Construction cost estimating is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades. The organizations that build intelligence infrastructure now will have an insurmountable advantage.
40% of professional estimators will retire by 2030. Decades of expertise is walking out the door—and it's not being replaced at anywhere near the same rate.
Expert estimators are scattered across independent practices, consulting firms, and freelance platforms. There's no professional infrastructure connecting them to the work that needs them.
Machine learning can now deliver meaningful insights—but only when trained on real project data from professional estimators. The intelligence compounds over time.
For AI models to become meaningfully predictive with sufficient training data
Before the retirement wave creates a permanent expertise gap in the industry
The time to build institutional intelligence infrastructure and capture retiring expertise
Organizations that wait will be buying data from whoever built the database first. Organizations that act now will own their intelligence.
