The construction slang our agent understands (and why)

If you ask a procurement portal for "plenok 3/8" it returns zero results. If you ask a foreman, they hand you a roll of pipe wrap and move on with their day.

We built QuickQuote AI's slang engine because that gap kills procurement software. People who run job sites do not talk like a catalog. They talk like a crew.

A working glossary

A non-exhaustive sample of what the agent currently resolves:

The full live dictionary is much larger and growing every day — every conversation that goes through the agent is a potential source of new slang.

Why this is hard

Slang is regional. "Mud" is joint compound in the drywall trade and concrete mix on a slab pour. "PT" is pressure-treated lumber to a framer and physical therapy to a project manager who pulled a back. The right resolution depends on context — the trade, the region, sometimes the supplier the user usually buys from.

The engine handles this in three layers:

1. Mining. Every time the agent has to ask a clarifying question, we record the phrase that confused it.
2. Curation. A human reviews the queue. The Texas dialect of plumbing slang is not the Massachusetts one.
3. Retrieval. Resolved phrases land in a vector index. The agent consults it before it consults the product catalog.

The result: the second contractor who types "plenok 3/8" no longer has to explain it.

See it in action

Try the demo and throw the agent your worst shorthand. If it misses, the mining loop catches it — and next time it will not.