Context
Boon AI is a California company building an AI platform specifically for the construction industry. Before a bid, estimators measure quantities by hand from plan sets: counting fixtures and measuring lengths and areas across dozens of sheets, then pricing it all in separate estimating tools.
Problem
Manual takeoff is slow and error-prone, and it caps how many bids a team can submit.
Approach
Agents where the team already works
AI agents for construction teams, delivered through Slack, with automated provisioning, scheduled and event-triggered skills, and a visual workflow builder.
Automated quantity takeoff
Takeoff across construction trades, with an interactive takeoff canvas where estimators review and correct every result.
Estimating on top of takeoff
A cost estimation platform built on the takeoff, with importers for existing estimating tools and cost comparison.
Training data for the models
A blueprint annotation platform and a synthetic data pipeline for the computer-vision takeoff models.
Billing
Usage-based LLM billing and subscription plans, integrated with Stripe.
Outcome
I own these products end to end across engineering and product management, lead project teams and run technical interviews.
What I learned
- Agents become trustworthy in production when their tools are narrow and every step can be checked.