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AI workforce for Construction Founders & Executives

AI agents for founders and executives in construction

Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps construction founders and executives use, from chasing managers for status to a Monday brief that assembles itself and decisions queued with facts.

Construction directors get back the hours lost to status chasing, tender summaries, and board pack writing.

Your AI workforce
26 hrssaved on avg per person / month
$2,210avg saved per person / month
29avg scheduled jobs a week
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How it works

AI Employees for Construction Founders & Executives in 4 simple steps

  1. Manual Time

    We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.

  2. Actionist Automations

    We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.

  3. Your Benefits

    How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.

  4. Easy to use

    We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.

01

Where you spend your time

Why Construction Founders & Executives teams switch

We know how your week actually goes

What matters to you
  • Every live job on one page, every morning
    A brief covers programme, decisions owed, and the few emails that need a director, with no round of messages.
  • Go or no-go with the facts in hand
    Each tender arrives with client history, capacity against start dates, and contract risk summarised before the deadline.
  • Board and lender packs already narrated
    Commentary on the order book and live jobs is drafted from the figures, ready for your edit.
  • Safety and renewals never catch you out
    Incident digests and insurance or accreditation dates reach you before an inspector or insurer does.
  • Approvals queued with a one-page summary
    Awards and variations above your limit wait with the facts attached, and the decision stays yours.
  • Built around your leadership team
    These are examples of what a construction executive agent can do. Build a custom agent for any routine you repeat.

And hundreds of other tasks you do manually..

An agent can take a lot off your team's plate. Take a look below to see the time and cost you could save by adding AI agents to your Construction Founders & Executives team's day.

The problem

Where the hours go

  • Every Monday starts with a round of messages to project managers for status, and by the time the replies are pasted into one sheet the leadership meeting is already running on last week's picture.

    An agent reads the job records and the tender sheet before the meeting, assembles one brief of slipping jobs and decisions owed, and posts it to the leadership channel for your edit.

  • A tender invitation lands with a short return date, and the go or no-go gets decided on instinct because nobody has time to check capacity, client history, and contract risk first.

    An agent reads each invitation as it arrives and drafts a one-page brief with client history, capacity against committed crews, and risk, so the decision is still yours but is made with facts.

  • The monthly board and lender pack is a blank page of commentary at the end of a long week, written from memory of what happened on each job and what the order book now holds.

    An agent drafts the commentary from the job records and the order book, flags where figures and narrative disagree, and leaves you to add the judgement before anything is circulated.

  • Subcontract awards and variations pile up above the authority limit, each needing a director's signature, and approvals sit in an inbox until a site manager asks why a trade has not been confirmed.

    An agent queues every item over the limit with a one-page summary of scope, cost, and programme effect, so approvals are reviewed in one sitting and the decision stays with a director.

02

Actionist Will Automate

Anatomy of an automation

What one automation looks like

Trigger·Every Monday morning before the leadership meeting
Trigger
Step 1
Actionist
Schedule fires each Monday at 07:30, ahead of the leadership meeting
Confirmation
Step 6
Human
You read the brief and mark the three decisions to take this week
Saved per run
~2 hrs
Runs / week
~1×
The leadership meeting opens with every job and every owed decision already in view
A week in the life

A week with your Construction Founders & Executives agents

29Scheduled jobs
6Agents at work
24/7Always on
Agents
Mon–Wed
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Apps

Some of the apps for your Construction Founders & Executives team

Some of the apps your construction leadership agent operates for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.

Triggers

Your Agent wakes up Automatically whenever something happens

Your agents watch the apps you already use and act the moment something happens, usually within about a minute, handle it based on your instructions, 24/7.

WhenA tender invitation arrives in the director's inboxfires within about a minute
The agent automatically

When an invitation to tender lands by email, the agent reads it within about a minute, notes the client, value, location, contract form, and return date, checks the likely start against committed crews and project managers, and drafts a go/no-go brief. The decision to bid stays with the director.

Receives this trigger from
What it automates

Use cases for this team

03

Your benefits

Manual vs agent

Where the time goes back

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Executive
    150 min / week
    Building the Monday status picture

    Someone messages each project manager for status, waits for the replies, and pastes them into one sheet while the leadership meeting is already starting.

    Executive Agent
    0 min
    Agent reads the job records and assembles the brief

    An agent reads each job's record before the meeting and assembles one brief of slipping jobs and decisions owed, posted for your edit.

  • Executive
    90 min / week
    Preparing for a client or funder meeting

    A director opens old emails and the project record to remember what was agreed, what is outstanding, and who attended last time, usually in the car park.

    Executive Agent
    0 min
    Agent drafts the brief before the meeting

    An agent drafts the meeting brief from the record and recent mail, with the last meeting's actions included, and leaves it in the director's inbox.

  • Executive
    180 min / week
    Writing the board and lender commentary

    The commentary is written from memory at the end of a long week, then checked against the accounts for figures that do not match the story.

    Executive Agent
    0 min
    Agent drafts it and flags mismatches

    An agent drafts the commentary from the job records and order book and flags where the figures and narrative disagree, so you add judgement only.

