Foreman AI Hits 100 Skills — And Skill #100 Learns Your Build Patterns

Six weeks ago Foreman AI shipped with 45 skills. Last week we crossed 83. Today Foreman crossed 100 purpose-built construction skills across 11 categories — and as far as we can tell, no other construction AI agent is in the same neighborhood.

But the headline isn't the count. The headline is what skill #100 actually does.

Skill #100: learnBuilderPreferences

Most AI features in construction software work the same way: a vendor ships you a generic tool with hardcoded defaults, and you spend the first six months trying to teach it your company's conventions through configuration screens that nobody on your team has time to fill out.

Skill #100 flips that. Foreman learns your build patterns from your own data — automatically.

Here's the loop, in one example:

Your own data is the training set.Nobody has to sit through a configuration wizard. Nobody has to maintain a preferences document. Two builders running on Cornerstone PM™ have completely different defaults — because they have completely different historical data.

The compounding effect: skill #99 just got smarter

What makes this skill structurally important is that it doesn't just live in isolation. Other Foreman skills now check learned preferences before falling back to hardcoded defaults.

Skill #99 was setupLightingPackage— Foreman building a complete fixture-by-fixture lighting plan for a home in one command (recessed cans in living areas, vanity bars over bathroom sinks, pendants over kitchen islands, exterior coach lights at entries). The hardcoded defaults are construction-savvy out of the box. But starting today, setupLightingPackage calls learnBuilderPreferencesfirst. If your org's past takeoffs say bedrooms get ceiling fans with light kits instead of recessed cans, the package builds with ceiling fans. If your past takeoffs say kitchens get four pendants over the island instead of three, the package builds with four pendants.

That's the whole point. Every new skill we ship that hits Foreman's domain layer — design center setup, scope assembly, vendor selection, option packaging — gets to ride on top of learnBuilderPreferences. The more you build inside Cornerstone PM™, the more your defaults reflect your business.

What the other 99 skills look like

For builders running on Cornerstone PM™, every Foreman skill is a job that doesn't need a spreadsheet, a separate tool, or a phone call. The catalog now covers:

• Full CRUD on the core domain.Takeoffs, parts, vendors, homes, options, scope items, bids, POs, tasks, selections — Foreman reads and writes all of it in plain English.
• AI-powered analysis. Vendor scorecards, profitability reports, budget variance, sales pipeline analysis, spec-level margin comparison, options gap detection.
• Document generation. SOWs, bid invitations, comparison reports, punch lists, MLS sheets, full lighting packages, Excel exports, styled PDFs.
• System intelligence.Persistent per-user memory, built-in memory compaction (the only construction AI that doesn't forget mid-session), smart data linking, dedup, anti-bot web scraping, image vision, error recovery, and now learnBuilderPreferences.
• Undo + action history. Letting an AI agent touch production data only works if you can roll it back. Every Foreman action is reversible.

Why 100 isn't a vanity number

Most “AI” in construction software is a chat box wired to ChatGPT. The vendor ships a generic LLM with a system prompt that says “you are a construction assistant”and calls it a day. The AI describes what should happen but can't do anything.

Foreman is the opposite. 100 specific construction actions. Real data access. Real writes. Real undo. And now, real learning from your own historical work.

The jump from 45 to 100 in roughly 60 days isn't a hiring spree — it's because Foreman is built into the platform. Every new endpoint we ship can become a new Foreman skill. No bolt-ons. No plugins. No third-party agent layer.

What's next

The skill catalog grows every week. The number on this page will be wrong soon — in the right direction. And every skill that ships from here forward gets to lean on the learned-preferences layer, which means the gap between a fresh Foreman install and a Foreman install that's been running your business for six months keeps widening.

That's the moat. Most AI tools are the same on day 1 and day 365. Foreman is a different product after a year of your data is in it.

Foreman AI is part of Cornerstone PM™ — home builder software built for production, semi-custom, and custom builders running 5–200 homes a year. Flat pricing from $149/mo with up to 30 users (60 on Pro+).

Part of the Foreman AI milestone series. Previous post: Foreman AI Now Has 83 Skills Across 11 Categories.