Procore’s AI Bombshell & the Death of Startups?

Owen Drury
October 27, 2025

Should VCs be giving founders startup ideas? And… did Procore just declare war on half of construction tech?

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

💡 Why great companies never start from investor ideas

⚙️ Procore’s AI agent announcement and why it could spell trouble for startups like Trunk Tools & DataGrid

🧠 The browser wars are heating up, and what OpenAI’s “Atlas” means for Google

🔭 Plus: how Mechasys is turning blueprints into laser projections, and why Handoff is teaching AI to think like a contractor

But that’s not all:

Patric Hellermann drops truth bombs on why VCs can’t manufacture “outliers.”
Dustin DeVan explains why most AI startups are wrapping someone else’s data and why that’s a death sentence.
Martin asks the hard question: Is Procore’s data even usable?
And Owen calls out the industry’s obsession with vanity metrics (right after celebrating 740k views 😎).

What makes an outlier founder
Why “Procore’s Agents” may not be as dangerous as everyone thinks
How Mechasys’ laser projectors could outshine robots
And how AI agents like Handoff are quietly rewriting the future of residential construction