share your data.

See ARC on your own plans.

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