ICYMI: Inside Gleeds: How a 100-Year-Old Consultancy Embraced AI

Helena Lidelow, a Swedish modular construction expert with 12+ years at Lindbacks and now with Volumetric Building Companies, breaks down why modular construction dominates Scandinavia and what the US industry can learn.

Find out why labor costs and climate drive modular innovation in Scandinavia, the critical difference between volumetric and panelized construction approaches and how to measure factory efficiency (hint: man-hours per module is key).

James Garner, Global Head of Data, Insights & Analytics at Gleeds, discusses how AI is transforming construction consultancy.

Find out why construction is finally catching up with technology after decades of slow adoption, how the barriers to implementing AI have fallen dramatically, making it accessible to businesses of all sizes and why AI agents are perfect for construction's workflow-based processes.

We explore how Saudi BRKZ secured $17M Series A funding for their construction materials marketplace, bringing their total raise to $22.5M in just two years.

Learn why Saudi Arabia's construction tech scene is heating up, the difference between managed marketplaces and cloud manufacturers, how venture debt can be smartly used in profitable marketplace models and why expanding to 40 cities quickly might raise questions for investors.

Note: This episode is a re-release of an episode initially released at Groundbreakers.

Chase Gilbert reveals Built's journey from working with three community banks to becoming a construction tech unicorn that processes over $200 billion in annual construction spend.

Discover why "following the money" upstream was the key to market penetration, how they turned an 11-person process into a 2-person operation and the strategy behind reducing loan processing from 5 days to same-day.

Let’s face it. No matter how hard you try, you cannot avoid the conversation on AI.

In recent weeks, we have been lucky enough to sit down with a number of experts including:

‣ Rajitha Charapala - VP of Product, Data & AI
‣ Thiago Da Costa - CEO Founder at Datagrid
‣ Alan Mosca - CTO at nPlan
‣ James Garner - Global Head of Data at Gleeds

The recurring theme in all of these conversations? Agents!

As someone extremely curious, yet not quite understanding of the impact/use cases and potential of AI Agents, these conversations were extremely insightful and educational in understanding the biggest hype of 2025.

So with that said, we felt it timely to share these experts insights on AI Agents.

An exclusive deep dive into Monumental's journey from a software startup to a pioneering force in construction robotics, featuring insider interviews with founders Salar Al Khafaji, Sebastiaan, and key investor Wouter Gourt.