Artificial intelligence can help prepare a component proposal for a unit price analysis. KOSAN allows you to generate unit price analysis proposals for a selected line item and review them before applying them, relating attendance to budget data.
Its practical value is in turning a request into a proposal that you can check: resources, units, quantities and consumption factors and productivity rates. The review of prices and execution conditions allows this proposal to be brought to a defensible analysis.
What information does a unit price analysis proposal need?
The starting point is to describe the line item in sufficient detail. Identify what work will be performed, how it will be measured, and what scope the price should contain.
For a coating installation, for example, it is advisable to indicate material, format, type of adhesive, substrate, joints and working conditions. It also clarifies whether the line item includes surface preparation, hauling, cleaning and special equipment.
An accurate description helps review the proposal against the scope. When data is missing, record pending assumptions rather than treating them as confirmed conditions.
What KOSAN AI allows you to do
In the AI panel you can select a line item and request a proposal by unit price analysis. KOSAN presents components with type, description, unit, quantity, or productivity rate, as well as information about their relationship to existing records.
The view allows you to distinguish components that will use an existing resource or helper from those that need to be created. New resources can remain with pending price, so that you can register a purchase or analysis reference.
The proposal is reviewed before applying it. In the flow that allows you to select lines you can decide which ones to incorporate; When unit price analysis already has components, check the addition confirmation to avoid duplicating them. After applying, KOSAN recalculates the unit price analysis related to the line item.
This connection allows assistance to be worked on the open budget and maintain the technical review within the APU development process.
Review example: one square metre of floor tiling
Let us assume a floor placement line item for which the following composition is proposed. All prices, consumption and consumption factors and productivity rates are hypothetical; They don't come from a vendor or a real AI response.
Additional 5% over 1 m² is adopted for the material. For labor, a labor crew of an skilled worker and an helper has productivity rate assumption of 25 m² per workday, so each worker participates with 1 ÷ 25 = 0.04 workdays per m².
| Component | Share per m² | Assumed price | Amount per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coating | 1.05 m² | $280.00 per m² | $294.00 |
| Adhesive | 4 kg | $12.00 per kg | $48.00 |
| Grout | 0.25 kg | $40.00 per kg | $10.00 |
| Official | 0.04 workdays | $957.50 per workday | $38.30 |
| Helper | 0.04 workdays | $670.25 per workday | $26.81 |
| Sum of components shown | — | — | $417.11 |
The $417.11 represent only the components included in the table. The example excludes tool, equipment, other work, overhead, financing, profit and VAT. To integrate a real line item, identify and add the components that its scope requires.
For 100 m², this same composition would require 105 m² of coating, 400 kg of adhesive, 25 kg of grout and four workdays for each worker. The amount of the components shown would be $41,711.
Adhesive and grout consumption must be contrasted with the specifications of the product, format, gasket and substrate. The waste and productivity rate also need a justification for the analyzed work area.
A prompt that supports technical review
You can prepare a request like this:
> Propose the components of a unit price analysis per 1 m² for the selected line item. Separates materials, labor, tools and equipment. Indicates units, quantities and consumption factors and productivity rates with their assumptions. Identify existing resources that you can use and leave prices pending when there is no confirmed reference. Please indicate the scope data that I must complete before applying.
Use the answer as a work proposal. Confirm that each component belongs to the line item and that its participation corresponds to the payment unit.
How to check the proposal before applying it
- Scope: Check which jobs are included and what data is missing.
- Units: verifies conversions and commercial presentations.
- Consumption: Contrast quantities with measurements and technical sheets.
- Consumption and productivity rates: check labor crew, workday and work area conditions.
- Prices: uses quotes or analysis with identified date and currency.
- Existing records: avoid duplicating resources, auxiliaries or components.
- Final calculation: checks amounts and the integration of selling price.
NIST documents that generative AI can produce incorrect statements with the appearance of truth. That reference explains why verification of data and assumptions should be part of using the tool. NIST Generative AI Profile, section 2.2.
Frequently asked questions
Does the proposal already have current prices for my city?
Check the origin of each price. An existing resource can provide a budget reference; A new resource may require a quote. The timeliness of the data must be confirmed.
Does a high component confidence guarantee its accuracy?
It is a fact of the proposal. The quantity, productivity rate and specification need technical checking before being used in the offer.
Can I add a proposal to a unit price analysis that already has resources?
Review existing components and check-in confirmation. Apply only what applies to avoid counting the same resource twice.
KOSAN incorporates AI into the process of preparing and reviewing unit price analyses, with proposals linked to the line item and an application that keeps the decision in the hands of whoever prepares the budget.
You can review the structure of a unit price analysis in the unit price analysis guide.