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Bricks And Bytes

A show about construction technology, business, and entrepreneurship.

Welcome to the Bricks and Bytes Podcast, where we bring together the worlds of construction, technology, and entrepreneurship. We explore the innovative ideas and groundbreaking advancements that are shaping the future of the industry.

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  • August 11 · 38 min

    Crewline Raised $7.1M to Put an Autonomous Roller on Every Construction Site in America

    "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 is the wedge for construction autonomy, and why the excavator falls last ✅ A retrofit kit that turns a standard drum roller into a self-driving one in under an hour ✅ Selling a "virtual roller operator" instead of renting out a robot ✅ The four month insurance grind nobody warns robotics founders about ✅ Why 95% of candidates are disqualified the moment they hear about the forward-deployed lifestyle Full episode now live on YouTube and Spotify. #bricksandbytes #bricksbytes #bricksbucksandbytes #aec #construction #constructiontech #ai #vc Our Sponsors: BreadCrumb- 50,000+ projects globally. All running safer, faster, with Breadcrumb. - breadcrumb.co Aphex is the multiplayer planning platform where construction teams plan together, stay aligned, and deliver projects faster – check out aphex.co Archdesk - “The #1 Construction Management Software for Growing Companies - Manage your projects from Tender to Handover” check archdesk.com Chapters 00:00 Teaser 01:00 Introduction and Context of the Conversation 03:43 Autonomy in Construction: Current State and Misconceptions 09:21 Choosing Rollers: The Perfect Wedge for Automation 11:47 Understanding Pain Points in Construction 14:55 Business Models: Robotics as a Service vs. Outcome-Based Pricing 18:49 Deployment Strategy for Autonomous Rollers 21:00 Insurance and Liability Challenges 22:09 Building Trust with Customers 24:45 Overcoming Skepticism in Construction 27:49 Future of Automation in Construction 32:10 First Steps for Contractors

  • August 7 · 37 min

    $45B AI Fund Collapse, S&P Hits $70 Trillion & 0.1% GDP Reality | Can Markets Still Crash?

    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 when the music stops. New Bricks, Bucks & Bytes out now. #bricksandbytes #bricksbytes #bricksbucksandbytes #aec #construction #constructiontech #vc #ai Our Sponsors: BreadCrumb- 50,000+ projects globally. All running safer, faster, with Breadcrumb. - breadcrumb.co Aphex is the multiplayer planning platform where construction teams plan together, stay aligned, and deliver projects faster – check out aphex.co Archdesk - “The #1 Construction Management Software for Growing Companies - Manage your projects from Tender to Handover” check archdesk.com Chapters 00:00 Teaser 01:00 The AI fund that had to sell everything 04:04 Who is Leopold Aschenbrenner? 06:54 The S&P 500 hits $70 trillion 10:04 Without data centers, GDP is barely growing 13:04 Can regulation actually stop a crash? 15:53 Why the market might never crash again 24:34 Nobody is funding the physical economy 25:53 Asia won robot hardware. The Palantir moment is next 31:04 Tax the robots, retire at 55 34:39 Retraining workers for the robot economy

  • August 4 · 54 min

    Versatile’s $100M Lesson, Why AI Wrappers Are Dead and the Scope Gaps Killing Contractor Margins

    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 fix.In this episode we get into:- What Versatile got right, and where the product fell short of the ROI it promised- Why Charles thinks "AI wrappers are dead" in preconstruction- How hard bid, GMP, and design-build buyout processes each create their own scope gap risk- Why Scoreboard has deliberately stayed away from flashy fundraise announcementsFull episode is live on Bricks and Bytes Youtube Channel#bricksandbytes #bricksbytes #aec #construction #constructiontech #ai #vc Chapters 00:00 - Teaser 01:00 - Quickfire Round 02:32 - Inside Versatile: the early days and the Chase Center project 09:27 - Is construction tech overhyped or underhyped right now 11:10 - Why Scoreboard has avoided the flashy fundraise playbook 16:43 - The perverse incentives of VC-backed construction tech 20:21 - Do "AI wrappers" win the current land grab 26:02 - Why Charles believes AI wrappers are dead 28:25 - What a scope gap actually is, and why it happens at buyout 32:55 - Hard bid vs. GMP vs. design-build: where the gaps creep in 36:50 - Measuring the real cost of scope gaps 41:51 - How Scoreboard AI actually works 43:21 - Show your work: building trust in AI outputs 48:59 - Pricing philosophy: running Scoreboard like a Costco 51:26 - Expansion beyond the US 52:41 - What's working in go-to-market right now 54:08 - Will AI ever run preconstruction end-to-endOur Sponsors: BreadCrumb- 50,000+ projects globally. All running safer, faster, with Breadcrumb. - breadcrumb.co Aphex is the multiplayer planning platform where construction teams plan together, stay aligned, and deliver projects faster – check out aphex.co Archdesk - “The #1 Construction Management Software for Growing Companies - Manage your projects from Tender to Handover” check archdesk.com

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