Replace £3,000/Month QS Admin with Claude AI | Excel Demo | Gather

Can a £70/month AI subscription replace £2,000–£3,000 of monthly QS admin time? In this video, Will Doyle — chartered Quantity Surveyor and founder of Gather — demonstrates how to connect Claude AI to your Excel spreadsheets and automate earned value analysis, cost-value reconciliations, and progress reporting in minutes instead of days.

This isn't about replacing quantity surveyors. It's about removing the manual effort, the late nights, and the weekends spent wrangling spreadsheets — so your commercial team can focus on what actually matters.

In this video:
- How to connect Claude AI to Excel using the MCP connection
- Creating earned value analysis from live project data
- Automating progress reports from site diary data
- Working with labour rates, plant rates, and scope data
- Why a £70 Claude subscription can outperform hours of manual QS work
- Real example using a £9M infrastructure project

00:00 - Introduction
00:25 - Why QSs spend too much time in Excel
00:50 - Connecting Excel to Claude AI
01:30 - Walkthrough: Project data from Gather's reporting API
02:15 - Progress report data and resource allocation
02:45 - Static data sets: plant rates, labour rates, and scope
03:15 - Generating earned value analysis with Claude
04:00 - Choosing the right AI model (Opus vs Sonnet)

Resources:
📊 Earned Value Management explained: https://www.gatherinsights.com/en/earned-value/definitions
📈 S-Curves in construction: https://www.gatherinsights.com/en/earned-value/s-curve-tracking
🤖 Gather QS AI Agent: https://www.gatherinsights.com/en/gather-qs-ai-agents
📅 Book a demo: https://www.gatherinsights.com/demo
🌐 Website: https://www.gatherinsights.com

Connect with Gather:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gather-ai
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/gatherappuk
- Will Doyle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willdoyle1

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Gather is AI-powered site diary and NEC4 alignment software for UK construction.

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