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You have a quantity take-off (QTO), bill of quantities, or similar file listing materials, quantities, units, and other data — either structured (Excel, CSV, JSON) or unstructured (PDF, scanned document, free-form text). Hand it to your AI client along with the prompt below, and the agent will normalise it and populate your Real-Time LCA project inventory in one pass.

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Prerequisites

  • A QTO / BOM / similar file with materials and quantities
  • An RTLCA project to import into
  • An AI client connected to the RTLCA MCP server

Download a sample BOQ

Don’t have a BOQ to hand? Grab BOQ_Simplified_Building.xlsx and use it to walk through the prompt below.

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Run the prompt

Open a chat in your connected AI client, attach (or paste) the QTO file, and paste the prompt from the box below.

Insert inventory materials from a BOQ or take-off

This prompt is also published as a skill so connected clients can install it once and reuse it without copy-pasting. See Skills for how to get it.

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Next

Once the inventory is populated, map materials to EPDs.