The Preconstruction Podcast

Gareth McGlynn sits down with Luigi La Corte, Co-Founder and CEO of Provision, recorded live at Advancing Preconstruction 2026 in Phoenix. Provision is an AI platform built to solve scope gaps in preconstruction, a problem La Corte describes as costing GCs an estimated 0.5–2% of total project cost.

Key Topics Covered:

• Career Path to Provision: From civil engineering at Arup, to infrastructure finance at Plenary, to founding Provision after observing scope failures at the largest GCs in North America.
• Provision's Pivot: From contract review to Scope Agent, targeting scope gaps after general AI models made document review defensible.
• Why Scopes Are Hard for AI: LLM limitations with image interpretation, thousands of edge cases around drawing legends and plan references, requiring purpose-built tooling.
• $1M Dataset Investment: Hundreds of thousands of estimator-verified line items across real projects, built to substantiate accuracy claims.
• Real-World Results: One customer from three weeks to four days on scope prep. Addenda changes caught before subcontractor distribution, preventing a six-figure issue.
• AI and the Estimator: Automating rote workflows (spec review, RFI conflicts, scope extraction) without replacing the estimator.

You can connect with Luigi via his LinkedIn.