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00:38:45

Crewline Raised $7.1M to Put an Autonomous Roller on...

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2026/08/11

"Everybody thinks that autonomous heavy equipment is commonplace, whereas in fact the adoption is basically zero."Frederik Filz-Reiterdank said that to us from the operator's seat of an autonomous roller, on a live chip fab site in upstate New York, with his dozers and dump trucks working away behind him.His company, Crewline AI, raised a $7.1M seed earlier this year led by Initialized Capital and Nebular to automate the machine operators hate driving.What we got into:✅ Why the roller

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00:37:57

$45B AI Fund Collapse, S&P Hits $70 Trillion & 0.1%...

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2026/08/07

A 4x levered AI fund handed its entire public book to Citadel. The S&P 500 crossed $70 trillion days later.And somewhere in the middle of all that, Patric put a date on the next one:"We're 15 months away from that Palantir moment, 100%."Physical automation. His argument: Asia already won the hardware game, so the money is with whoever actually deploys the machines. Which, quietly, is a contractor business.Dustin doesn't buy the humanoid hype. Martin wants to know who gets hurt

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00:54:06

Versatile’s $100M Lesson, Why AI Wrappers Are Dead...

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2026/08/04

We asked Scoreboard AI's Charles Ma what the single most expensive mistake contractors make at buyout is. His answer:"Outsourcing their understanding of the project to their trade partners."Charles was employee #1 at Versatile, one of construction tech's most well-funded bets (over $100M raised). Now he's building Scoreboard AI to fix a much quieter problem: scope gaps that get buried in project documents and don't surface until the crew is standing there waiting for a

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00:18:59

$785 Billion, Autonomous Excavators, and a New...

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2026/08/01

This week's briefing covers three things that are already changing the shape of construction, one of them from a dirt road in Texas at 4am.Bedrock Robotics was founded by the team behind Waymo's driverless technology. They do not build new excavators. They take the ones contractors already own, fit them with sensors and a computer, and the machine digs on its own. This week we filmed a full documentary with them at Proto Town, a 12 acre test site near Austin where some of the most advanced

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01:00:16

Procore’s $845M DroneDeploy Deal, Why Handoff Isn’t a...

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2026/07/31

$845 million. In cash. That's what Procore just paid for DroneDeploy.We sat down and ran the actual cross-sell math on this deal, and it's a lot steeper than the headline number makes it looWe also got Handoff founder Dmitry Alexin on to talk about his AI estimating tool, and he was clear about one thing: "It's not a tool, it's not a takeoff tool."And PR consultant Kevin Ferguson told us what it actually takes to get a construction tech startup covered in the press

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00:52:47

How Palantir Became Cavanagh Construction’s Operating...

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2026/07/28

"Construction's never had a software problem. They've had an assimilation problem."That line from Joe Patrois stopped us mid-recording.Joe was there on day one when Palantir walked into Thomas Cavanagh Construction. Eighteen months later, the company runs its operations on Foundry, field adoption of their app sits at 97 percent, and Joe now leads product at Cavtera, a new service provider helping other contractors do the same.In this week's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we get

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01:04:57

Barton Malow CEO Ryan Maibach on AI, Data Centres and...

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2026/07/21

"Have we seen the productivity benefit from that? I think it's reasonable to say that no, no, we haven't."That is Ryan Maibach, President and CEO of Barton Malow, on the software stackhis own teams are carrying.Roughly 40 different tools for a project manager. Around 35 for a superintendent.He is not describing a company that failed to adopt technology. He is describing one that adopted a lot of it and is now counting the cost.His point on this week's episode was not that the

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00:18:11

Why Contractors Are Finally Gaining The Upper Hand +...

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2026/07/18

This week's briefing explores three of the biggest stories shaping construction.First, we examine the first signs that the data centre boom may be beginning to moderate. Planning activity dipped in June, several high profile projects have been cancelled or withdrawn, and local opposition is increasingly influencing what gets built. We look at what the latest data really says, and whether this is simply a pause or the start of a broader shift.Next, we unpack Arcadis' latest International Construction

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01:04:02

NFL Quarterback Jake Browning, a $2.1B Stadium and...

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2026/07/17

"I've been cut four times."That is an active NFL quarterback talking. Jake Browning backs up Baker Mayfield at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He also co-owns Sutter Street Demolition, an interior demolition subcontractor in LA.He started with one $30,000 trash hauling truck. No flashy launch. Just a low stakes way to build relationships with GCs before bidding a single demo job.On this week's Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, we asked him:→ Why he stays away from structural demo (for now)→ How low overhead wins

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00:58:44

PR for Construction Tech Explained | What Founders...

