Within a year, a construction project file grows to hundreds of documents: the technical design with specifications on SharePoint, drawing PDFs with Bluebeam markups and design narratives in Autodesk Construction Cloud, building regulations, the construction contract with its appendices and amendments, client comments, meeting minutes, and the schedule in Microsoft Project. When a question comes up on site, such as what concrete class is specified for the slab, whether the contract allows changing the manufacturer, or how long there is to fix defects, the engineer either searches PDFs in two systems or calls the project manager, who answers from memory. Both are slow, and an answer from memory does not always reflect the latest amendment.
The assistant works on the project's SharePoint site and in Teams. The engineer asks a question in their own words, and the assistant finds the answer in the technical specification, a design narrative, a drawing PDF marked up in Bluebeam, a regulation or the contract, and gives it with a link to the specific document and page. The assistant reaches documents in Autodesk Construction Cloud through its API or a synchronised copy on SharePoint, depending on your plan, and for deadline questions it can take the milestone date from a Microsoft Project export. If the documents contain several versions or an amendment, the assistant names both and marks which is newer. The assistant does not make decisions or interpret regulations on a person's behalf: it shows what is written and where. We implement a Copilot agent in your Microsoft 365 tenant with Copilot Studio: access rights are inherited from SharePoint, so everyone sees only the documents of projects they have access to, and conversations and documents do not leave the tenant. A new document uploaded to the project folder becomes available to the assistant without any extra steps.