AI Opportunity Assessment
- What it is
- A structured diagnostic: interviews, workflow maps, a scored opportunity matrix, and one recommended first build. Fixed scope, standalone value.
An eye on your operations.
Zay Eye helps small and mid-size contractors and AEC firms put AI to work on the process bottlenecks that quietly cost hours every week — document digging, submittal and RFI churn, reporting, and the office-to-field handoff. Practical, workflow-specific systems your firm owns.
Book a callBuilt by a civil engineer from the contractor side — someone who has lived these workflows in the trailer and in the office, and who builds the AI himself. Not a software vendor. Not a generic chatbot.
The problem
You know the hours are leaking.
Not in one dramatic failure — in five ordinary places, every week.
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Document digging
Three folder trees and an inbox to answer a question the project already answered.
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Submittal churn
A submittal sits because the register is a spreadsheet nobody trusts.
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RFI loops
The same question asked, re-asked, and answered differently each time.
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Report assembly
The weekly report takes an afternoon to build from systems that don’t talk.
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Office ↔ field
The field knows things the office finds out too late.
None of this is a people problem. It's an information problem — your project's facts are scattered across too many sources of truth.
What the leak costs
Industry-wide numbers, not our claims.
35% of working time spent on non-optimal activities — hunting for information, resolving conflicts, redoing work FMI / PlanGrid, Construction Disconnected, 2018
5.5 hrs per person, per week — just looking for project data FMI / PlanGrid, 2018
11.5 hrs per week that construction managers and executives spend researching and analyzing data FMI / Autodesk, Harnessing the Data Advantage, 2021
48% of all rework traced to poor data and miscommunication FMI / PlanGrid, 2018
$177.5B U.S. labor cost of those non-optimal activities, per year FMI / PlanGrid, 2018
Your numbers are different. Finding them is the first thing we do — Book a call.
Services
Assess, then build.
Pilot build
- What it is
- One workflow, one working tool, engineered as the seed of a larger system.
Implementation & advisory
- What it is
- The full build-out, plus ongoing help as your team runs it.
How we engage
Four steps, each one optional.
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A call.
You describe how work actually flows. We tell you honestly whether there’s a fit.
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Assessment.
We map your workflows and score where AI actually pays — and where it doesn’t.
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First build.
One tool, one workflow, working in your operation. You own it.
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Grow or stop.
Every step stands alone. No lock-in, no license, no black box.
What we are — and are not.
Zay Eye provides AI process-optimization consulting only — never licensed professional engineering services. No stamped work, no engineering deliverables. Decision support your team reviews and owns; a human is in the loop, always, by design.
Your project data stays yours: confidential handling is contractual, and everything we build runs where you decide — including fully on your own systems.