The End Of Software As We Know It: How DataGrid’s Agentic System Is Transforming Construction

By Owen Drury
March 13, 2025

Be The First To Hear About The Technologies Constructing Tomorrow.

“If I were creating a product for construction today, I wouldn’t be designing a point-and-click interface.”

In today’s episode of Groundbreakers from the Bricks & Bytes podcast, we had Thiago da Costa, founder of Data Grid, sharing his journey from visual effects to transforming construction with AI agents.

Tune in to find out about:

✅ How agentic AI differs from standard AI and why it’s transforming construction workflows

✅ Why Data Grid focuses on connecting ALL data sources rather than just solving one isolated construction problem

✅ How AI agents can read through 26GB of construction drawings and make them instantly searchable

✅ Why current construction software models are broken and how consumption-based pricing is gaining traction

Thiago offers a fascinating perspective on where construction tech is headed – away from traditional interfaces and toward intelligent agents that do the work while humans focus on strategy and relationships.

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Chapters

00:00 Intro

03:52 Introduction to Thiago Da Costa

06:55 Journey Through AEC Tech and Autodesk

09:56 Building Data Platforms and Acquisitions

12:43 Investing in Innovation: SpaceX and Beyond