Aedis AI Assistant Overview
The Aedis AI Assistant is your intelligent companion inside AedisPro, designed to streamline your workflow, enhance decision-making, and accelerate measurement and estimating tasks. It is powered by a multi-agent system, where each specialized agent performs a specific role, while the Primary Agent coordinates them to deliver accurate, context-aware responses.
Aedis AI Assistant interface with intelligent multi-agent system for construction workflows
Whether you're performing takeoffs, clarifying construction concepts, reviewing drawings, or searching through project documents, the Aedis Assistant helps you do it faster and with fewer errors.
How the AI Assistant Helps You
The assistant can:
- Read and interpret the currently opened drawing
- Perform measurement takeoffs on request
- Search and analyze all uploaded project documents with semantic understanding
- Extract specific information from specifications, schedules, and reports
- Show page highlights indicating exactly where data was found
- Generate and structure Bills of Quantities (BOQ)
- Review and validate BOQ items for quality and completeness
- Provide explanations for construction methods or terminology
- Help you draft notes, understand plans, or explore options
- Guide you through QS/estimating processes
- Respond in varying levels of expertise (e.g., "Explain like I'm new to QS")
It behaves like a virtual team of specialists—Quantity Surveyor, estimator, document review specialist, BOQ analyst, researcher, and project assistant—all working together behind the scenes to accelerate your workflow.
Multi-Agent Architecture
The Aedis Assistant is powered by seven specialized agents, each with a dedicated responsibility and skillset. This multi-agent approach ensures more reliable, domain-specific answers and significantly improved accuracy in complex workflows.
The agents include specialists for reading drawings, searching documents, performing measurements, creating BOQs, reviewing BOQ quality, and providing construction knowledge. The Primary Agent coordinates all these specialists to deliver the best possible response to your queries.
Learn More: For detailed information about each agent's capabilities and how they work together, see AI Agents.
Document Review
Document Review uses AI to semantically search across all your project documents—drawings, specifications, schedules, and reports. It can find specific information in seconds and show you exactly where it was found with visual page highlights.
This feature transforms hours of manual document searching into instant answers, making it invaluable for large projects with extensive documentation.
Learn More: For detailed information about semantic search, page highlights, and use cases, see Document Review.
Credit Usage
AI features operate on a credit-based system. Different operations consume different amounts of credits based on computational complexity. For example, preprocessing documents is more expensive than asking general questions.
Important: For large projects, turn off AI Search initially and manually queue only the files you need for processing to control costs.
Learn More: For detailed credit costs, optimization strategies, and best practices, see Credit Usage.
How to Interact with the Assistant
Your AI Assistant displays helpful prompts such as:
- • "What can you do?"
- • "Explain ceiling coffers in simple terms"
- • "Takeoff for doors on current drawing"
You can also improve results by being specific:
- Mention sheet references
- Include element types
- Specify units
- Use "takeoff" or "quantify" to request measurements
The assistant adapts to your workflow and expertise level.
Important Notice
AI-generated results may contain inaccuracies. Always verify quantities, BOQ entries, and pricing before using them for estimates or project work.
The assistant accelerates your process, but your professional judgment remains essential.
Summary
The Aedis AI Assistant is a powerful multi-agent system designed to:
- ✓ Read and interpret drawings
- ✓ Search and analyze project documents
- ✓ Perform automated takeoffs and measurements
- ✓ Generate and structure BOQ items
- ✓ Review and validate BOQ quality
- ✓ Answer technical queries with semantic understanding
- ✓ Assist both experts and beginners
With seven specialized agents working together, comprehensive document review capabilities, and a transparent credit-based system, the AI Assistant accelerates your workflow while maintaining professional quality standards.
Its agent-oriented design allows it to deliver precise, contextual, and project-aware responses—helping you work faster, smarter, and with greater confidence.