Voice AI for jobsite estimating: a developer perspective

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

Voice AI for jobsite estimating: a developer perspective The problem: estimating on muddy ground Last year, I spent 50 hours interviewing mason and carpentry teams on active construction sites. The recurring frustration? Estimating is still paper-based or Excel-driven, despite mobile phones being ubiquitous. Why? Because typing on a jobsite sucks. Wind, rain, gloved hands, and attention divided between a trench and a screen create a friction loop that no traditional SaaS can solve. One crew leader told me: "I have a €50,000 tablet in the truck that I use for photos.