Recently we have seen AI come on the estimating scene. Many companies have tried to lean into AI for their Mechanical and Plumbing Estimating. One of the large main stream AI platforms can calculate out numbers for commercial jobs. When this was brought to our attention by one of our clients, we dove into creating an AI account and putting this to the test. We took a job that we estimated in our system using estimating software, we plugged the plans and specs into AI. Then we plugged our labor, profit % and overhead % that we used on the project. It also allowed us to ask for current commodities pricing to be incorporated into the bid.