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What purpose does AI serve here apart from lowering costs by generating a plan?

Especially if I need to ‘consult an expert’ isn’t this just a customer company using AI?

You can plan and design your projects without spending weeks/months on research and understanding how construction and code compliance works. It'll also help you save time/money from having to make extra runs to the hardware store or if you end up making the wrong cut/connection if you DIY the first time.

You can say what you want, and the tool has appropriate guardrails to make sure what you're going to build is safe.

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