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Two major acquisitions landed in one week. Trimble bought Document Crunch. Autodesk closed on Rhumbix. And the message is the same: the platforms you already use are getting smarter, faster, and harder to leave. In this week's Executive Weekly Briefing, Owen unpacks what the consolidation wave means for your technology decisions, why UK construction input costs just hit a 41-month high, and a...

Four companies. One acquisition. One $852 billion valuation. Forty-five minutes turned into four days. This is the biggest episode we've ever recorded. Document Crunch just got acquired by Trimble. Josh told us live, before most of the industry knew. In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Patric, and Dustin cover the biggest week in construction tech in years. Trimble acquires Doc...

Josh Levy built Document Crunch for 5 years. Trimble has 32 million projects on their platform. Tens of millions of documents. And they looked at the entire market and picked Document Crunch. That's not a small bet. We got both of them live on Bricks & Bytes this week. Josh broke down exactly how this happened, the moment the deal became a no brainer, and where he's taking this next. M...

12 years. $53M raised. One acquisition. Zach Scheel is talking about all of it. Zach Scheel, co-founder of Rhubmix, sat down with Owen the day after Autodesk officially closed its acquisition of the 12-year-old construction labor tracking platform. He didn't hold back. Tune in to find out about: ✅ Why Autodesk acquired Rhubmix — and what gap in their product suite it fills ✅ The financial me...

"The biggest mistake a construction exec can make right now? Assuming the existing business model is going to stay the same." In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Carl McFarland from Big D Construction and we got to learn about why the industry is sitting in a Blockbuster moment, how Apple generates the entire annual net income of a $30 billion construction firm in under 48 hours, and wh...

The world's largest asset manager just wrote a $100M cheque to train electricians. Google put up $50M. Microsoft named electrical talent as the single biggest challenge to building data centres. The firms selling the AI dream just discovered they can't deliver it without construction workers. This week on the Executive Briefing: Why data centre companies are paying $150K starting salaries...

Your construction back office admin hasn't taken a vacation in ten years. And it's your software's fault. In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Patric, Martin, and Dustin break down what four AI CEOs said at NVIDIA GTC and what it means for construction. Then Anna Berger joins fresh off raising $10M in three weeks to expose the chaos inside every specialty contractor'...

The cost of intelligence is heading to zero. Construction still hasn't figured out what to do with that. In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Matt Gough and we got to learn about why AI adoption in construction is solving the wrong problem, what a genuine industry moonshot could actually look like, and why the contracting model itself is blocking real transformation... and many m...

"The number one cause of contractor bankruptcy is taking on work outside your niche." In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Matt Stevens Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University and we got to learn about the financial patterns behind contractor failure, the metrics most firms never track, and why the construction industry is far more innovative than people give it credit...

50 senior AEC leaders were interviewed about their AI strategies. Every one was bullish. Every one was optimising the same broken system. Not one was rethinking the operating model. That finding sat at the centre of everything that happened this week. This week on the Executive Briefing: Why "don't automate the past" is the most important phrase in construction AI right now, and why...

"Within six months, every company will call themselves a world model company just to raise money." That's the prediction coming out of AMI Labs — Yann LeCun's $1 billion AI research fund. We spoke about what world models actually are, why they matter for construction, and why the hype cycle is already loading. We also had Lena-Marie Pätzmann from Sitegeist on the show — a TU Muni...

"We built entire cities using PDFs and drawings. That's not a failure — that's a miracle. Now imagine what we build with the right tools." In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Alain Waha, CTO at BuroHappold Engineering, discussing AI transformation, the future of physical AI, and why 2026 already feels like three years have passed in nine weeks. Tune in to find out...

A war in Iran is threatening global supply chains. A CTO at a 3,500-person engineering firm says construction just accidentally solved its oldest problem. And the knowledge crisis is actually two problems, not one. This week on the Executive Briefing: Why Noble Francis is telling construction CEOs to stop optimising for cost and start optimising for security of supply, and why one of our co-hosts...

Everyone's losing their mind over Palantir entering construction. There's just one problem they've been here for years, and nobody noticed. In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Martin, and Dustin Devan cut through the LinkedIn noise, get into why global instability should be keeping construction CEOs up at night, and sit down with Tobias Klug founder of nuuEnergy who jus...

"Good contractors don't go out of business because of starvation. They go out of business because of indigestion." The construction economy has split in two. Data centers and infrastructure are booming. Residential, retail and office? Struggling. Globally. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Kris Lengieza from Procore on the show and we got to learn about what their...

This is the Bricks & Bytes Executive Weekly Briefing. ~20 minutes. Every week. The only construction briefing built from real conversations with the people making the decisions. This week we're breaking down the split that's reshaping construction right now: the strategic economy versus the consumer economy, and why the gap between the two is accelerating. We'll walk you through: W...

A viral report claims 2028 is the year AI destroys the global economy. Are we sleepwalking into a crisis nobody can stop? In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Patric, Martin and Dustin rip apart a fictional financial report from Citrini Research that has taken the internet by storm. Chapter by chapter, they debate whether AI will trigger an unstoppable economic death spiral or wheth...

Someone used ChatGPT to redline a construction contract. The wording looked like it came straight from a lawyer. Only problem? It was arguing against their own position. In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Michael Vardaro, a construction attorney with 30 years of experience based in New York City, and we got to learn about how AI is reshaping construction law, why it's a powerfu...

A free contract review tool dropped. Then another one. And the construction tech industry started asking: has Document Crunch just been one-shotted? So we called Josh Levy, founder and CEO of Document Crunch, and asked him to respond. In this episode, Josh addresses the industry speculation head-on, explains why he believes you can't vibe code your way to trust in construction, reveals what Do...

This is the Bricks & Bytes Executive Weekly Briefing. ~20 minutes. Every week. The only construction briefing built from real conversations with the people making the decisions. A VP at a multi-billion-dollar US contractor told me this week that our industry is in its Blockbuster Video moment. Peak profitability, record volumes, and completely blind to what's coming. After everything I heard t...

Turner Construction was paying for specialist AI software. Then they ditched it for ChatGPT and it did 85% of the job. The founder they left behind says he's not even surprised. In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Patric, and Martin are joined by Luigi La Corte, CEO of Provision, for an unfiltered conversation about what AI is really doing to construction software  and who'...

78% of trade contractors are already using AI. Yeah, you read that right. The industry everyone calls "slow to adopt tech" is actually out front leading the way. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Colin Piper, CMO of BuildOps, and we got to learn about what it actually takes to market in construction tech, why no one was building software for the trades until now, and w...

"It took us seven seconds to know that acquiring Genda was the right move." That's what Aviv Leibovici, CPO of Buildots, told us about the moment the deal clicked. In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Aviv Leibovici from Buildots and Erez Dror, founder of Genda, and we got to learn about why Buildots acquired Genda, how combining visual progress data with workforce trac...

$300 billion wiped from software stocks in a single week. Is SaaS officially dead or is this the buying opportunity of a decade? In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Patric, Dustin, and Martin break down the so-called "SaaSpocalypse" rocking global markets, welcome back Bedrock CTO Kevin Peterson fresh off a massive $270M Series B that puts his autonomous excavator company into unic...

Should construction companies sort out their data before using AI? Or can AI sort it out for them? We put two heavyweights in the ring to fight it out. In one corner: Dustin DeVan, one of the most decorated CEOs in construction tech. Exited Building Connected for $275M. Now running Ediphi. He's seen $400M liens and knows what happens when your data falls apart in litigation. In the other corne...