Construction teams manage constant coordination across the site and office. RFIs, schedules, meetings, costs, safety issues, and project risks all move at the same time and often across disconnected tools and workflows.
As projects become larger and more complex, teams can lose valuable time searching for information instead of acting on it.
Autodesk Assistant helps reduce that friction.
Available in Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Assistant is the AI interface for the Design and Make platform. It helps teams move from questions to action by connecting project data, workflows, and tools inside the environments they already use.
Unlike generic bolted-on AI tools that sit outside project workflows, Assistant is context-aware. It understands project data, construction workflow context, and the task in front of you, helping teams surface insights, identify risks, and complete work faster without leaving their workflow.
Curious about what you can actually do with Assistant? Below are seven construction workflows that show how Assistant can help teams move faster and stay focused.
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RFIs need to move fast to keep work moving and avoid costly rework. But finding the right supporting details can slow teams down. It often means digging through folders, PDFs, and document sets just to confirm the exact requirement tied to the question.
Assistant helps make that easier.
For example, when reviewing an RFI in Forma, teams can open Assistant and ask it to find related specifications connected to the RFI. Instead of manually searching through files, Assistant quickly surfaces the most relevant spec details right inside the workflow.
Need more context? Teams can click into the source information, review the original documents, and keep the conversation going without leaving their workflow.
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Project risk doesn’t always show up with obvious warning signs. It often builds gradually through overdue tasks, slipping milestones, or unresolved issues, affecting the critical path.
The challenge is identifying what matters most before small problems turn into costly delays.
Assistant helps teams quickly assess project risk. Teams can ask simple, high-level questions about project risk and instantly get a breakdown of overdue work, upcoming milestones, and high-impact activities without digging through dashboards or manually pulling data.
Instead of spending time gathering data, teams can make it part of their routine to ask Assistant for a quick project risk update and then focus on prioritizing action.
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Meeting minutes can get long fast, especially on complex projects with multiple teams, discussions, and follow-ups happening at once. Finding the information you actually need, whether it’s a decision, action item, schedule update, or safety concern, can take more time than the meeting itself.
Assistant helps simplify that process by quickly summarizing meetings and surfacing the most important takeaways.
Instead of digging through endless notes or trying to remember which meeting covered a certain topic, teams can use Autodesk Assistant to quickly find meeting minutes related to specific topics or generate fast recaps that highlight discussions around RFIs, submittals, safety concerns, schedules, and next steps.
Whether it’s an OAC meeting or a quick coordination call, you get a clear snapshot you can review, share, and act on right away. That means fewer missed follow-ups and less time spent chasing down information later.
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Safety conversations happen across all kinds of meetings, from toolbox talks to coordination calls and daily check-ins. But important details often remain buried in meeting notes, making it difficult to identify recurring issues or trends.
Assistant helps teams quickly identify which meetings included safety discussions and pull up summaries tied to the original conversation context. That way, you can search for specific safety topics, review what was discussed, and connect issues back to the source without manually sorting through meeting records.
For safety managers and field leaders, that makes it easier to stay proactive, follow up faster, and keep important concerns from slipping through the cracks.
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Project schedules contain a huge amount of information, but spotting issues early usually takes time. It involves going through schedules and reports just to figure out what’s slipping and what could affect the critical path.
Assistant helps simplify schedule reviews by giving users a quick snapshot of overall schedule health.
Teams can review activity status, completion rates, upcoming risks, and critical path concerns without manually building reports or filtering through layers of schedule data. That makes it easier for project managers and schedulers to focus on the activities that need attention before delays start impacting the broader project timeline.
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What do you do to get a high-level understanding of project health? If you’re dealing with manual or disconnected systems, it usually means you’re pulling information from multiple places and trying to piece together the full story. RFIs, issues, schedules, submittals, and change orders all affect project performance, but reviewing them one by one takes time.
Assistant helps you get a quick consolidated view by answering high-level questions about overall project health in seconds. You and your team can surface RFIs, unresolved issues, schedule risks, pending submittals, and change order activity in one response, along with suggested next steps based on the connected project data.
For executives, project managers, and owners, that means faster visibility into what’s happening across the project without chasing updates across different tools and reports.
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Cost impacts rarely happen in isolation. RFQs and scope changes can gradually affect budgets across the lifecycle of a project, especially when teams are managing multiple pricing requests simultaneously.
The challenge is understanding which RFQs are driving financial impact before costs escalate further.
Assistant helps teams connect RFQs to project cost changes so they can quickly identify budget impacts, review related project context, and spot trends earlier. For commercial and cost management teams, that means faster analysis and better visibility into cost drivers.
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The most effective AI experience doesn’t add more complexity to your workflows; it helps reduce friction inside the work teams are already doing every day.
That’s what makes Autodesk Assistant in Autodesk Forma different. It’s built directly into the workflows teams are already using in Autodesk Forma. It helps teams move faster, reduce manual coordination, and make better decisions across the project lifecycle.
Whether teams are reviewing schedules, tracking risk, summarizing meetings, or managing project costs, Autodesk Assistant helps connect information, workflows, and actions inside the tools construction teams already use.
* Access to Autodesk Assistant is based on license type and user permissions.
