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Tri-Fort is an AI-powered construction cost estimation platform designed for the Kenyan construction industry. Initially built as a pure machine learning model trained on historical construction data, the project faced significant data quality and availability challenges. The team pivoted to a hybrid approach combining domain knowledge from an official Quantity Surveying handbook, recovered historical project data, and user inputs to build a rule-based cost intelligence engine augmented by machine learning. The platform provides explainable cost estimates with transparent reasoning traces, improving user trust and estimate accuracy. The system is production-grade with a scalable infrastructure and aims to incorporate more final actual cost data to enhance machine learning capabilities over time.
Jun 18, 2026, 9:00 AM
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Tri-Fort is an AI-powered construction cost estimation platform designed for the Kenyan construction industry. Initially built as a pure machine learning model trained on historical construction data, the project faced significant data quality and availability challenges. The team pivoted to a hybrid approach combining domain knowledge from an official Quantity Surveying handbook, recovered historical project data, and user inputs to build a rule-based cost intelligence engine augmented by machine learning. The platform provides explainable cost estimates with transparent reasoning traces, improving user trust and estimate accuracy. The system is production-grade with a scalable infrastructure and aims to incorporate more final actual cost data to enhance machine learning capabilities over time.
Priority score
High-value case for teams facing a similar quality / throughput problem. Implementation effort is high effort, so it is worth prioritizing when the workflow pain is recurring, measurable, and owned by a team that can execute.
Estimated deployment: 6-12 weeks
WolfOf420Stret • Dev.to
Tri-Fort development team (founders, engineers, quantity surveyors)
Construction / Quantity Surveying
Founders, Software Engineers, Quantity Surveyors
Hybrid system combining Quantity Surveying handbook knowledge graph, historical project data, and machine learning regression models
Early
Quality / throughput
High effort
Kenyan construction industry cost estimation with limited and noisy historical data
Estimate construction project costs accurately and transparently
FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Next.js, TypeScript, Docker Compose, OCR for data extraction, rule graph for domain knowledge representation, regression ML models
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