Answer questions about your jobs
“What needs my attention on Cedar Ridge?” “Which RFIs are overdue?” “When is the scissor lift due back?” It looks at your actual records, not a guess.
AI assistant
Tell it what happened.
It does the paperwork.
The PMT1 assistant lives behind one button on every screen. It reads your actual project records, and it can create and update them for you.
What it can do
Create and update records
“Add an RFI about the feeder size at MDP-2.” “Mark the underground inspection passed.” It fills in the form the same way you would.
Work from photos
Attach a picture of a packing slip, a receipt or a field condition and ask it to log what it sees — then attach the photo to the record.
Work from files
Drop in a supplier’s quote, a schedule, a punch list, a cut sheet or a customer PO — PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, CSV or text — and ask it to summarise, answer from it, or turn it into a bid request, tasks, punch items, a submittal or a shop job. The file stays with the record.
Answer from the drawings
“Which sheet shows panel LP-2A?” It searches the words on your current sheets, and names the sheet the answer came from.
Draft the daily log from a walk
Talk through the day — or film it — and it drafts the log: crews, work, deliveries, delays. Nothing is saved until you have checked it.
Read the numbers and make the reports
“Where does the budget stand?” “What is late in procurement?” “Make the handover report.” — for the people whose role lets them see it.
Talk instead of type
Dictate a message, or switch to hands-free and have a back-and-forth conversation with spoken replies. A mute button is always one tap away.
Run the service department
“Open a call for Riverside Dental, Tom on Thursday at 8.” “Log 2 breakers on SC-1042.” “Invoice the completed calls for Riverside.” “Record a $1,000 check on INV-1001.”
Run the shop
“Add a Skid prep station after Receiving.” “Make a template for the control cabinet with these steps and checklists.” “Open a job for 8 skids from the template, due Nov 15 — and release it.” “Copy JOB-1002 for the next PO, one unit.” “Receive 5 sections, one damaged.” “Mark U3 wire-and-test done, signed off by Sam.”
Take you there
Ask for a page or a record and it opens it for you.
Guardrails
How it stays in its lane
An assistant that can change your records has to be one you can trust and check.
Your permissions, not more
The assistant runs as you. It cannot see a project you are not on or do anything your role does not allow.
It asks before anything risky
Out of the box, deleting or archiving waits for your OK. Your company can make it ask before every change, or switch the assistant off entirely.
Everything is on the record
Each change the assistant makes is written to the activity log and marked as made by the assistant.
Usage you can see
On the original plan, your monthly assistant actions and what you have used are shown in the assistant. In the Ask AI usage preview, Settings → AI usage shows your dollar use, your budgets and the prices.
Not used to train AI models
What you send the assistant is processed by our AI providers under terms that prohibit training on it.
Straight answers
Can it make mistakes?
Yes. It is good, not perfect. It can mishear a name, misread a blurry photo or pick the wrong record. Read what it saves — especially quantities, hours, dollar amounts and anything safety-related — before you rely on it or send it to anyone.
What files can I give it?
PDFs (scanned pages are read by OCR), Excel, Word, PowerPoint, CSV, text and photos — up to eight on one message, dragged onto the panel, chosen with the paperclip or pasted in. It reads the file on our servers and works from the text; the file itself is kept with whatever record it makes. Older .xls and .doc files and ZIPs are not read — save those as .xlsx, .docx or PDF first.
Can it email service quotes and invoices?
Yes, when your role allows it. Check the recipient and the document before requesting a send. Approval prompts follow your company's Approvals setting; choose Ask before every change if you want approval before these actions. Changes are recorded in the activity log.
Can it read our drawings and specifications?
Yes, on projects you can open: it reads the text of the current drawing sheets, published specification sections and documents, and can look at chosen pages or a zoomed part of a page. It names the exact sheet or section and its current revision, and says when a page is scanned, unreadable or only partly looked at, or a quantity is uncertain. It does not measure or take off quantities, and nothing it writes is a confirmed quantity or a price.
Who provides the AI?
PMT1 runs Ask AI on PMT1’s own accounts — you do not bring a key or choose a model. Most workspaces use OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol through OpenAI’s business API. A workspace whose owner opts in to the Ask AI usage preview uses Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 through Anthropic’s commercial API instead; nothing goes to Anthropic for Ask AI before that opt-in. PMT1 asks Anthropic for its standard global processing, which may run in the United States or in other countries. Either way it works at High effort unless you choose Low, Medium or Extra high for your own message. Neither provider uses your content to train its models. We ask OpenAI not to store the assistant’s response records, but OpenAI may keep request content for up to 30 days to monitor for abuse, and some features have their own retention; Anthropic keeps API content for a limited period under its standard retention, longer where it is flagged under its usage policies. We have no zero-data-retention arrangement with either. Precon’s document reading uses Anthropic separately, on its own key and quote. See our subprocessors and AI terms.
What about recording people on site?
Dictation and hands-free voice use your device’s microphone only while you have them switched on, and there is always a mute button. What you say is sent to OpenAI to be written down and is not kept by us. Replies are read aloud by a voice on your own device, which costs nothing and sends nothing, or shown as text when it has none. When PMT1 offers natural voices and you choose one, OpenAI generates it from the reply text: an AI voice, not a recording of a person. If other people may be recorded, you are responsible for telling them and getting any consent the law in your state requires.
Can we turn it off?
Yes. Owners and admins can switch the assistant off for the whole company in Settings, or make it ask before every change. Read-only viewers and outside collaborators never have it.
Run your next job without the loose ends.
PMT1 is in a private beta. See the plans, ask for access, and we will be in touch.