We talked to more than 200 owners and developers. We asked them where it hurts.

You've sat through the panel. Three executives from major firms take turns describing a project they completed: the challenges they faced, the solutions they found, the…

AI arriving in project delivery doesn't make weak project managers stronger. It makes the gap between good ones and weak ones more visible, more consequential, and more expensive.

Your GC just adopted an AI tool that cuts their estimating time in half. Their RFI response time dropped. Their field coordination improved. Their team is doing more with less.

Construction technology companies have raised billions of dollars over the past few years. The pitch is always some version of the same thing: AI will make construction faster,…

The meetings that consume your week don't require your expertise. Most of them exist because information didn't flow to the right person at the right time, so humans had to…

Two years ago, "AI strategy" was something tech companies needed. Today, it's something your architect, your GC, and your property manager need, and if they don't have one,…

The construction tech insight that the vendor community rarely acknowledges: most construction tech startups were built for the wrong customer.

Let me state something that construction technology circles consistently sidestep: AI may not be worth deploying on your project right now.

Every week, someone tells me AI is going to change construction forever. They're not wrong. They're also not saying anything useful.

The construction technology market is flooded right now with vendors who have taken a large language model, added a construction-flavored interface, and are calling it a product.

Two teams at the same firm. Both were told to evaluate AI tools for project coordination. Months later, one team had launched a pilot. The other was still discussing it.

Your design firm is using AI to generate specifications faster. Your GC is running project schedules through an AI optimization tool. Your owner's rep is using AI to draft RFI…

In 2011, Building Information Modeling was going to change everything for building owners. A data-rich 3D model would persist through design, construction, and operations. The…

In 2011, a textbook was published on Building Information Modeling for owners and developers. The premise was compelling: BIM would finally give building owners the rich,…

If you're a building owner, the AI debate probably isn't playing out inside your own organization. You're not deciding whether to build a language model or buy a SaaS subscription.

Someone is pitching you a custom AI solution right now. Or they will be soon. The pitch sounds compelling: your data, your workflow, your competitive edge, built to spec.

When a building project goes wrong, the visible failures emerge during construction. Budget overruns appear in change orders. Schedule slips manifest in revised completion…