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Building contractor

Organize quotes, site plans and reports, variations, progress billing, subcontractor files, tenders and safety registers. A starting structure for keeping the site, the price and the safety with the owner and the site managers while reports, files and invoices run on time.

A typical Building contractor with 30 people covers 15 functions.

Up to 11 functions are eligible for Digital Employee support, under a personโ€™s supervision.

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Illustration: Building contractor
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Dedicated functions
6

Functions someone does full time.

Shared functions
7

Functions carried by someone who already carries others.

To cover
1

Functions nobody does today.

Outsourced
1

Functions entrusted to an external specialist.

How does it look at your place?

Start with the model and change only what differs in your company. One person can cover several functions.

Include yourself. Functions do not mean new people to hire.

30 people
Dedicated functions
6
Shared functions
7
To cover
1
Outsourced
1

This is an initial estimate, not your companyโ€™s org chart. Youโ€™ll review it in your Scovai workspace.

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Who handles these functions in your company?

The โ€œIn the modelโ€ line describes the example, not your company. If you leave an answer unchanged, we keep that reference.

  1. In the model: One dedicated person

  2. In the model: One dedicated person

    DE support may be suitable

  3. In the model: One dedicated person

  4. In the model: One dedicated person

  5. In the model: One dedicated person

    DE support may be suitable

  6. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

9 more functions in the model
  1. In the model: Handled by the owner

    DE support may be suitable

  2. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

  3. In the model: One dedicated person

    DE support may be suitable

  4. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

  5. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

  6. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

  7. In the model: Shared with other duties

    DE support may be suitable

  8. In the model: Still to be covered

    DE support may be suitable

  9. In the model: Outsourced

What a typical Building contractor has to cover

Explore the modelโ€™s functions, area by area. Coverage is a starting point; suggested Digital Employees need to be reviewed before activation.

Owner and technical direction

(1)

Owner and technical director

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

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Estimating and tenders

(2)

Estimator: quotes, bills of quantities and job costing

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

Every quote is a night of the estimator with the price lists of last year, and the margin is discovered at the end of the site.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

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Tenders, public procurement and bid files

Coverage in the model: Handled by the owner

Tenders are read at night by the owner and lost for a missing document; the qualification certificates are rebuilt for every bid.

Digital Employee ยท Sales Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Sites and crews

(3)

Site managers: plans, daily reports, crews and subcontractors on site

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

Define this role with Mike

Foremen and construction crews

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

Define this role with Mike

Site plans filing, daily reports and variations log

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

The daily site report is written when the inspector asks, and the variation agreed by a handshake is disputed at the invoice.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Administration, purchasing and compliance

(9)

Progress billing, retentions, certifications and collections

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

Progress billing is prepared from what the site managers remember, and the retention and the certifications are chased for months.

Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Subcontractor files, qualifications and safety documents

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

Subcontractor contracts, their qualifications and their safety documents are checked when the inspector arrives.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Purchasing, equipment and supplier orders

Coverage in the model: One dedicated person

Materials are ordered when the foreman calls, equipment and vehicles are maintained when they break and the supplier terms are the owner's memory.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Supplier invoices, bank matching and payment packs

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

Supplier invoices are checked against delivery notes signed by whoever was on site, and the short delivery is paid in full.

Digital Employee ยท Finance Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Company qualifications, safety, equipment and vehicles register

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

The qualification certificates, the workers' safety training, the equipment inspections and the waste registers have dates the safety person keeps in a sheet.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Core band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ490 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

People administration: contracts, site allocations and payroll inputs

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

Thirty contracts, the site allocations for the payroll, the training certificates and the hours are administration's last week of the month.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Hiring of workers and site managers and candidate screening

Coverage in the model: Shared with other duties

Hiring workers is a permanent search through the crews' contacts and the platforms, and the applications get no answer.

Digital Employee ยท HR Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

Monthly reporting and KPIs

Coverage in the model: Still to be covered

The owner reads margin per site, cash and hours from the job costing, the bank and the payroll sheet, and the three never agree.

Digital Employee ยท Administration Plus band

A Digital Employee can cover this function

โ‚ฌ990 /mo

Under the supervision of whoever wears that hat today. It reports what it does and asks before acting outside its brief.

See the Digital Employees

External accountant and payroll consultant

Coverage in the model: Outsourced

The books and the payroll are outsourced and fed in monthly batches, and the construction regimes make every correction a call.

No Digital Employee suggested for this function

In your structure, you can clarify who handles it, what results to expect and who makes the decisions.

Define this role with Mike

The first week

What starts after the brief is complete, with every condition kept visible.

  1. A task from the role brief

    Once the brief is complete and the Digital Employee is active, Scovai creates a first task from the role definition. An incomplete brief never produces invented work.

  2. A useful daily summary

    At 07:30 local time, supervisors and the workspace owner receive yesterday's work, open approvals, incidents, silence and spend. Empty days send no email, except for the quiet Monday check-in.

  3. Phone updates by choice

    The push invitation appears only after the first approval request. If you do not enable it, the operational picture remains available in the email summary.

From a reference model to your structure

1

Start from the model

Sign up on the free AGENTIC plan with this blueprint preloaded. You confirm the profile and the functions; nothing is written until you apply.

Found your company
2

Assign the hats

Say who handles each function. See the overall coverage estimate update and where a Digital Employee is suggested. Youโ€™ll review the structure in your Scovai workspace.

See how Digital Employees work
3

Choose where to add digital support

Explore Digital Employees by role and competence. Assign one only after choosing a seat, a clear brief and a human supervisor.

Explore Digital Employees

Straight answers

Who supervises the digital employees?

Each digital employee sits in a seat under a named person in the company, usually the owner, the technical director or the site manager. It covers an administrative or support function under that person's supervision, reports what it did, and stops whenever the supervisor says so. No digital employee sits in the professional core seat.

What does a digital employee never decide?

Anything the owner and the site managers decide: a quote and its price, a variation accepted, a subcontractor, a safety measure, a work suspended, a hire, an answer to a client or a public body, and whatever its brief marks as reserved: payments, anything sent to an authority, a public client or an inspector. On those it prepares the work and asks before acting; the first message to any outside recipient is always a draft.

Where does it take its data from?

From the job costing and site management software, the procurement portals, the supplier and subcontractor portals, the bank, the mailbox and the folders you connect to its seat, and from what the site managers and administration tell it. It reads nothing you have not connected, contacts nobody you have not listed and handles personal data only within the systems you already use.

What does it cost?

Each digital employee is billed monthly by price band, shown in your currency on the marketplace before you claim a seat. You claim one seat at a time and can release it; there is no bundle price.