AI scheduling wars, billion-dollar data centers, and the WhatsApp revolution in construction.
In this week’s Bricks, Bucks & Bytes episode:
🚀 nPlan raises £11.9 million Series B from Cap Horn, Chevron Ventures and Suffolk Tech for its AI “Schedule Studio.”
💻 Planera doubles down on browser-based collaborative scheduling after an $8 million raise for data-center projects.
🌍 Navatech’s Prakash Senghani on turning WhatsApp into the most adopted construction tech platform on Earth and why Saudi startups are more fearless than ever.
But that’s not all:
Alan Mosca (nPlan) reveals how a construction AI experiment accidentally beat state-of-the-art molecule generation benchmarks.
Nitin Bhandari (Planera) explains why scheduling is a team sport, not a spreadsheet.
Prakash Senghani (Navatech) shows how AI agents and voice interfaces are reshaping Middle Eastern projects.
🎧 Listen now for:
The coming convergence of LLMs + knowledge graphs in construction AI.
Why “vibe coding” could backfire for enterprises rushing into agentic apps.
How Saudi’s youth-driven boom is making it the world’s new testing ground for ConTech adoption.