# AI search visibility for construction firms > For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://attensira.com/llms.txt). > Every page on this site is also served as Markdown: append `.md` to any URL, or send `Accept: text/markdown`. > How developers and specifiers ask AI for contractors, why public tenders change the picture, and what a construction firm should publish to be named. - Canonical page: https://attensira.com/industries/construction - Last updated: 2026-10-04 - Source: converted from this page's own HTML; the claim records under Sources are the page's sourced statements, with quotes. - Claims as data: https://attensira.com/claims.json?slug=construction Developers, specifiers and facilities managers now ask AI who builds what they need, at their scale, where they are. Attensira reads those answers every day, finds the pages that decide them, and its crew of AI agents drafts the project, capability and bonding facts that get your firm named. Claims wait for your approval. ## What does an AI answer say when a client asks who builds it? Answers name firms whose pages show comparable projects with their size, year and location. The Writer drafts the project page from your records; a project's value and dates wait for your approval. - Buyer question: “design and build contractor for a warehouse” ## Why do AI answers matter in construction? Most construction work is private or below the public tender thresholds, and there a client, a specifier or a main contractor still researches firms before a shortlist exists. That research now includes asking an assistant. Three facts about the sector shape what it can find. - Large public work is advertised: Above the threshold, buyers find contractors through their own published notice, not your website. Your site matters below the line, and for the shortlist before a notice goes out. - Bonding decides who can bid: Bonding capacity changes who should call you, and few firms state it. A plain page with your bonding limit, licences and typical project sizes answers the eligibility question. - A market of many firms: With no national brand layer, answers are about who does this work, at this scale, in this place. Project pages with location, size and type give an assistant something to match. Construction, at a glance - Sector: Construction (NAICS 23) - Federal work: Miller Act bonds above $100,000 Details - EU works threshold: EUR 5,404,000 from 1 January 2026 Details - US scale: 953,703 private establishments, Q1 2026, preliminary Details - Drafted by: Writer - Ships when: At L2, the default: when you say yes; at L3, 48 hours after it is filed unless you stop it; a claim always waits for your yes [Details](https://docs.attensira.com/agent/autonomy-levels) - What it costs: Plans differ by the prompts you optimize towards and the credits included; buy more credits any time. [Details](https://attensira.com/pricing) ## What does a real reading look like? The frames above are illustrations for a construction business. This one is real: our own workspace, for a buyer question that names who is asking, “AI search visibility for agencies”. Engines built those answers from the sites in the chart and cited attensira.com in none of them. Your first reading looks the same, for your buyers’ questions: the sites to get onto, and where you stand. - Answers read: 111, ChatGPT and Perplexity - Cited us: 0 of 111 Cited in n=111 answers | Name | Cited in | Count | | --- | --- | --- | | wpengine.com | 55.0% | 61 | | developers.google.com | 41.4% | 46 | | loudface.co | 40.5% | 45 | | vitasoft.co | 36.9% | 41 | | ahrefs.com | 35.1% | 39 | | attensira.com us | 0.0% | 0 | ![Researcher agent](https://attensira.com/agents/researcher-64.webp) Researcher · Read on the daily run attensira.com workspace, read over the Attensira MCP · 5 Oct 2026 · n=111 answers, 21 of 31 days sampled ## Where do you start? The order the work usually goes in for a construction business. - Measured: Before and after each step, on the same questions - Claims: Wait for your approval at every autonomy level - Undo: For 30 days after a change ships [How autonomy levels work, in the docs](https://docs.attensira.com/agent/autonomy-levels) See whether AI names your firm for the projects you build, then let the crew draft the project pages. ## What does the crew do for a construction business? The crew works from the questions your clients ask an assistant, read every day, and from the pages that decide the answers. Every new page, and anything stating a number, a price or a claim, waits for your approval. - Project pages that can be quoted: The Writer drafts one page per completed project type: what was built, the scale, the sector, the year and the constraints. Specifiers reason by precedent, and a precedent without a scale cannot be used. - Eligibility facts, stated plainly: Certifications held, the geography you actually serve, bonding capacity and the work you decline go on a page an assistant can read. Anything that states a number waits for your yes. - Listings and trade directories: When an answer leans on a directory or trade list you are missing from, the crew drafts the listing or the pitch, sent from your own mailbox after you approve it. - Who is named instead, and why: For each question you lose, the Researcher names the firms the answer chose and the pages it read, so the work goes where the answer is decided. ## What should you check first? A list to run against your own site and listings before any work starts. - Run it against: Your site, and the listings and directories about you - When: Before the first change ships ### What makes construction hard - A homepage of photos and adjectives answers no question an assistant is asked. - Project pages rarely state the scale, sector and year, so precedent cannot be quoted. - Recruitment and client pages share one site and serve neither well. ## Questions about AI visibility in construction ### Does AI visibility matter if our big contracts are tendered? Yes, below the threshold and in the private market, which is most work by volume. Above the EU works threshold (EUR 5,404,000 from 1 January 2026) the buyer must advertise, but prequalification, framework selection and subcontractor choice still involve someone researching firms first. ### What should a contractor publish to be named by AI? Capability in checkable terms: completed project types with scale, sector and year; certifications and bonding capacity; the geography you serve; and the jobs you decline. Those are the facts an assistant needs to match a firm to a question. ### Will Attensira publish anything about our firm without us? No. New workspaces start in Draft, so nothing leaves the workspace until you approve it, and anything that states a number, a price or a competitor's name waits for your yes in every mode. ### Is pricing different for construction