Microsoft for Startups PartnerAI Training for Teams
Your team is already using AI to write reports. Copying a paragraph out, pasting it in, tidying it up, with no agreement on what's allowed and no check on what comes out. It's inconsistent and not standardised. That's a training problem, and it's the one we fix.
Book a training call to learn more →By the end of session one, we'll have produced a draft report in your house format, from your notes, in front of your team. Not a demo — your template, your standards, your language.
By the end of the programme, your people can take site notes to a first draft, use AI to catch the carried-over paragraph and the wrong-project reference before the client does, and write to one house style across the firm.
Your reports, your style, your standards.
Two live sessions and six months of support, to make sure it sticks.
Run the numbers for your firm.
| Time per report today | 2 days |
| Time with AI | Half a day |
| Hours saved per report | 12 |
| At 4 reports a month | 576 hours a year |
That's more than 70 working days back every year, for every surveyor. Time spent on site, with clients, or on the next job, instead of formatting a document. Even if you halve those figures, training pays for itself within weeks.
“There's no profit in writing the report.”
The value is the inspection and the judgement. The write-up is the part everyone wants back.
Notes come in every format.
Photographed A4 sheets, iPad bullets, dictation on the drive back. Four ways in usually means four different reports out.
The first AI draft is often too much, not too little.
Surveyors tell us the technical reasoning can run slightly over the top, but it gives them a solid baseline that needs only light editing.
Remote teams drift.
Surveyors who only meet quarterly end up describing the same defect differently. Clients notice.
What works for one person needs to reach everyone.
When one surveyor finds a better way, the whole team should get it, not just whoever was in the room.
Scottish Building Standards Hub
Drummond Roofing Consultancy Ltd
Fife Council
Scottish Futures Trust
RSE Water Technology
Microsoft for Startups“Skirr AI built one structured AI workflow around our template and house style, and trained the team to use it. Reports are more consistent, they take less time, and the surveyor still checks and signs off every one.”
“With Scottish Government Building Standards Division funding, we set out to build an app bringing together fragmented building standards documentation, useful websites and direct contact with local authority teams, including at key construction stages. Skirr AI turned our brief into a clear, focused and user-friendly product, in a friendly, professional and no-fuss way. They kept us engaged throughout, and we look forward to developing the app further with them.”
“Skirr AI carried out an AI audit and AI analytics review that cut through complexity and gave us a clear, practical picture of where data and automation can add real capacity. They combined technical depth with a grounded understanding of our operations and reporting, and delivered insight we can act on while keeping the service personal and commercially focused.”
You finish the report, the client receives it — and uploads it straight into their own AI to summarise, cross-check and query.
Mistakes that used to sit quietly in appendix C now get surfaced in seconds. Inconsistencies between sections get flagged. The tolerance your work used to enjoy is gone.
Templates work very well but as AI is being used more and more to read documents, summarise and integrate data the old problem with templates is further exacerbated. It becomes easier to spot inconsistencies, errors, typos and mistakes.
AI can use those same templates to help improve standardisation, consistency and reduce mistakes across a team but you need to understand how AI works and get a system in place to use it.
In the rush to adopt AI, lots of firms just started with whatever they had—ChatGPT and Gemini. Teams used it, saw the benefits, and now you know it works well but want to take it to the next level. It's crucial at this point: you can trip yourself up. Here's what we discovered.
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Grok — it depends on the work, and you may already be paying for the right one. Most firms have Copilot or licences sitting unused. You need the tool to work for the report, not another project.
Someone's on the free tier on a personal phone, pasting in site notes — weakest protections, no audit trail. A sanctioned tool and five minutes of instruction ends it.
On consumer tiers, what you type may train the model. On business tiers, it generally doesn't. Same logo, different contract — and almost nobody has checked which they're on.
Site addresses, client names, sensitive findings. We cover what can go in, what must be stripped, which settings matter, and how to record the decision.
Clients, tenders and PI insurers now ask how AI was used and controlled. Every firm we train leaves with a one-page usage policy a client or underwriter will accept.
