“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 building their own models, not the ones wrapping someone else’s API.
Full episode with Dustin Burns is live now. Link below!
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Chapters
00:00 Teaser
00:50 The Stress Beard (And Why He Shaves Every Morning)
03:03 Should Construction Companies Build Their Own Software?
05:29 What AI Actually Looks Like Inside a $1B Contractor
08:32 AI Sprawl: Governing Tools Your Team Builds Without You
10:50 Reality Capture, Laser Scanning and Drones on the Jobsite
14:10 Construction Robotics: Building a Robot for Under $5K
16:21 Sponsors
19:21 AI Estimating: When Your Client Prices the Job Without You
22:39 The Silver Tsunami and Construction’s Knowledge Transfer Problem
27:29 Voice AI in the Field: Less Typing, More Talking
30:25 Why a Safety Checklist Has No Value to a Superintendent
32:03 Emerging Construction Technology Worth Watching
34:30 How to Actually Sell Construction Software to a GC
36:19 Getting Pitched 10 AI Tools a Week
37:39 How to Spot an AI Wrapper (And Why Most Demos Are Vaporware)
40:05 Construction 2037: What the Jobsite Looks Like in 11 Years
45:16 Humans and Robots on the Same Jobsite
48:03 AI Governance Insurance: The Next SDI?
49:55 Automated Progress Tracking: The Problem Nobody Has Solved
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