CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL

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CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL - ISSUE 242749 - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Design, Legal and Accounting all Fight a War on Billable Hours After the Advent of AI

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Document Crunch, an AI startup co-founded by former JE Dunn lead counsel Joshua Levy, is powered by a large language model (LLM) trained to identify and highlight problematic contract terms.

June 10, 2024
Jeff Yoders - Engineering News-Record

Billable hours have long been the professional services standard by which architects, engineers, lawyers and accountants all get paid. But What if that effort wasn’t from human toil at all? Artificial Intelligence is already chipping away at the venerable billable hours business model, completing in just minutes or seconds tasks that would take humans hours. As these tools grow more efficient and accurate, many firms are having to reevaluate how they allocate their resources, and project delivery practices may have to evolve as well.

Reprinted courtesy of Jeff Yoders, Engineering News-Record

Mr. Yoders may be contacted at yodersj@enr.com

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