An AI system that reads technical production drawings and generates accurate cost estimates in seconds. Replaced a multi-hour manual process.
Every production job required someone to manually read technical drawings, identify materials, measure dimensions, calculate quantities, and look up pricing tables. A single estimate could take hours. Multiple estimates per day meant the person doing this was bottlenecked permanently.
I built an AI system that interprets uploaded technical drawings, extracts dimensions and material specifications, and cross-references them against production cost tables to generate an estimate automatically.
What used to take hours now takes seconds. The system isn't perfect, but it's right often enough that the human review step takes minutes instead of starting from scratch. Three months after deployment, nobody mentions the tool anymore. It's just how estimates work now. That's the goal.
The temptation was to hide the AI's reasoning and just show the number. Faster, cleaner. But that's how you build systems people stop trusting the moment they get one wrong answer. Showing the work, the dimensions it extracted, the materials it assumed, keeps the human in the loop without slowing them down.