AI to Summarize Construction Documents

Construction document summarization creates concise summaries of lengthy documents — distilling a 50-page geotechnical report into the key recommendations, summarizing a 30-page meeting minutes document into action items, or creating an executive summary of a complex change order narrative. AI does this while preserving the technical precision that construction documents require.

The summarization needs to be field-specific. A general-purpose AI might summarize a geotechnical report by highlighting the most common words. An AEC-specific AI identifies the critical information: bearing capacity recommendations, groundwater elevations, recommended foundation types, and any conditions that require special attention during construction. These are the items that the project team needs from the report; everything else is supporting documentation.

For project teams managing dozens of documents daily, summarization reduces the time spent reading to just the time spent reviewing. When a 20-page specification addendum arrives, a one-paragraph AI summary identifies the key changes. When weekly meeting minutes are distributed, an AI summary highlights the action items and deadlines. These summaries do not replace reading the full document when detailed understanding is needed — they help teams prioritize which documents need detailed reading now and which can wait.