Glenveagh GEFIE 2: The AI Value Discovery Day: Applying AI to Live Construction Workflows

Client: Glenveagh Homes

Event: GEFIE 2: The AI Value Discovery Day

Industry: Construction

Date: 22 January 2026

Consultant: Rob Dixon, Niels Footman On 22 January 2026, Glenveagh teams gathered in County Meath for GEFIE 2: The AI Value Discovery Day. Participants came from across the business with a shared base level of AI literacy and used the day to apply those skills to live construction and development workflows.

Hands-on AI Application Across Glenveagh Workflows

The session centred on direct application. Teams worked with their own processes, data challenges, and operational constraints rather than abstract use cases.

Building prompts, bots, and agents for real work

The morning was focused on creating reusable prompts and experimented with focused bots and agents aligned to specific tasks in their roles. Each build was tested against actual Glenveagh workflows, which quickly exposed where AI produced useful outputs and where it failed without clearer structure.

GEFIE 2 Group Task: Identifying Practical AI Projects

Teams iterated repeatedly, adjusting prompt design, narrowing task definitions, and refining inputs. These cycles highlighted common failure modes, including over-scoped ideas and unclear ownership of judgement, which forced participants to make practical trade-offs between ambition and usability.

Learning through constraint and iteration

As work progressed, several teams encountered limits in what their initial concepts could realistically support. Rather than discarding these ideas, participants reduced scope, simplified logic, and rebuilt. This process clarified where AI could reliably support planning, analysis, and coordination tasks, and where human decision-making still needed to remain explicit.

By iterating under time pressure, teams developed a clearer sense of how AI fits into existing construction workflows rather than attempting to redesign them wholesale.

Defining projects for the next stage

In the afternoon, participants moved from individual builds into small teams. Using what they had learned, each group defined a project intended for a forthcoming GEFIE 3

The AI Hackathon Day. Proposed projects included a central hub for subcontractor engagement, a tool for analysing planning legislation, and assistants designed to guide users through end-to-end construction processes.

Each team presented its concept, outlining purpose, proposed functionality, and next development steps. By the end of the day, Glenveagh had a set of defined, testable project ideas grounded in hands-on experimentation.