The Scheduling Wars: AI Builders vs. The Old Guard

Author

Owen Drury
November 03, 2025

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.