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ICYMI: Our 740k Milestone + Bridgit's ENR Monopoly, NEOM's $40B Collapse, & KP Buys Contractors

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Owen Drury
October 17, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

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W/C 13th October 2025

MILESTONE
Our GOLDBECK Story Just Hit 740k Views!

We're thrilled by the unexpected success, a true reflection of our hard work to create the best AEC content. Who should be our next featured story?

NEW EPISODES
71% Still Use Spreadsheets in 2025 - Smart Staffing Solution from Top 20 GCs

We sit down with Lauren Lake, co-founder of Bridgit, and Kevin Ferguson from AECO Product Marketing to uncover how two college students disrupted the construction workforce planning industry—and built a company that now serves half of the top 20 general contractors in North America.


NEOM Cancelled, 21K Dead, SoftBank's $5.4B Bet, Track3D Raises $10M

In this episode we cover NEOM's collapse, SoftBank's massive $5.4B bet, the humanoid vs. specialized robots debate, and the AI circus.

Plus, Calvin from CrewScope on using gamification to boost worker productivity (yes, leaderboards for drywallers are real) and NK from Track3D reveals how they raised $10M to turn reality capture data into instant project insights - no BIM model required.


AI Isn't Taking Your Job - It's Taking Your Identity - The Self-Worth Crisis from a Built World Investor

KP Reddy shares why most construction tech startups are chasing the wrong business model, how AI is fundamentally changing the value of human work, and why he's now buying contractors instead of selling them software.

BRICKS & BYTES PREMIUM
Early Release Episodes

From CAD to VR: 13 Years of Digital Transformation - Gary Cowan - EARLY RELEASE

Listen Now: Gary Cowan, Head of Digital Construction at Kane Group, reveals how an Irish MEP contractor evolved from treating BIM as a compliance checkbox to running 10+ simultaneous projects using VR.

How Document Crunch Built a Community-Led Growth Engine - Lori Peters - EARLY RELEASE

Listen Now: Document Crunch's Lori Peters shares the hard-won lessons from scaling a marketing team in one of the fastest-growing construction tech companies—and why their strategy looks nothing like

2 FAVORITE QUOTES:

"Physical AI, man. Physical AI is the new term that we now need in order to describe robotics."

- Patric Hellermann on the industry's tendency to rebrand existing concepts with AI buzzwords.

"Papa buys bulldozers."

- KP Reddy on his 3-year-old's understanding of venture capital

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