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Logging labour hours via your AI assistant: how it works

12 May 2026 · 5 min read · Bouw Botje

Labour hours determine your project result, but keeping track of them is no fun for anyone. Notes from the drop box, messages on Friday afternoon, and at the end of the month a puzzle to get everything onto the right project and work component. The longer it takes, the less reliable the figures.

Posting the way you say it

With Bouw Botje you talk to your administration the way you would tell your work planner:

“Log 38 hours for Jansen on project De Vries new-build, work component shell construction, this week.”

The AI assistant looks up the employee, the project and the work component and prepares the hours line in Exact Online Construction. No screens, no codes to memorise — plain language.

Monitoring instead of after-the-fact surprises

The real benefit is in keeping an eye on things. A few questions you can ask every week:

  • “How many hours were logged this month on project X, per employee?”
  • “Which hours have not been approved yet?”
  • “Is project De Vries staying within the estimate on labour hours?”

That way you spot an overrun while you can still do something about it, not only at the final costing.

Read-only unless you decide otherwise

Querying is always available. Actually posting hours requires you to enable read-write per user — by default everything is read-only. You decide who is allowed to make changes.

Getting started

Connect your AI tool via the setup guide and check the example prompts for labour hours, instalment invoicing and estimates.

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