AI and the money: Why construction’s commercial function has been left behind

Every AI conversation in construction is about safety, design, and project delivery. Nobody is talking about the part of the business where the money is made or lost. Variations that drag on for months. Payment applications submitted late or disputed on arrival. Final accounts that bleed margin nobody saw coming. These are the commercial realities that define whether a project is profitable — and AI has barely touched them.

This session explores what it actually looks like to apply intelligent automation to the commercial function: where the quick wins are, what the data requirements look like, and why getting this right matters more to the bottom line than almost anything else happening on site.