E163: Luigi La Corte, Co-Founder and CEO at Provision
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Gareth McGlynn interviews Luigi La Corte about the AI platform Provision and its impact on preconstruction scope management.
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…
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