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Contractors shopping for progress billing software usually have a data problem, not a software problem. Where AI quantity takeoff holds up, where it degrades, and how site records should be built.

Open-weight models have almost caught up with the closed ones, so running your own must be the obvious move by now. It sounds so reasonable that few people check it. What happens when you actually run the numbers?They come out badly for most companies. Against frontier APIs, self-hosting starts w...

Every AI pitch eventually hits the same question from whoever controls the budget: "Fine, but when does this pay for itself?" Answer with "it'll boost efficiency" and the project quietly dies in committee. Answer with a number ("under four months, in the conservative case") and the conversation c...