Charlie: AI powered data analyst with generative UI

About the company

Shovels is the intelligence layer for the built world. The company aggregates, cleans, and unifies building permit and contractor data from thousands of municipalities and delivers it via API, web app, and data warehouse integrations so that industries such as building materials, construction technology, energy and climate, home services, real estate, and telecommunications can use it for market research, go-to-market, and sales. Enabling customers to analyze and get insights from that data—not just access raw records—is central to Shovels’ value proposition, which made an AI-powered assistant a natural fit for their platform.

About the project

The delivery was an AI assistant that lets Shovels’ customers analyze and get insights from construction data through natural language, with a rich generative UI and real-time access to the database.

• An AI assistant for analyzing construction data and surfacing insights through natural-language interaction
• Generative UI powered by Thesys for a richer, structured experience beyond a plain text chatbot
• Integration of MCP servers with the LLM to query and surface real-time data from the database