Author
Jorge de los Santos
Founder, Omnicost
Jorge is the founder of Omnicost, where he builds AI-powered construction cost intelligence — a continuously updated, multi-source price catalog and an estimating agent for the construction industry.
Articles by this author
- Cost Estimation Best Practices
The Real Cost of Rework: Why Your First Estimate Needs a Second Pass
How AI-powered cost intelligence helps estimators catch hidden rework costs, protect margins, and build better budgets from the start.
6/17/20265 min read - Data Platform
Building the Construction Price Graph
Omnicost is building a graph of catalog items, supplier SKUs, decompositions, regions, and price observations for construction intelligence.
5/29/20263 min read - Developer Platform
MCP and API Access for Construction Cost Data
Omnicost exposes construction cost intelligence through APIs and MCP so agents and external tools can search prices safely.
5/26/20262 min read - Project Controls
Budget Audits: Finding Missing Units, Quantities, and Prices Before They Hurt Margin
Omnicost agents audit estimates for missing fields, weak assumptions, and unpriced work before a bid becomes a margin problem.
5/23/20262 min read - Infrastructure
CostBot: Crawling Construction Prices on Cloudflare Without Letting Costs Run Away
How Omnicost uses Cloudflare Workers, queues, schedules, and guardrails to collect price data while keeping infrastructure spend tight.
5/20/20263 min read - Market Data
Regional Price Benchmarks for Argentina, Spain, and Beyond
Omnicost tracks construction prices by source and region so estimates can reflect local market reality instead of generic averages.
5/17/20262 min read - Agentic Budgeting
From Spreadsheets to Agentic Construction Budgets
Omnicost keeps the familiar structure of construction budgets while adding agents, live prices, and reusable catalog intelligence.
5/14/20262 min read - Project Controls
Construction Estimates Need Version Control
Omnicost brings traceability to budgets so teams can understand what changed, why totals moved, and which assumptions drove the estimate.
5/11/20262 min read - Catalog Intelligence
Catalog Normalization: Units, Prices, and Providers in One Model
Omnicost normalizes messy supplier data into canonical construction catalog items that can be searched, priced, and benchmarked.
5/8/20262 min read - Catalog Intelligence
Why BC3 and FIEBDC Still Matter for Modern Construction Cost Data
Omnicost supports BC3/FIEBDC imports because existing construction price knowledge should become live, searchable, and agent-ready.
5/5/20262 min read - Agentic Budgeting
From Construction Brief to Priced Budget with an AI Agent
How Omnicost turns a natural-language project brief into structured chapters, measurable line items, and priced construction estimates.
5/2/20263 min read - Crawler Pipeline
Live Price Crawling for Construction Catalogs
A practical look at how Omnicost crawls, parses, normalizes, and aggregates supplier prices into a usable construction catalog.
4/29/20263 min read - Company
Construction Cost Intelligence Needs an Operating System
Omnicost is building the data and automation layer for live construction prices, AI budgets, procurement benchmarks, and project controls.
4/26/20263 min read