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Ask a large contractor how many assets they own and you get silence. David Gal of Samsara says the pause is normal. Hundreds of thousands of items, from bucket attachments to excavators, and no reliable count of any of it. You cannot optimise what you cannot count.

The point isn't that it was bad. It's that from the outside, you can't tell anymore. So he looks for the ones building their own models, not the ones wrapping someone else's API. Full episode with Dustin Burns is live now. Link below! youtu.be/3LA9ZcsbPBU

He built a cost history web app. Their real cost data, region benchmarking, conceptual estimates. One HTML file. Four hours. His verdict: "And it is vaporware."

"I can make you something that looks like it's really expensive, but it took me four hours." Dustin Burns, SVP of Technology at McCownGordon Construction, on the software demo you just sat through.

This is what an AI agent actually looks like in the field. Full episode is live now. Watch here: youtu.be/JhpAPDc_zOo #AI #Tech #FutureOfWork #Business #Startups #construction #contech #bricksandbytes #bricksbytes #constructiontech

Somewhere right now an equipment manager is making their fortieth phone call of the day asking where a machine is. David Gal of Samsara describes an agent that makes those calls instead. Hundreds of them, before the workday starts, and logs the answers straight into the system.

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Every dash cam rollout starts the same way. Drivers hate it. David Gal of Samsara says the shift usually happens within a week, when a driver gets exonerated from an accident that was never their fault. The camera stopped being surveillance and started being evidence.

The AI conversation is happening a full three phases ahead of where most companies actually are. Full episode is live now. Watch here: youtu.be/JhpAPDc_zOo #AI #Tech #FutureOfWork #Business #construction #contech #bricksandbytes #bricksbytes #constructiontech

Everyone says they're doing AI. Almost nobody has done the boring part first. David Gal of Samsara puts roughly 75% of construction at phase zero. Clipboards and spreadsheets. No digitisation at all.

"Why rebuild during a war?" Because the biggest players already are. "I just met with Nvidia. They're building an AI factory in Ukraine." — Oleg Demydenko The reconstruction isn't a future event. It started already. Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/k0kdC6aU6dk

Resilience through distribution, not single points of failure. A new design paradigm, forged by necessity. Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/k0kdC6aU6dk

California designs for earthquakes. Ukraine now designs for attacks. "Everything must be modular, everything should be replaceable." — Oleg Demydenko

What real urgency does to a product roadmap. "We have no time to sell it. We've already developed a new one because of something that happened yesterday." — Oleg Demydenko Iteration measured in days, not quarters. Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/k0kdC6aU6dk

On the quiet cost of a nation taught to feel second-rate. "They moved to America and they changed their name on LinkedIn." — Oleg Demydenko Some of the smartest engineers in the world, hiding where they're from. Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/k0kdC6aU6dk

588 billion dollars. Nearly three times the entire Ukrainian economy. "The largest construction programme any of us will see in our lifetime." 40% of it is expected to come from the private sector. Let that scale land. Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/k0kdC6aU6dk

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NATO invited Ukraine to a war game as the attacker. "NATO had to restart the exercise three times." — Patric Hellermann, Foundamental Twenty tanks gone. The most organised force in the world couldn't cope with the drone tactics.

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A year on from her $40M Series B, she joined the roundtable to explain why the hardest part of construction AI is not the model. It is getting people to trust it.

"Real AI is way more about how you do change management than picking the right technology." That is Dr. Sarah Buchner, founder and CEO of Trunk Tools, on this week's Bricks, Bucks & Bytes. 🎧 Full episode on YouTube and Spotify.