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Construction & engineering

Project truth, from the site rather than the site office

Engineering and construction projects lose money in the gap between what happened on site and what the system knows. That gap is measured in days, and it is entirely made of friction.

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How does conversational AI help construction & engineering teams on IFS Cloud?

NgageChat gives project-based businesses conversational access to IFS Cloud. Site and project teams ask about cost against budget, sub-contract position, activity progress and outstanding work, and report issues and incidents by describing them — closing the delay between what happens on site and what IFS records.

Last reviewed 3 August 2026 · NgageChat by EX10

Who asks what

The people who would actually type into it

Site manager

  • Report a near miss at the north compound
  • What work is outstanding on this activity?
  • Add this photo to the daily record

Project manager

  • What is the Northgate scheme costing against budget?
  • Which sub-contract lines are over?
  • How much of the programme is complete?

Quantity surveyor / commercial

  • Break down the Northgate cost by element
  • Which variations were raised in July?
  • What is committed but not yet invoiced?

Today

Where the time goes

Site reality reaches the system on Friday

By which point the commercial picture is a week behind and the decisions have been made without it.

Cost questions need a specialist

So they get asked once a month rather than when they would change something.

Sub-contract exposure is discovered late

Usually when the invoice arrives, rather than when the commitment was made.

With NgageChat

What changes

  • Cost and progress questions answered by the person who has them, when they have them
  • Site issues and incidents captured the day they happen, with photographs
  • Commercial exposure visible continuously rather than monthly
  • Less re-keying between a site diary and the system of record

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The areas that matter most for this team

Projects & finance

“Which supplier invoices are awaiting authorisation?”

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HSE & field reporting

“Report a near miss — pallet fell from a rack in bay A-12, nobody hurt”

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Purchasing & suppliers

“Which purchase orders from Acme are still awaiting delivery?”

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Elsewhere in the suite: When a recurring project view deserves a permanent screen, NgageCode builds it against IFS. custom project apps on IFS.

FAQ

Construction & engineering questions

Can it handle IFS project structures — sub-projects and activities?
Yes. It discovers your project projections and structures from live IFS metadata, so it works against your configuration of projects, sub-projects, activities and cost elements rather than a generic model.
Does it work from site on a phone?
Yes, in a mobile browser, with a connection to reach IFS. Photographs can be attached and linked to IFS records from the same conversation.
Can it change project data?
It can create and update the project records your IFS permissions allow, with a confirmation summary before anything is written.

Other industries

Maintenance & EAM Manufacturing Field service Supply chain

Early access

See NgageChat answer a question from your own IFS environment

A 30-minute session: bring one real scenario — an overdue work order list, a fault report, a supplier lookup — and watch it run end to end. No slideware.

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