ICYMI: FIRST LOOK: Inside the Secret Factory + RFIs Are Weapons

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Owen Drury
June 27, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

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W/C 23rd June 2025

BRICKS, BYTES & BEYOND
PREMIERE: Inside the Secret Factory Building Homes to End the Housing Crisis

The housing crisis is worse than you think. But these factories might just fix it.

America is 6.5 million homes short. Construction is slower, costlier, and more broken than ever. Skilled labor is vanishing. But what if the solution isn’t more workers… it's factories that build homes?

In this exclusive Bricks, Bytes & Beyond documentary, we take you inside Cuby's revolutionary mobile micro factories - compact, tech-driven units that can be deployed globally to produce affordable, high-quality homes at scale.

Bricks, Bytes & Beyond is a documentary-style tech channel that goes deeper than anyone else into how humanity is solving its toughest real-world problems. From housing to hardware, robotics to reindustrialisation, we travel the globe to bring you inside the minds of the founders, engineers, and visionaries reshaping our physical world.

NEW EPISODES
We're Already Too Late - Real Talk on Labor Crisis Solutions from Construction Brothers and Bricks & Bytes

Tyler Campbell, host of Construction Brothers Podcast, shares why construction tech keeps failing, the reality behind the $13 trillion industry myth, and how major projects still run on Excel spreadsheets.

Find out why RFIs have become weapons for project delays, the real reason construction apps fail to get field adoption, and how a £100 million project runs entirely on Excel.

open.spotify.com/episode/1PkXcx90wuUCiTQ35SG4LO


Homes Built In 35 Days for $100/sqft - Why This Physicist Is Building Factories for Construction Sites

We sit down with Oleg, co-founder of Cuby, who's cracked the code on industrial-scale homebuilding with mobile micro-factories that can pump out a 2,000 sq ft house every single day.

Key topics discussed: why construction is still stuck in the stone age (and how Cuby is dragging it into the future), the mobile micro-factory concept: bringing manufacturing directly to construction sites, and how they're producing homes at $100/sq ft with just 4-person assembly teams.

open.spotify.com/episode/0erqyvbIJkT5HvLANAB2uN


Why Construction Scheduling is Still Stuck in 1995 (And How to Fix It)

Nitin Bhandari talks about his journey from wireless networks to construction tech, the critical mistakes first-time founders make, and why scheduling software has stayed stuck in the stone age while every other industry moved forward.

Find out why he spent 9 months just learning construction before building anything, how he landed customers who wanted to invest their own money in his company, and the real reason construction scheduling is broken (it's not what you think).

open.spotify.com/episode/3d1YTolU0rH8RE9UqjSj4N

BRICKS & BYTES PREMIUM
Early Release Episodes

How Amazon's Ex-Robotics VP Is Building 500 Homes Per Year in a 50,000 sq ft Factory

Vikas Enti breaks down how they're solving the $350-450/sq ft cost crisis in infill construction by selling homes at $275/sq ft, why breaking the assembly line was crucial, and how they're shipping homes from Massachusetts to wildfire-rebuilding efforts in California.

Why 90% of AEC Tech Startups Fail at Marketing (And How to Be the 10%) - Phil Carpenter - EARLY RELEASE

30-year marketing vet reveals what actually works in construction tech

Stop Marketing Like It's 2010 - David Horesh - EARLY RELEASE

Construction pros hate corporate fluff. Here's what they actually engage with.

The $13 Trillion Messaging Mistake Killing AEC Startups - Kevin Ferguson - EARLY RELEASE

Product marketing expert Kevin Ferguson reveals why he can't figure out what most AEC tech companies do—and why that's costing them enterprise deals.

2 FAVORITE QUOTES:

"Don't get too competitive. It's not worth it."

- Tyler Campbell's advice to Owen about podcast competition

"Do you know that there is a joke that if Jesus will come back on our earth, only one profession that he can recognize, will be the construction worker. Because do you know he was a carpenter? Nothing changed in 2000 years."

- Oleg Kondrashov on the lack of innovation in construction

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