United StatesConstruction and engineering2025 – ongoingRogers-O'Brien Construction
Compass in-house AI assistant
A Texas general contractor built its own AI assistant on more than 7,000 project records; staff ran over 5,600 queries in eight months
Problem
Rogers-O'Brien, a Dallas-based general contractor founded in 1969 with more than 650 employees across five Texas regions, kept project history, staffing data and company procedures in separate systems. Its leaders found that off-the-shelf chatbots did not understand its workflows, construction roles or security requirements.
Approach
The company's research and development team built Compass, launched on 2 September 2025, which combines several large language models with live company data inside its own protected environment. It connects to the Bridgit Bench staffing tool, Procore, the company playbook, the employee directory, a data lake and more than 7,000 project records going back decades. More integrations, including predictive analytics, were planned.
Results
Takeaway
The midsize contractor built its own tool to connect project and staffing records that general tools could not reach. It reported usage, but time savings were its own upper bound per complex task, without a total or independent measure.
Categories
- Industry
- Construction and engineering
- Business function
- Internal work and knowledge managementProduction and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Rogers-O'Brien said Compass launched on 2 September 2025, was available to more than 650 employees in five Texas regions and had processed over 5,600 queries. It described the connected systems and models and claimed savings of up to 50 minutes on complex tasks. The chief innovation officer and the CEO explained why the firm built its own tool.
The AI Journal reported the company's October 2025 announcement of Compass. The assistant connects to more than 7,000 project records, staffing assignments and internal systems such as Procore and Bridgit Bench; the company claimed savings of up to 50 minutes on difficult tasks. Rogers-O'Brien was founded in 1969 and has offices in Texas.
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