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SUMMARY:AI Workshop Series #1: AI Starts Here - Data That Actually Works
DESCRIPTION:The difference between AI that saves hours and AI that wastes time? Your data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Your Data AI-Ready and Build the Foundation for Every Session That Follows\nEveryone is talking about AI. Few are talking about the one thing that determines whether it actually works: your data. \nIf your project information\, cost libraries\, production rates\, and templates aren’t structured properly\, AI can’t deliver reliable results. Instead\, you get inconsistent outputs\, wasted time\, and more work checking the answers than doing the task yourself. \nThat’s why this workshop comes first. \nIn this hands-on session\, you’ll learn how to organize your data so AI can become a practical tool for estimating\, project management\, operations\, and decision-making. You’ll leave with a proven system\, ready-to-use templates\, and a live project folder built around your business. \nWhy Attend?\n✅ Stop guessing whether AI outputs are accurate\n✅ Create a structured foundation that makes every future AI workflow more reliable\n✅ Learn when to trust AI\, when to verify it\, and when the decision should stay with you\n✅ Build a repeatable system you can use across every project\n✅ Walk away with practical tools you can start using immediately \nWhat You’ll Learn\n1. Build an AI-Ready Data System\nSet up project folders\, cost libraries\, production rates\, standard scopes\, and templates that allow AI to work from structured information instead of scanning PDFs and making assumptions. \n2. Master the Human + AI Workflow\nLearn the simple framework for deciding: \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat AI should handle\nWhat you should review\nWhat decisions should remain yours\n\n\n\n\n\nThis approach helps you avoid bad outputs while confidently leveraging good ones. \n3. Create Your Own Working Project Environment\nLeave with a live project folder and templates built around your rates\, your processes\, and your way of working. \n4. Keep Your Data Clean and Future-Proof\nDevelop a repeatable process for maintaining organized\, AI-ready information so every project starts from a strong foundation. \n\nWho Should Attend?\nEstimators\, Project Managers\, Business Owners\, Operations Leaders\, and Construction Professionals who already have some exposure to AI and want to use it effectively on real projects.\nRecommended Prerequisite: This workshop serves as the foundation for the entire AI Workshop Series and is strongly recommended before attending later sessions. \n\nWorkshop Details\n💻 Location: Live Online via Zoom \n\n\n\n\n\n$99 per live session (includes recording)\n$79 recording-only option\nReimbursement upon course completion\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Instructor\nJosh Turner\, PMP | ContractorOS\nJosh brings real-world construction and project experience to AI implementation. Rather than teaching theory\, he’ll show you practical systems and workflows that contractors\, estimators\, and project teams can actually use. \n\nWhat You’ll Need\n✔ A laptop\n✔ Internet connection\n✔ Optional: Bring an active project folder\, drawings\, specifications\, or project data to work with during the session \n\nIf you want AI to deliver better results\, this is where you start. Every successful AI workflow depends on clean\, organized\, structured information. \nJoin us and build the foundation that makes every future AI tool\, process\, and workshop more effective. \n🔗 Register Now and Get Your Data Working for You \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://ecaottawa.org/training/ai-workshop-series-1-ai-starts-here-data-that-actually-works/
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SUMMARY:AI Workshop Series #2 – From Takeoff to Bid: Catch Missed Scope. Keep the Margin.
DESCRIPTION:AI Workshop Series #2 – From Takeoff to Bid: Catch Missed Scope. Keep the Margin. \nYour estimate is only as good as your takeoff. And your margin is only as good as your estimate.\nAs an estimator\, you face ongoing pressure from tight deadlines\, complex specs\, and the constant risk of missing scope or pricing something wrong. \nThis workshop shows you how to use AI to support your estimating process without handing over control. You’ll learn to turn specs and drawings into structured scope lists\, cross-check quantities with AI\, and run price checks off your rate library. You’ll keep the margin and final numbers where they belong — with you. \nWhy this matters: A missed scope item or a rate outlier can cost you thousands. This workshop gives you a repeatable process to catch those issues before they hit your bottom line. \nYou will learn how to: \n\nTurn specs and drawings into a structured scope list so nothing gets missed and every item is priced or excluded on purpose\nUse AI to cross-check your takeoff quantities — devices\, fixtures\, homeruns\, and panels — against your own count\, rather than relying on it as the final number\nRun an independent price check off your rate library to catch missing scope and rate outliers\nKeep the margin and final numbers where they belong: with you\n\nIntended Audience: Estimators and operations leads who have some familiarity with AI and want to use it to support — not replace — their estimating process.\nWhile it’s strongly recommended that you attend Session 1: Data That Actually Works\, if you missed it\, you can access the recording in ECAO’s Learning Centre. \n💻 Where: Live online via Zoom \n\n$99 (tax incl.) per live session (includes recording) | $79 for recording only\nReimbursement upon course completion\n\n🔗 Click Here to Register \nYour Guide: Josh Turner\, PMP\, ContractorOS — An industry expert with hands-on construction experience who has figured out how to make AI practical\, rather than a tech guru with no site experience. \nNeed to Know: \nWhat to bring: A laptop and a working internet connection. Participants are encouraged to have a real project folder (specs\, drawings\, or data) to work with during the session.\nPayment: Online via PayPal or Invoice.\nCancellation: Full refund (4+ weeks)\, 50% (2–4 weeks)\, no refund (<10 days). Substitutions allowed.\nAccessibility & Questions: Contact Témoc Vega – tvega@ecao.org \n 
URL:https://ecaottawa.org/training/ai-workshop-series-2-from-takeoff-to-bid-catch-missed-scope-keep-the-margin/
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