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For electrical and MEP contractors with a team, in the UAE and the UK.

Not sure where AI fits in your electrical contracting firm? We’ll show you what to fix first, from the quote to the certificate.

We talk to you and your team, from the estimators and engineers to the electricians on site. Then we show you where AI helps, where it doesn’t, and what each step is worth.

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A free call, usually 15–20 minutes, about where your business is and where you want it. If it’s a fit, you’ll get the price on the call.

A 12-person electrical contractor in Dubai (sample)Sample report, illustrative figures

Roadmap

  1. First 30 days: the accounts software prepares each month’s claim from the contract and the agreed variations.
  2. Months 2–3: a draft variation from AI for each change asked for on site, priced by the estimator and followed through to the claim.
  3. Later: AI compares each DEWA application with its own drawings and DEWA’s past comments before it goes.
  4. Not worth doing: AI that draws the DEWA designs, since the authorised engineer still checks every sheet.

What we look at in an electrical contractor

New installations, fit-out units, inspections and maintenance contracts each run differently, so we follow each kind of job on its own.

  • Winning the work

    • Who picks up enquiries from owners, developers and consultants.
    • How survey notes get into the load schedule and the quote.
    • How tenders for main and fit-out contractors are priced, and by whom.
    • Which quotes and tenders get a follow-up before the award.

  • Approvals, testing and certificates

    • In Dubai, how DEWA submissions are prepared, and what happens when DEWA returns one.
    • How test results become certificates, and who checks them before they go.
    • In the UK, how inspections that are due get booked, and how remedials are quoted after an EICR.

  • Variations, claims and handover

    • How changes from the main or fit-out contractor are priced and agreed before the work.
    • How each month’s claim is drawn up from the work done and the agreed variations.
    • How certificates, approvals and as-built drawings are gathered into the handover pack.

Who we talk to

You first, then the people who keep the work moving, in the office and on site.

They see each job from the inside: the drawings, the inspections, the certificates and the claims. The gap between how a job is meant to run and how it really runs is usually where the hours and the money go.

  • Estimators and quantity surveyors
  • Engineers and draughtsmen, for drawings and load schedules
  • Whoever handles DEWA applications, in Dubai
  • Your Qualified Supervisor, in the UK
  • Project managers and site engineers
  • Foremen and electricians
  • Whoever books inspections and sends out certificates
  • Accounts

Examples of what an audit can find

Three findings from a sample report for a 12-person electrical contractor in Dubai: what’s happening, what it’s worth and what we’d recommend. The firm, its figures and its findings are illustrative, not findings about your firm.

  1. A gap in the process

    Of the last 46 changes asked for on site, 17 never reached a claim.

    Changes come from the main contractor’s site team on WhatsApp, by email or in person, and wait for the estimator to price them. When the estimator is busy with a tender, the work goes ahead unpriced and is forgotten long before the final account.

    Seen in: the variation log, against the instructions in the site WhatsApp groups and emails

    What it’s worth: Profit of about AED 5,000–7,000 a month, for work the team already does.

    We’d recommend: AI that drafts each change from site as a variation for the estimator to price, and follows it until it’s agreed and claimed.

    • Months 2–3
    • A build
  2. Repetitive work

    Claims to main and fit-out contractors took about 70 days to be paid, and the first 9 passed before the claim went out.

    Every month each claim is rebuilt from the contract lines, what was claimed before, the agreed variations and the month’s progress. They all fall due in the same few days.

    Seen in: claim, certified and paid dates for the last six months

    What it’s worth: Claims out 2 days after the month ends, not 9: about AED 75,000–115,000 less unclaimed work at any time.

    We’d recommend: The accounts software the firm already pays for prepares each month’s claim from the contract, earlier claims and the agreed variations, for accounts to add the month’s progress and send.

    • First 30 days
    • Software you already pay for
  3. Several jobs, one process

    DEWA approved 3 of the last 10 applications only at the second attempt, each about 6 working days later.

    The load schedules, the single-line diagram and the layouts carry the same board figures, but different people prepare them. The client’s documents come from someone else again, so a mismatch is easy to miss by eye.

    Seen in: the last 10 DEWA applications, with DEWA’s comments

    What it’s worth: Power on about 6 working days sooner on 1–2 connections a month, and about 11 hours of rework saved.

    We’d recommend: An AI check of each application’s schedules, drawings and client documents against each other and DEWA’s past comments, so the engineer can put them right before DEWA sees them.

    • Later
    • A build

Questions

Can AI fill in our certificates?

Parts of it, possibly. In the UK, a certificate can be drafted from the test results for your Qualified Supervisor to check. In Dubai, the certificate is typed into DEWA’s own online form, so the audit looks at how the readings get there. Whether it’s worth doing in your firm is what the audit works out.

We do installations, inspections and maintenance. Does the audit cover all of it?

Yes. They run differently, so we follow each kind of job on its own, through to the certificate and the final payment.

Do you talk to the electricians, or just the office?

Both. The office sees the quotes, the applications and the certificates; the engineers and electricians see how the work really goes on site. Each conversation is usually 30–45 minutes, on Zoom, after your own interview of usually 60–90 minutes, and they’re usually all done within a week. We agree who we talk to on the discovery call.

What does it cost?

A fixed fee, set by the size of your team. You’ll hear it on the discovery call, before you commit to anything.

What do we get at the end?

A report you keep, ready usually 7–10 working days after the last interview, and a one-to-one walk-through of it. It shows how your work runs today, what to fix first and what to leave alone, the tools that fit, and what each step is worth, worked out from your own team’s time and wages.

Find out where AI fits in your business, before you spend anything on it.

Start with a short call, usually 15–20 minutes, about where the business is and where you want it. If the audit fits, you’ll get the price on the call.

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