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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...

"Cancel your AG1 subscription... AG1 has no real product substance and is fundamentally an influencer heist." In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Martin, and Patric dive into the wild world of 24/7 AI agents that can build your startup from bed, manage your Tinder profile, and apparently go rogue with your credit card. What's covered: The Maltbot phenomenon and why AI...

Half of every 3D printed building in history was built in 2024. In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Stephan Mansour, Director of Operations at Printerra and one of the leading voices in additive construction standards development. We got to learn about why 2025 might be the tipping point for 3D printing in construction, how a full concrete structure can harden in just 30 minutes, an...

Procore just wrote a 9-figure check. Autodesk just cut 1,300 people. And someone called the best salespeople "the laziest." In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Dustin, and Patric sit down with Mike Powers, Kevin Halter, and Anton Glance to dissect the most chaotic week in construction tech. A founder just landed his second major exit. A website launched with zero mention...

"The first time a customer said 'yeah, I just blue beamed it' - that was a moment." When your product becomes a verb, you know you've built something legendary. In today's episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, we had Don Jacob, Co-founder of Bluebeam, and we got to learn about the wild 24-year journey from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab to building one of the most iconic p...

What happened to carbon accounting? (Spoiler: Nobody cares anymore) In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Martin, Dustin, and Patric dive into the rise and fall of carbon accounting in construction, why Autodesk's big bet didn't pan out, and what it reveals about the gap between tech hype and real-world adoption. In this episode: The carbon accounting boom that went bust—and...

"I checked the cash balance and the number came out negative. I had to call my wife and say we might need to liquidate our entire 401k to make payroll." In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Thiago Da Costa from DataGrid and Clifton Harness from TestFit and we got to learn about the raw truth of building construction tech startups - from pivoting at $1M ARR to nearly missing...

"It's compounding and becoming more of a crisis." That's how Susan Brattberg described the digital skills gap facing our industry right now. And honestly? She's not wrong. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we sat down with Susan Brattberg, co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at Global eTraining, and what started as a conversation about an epic rooftop party at A...

"Integration with Procore? Everyone warned us they'd copy our product. We did it anyway - and it became our best go-to-market decision." In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Or Lakritz, founder of StructShare (now Trimble Materials), and we got to learn about how a 21-person startup navigated acquisition conversations with multiple players, the critical importance of tr...

The UFC arrives in AEC. And we’re live from the AEC Octagon. In the very first episode of our brand-new Bricks & Bytes Debates series, we are trading PR statements for sparring gloves. We’re putting two industry heavyweights head-to-head to battle out one of the hottest topics in construction: Has AI actually solved estimating? In this no-holds-barred contester series, our contenders took the...