Bricks And Bytes

"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...

"I got employee of the year in 2016 for introducing Excel as a project management tool for the construction department in my company." That's the state of technology in the $300 billion store development industry. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we sat down with Genevieve Davis and Alim Uderbekov from Surfaice. These two met on a beach in California (yes, really) and de...

"If we just listened to what our customers wanted, we would have had a faster horse." Everyone knows the Henry Ford quote, but Lee Mullin actually showed us what it means for construction tech. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we sat down with Lee from BuildArc. He spent 18 years at Autodesk, and honestly, the conversation completely changed how we think about talking about...

"You can drop 30% of your project management labor right now." In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Darren Martin from AInvested and we got to learn about the harsh realities of digital transformation in AEC, how private equity firms value tech-enabled companies, and why most innovation initiatives fail to scale... and many more! Darren left his role as Chief Digital Office...

A controller was spending 3 days a month just reconciling Excel reports across 80 projects. And that's just one person. Imagine the time sink across the entire org. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Joe Wilson from PROJEXION and we got to learn about the real state of construction data (spoiler: it's a disaster), why hiring data scientists isn't solving the problem,...

"I remember just breaking down and crying when the announcement went live." That's Rob Phillpot describing the moment he sold Aconex to Oracle for $1.2 billion—still the biggest acquisition in construction tech history. The twist? He wasn't even looking to sell. In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Rob Phillpot, founder of Aconex and now investor at Glitch Capital,...

"We're always running at 100%. Some people love that. I think it's like an adrenaline rush." That's how Katie Coulson describes leading Skanska Advanced Technology—where construction projects that typically take 2-3 years get done in a fraction of the time. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Katie Coulson from Skanska Advanced Technology and we got to learn...

Owen and Martin broadcast live from Suffolk's BOOST Demo Day in Boston, going behind the scenes with the entire cohort and some of the biggest names in AEC.What we cover:● Live interviews with the full BOOST cohort including Arki, Cypher Autonomy, DigEnergy, Hardline AI, MOD, Neuron Factory, Aorus Materials, and Puppet Robotics● GOLDBECK's innovation team (Dani and Bjorn) on how a European giant t...

"The industry is fundamentally incapable of change because there are so many interconnected problems." That's what Carl Christensen realized when he first looked at construction from the outside. In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Carl Christensen, co-founder of Spacemaker (acquired by Autodesk), and we got to learn about why the AEC industry struggles with digital tr...

How do you run a $2 trillion segment of the economy with just a book? In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Dmitry Alexin from Handoff and we got to learn about how AI is transforming residential construction, why 90% of US construction firms are one-person operations struggling with back-office work, and how a former IMF economist ended up building technology that delivers cost estim...

From indie rock band to HVAC software startup—how's that for a pivot? In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Davis Muxlow and Andrew Krippner from HVAKR and we got to learn about building construction tech from the ground up, the innovator's dilemma killing legacy software companies, and why making products faster might actually hurt your revenue... and many more! Tune in to fi...

In this special episode, we're broadcasting live from SpeckleCon 2025 in London, where the future of construction technology is being written in real-time. We sat down with some of the biggest names in AEC tech to talk about the one thing everyone's finally paying attention to: data. We hear from Suffolk Construction and Pomerlau on turning BIM chaos into usable data, MultiConsult's Mo...

"Universities Are 15 Years Behind, We Don't Need More Degrees" In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Gary Cowan, the head of digital construction at Kane Group and we got to learn about how MEP contractors are becoming technology companies, why the traditional education system is failing construction workers, and the real challenges behind construction automation that no...

"Often it results in an almost Frankenstein technology stack where you may have different things for different reasons." This is the reality of construction tech adoption today. In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Josh Weyand from Trunk Tools and we got to learn about navigating the messy world of construction technology, why some solutions stay point solutions while other...

"If I could do some things over, I would have hired marketing leadership earlier, even before sales." That's what Document Crunch CEO Josh Levy told his VP of Marketing, Lori Peters. In today's episode of Bricks and Bytes, we had Lori Peters from Document Crunch and we got to learn about why construction tech marketing is fundamentally different from other SaaS industries, how to...

"We've nearly tripled our profits in three years - and it wasn't one big change, it was a million small ones." In today's episode of the Bricks & Bytes, we had Marc Barone, COO of Buro Happold, and we got to learn about how they scaled from strong to exceptional, the real impact of AI on engineering productivity, and why listening matters more than action in your first 90...

71% of construction companies are still using Excel to manage thousands of employees—and it's costing them millions in lost projects. In this episode of Bricks & Bytes, Owen and Martin sit down with Lauren Lake, co-founder of Bridgit, and Kevin Ferguson from AECO Product Marketing to uncover how two college students disrupted the construction workforce planning industry—and built a company...