Industry
Electrical Contracting
Challenge
Estimating at Gaylor Electric isn't handled by a dedicated team. Hundreds of project engineers and managers touch takeoff as part of their broader responsibilities, which makes the process slow, manual, and inconsistent across offices. The company needed a faster path from drawings to usable project information without sacrificing accuracy.
Results
Gaylor Electric is piloting Drawer AI across both estimating and BIM workflows, with teams in Nashville testing takeoff and the engineering group working on modeling. Early feedback points to a much quicker route through cumbersome takeoff work, plus stronger checks and balances that help newer team members ramp up faster. The company is actively shaping the roadmap through an open feedback loop with the Drawer AI team.
Key Product
Electrical Takeoff, BIM Wizard
It really comes down to saving time and improving accuracy. With that, you are obviously going to financially benefit, but quality and speed are the two things that will make all the difference in the world for us.
About Gaylor Electric
Gaylor Electric is one of the country's leading electrical contractors, delivering design-build electrical construction across data centers, warehouses, retail, hospitality, healthcare, and large-scale commercial projects. Founded in 1984, the company operates from multiple national locations with hundreds of team members involved in estimating and engineering. Innovation and measurable performance are core to how the company works.
Drawer AI is excited to welcome Gaylor Electric to the Drawer AI family.
As one of the country’s leading electrical contractors, Gaylor Electric is known for taking on complex work across a wide range of markets, including data centers, warehouses, retail spaces, hotels, hospitals, and large-scale commercial projects. With projects ranging from smaller service work to major enterprise-level construction, Gaylor Electric understands what it takes to move quickly, work accurately, and support teams that are managing a tremendous amount of project information every day.
That is exactly why the company began exploring Drawer AI.
Gaylor Electric selected Drawer AI as part of its ongoing commitment to innovation, performance, and smarter ways of working. The team is currently piloting Drawer AI’s estimating and BIM modeling capabilities to better understand how artificial intelligence can help accelerate cumbersome, time-consuming workflows and create a faster path from drawings to usable project information.
For Gaylor Electric, the opportunity is clear: save time, improve accuracy, and give more people across the organization access to tools that help them work more efficiently.
Looking for a Faster Path Forward
Electrical estimating and engineering have always required deep expertise, careful review, and significant time. For companies like Gaylor Electric, where project engineers and project managers are involved across the full spectrum of estimating, operations, and delivery, the ability to automate manual work and support consistent decision-making can make a major difference.
“The interest in the tool focuses really around efficiency and speed to market,” said Mike Pote, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Gaylor Electric. “The process of estimating takeoffs from our operations teams is cumbersome. It takes time. The tool really does give you a path forward that is much quicker and hopefully much more efficient.”
That combination of speed and quality is one of the key reasons Gaylor Electric is investing time in Drawer AI. The company is not just looking for another software tool. They are looking for a smarter way to support their people, improve workflows, and help teams move with more confidence from project drawings into execution-ready information.
Speed, Accuracy, and Smarter Checks and Balances
As Gaylor Electric pilots Drawer AI, the team is especially focused on two major outcomes: saving time and improving accuracy.
“It really comes down to saving time and improving accuracy,” Pote said. “With that, you are obviously going to financially benefit, but quality and speed are the two things that will make all the difference in the world for us.”
Drawer AI was built for exactly this type of challenge. The platform uses cutting-edge AI to automate the repetitive and time-consuming parts of electrical preconstruction, including takeoff, routing, review, and BIM-related workflows. Instead of forcing teams to manually count, check, route, and rework information across drawings, Drawer AI helps create a faster and more intelligent process.
For Gaylor Electric, that matters because estimating is not isolated to one dedicated team. The company does not have “estimators” in the traditional sense. Instead, hundreds of people across the organization may touch estimating in some way as part of their broader project responsibilities.
That creates a powerful opportunity for AI.
With Drawer AI, Gaylor Electric sees the potential to give more people access to technology that supports their learning, strengthens their checks and balances, and helps them become more efficient faster.
“You can’t always hire people who know everything from day one, so they have to learn,” Pote said. “The opportunity with Drawer AI is using technology to support people in that journey and accelerate their ability to learn.”
Piloting AI for Estimating and BIM Workflows
Gaylor Electric is currently testing Drawer AI with pilot teams focused on both estimating and engineering workflows. A group in Nashville, Tennessee is piloting the estimating side of the platform, while members of the engineering team are working with Drawer AI’s BIM modeling capabilities.
The goal is to better understand how Drawer AI can support the company’s broader operations as the product continues to evolve. Gaylor Electric is providing active feedback to the Drawer AI team, helping shape the roadmap and identify where the platform can deliver the most value for a large, sophisticated electrical contractor.
Pote described the experience so far as highly interactive, collaborative, and transparent.
“We are very open and transparent on the feedback loop of what’s going well and what we need,” he said. “The Drawer team wants our input in order to develop it. So it’s all been great.”
That collaboration is a key part of Drawer AI’s approach. Drawer AI is not building in a vacuum. The platform is being shaped alongside forward-thinking electrical contractors who understand the complexity of the work and know where AI can make the greatest impact.
Building Toward Enterprise-Ready AI Adoption
While Gaylor Electric is still early in its Drawer AI journey, the company sees significant potential in where the platform is headed. The current pilot is helping the team evaluate how Drawer AI can fit into real-world workflows, what metrics should be tracked, and how the technology can eventually support a broader enterprise rollout.
For Gaylor Electric, success will not be measured only by whether a tool works. It will be measured by whether the tool helps people work faster, make better decisions, reduce rework, and improve the quality of project information across the organization.
That is where Drawer AI is focused.
By automating manual processes and creating smarter workflows from drawings to data, Drawer AI helps electrical contractors gain a competitive advantage in an industry where speed, accuracy, and consistency matter more than ever.
For teams managing complex projects, tight timelines, and growing demands, AI is no longer a future idea. It is quickly becoming a practical superpower for modern construction teams.
A Shared Vision for the Future of Electrical Construction
Gaylor Electric’s decision to work with Drawer AI reflects a shared belief that electrical contractors need a new generation of tools to support the future of construction.
The old way of manually reviewing drawings, counting devices, checking routes, and pushing information through disconnected workflows is time-consuming and difficult to scale. Drawer AI is helping change that by giving contractors a faster, smarter, and more automated way to move from project drawings to actionable information.
For Gaylor Electric, the promise of Drawer AI is not just about technology. It is about supporting people.
It is about helping project engineers, project managers, operations teams, and engineering teams work with more confidence. It is about reducing unnecessary manual effort. It is about creating a more consistent process across teams and projects. And it is about giving a large organization the ability to move faster without sacrificing quality.
Drawer AI is proud to partner with Gaylor Electric as they pilot AI-powered estimating and BIM workflows, share feedback, and help shape the future of electrical preconstruction.
Welcome to the Drawer AI family, Gaylor Electric. We are excited for what comes next.
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