Edward Rivera pulled 4 years of historical labor hours, layered 30,000+ NECA labor units on top, and built a self-correcting estimating engine. Then he started recording everything his 46-year veteran knows before retirement makes it a memory. One system. Two leaks plugged.
Edward owns Ion Electrical in New Hampshire. Master Electrical and Master Gas Fitter licensed. 10 years building the company. He didn't buy an off-the-shelf AI tool — he built a system that feeds every clocked-in labor hour back into the next bid, flags when an estimator quotes 6 hours but the crew takes 7.8, and captures three decades of energy efficiency expertise before his senior expert retires. He also runs a 4-way decision council (CEO, estimator, himself, and Claude) on every six-figure project. When Claude told him to log off and take his kids to the park — that's the moment most builders won't see coming.
I pulled four years of our labor hours, layered 30,000 NECA labor units on top, and now Claude tells me when my estimator is wrong before the crew shows up.— Edward Rivera, Ion Electrical
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