Normalized claim
Time: 30-60 minutes
Productivity gains of 30–60 minutes per employee per day.
Last evidence check: Jul 22, 2026
Skanska streamlines contract and project knowledge management with AI-powered assistant
Use case typeContract analysisUpdated Jun 13, 2026
Skanska, a leading construction and development company based in Sweden, piloted an AI-powered chatbot called 'Sidekick' to enhance project and contract knowledge management. This initiative leverages generative AI, including Microsoft Copilot, allowing employees to retrieve critical information from unstructured data such as contracts, RFIs, and reports using natural language queries. The AI assistant integrates with Microsoft 365 platforms like Teams and SharePoint, enabling project teams and legal professionals to efficiently summarize, search, and review contracts, generate compliance checklists, and identify risks directly within existing work environments. Early results from this deployment show significant productivity gains, enhanced compliance, and improved safety adherence. The pilot aligns with broader trends in construction, where AI-driven knowledge work automation is delivering substantial value and increasing competitive advantage.
- Organization
- Skanska
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Location
- Sweden
- Published
- February 2025
Reported outcomes
30-60 minutes
timeTime & speed
Strategic outcomes
New product / capabilityIntroduced AI-powered contract knowledge assistantRisk & complianceImproved compliance and safety adherenceBetter decisions & insightFaster retrieval of project knowledge enhanced decision-makingSpeed & agilityStreamlined legal review and risk identification
Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Skanska
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Pilot
- Linked source
Skanska, a leading construction and development company based in Sweden, piloted an AI-powered chatbot called 'Sidekick' to enhance project and contract knowledge management
Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1Contract analysis
- 2Knowledge management assistant
- 3Compliance monitoring
- Construction projects generate massive volumes of unstructured data (contracts, RFIs, emails, reports) that are hard to manage and retrieve.
- Critical information, such as compliance requirements and contract terms, is often buried and time-consuming to access.
- Project teams and legal staff spent excessive time searching for and processing documents.
- Ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory requirements is laborious and error-prone.
- Manual knowledge retrieval limits productivity and slows project delivery.
- Piloted the 'Sidekick' AI chatbot to retrieve project and contract knowledge using conversational queries.
- Leveraged Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 integrations (Teams, SharePoint) for natural language search and summarization.
- Automated compliance checklist generation and contract review assistance.
- Enabled project and legal teams to access relevant documentation instantly, reducing manual search time.
- Provided AI-generated summaries of meetings, documents, and risk assessments.
Technologies
- Productivity gains of 30–60 minutes per employee per day.
- Reduced time spent searching and processing contract data.
- Improved compliance with legal and safety requirements.
- Streamlined legal review and risk identification processes.
- Faster retrieval of project knowledge enhanced decision-making.
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium60/100Evidence strength
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Quantified outcome available
- Technical implementation details available
- Recent evidence check available
- Last evidence check: Jul 22, 2026.
Live sourceStill referenced
The case's original source is still reachable.
- Cited source last checked Jun 12, 2026 — ok (0/1 broken).
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Published: Feb 26, 2025Publisher: LinkedIn
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