I got home late yesterday, so I'm only posting this now.
Yesterday I delivered Google Workspace work automation training at Shingu Construction in Seongnam.
What impressed me most was that the person who requested the training was not a staff member, but the company president.
When the CEO personally said, "I want to automate our company's work," this stopped being routine skills training and became the starting point of an AI transformation.
Construction work involves more
repetitive tasks than you might expect.
Most of it is the same form, day after day and week after week, with only the numbers changing: process management, quote preparation, tracking incoming and outgoing labor and materials, and daily site reports.
This is exactly the kind of work where automation pays off the most.
I proposed reorganizing the company’s scattered files and systems on Google Workspace and using Claude as the CEO’s personal AI assistant.
Once Google Sheets, Docs, Gmail, and Drive are connected as your data foundation, you can give instructions in plain, everyday language and the AI works directly on your actual documents.
You can assign work in natural language, with no complex commands or programming knowledge.
This approach maximizes efficiency without drastically changing how work is already done.
During the training, I was reminded of Chinese electric vehicles.
In the combustion-engine era, they trailed Germany, Japan, and Korea by a wide technology margin, but the shift to electric vehicles let them leap ahead at once.
Shingu Construction’s DX, too, is behind that of other companies,
It may be a little late, but as we enter the AX era, I believe a comeback is entirely possible, much like Chinese electric vehicles.
Above all,
With the CEO’s commitment and drive, I think the chances of success are high.
