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AI Isn't the Bottleneck You Wish It Was

February 3, 2026

Here's what the data says about construction right now. Public infrastructure spending hit $463 billion in 2024. The highest level in over two decades.

The Word of the Year Was Slop. Here's Why That Gives Me Hope for Construction.

April 22, 2026

The word of the year for 2025 was slop. That tells you everything you need to know about where we are with AI right now. I got a text a few weeks ago from a doctor

Your Best Estimator Is About to Retire. Now What?

March 30, 2026

There are 221,400 cost estimators working in the US right now. Over a fifth of the construction workforce is 55 or older. The BLS projects 16,900 esti

The Biggest Gap in Preconstruction Technology

March 23, 2026

The major preconstruction management platforms like BuildingConnected, SmartBid, and PlanHub were all designed to help GCs organize, track, and manage their bidding process.

SaaS Isn't Dead. It Got Demoted.

March 16, 2026

Over $1 trillion in market cap was wiped from software stocks in the first week of February. Price-to-sales ratios for SaaS companies compressed from

That's Just the Way It Is

March 10, 2026

For the past few weeks I've been calling general contractors, architects, and subs. Asking questions. Trying to understand the actual mechanics of how

Why Pre-Construction Is Ripe for Automation

January 22, 2026

Last week I flew out to shadow a mid-sized general contractor. About 30 office staff, 60 bids submitted per year, commercial and private work. My job

The Math That's Killing Your Bid Win Rate

January 12, 2026

A $50M general contractor wastes roughly $800,000 per year on bids they lose. Most of them don't even know the number because nobody tracks it that way.

General Contractors $177 Billion Time Leak

January 5, 2026

Your project managers are losing a full workday every week just searching for documents. I'm not exaggerating. The FMI/PlanGrid study of 600 construc

Our Bet in Enterprise Search

December 30, 2025

When most executives imagine "Enterprise AI," they picture something out of a sci-fi movie. An omniscient digital consultant that crawls through their

The Margo Mission: Why We Do This

December 21, 2025

I was listening to a podcast recently by Mark Manson on the topic of purpose. It resonated a lot at the end of the year, when we're all taking stock o

The $1,000 Automation That Was Worth Every Penny

December 15, 2025

One of our clients had a COI problem. Every month, someone on their team had to pull a report of vendors with expired certificates of insurance, then

Connecting the Dots Backwards: What Stock Trading Taught Me About Building Reliable AI

December 9, 2025

Steve Jobs told Stanford's class of 2005 something that's stuck with me: "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them lookin

From Discovery to Delivery: What 6 Weeks of Automation Actually Looks Like

December 2, 2025

Here's the conversation I have with nearly every business owner who reaches out: Them: "We need to automate X process. Can you build it?" *Me:

Why 2025 Is the Year Mid-Sized Companies Can Finally Afford to Automate (And Why Waiting Will Cost You)

November 25, 2025

In 2020, automating a simple document workflow cost $15,000 and took 3 months to build. In 2025, the same automation costs $2,500 and takes 2 weeks.

The Future of Enterprise AI: Building Intelligent Systems That Actually Know Your Business

November 18, 2025

We've all experienced the magic of modern AI—ask Claude or ChatGPT virtually anything, and you'll get an impressively coherent answer. But there's a f

Four Hard Truths About Automation I Learned From a Simple Invoice Script

November 9, 2025

My first automation project wasn't glamorous. It didn't save thousands of hours or generate millions in revenue. It saved me an hour a week renaming i

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