firms? No. Every industry uses the same plans and credits. The plan sets how many questions are read and the credits included; the crew spends credits as it works, up to the monthly budget you set. ### Does a bigger contractor always win the answer? Not on the questions that name a place and a scale. Most construction firms are small, and an assistant answering 'who does this here' looks for a firm whose pages say exactly that. ## Where to go next - [AI visibility for manufacturing](https://attensira.com/industries/manufacturing) - [AI visibility for real estate](https://attensira.com/industries/real-estate) - [AI visibility for education](https://attensira.com/industries/education) - [How Attensira works, day by day](https://attensira.com/how-it-works) - [Plans and credits](https://attensira.com/pricing) - [Every industry](https://attensira.com/industries) ## Where do these facts come from? 1. From 1 January 2026 the EU public procurement works threshold is EUR 5,404,000 under Directives 2014/24/EU, 2014/25/EU, 2014/23/EU and 2009/81/EC, set by Commission Delegated Regulations (EU) 2025/2152, 2025/2150 and 2025/2151 of 22 October 2025 and (EU) 2025/2487 of 2 December 2025. [single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu](https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/public-procurement/legal-rules-and-implementation/thresholds_en) · read 3 Sep 2026 · changes often, check the source [Read it at the source](https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/public-procurement/legal-rules-and-implementation/thresholds_en) 2. Under 40 U.S.C. 3131, before any contract of more than 100,000 dollars is awarded for the construction, alteration or repair of any public building or public work of the federal government, the contractor must furnish a performance bond and a payment bond for the protection of all persons supplying labour and material. [law.cornell.edu](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/40/3131) · read 3 Sep 2026 ### The source's own words > “Before any contract of more than $100,000 is awarded for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work of the Federal Government” 3. US construction had 953,703 private establishments in Q1 2026, preliminary (QCEW). In a separate series (CES), it had about 8.3 million employees in July 2026, about 6.1 million of them production and non-supervisory workers. [bls.gov](https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag23.htm) · read 4 Oct 2026 · changes often, check the source [Read it at the source](https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag23.htm) 4. Alongside its private establishments, US construction counted 4,283 local government, 1,870 state government and 4 federal establishments in Q1 2026, preliminary. [bls.gov](https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag23.htm) · read 4 Oct 2026 · changes often, check the source [Read it at the source](https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag23.htm) 5. The European Commission states that public procurement represents around 14 percent of EU GDP and that EU public authorities spend around 16 percent of GDP, around EUR 2.5 trillion per year. [single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu](https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/public-procurement_en) · read 3 Sep 2026 [Read it at the source](https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/public-procurement_en) About these sources - Claims on this page: 5 - Publishers: 3 - Last read: 4 Oct 2026 - Quotes: The source's own words, folded under each claim - Found a wrong fact?: [Tell us](https://attensira.com/contact) ## Software that does your AI-search visibility work. ## Tell it where you want to be cited. attensira.com's own workspace · read 4 Oct 2026 · n=4,518 197 / 4,518 answers 4.4% Answers on ChatGPT and Perplexity that named attensira.com. Our own reading, published with its n. Sites we own · not customers · 24 of 31 days sampled ## Sources Each entry below is one claim on this page. `retrieved` is the date the exporter or a human last saw the source say this, and nothing more: it is not a publication date and not a promise of re-verification. `cite` is the anchor on the canonical page where this claim is rendered. ### eu-works-threshold From 1 January 2026 the EU public procurement works threshold is EUR 5,404,000 under Directives 2014/24/EU, 2014/25/EU, 2014/23/EU and 2009/81/EC, set by Commission Delegated Regulations (EU) 2025/2152, 2025/2150 and 2025/2151 of 22 October 2025 and (EU) 2025/2487 of 2 December 2025. - source: https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/public-procurement/legal-rules-and-implementation/thresholds_en (single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu) - retrieved: 2026-09-03 - cite: https://attensira.com/industries/construction#claim-eu-works-threshold ### miller-act-bonds Under 40 U.S.C. 3131, before any contract of more than 100,000 dollars is awarded for the construction, alteration or repair of any public building or public work of the federal government, the contractor must furnish a performance bond and a payment bond for the protection of all persons supplying labour and material. - source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/40/3131 (www.law.cornell.edu) - retrieved: 2026-09-03 - cite: https://attensira.com/industries/construction#claim-miller-act-bonds > Before any contract of more than $100,000 is awarded for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work of the Federal Government ### bls-naics23-scale US construction had 953,703 private establishments in Q1 2026, preliminary (QCEW). In a separate series (CES), it had about 8.3 million employees in July 2026, about 6.1 million of them production and non-supervisory workers. - source: https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag23.htm (www.bls.gov) - retrieved: 2026-10-04 - cite: https://attensira.com/industries/construction#claim-bls-naics23-scale ### bls-naics23-public-establishments Alongside its private establishments, US construction counted 4,283 local government, 1,870 state government and 4 federal establishments in Q1 2026, preliminary. - source: https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag23.htm (www.bls.gov) - retrieved: 2026-10-04 - cite: https://attensira.com/industries/construction#claim-bls-naics23-public-establishments ### eu-procurement-share The European Commission states that public procurement represents around 14 percent of EU GDP and that EU public authorities spend around 16 percent of GDP, around EUR 2.5 trillion per year. - source: https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/public-procurement_en (single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu) - retrieved: 2026-09-03 - cite: https://attensira.com/industries/construction#claim-eu-procurement-share