AI takeoffs are booming, data centers are bending construction, and robots still break in the real world.
In this week’s Bricks, Bucks & Bytes episode:
🚀 Bobyard raises $35M to automate construction takeoffs, claiming 70% automation and bids in minutes, not hours.
🏗️ Estimators push back: quantity takeoff isn’t the bottleneck, price volatility is.
⚡ Oracle shocks the market with $523B in contracted demand, reigniting fears of an AI bubble… and quietly supercharging data center construction.
But that’s not all:
Patric Hellermann breaks down why founder obsession still beats market obsession in early-stage investing.
Dustin DeVan calls out the illusion of “perfect estimating” and why 4% errors don’t matter nearly as much as people think.
Tanmay Agarwal (Parallax) reveals why robots fail after deployment and how hyper-realistic digital twins can save factories millions before robots ever hit the floor.
🎧 Listen now for:
Why automating takeoffs won’t fix pre-construction
How AI data centers are becoming construction’s biggest safety net
The uncomfortable truth about price databases no one wants to talk about
Why most “AI-powered” robots are still flying blind
🗣 Bonus moments:
Dustin drops the line of the episode: “It’s the f**ing price, man.”*
Patric casually compares Oracle’s backlog to the GDP of entire countries
A robot gets stuck… and somehow that’s the most realistic moment
A teaser for this week’s showdown: Have LLMs actually solved construction estimating, or is 100% accuracy a dangerous myth?
🎄 Heads up: This week is the final Bricks, Bucks & Bytes of the year. Christmas vibes. Costumes may happen. Chaos is likely guaranteed.