v18.4.0 - The assistant does the work, a person decides.

Version 18 started with the AI assistant learning to act instead of only answering. It ended with the records of a project pointing at each other, so a change that starts as an RFI can be followed all the way to the budget line it moved. In between, the money got one path from the estimate to the bank, and four more countries got their own rules.

What is in versions 18.0 to 18.4

• 18.0: the assistant prepares, a person applies. Ask it to add a BOQ position, create a task, raise an RFI, log a risk or update a schedule activity, and it answers with a card showing the current and proposed values side by side. Someone with the right role applies, edits, rejects or later undoes it, and every step lands in the project history under that person's name.
• 18.1: four new countries, one money path. Croatia, Romania, Greece and Ukraine get country packs with their own VAT rates, validation rules, contract rules and project defaults. A purchase order, contract, subcontract, invoice and payment each count once, so every dashboard, the budget table, the portfolio outturn and BI read the same committed, invoiced and paid figures.
• 18.2: suggestions you review, records that stay put. The position copilot no longer writes on its own. Every suggestion arrives as a review list with before and after values and a confidence score, nothing changes until Apply, and one undo takes the whole review back. A locked bill refuses edits and imports, and says so.
• 18.3: the 4D schedule keeps what you enter. Assignees are saved and shown, a new activity lands in the section you put it in with the next WBS code filled in, and tasks can be assigned to your contacts as well as to the users of the installation.
• 18.4: project records lead to each other. An RFI or non-conformance that flags a variation drafts a change order for a person to submit, and once approved the change order names the bill section and budget line it landed on, with a preview before anything is posted. An awarded RFQ drafts its purchase order, and a tender package links to its bill, bid package and award.

Nothing reaches the project on its own

Every one of these changes follows the same rule. The assistant and the copilot show what they would write, with a confidence score where it applies, and a person with the right role in that project decides. Undo refuses to overwrite a record somebody edited after the change was applied, and says so instead of guessing.

Install or upgrade

pip install --upgrade openconstructionerp

Desktop installers for Windows, macOS and Linux are on openconstructionerp.com/download. The full list of changes for each version is in the release notes on GitHub. Questions or trouble upgrading, write to info@datadrivenconstruction.io.

Tell us how it went

If you have installed or tested OpenConstructionERP, we would like to hear what happened, including the parts that did not work. Open an issue on GitHub or write to info@datadrivenconstruction.io.