A shipping container with treads is sitting in a field. Out of it come a drone and a rover. Together they survey the field, starting along the perimeter and working their way to the middle. They collect topographical data, soil samples—the kinds of things you must give the regulators. But they also collect a 3D representation of the field and its surroundings. The data these robots collect is being streamed up to an agent in the cloud. This agent is making a plan—a plan to turn this field into a jobsite.
First the agent makes a basic sketch of the work to be done: the customer ordered a 75,000 square foot warehouse, with a human office module—one of The Building Company’s earliest SKUs. Then the agent feeds the 3D data into a world model, simulating each step of construction with real-world physics. This is computationally expensive, but worth it: within a few hours, the agent has simulated every step of construction 10,000 times. It’s found the pitfalls and accounted for them. It’s created a detailed schedule and a bill of materials optimized precisely for this site. It’s prepared a legal and regulatory analysis worthy of a team of white shoe lawyers.
Before a single inch of foundation has been laid, the construction crew has spent more time thinking about this job than the average human laborer works in their entire life.