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2026/07/16

"If you were saying, I'm adding AI to the product or we're now agentic, we now have an agentic AI component, it's not really news."Katie Zeppieri said the quiet part out loud.We invited the Founder and CEO of The MicDrop Agency onto Bricks & Bytes to demystify PR for construction tech. Her agency worked with Document Crunch from its early days through to the Trimble acquisition, so she has seen exactly what earns coverage and what gets deleted from a journalist's

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00:23:25

From Palantir to Bricklaying Robots: Inside...

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2026/07/16

Prototypes and demoware.That was Monumental two years ago, at their $25m Series A.Yesterday they announced a $32m Series B led by Khosla Ventures. In between, their robots laid the entire brickwork on 100 houses, plus canal walls and commercial buildings, as a subcontractor carrying full liability for the work.The day after the announcement, co-founder Salar al Khafaji sat down with us.In his words:"The Series A was basically still like an R&D round... we had some prototypes, we had some like

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00:51:35

The Construction Tech Exec Exposing AI Vaporware

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2026/07/14

"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.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."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

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00:19:24

95% of AI Projects Fail. The Data Centre Boom Is...

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2026/07/11

This week's briefing covers three things every construction leader should understand before they sign off on anything this year.David Gal from Samsara makes the argument that three quarters of construction hasn't even started the thing that comes before AI. Not behind on AI. Behind on the step underneath it. He lays out a four stage journey, and most firms are at stage zero, still on the clipboard, still ringing round to find out where the excavator is. One firm he works with lost twenty

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01:17:43

Manhattan Skyscraper Buckling, Trunk Tools’ $70M,...

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2026/07/10

"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.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.✅ Why Trunk Tools will not sell you agents unless you let them train your team first✅ The shift from point solution to a "system of

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00:53:52

The AI Making Construction Sites Safer

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2026/07/08

You can vibe code software in a weekend. You can't vibe code a decade of safety data.That was the throughline with Ben Leach and Andrew Barron of HammerTech. In an AI era obsessed with what's actually defensible, their answer wasn't features. It was data.Ben built the company out of his own frustration on site:"what's the point of sitting in there making sure that all your compliance is up to scratch if people are getting hurt out in the field"In today's episode of

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00:48:48

The Three Phases of AI Readiness - How Construction...

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2026/07/07

"How much money did we spend last year on small equipment?" That's the one question David Gal, VP of Product & Engineering for ConnectedEquipment at Samsara, says stops most construction leaders cold. Most of them can't answer it. And that blind spot is exactly why so many still can't use AI. On today's episode, David walks us through the data maturity curve everycontractor climbs, whether they realise it or not: Phase 0 : clipboards, spreadsheets, and hundreds of

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00:21:23

Two Things Were Supposed to Save Construction This...

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2026/07/04

This month's recap covers what June 2026 actually meant for the industry, and it was not what anyone had pencilled in.The cheaper borrowing that stalled schemes were relying on did not arrive. The European Central Bank raised rates. The Fed held. The Bank of England held. And a spike in oil above 125 dollars a barrel, triggered by fears over the Strait of Hormuz, made central banks nervous about cutting at all. On the materials side, US tariffs on steel, aluminium and copper are sitting at 50

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01:11:07

Palantir’s AI Play, Higharc’s $95M Raise, India’s...

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2026/07/03

$95M raises, Palantir's sovereignty play, and a debate that nearly boiled over. This one had everything.This week on Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, we sat down with Alain Waha (CTO, Buro Happold), Marc Minor (CEO, Higharc) and Jeevan Kalanithi (CEO, OpenSpace), alongside Owen, Patric, Martin and Dustin, for one of our most heated roundtables yetOn the table:→ Palantir's new sovereign AI push with Nvidia, and whether "no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha" is real insight or

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00:52:41

Procore’s Safety Lead On NFC Helmets, AI, And The...

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2026/07/01

"Even the most digitized job sites still have a binder and a filing cabinet in the trailer." — Juliana Richard Butler, ProcoreWe sat down with Procore's Director of Product for Quality, Safety, and Media as part of our ongoing series on the state of construction safety technology. Her take cuts through a lot of the AI hype: paper isn't going anywhere soon, and the real unlock is reducing friction, not adding more forms.✅ NFC-enabled Studson helmets can surface certifications with a

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01:08:25

How Japan’s 220-Year-Old Contractor Is Rolling Out AI...

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2026/06/30

"We don't see the real costs of AI."That's Jean-Marc Frangos, ex-BT in Silicon Valley, now running AI at Shimizu, one of Japan's "Big 5" contractors, founded in 1804.We sat down with him to unpack how a 220 year old builder actually rolls out AI across a 20,000 person workforce. The playbook, not the hype:✅ Start with your data, not the model✅ 5,000+ staff on one AI platform in ~7 months✅ When the subsidies end, undisciplined teams get hit "like a ton of

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