Zutec launches handover AI platform for main contractors

The platform is designed to tackle main contractors’ key handover challenges, such as supply chain chasing, receiving incorrect or incomplete information, slow responses and limited visibility, and to avoid the well-documented last-minute rush to reverse-engineer all the handover materials at practical completion.

Zutec Handover AI automates repetitive tasks to take the administrative burden off project teams. Subcontractors upload documents directly into the platform using guided templates or drag-and-drop functionality, while Zutec’s specialist team chases submissions and quality-checks information within 48 hours of them being uploaded. AI then does the heavy lifting by automatically classifying, naming and tagging documents, while a chatbot provides insight on the information project teams may need.

Dashboards within the platform provide live visibility and tracking at both project and portfolio level, showing what has been submitted, what is outstanding, what is completed and where action is needed.

The platform features building manual exports, structured Building Safety Act and Regulation 38 packages. The asset register, Reg 38 and fire and emergency files, BREEAM and logbook capabilities that were optional add-ons in the pre-AI handover platform are now also included.

Emily Hopson-Hill, chief AI and product officer at Zutec, said: “What sets us apart is our data. With insight from more than 5,000 handover projects, Zutec has a depth of real-world handover knowledge that generic AI simply cannot replicate. We’re turning that experience into a fundamentally better way to deliver handover, enabled by AI, and backed by our expertise.”