A simple pre-automation worksheet.
No technical background required. Use it with your leadership or operations team.
Download the PDFMap these steps
- Trigger: what starts the work?
- Inputs: documents, emails, system records, photos or notes.
- Human decisions: what requires judgment?
- Rules: what is deterministic?
- Outputs: what is produced or changed?
- Exceptions: what breaks the normal path?
- Authoritative systems: where must the final record live?
- Approval points: what cannot be delegated?
Construction decision rule
Use the least expensive, least privileged and least complex AI approach that can reliably improve the construction outcome. Increase intelligence, access or autonomy only when measured evidence shows the simpler approach is insufficient.
How to use this download
Work through the questions using one real construction workflow. Do not score the company in the abstract. The purpose is to identify the next practical decision, not to justify AI where it does not belong.
Practical questions construction owners ask.
Which steps should be mapped before adding AI?
The trigger, inputs, human decisions, deterministic rules, outputs, exceptions, authoritative systems and approval points.
Why map the workflow before adding AI?
The map shows which steps are deterministic, which need judgment and which cannot be delegated, so you know where AI fits and where it does not.
Where should the final record live?
In the authoritative system. The map should name where the final record must live for each output.
Keep reading
Use AI where it creates value. Govern it everywhere it acts.
Catha helps construction companies identify, build and manage AI workflows while keeping business authority in human hands.