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title: "How to manage construction punch lists with AI"
description: "Start from your punch list template, the drawings and specifications, and the list of trades and who owns each scope. During the walk, staff speak or type notes and take photos, and AI turns them into numbered items with location, description, trade and photo, groups duplicates and sends each trade its own list. It tracks each item from open to fixed to verified, reminds trades of overdue items and drafts a status summary for the client. The site lead verifies every fix in person before an item is closed, the client signs off the final list, and safety issues found on the walk go straight to the site lead, not into the queue."
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# How can a contractor use AI to close out punch lists faster at the end of a project, so items do not get lost between the site walk, the trades and the client?
Start from your punch list template, the drawings and specifications, and the list of trades and who owns each scope. During the walk, staff speak or type notes and take photos, and AI turns them into numbered items with location, description, trade and photo, groups duplicates and sends each trade its own list. It tracks each item from open to fixed to verified, reminds trades of overdue items and drafts a status summary for the client. The site lead verifies every fix in person before an item is closed, the client signs off the final list, and safety issues found on the walk go straight to the site lead, not into the queue.
## What this means in practice
- Start from your template, drawings, specifications and trade scopes.
- Turn walk notes and photos into numbered items with location and trade.
- Send each trade its own list and track items from open to verified.
- Have the site lead verify every fix in person before closing it.
- Send safety issues straight to the site lead and get client sign-off.
## How Lid Vizion approaches it
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