For RICS-regulated firms, this is now a professional expectation, not a nice-to-have. We train to it.
We train your team on your own reports. Send us one anonymised report before the first session and we open by drafting one in your house format, live, in front of your people. Your template, your language, your standards. Not a demo on a made-up example.
Two live sessions of around three hours each, a fortnight apart, with practice on real jobs in between. Delivered online by video call, or on-site by arrangement.
The spacing is deliberate. People only keep what they use, so between sessions your team works on real reports and brings the problems back.
We start with your own report. Photographed A4 notes, dictation, bullets on an iPad — we show your team what captures cleanly and what needs a different approach. By the end of the session we produce a structured first draft in your house format.
The draft lands in your actual report template, ready to edit in Word or Google Docs, not stuck in a chat window. Your team leaves able to do it themselves on the next job.
AI as a second reader. Catching the section carried over from a previous report, the photo from a different site, the wrong-project reference, the US spelling.
The hazard sweep. A safety issue noted on site that never reached the report is a liability, not a typo. We build a check that compares your site notes against the draft and flags anything that went missing, roof by roof.
One house style. The report reads the same whoever wrote it, and references the standards you work to with citations you can check.
Where AI stops. Judgement, rating, sign-off, liability and authority stay with your professional, every time.
We work on real drafts your team produced in the fortnight between sessions.
From photographed site notes to a checked, client-ready report. One real workflow, start to finish.
The training ends. These don't.
You don't just learn how — we build it with you, live, and hand it over.
Everything we build is licensed to your firm for your own work.
That's it. We set up the accounts, sort the access and handle the technical side. No IT project, no procurement, no new system to roll out.
The best fixes come from real jobs. Between sessions your team sends us what went wrong — a WhatsApp message or an email is fine — and we adjust the skills before the next call.
The training doesn't end when session two does. You get two follow-up sessions, at three and six months — 30 minutes each, with the same people.
New starters join. Someone hits a report type we didn't cover. A tool changes and what worked in March stops working in June. A check-in catches it before the team quietly drifts back to old habits.
Each one is short and practical: what's working, what's slipped, what's new, and one thing to fix.
No extra cost. It's part of the programme.
The instructor
AI experts don't understand the Built Environment. Built Environment experts don't understand AI.
We know both.
Founder, Skirr AI
Paul has spent his career in the property and infrastructure world — which is why this training sounds like your site notes and house templates, not a tech pitch. Skirr AI is trusted by Scottish Futures Trust, Fife Council and the Scottish Government's building standards programme. He teaches the same practical methods used with those clients: live on your documents, with clear boundaries on where AI stops and professional judgement begins. He has trained surveying and roofing teams on their own live reports, and built the skills they use day to day.
RICS building surveyors
Dedicated training for RICS-regulated building surveying practices — compliance and faster reports on your own templates.
RICS AI training for building surveyors →Same method, your documents and your standards.
Condition surveys, dilapidations, schedules of condition
FRAs and fire door inspections under the Building Safety Act
Factual and interpretative reports, AGS data
Condition and remediation reporting
Inspection, assessment and design reports
BS5837, protected species, BNG assessments
We also work with asbestos and damp surveyors, drainage and subsidence specialists, M&E consultants, energy and retrofit assessors, architects, and building control.
No, and you shouldn't want it to. AI drafts and checks; your professional signs off and carries the liability. We train the boundary as carefully as we train the tool.
Often not. We start by auditing what you already pay for.
Session one produces a usable draft in your house format. The QA and consistency gains build over the following weeks, and the follow-ups keep them in place.
Yes. Photograph your notes, drop them in, and the draft is waiting when you're back at a desk.
That's the point. One house style, one structure, the same description for the same defect, whoever wrote it. Ratings and judgement stay with the surveyor.
It depends on team size — book a call and we'll give you a straight figure.
Your firm. The skills and project are licensed to you for your own reports.
Tell us what kind of reports you produce and how many people write them. We'll come back with a straight answer about whether training is worth it for a firm your size.
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