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Our crew's quoting software glitched and we bid a deck at half cost
Last Tuesday my estimator ran a new AI-based material takeoff program on a 600 square foot composite deck job, and it quietly subtracted the fastener and flashing quantities. We won the bid, then realized the numbers were off by about $1,400 when I checked the printout against the supplier invoice. Has anyone else had an AI tool fail in a way that was easy to miss until the money side surfaced?
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willow7321mo ago
Quietly subtracted the fastener and flashing" is putting it nicely. My software once "forgot" to add the railing posts entirely, so we bid a job that would have required us to build stairs out of hopes and dreams. At least your $1,400 mistake got caught before the concrete set, mine got discovered after the client asked where the handrail was supposed to go.
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