  • Executive
    60 min / week
    Keeping insurance and accreditation dates

    Renewal dates live in a spreadsheet and in the managers' heads, and a lapse is usually found by an insurer, a client, or an assessor.

    Executive Agent
    0 min
    Agent warns early and drafts the renewal request

    An agent checks the renewal list every week, warns 45 days ahead, and drafts the information request for a director to approve.

  • Executive
    120 min / week
    Working through approvals above the limit

    Awards, variations, and purchase orders reach a director one at a time by email, each needing a fresh read of the scope before a signature.

    Executive Agent
    0 min
    Agent queues them with a one-page summary

    An agent collects every item over the limit into one queue with scope, cost, and programme effect summarised, so a director decides in one sitting.

+ 100s of other automations
Average monthly
24 hrs / person / month
ROI

What that's worth

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
3 people
Hourly rate
$85 / hr
Hours saved / week
18
Hours saved / year
900
Annual ROI
$76,500

Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~6 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

04

How easy it is to use

Automatic onboarding

We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.

From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.

  1. Step 1

    Enter your website

    • We'll research your business
    • Automatically configure everything for you
    Try the demo
  2. Step 2

    Actionist Auto

    Optional
    • Watches you work
    • Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
    Get the extension
  3. Step 3

    Marketplace

    • Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
    • Pre-configured by other users
    Browse the App Store
  4. Step 4

    Invite your team

    • We'll automatically onboard them too
    • Focus on the things that matter
    Open Actionist

Enter your website URL for a personalised demo

See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.

Trust & control

You stay in control

An agent that sees your order book, tender pricing, and lender correspondence only earns trust if you stay in control. Actionist is built so you see everything it touched, approve anything that leaves the company, and keep every commercial record on your side.

Anything leaving the business waits for you

A reply to a client, a note to a lender, a bonding agent request, or a reply to a regulator is drafted first and queued for sign-off. Nothing goes out on its own unless you widen that autonomy yourself.

Bids, awards, and sign-offs stay human

The agent summarises tenders, compares quotes, and writes up variations. Whether to bid, who gets the subcontract, and what is signed are decisions for a director, every time.

A full trail of what it read and wrote

Every brief, summary, and queue entry is recorded with a timestamp, so you can show a lender, insurer, or auditor what was prepared, from which records, and who approved it.

Commercial data stays yours

Order book, pricing, and accounts are encrypted and never used to train any model. Self-host on a VPS if commercially sensitive data must stay on your own infrastructure.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does my leadership team need to be technical to use Actionist?
No. You describe how you want the Monday brief, the tender summary, or the approvals queue to look, connect the apps you already use, and the agent builds it. There is nothing to code and, for most tools, no API to set up, because the agent operates the apps the way a person would.
How do I get started with an executive agent for our firm?
Book a free demo and bring the task that eats your Mondays, whether it is the portfolio brief, tender summaries, or board commentary. The Actionist team builds a working example on a copy of your own records so you see it handle something real before it touches live data.
How do I make customised AI agents for how our directors work?
In Actionist you describe the agent's role, the apps it reads, and which steps need your approval. For the brief you choose which jobs and measures it shows; for approvals you set the authority limits. The rules are yours to change whenever the business changes.
How quickly can I set a construction executive agent up?
A simple agent, such as the Monday brief posted to Slack, can be running within a day of the demo. Agents that read several tools, like a go/no-go brief that draws on your pipeline, capacity sheet, and client history, usually take a few days of testing on a copy of your data.
Where does our order book and pricing data live, and is it used to train AI?
It stays yours. Everything the agent reads and writes is encrypted and none of it is used to train any model. Every brief and summary is logged in an audit trail, and you can self-host Actionist on a VPS if commercially sensitive data must stay on your own systems.
How does an agent read our project software if it has no API?
Through computer use in the cloud. The agent opens the project software as you would, reads what is on screen and copies the figures into the Monday brief, so a job system without a supported integration can still feed it. It operates the interface, not an API.
Will it send a reply to a client, lender, or regulator without me seeing it?
No, not by default. Anything that leaves the company, whether a client reply, a lender note, a bonding agent request, or a response to a regulator, is drafted and waits for your approval. You can widen that autonomy for steps you trust through Approval Modes, but external messages start as drafts.
Does the agent decide whether we bid or who gets a subcontract?
No. The agent reads, compares, and summarises: tender briefs, capacity against start dates, quote comparisons, and variation notes. The decision to bid, the choice of subcontractor, and every signature stay with a director, with the facts in front of them.
Is the safety digest a substitute for our safety adviser?
No. The digest groups the incident and near-miss records the sites have logged so directors see patterns sooner. Judging seriousness, deciding on notifications, and responding to a regulator remain the work of your safety adviser and the directors, and the agent's notes are drafts for them.
Get started

See an agent assemble your Monday brief and queue the approvals

Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent read your jobs, summarise a tender for the go or no-go decision, and queue an award for your sign-off.