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AI Tools May 2026

Why Every Contractor Should Be Using a Digital BOQ

A Bill of Quantities is one of the most important documents in any construction project — and one of the most tedious to produce by hand. Miss a line item and the whole budget shifts. Get the units wrong and a quotation becomes unreliable before work even starts.

What the BOQ Generator does

Build Me's AI Assistant includes a BOQ Generator built specifically for this problem. Given a project scope, it produces a structured breakdown of materials, labor, and quantities — a starting point a quantity surveyor can refine rather than build from a blank page.

Faster quotations, fewer disputes

Because the BOQ is tied to the same project record as the escrow and milestone system, quotations built on it map cleanly onto payment milestones later. That consistency reduces the back-and-forth that usually happens when a client and contractor are working from two different documents.

It doesn't replace the quantity surveyor's judgment — it removes the blank-page problem so that judgment can go toward the details that actually need it.