PlanGrid Founders are Back... And Everything Just Changed

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Owen Drury
November 17, 2025

AI wars, Trimble’s big swing, and the $299B payment black hole.

In this week’s Bricks, Bucks & Bytes episode:

🐅 PlanGrid’s founders return with TigerEye, and they’re aiming straight at construction AI.

📸 Trimble drops a reality-capture bomb and launches “Agentic AI” across their platform.

💸 $299B is evaporating from construction thanks to slow payments (yes… billion).

🧱 NxLite raises $9.2M to reinvent energy-efficient windows with nanotech.

📐 Takeoff AI gets $30.5M, but the industry still doesn’t trust automated quantities.


But that’s not all:

  • Dustin walks through why takeoff AI keeps failing.

  • Martin explains why drawings are fundamentally broken.

  • Will from Rabbet reveals how slow payments silently kill contractors.

  • And we preview the Suffolk Boost 6 cohort


🎧 Listen now for:

  • Why TigerEye’s “no-bullshit AI for construction” could change the landscape overnight

  • The Trimble agent push and why Dustin thinks most BigCo AI is “probably trash”

  • The real physics behind energy-control coatings (and why nanotech matters)

  • Which takeoff problems AI still can’t solve (hint: inconsistent drawings)

  • The math behind the $299B payment drain and why owners actually lose money by paying slow

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