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41°Significant Pivot
Before

AI copilot for construction superintendents

After

AI copilot for construction estimators

Full description — before

Fresco helps construction superintendents take 1000s of pages of notes, 10x faster. We automate the process of completing progress notes and punch lists, reducing time requirements from hours to minutes. Superintendents simply record videos of their site walk, and Fresco pulls out the relevant information and formats it into rich reports. We also offer one-click integrations with leading project management software like Procore and ACC, for maximum usability.

Full description — after

Fresco is an AI-powered takeoff and estimating for Division 8 construction (doors, frames, and hardware). Estimating Division 8 has always been brutally manual: flipping through hundreds of pages of specs, cross-referencing hardware sets, and building out schedules by hand. A single missed door or misread hardware group can kill a bid's margin. Fresco automates the entire takeoff process with 99% accuracy, cutting the time estimators spend on takeoffs by 70%. We've processed 3,000+ takeoffs for general contractors and Division 8 subs, and we're becoming the system of record for how this trade gets estimated. Division 8 is our beachhead: it's complex enough that AI creates massive value, and siloed enough that the incumbents haven't solved it. We're starting here and expanding across the spec trades.

Category shift
AI Construction & Real EstateAI Construction & Real Estate
Summary

Fresco shifted its primary user and use case from field superintendents documenting site progress (site reporting/notes) to estimators performing Division 8 takeoff and bid estimation — a different job function, workflow, and buyer within construction. Product may share some technical core but targets a different customer and problem within the industry.

Detected 1 week ago · 2026-03-08