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Prompt course · 8 lessons · 24 prompts · 1 hour · Beginner

AI for Quantity Surveyors

Learn to use AI for cost estimates, takeoffs, tender documents, quote comparisons, cost reports, variations, value engineering, and final accounts. Each lesson gives a prompt you can adapt to your project and check with your own judgement.

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What you'll learn

  • Cost estimates: Build and test early cost estimates from a scope description.
  • Takeoff checks: Turn dimensions into measured quantities and spot missing deductions.
  • Tender drafting: Draft preambles, bidder instructions, and plain scope summaries.
  • Quote comparison: Compare contractor quotes and prepare negotiation points.
  • Cost reports: Draft reports, forecast final cost, and explain variances.
  • Variation claims: Assess variation claims and draft variation orders.
  • Value options: Generate and compare value engineering options for a workshop.
  • Final accounts: Reconcile figures, draft final statements, and settlement letters.

What's inside

8 lessons · 24 prompts
  1. Before you start · framework course RACE Prompt Framework: Role, Action, Context, ExpectationRACE fits quantity surveyors because it defines role, action, context, and expectation for precise tasks like a bill of quantities.
  2. Start here Nadia's Thursday, two waysA day in the life of a Quantity Surveyor, before and after these prompts.
  3. 01 Lesson 1 · 3 prompts Cost Estimating Basics
  4. 02 Lesson 2 · 3 prompts Measuring and Takeoff
  5. 03 Lesson 3 · 3 prompts Tender Document Drafting
  6. 04 Lesson 4 · 3 prompts Supplier and Contractor Negotiation
  7. 05 Lesson 5 · 3 prompts Budget Monitoring and Cost Reports
  8. 06 Lesson 6 · 3 prompts Assessing Cost Variations
  9. 07 Lesson 7 · 3 prompts Value Engineering and Options
  10. 08 Lesson 8 · 3 prompts Final Accounts and Closeout

About this course

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Prompts for Quantity Surveyors: Estimates, Tenders, Reports

This course is a set of eight practical prompts for quantity surveyors. Each lesson takes a common task and shows you how to ask AI for a useful first draft.

You will still measure, check, and decide. The prompts simply help you get to a solid starting point faster, whether you are estimating, tendering, reporting, or closing out.

  1. The lessons
    1. Cost Estimating Basics: Use AI to build, populate, and sanity-check cost estimates from a project brief or scope description.
    2. Measuring and Takeoff: Use AI to turn dimensions into measured quantities, write standard descriptions, and check takeoff sheets for errors.
    3. Tender Document Drafting: Use AI to draft tender preambles, instructions, and plain-English scope summaries for bidders.
    4. Supplier and Contractor Negotiation: Use AI to compare quotes, prepare negotiation points, and write follow-up emails with contractors.
    5. Budget Monitoring and Cost Reports: Use AI to draft cost reports, forecast final costs, and explain budget variances to clients.
    6. Assessing Cost Variations: Use AI to assess variation claims, draft variation orders, and build entitlement arguments.
    7. Value Engineering and Options: Use AI to generate value engineering options, compare them, and prepare workshop briefs.
    8. Final Accounts and Closeout: Use AI to draft final account statements, reconcile figures, and write settlement letters.
  2. What the course covers

    This course walks through eight lessons that follow a project from early estimate to final account. You will practise cost estimating, measuring, tender drafting, negotiation, budget monitoring, variations, value engineering, and closeout.

  3. How the lessons connect

    Each lesson builds on the one before. An estimate becomes a takeoff, a takeoff feeds a tender, quotes lead to negotiation, and changes flow into cost reports and final accounts. You can also jump to the lesson you need today.

  4. How to use prompts well

    Give the AI context: project type, location, scope, contract terms, key dates, and any known risks. Ask it to list assumptions and show its working. Then check the output against your own price book, measurements, and contract.

  5. Who this course is for

    It is for quantity surveyors, estimators, commercial managers, and construction professionals who manage cost. It suits both early-career surveyors and experienced people who want a faster first draft. No coding is needed.

  6. Safety and privacy

    Do not paste confidential rates, client names, or contract clauses unless your workplace allows it. Use anonymised details and keep sensitive figures in your own systems. AI can help you draft, but you decide what is accurate and safe to share.

  7. Your next step

    Pick one small task you do this week, such as a cost report section or a quote comparison. Run the matching lesson prompt, compare the result with your normal work, and keep the version that helps. Then continue to the next lesson.