A.I. Excellence in Construction: Research Briefings
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S2026E17 Cheaper Tokens, Bigger Bills: Why Construction A.I. Costs Are Skyrocketing
Episode summary: Per-token A.I. prices have fallen sharply, yet construction firms are spending more than ever. This episode traces the gap to consumption, not price, and reads the May 14, 2026…
S2026E16 A.I. at Scale: The Big-Firm Advantage Is Getting Cheap
Episode summary: The capabilities that used to require a big firm's budget are getting cheap. Across Placer Solutions A.I. peer groups, smaller builders are retiring legacy estimating software…
S2026E15 Bending the Stick: The Chart Is Already Out of Date
Episode summary: When we published the 2026 A.I. Excellence in Construction report, we placed construction workflows on METR's pace-of-change chart. Six months later, the chart has been outpaced. We…
S2026E14 Goal Drift: What's Actually Risky About A.I. Agents
Episode summary: The risk profile for A.I. in construction has changed. In a recent study of 847 production agent deployments, hallucinations were only 9.3 percent of observed vulnerabilities. We…
Six Months In: Three Rooms, Same Lesson
Episode summary: In three of the four Strategic A.I. Peer Groups for Builders this spring, the LLM-vendor conversation matured. Builders moved past the question of which model wins. They're building…
S2026E12 First Things First: When A.I. Reveals a Broken Process
DescriptionEpisode summary: A short episode on the most underrated lesson construction leaders are learning from A.I. adoption right now: that a successful pilot can be the most expensive way to…
S2026E11 Moving Fast: Your Next Tool Might Be Built by Your Project Engineer
Episode summary: Construction project teams now have access to platforms that turn natural-language descriptions into working software. This episode walks through the tools by name, maps them to the…
S2026E10 From the Field: Home Runs, Not Grand Slams
Episode summary: Construction leaders in the A.I. peer groups are stacking real, measurable wins from A.I., and those wins are compounding. This episode unpacks how early adopters are pulling ahead…
S2026E9 The Agentic Shift: What Claude Cowork Tells Builders
DescriptionEpisode summary: Anthropic's Claude Cowork launched in January 2026 as a desktop agent for non-technical knowledge workers. This episode uses Cowork as the lens for understanding what…
S2026E8 Crossing the Chasm Twice in 2026: How A.I. is Fundamentally Changing Construction Technology
DescriptionEpisode summary: Construction technology must scale first across projects within a company and then across companies in a fragmented industry. The 2026 A.I. Excellence in Construction…
S2026E7 A Changing Workforce: The A.I. Exposure Map for Construction
Episode summary: New economy-wide labor market research confirms what construction-specific data already showed: A.I. exposure concentrates in language-heavy, document-driven roles and barely touches…
S2026E6 MCP: The Protocol That Gives A.I. Agents a Badge
Episode summary: This episode explains the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and why it changes what "adopting A.I." means for contractors. With agents now able to connect into project systems like…
Beyond Chatbots: A.I. Agents Are the New Project Engineers
Episode summary: In this episode of A.I. Excellence in Construction, we break down the shift from chatbots to agentic workflows, and why it matters for every superintendent, PM, and project engineer…
S2026E4 Pilots Are Easy, Scale Is Hard: A.I. Adoption in Construction
Episode summary: In this episode, we explore a recurring theme in construction tech: pilots are easy; scaling is hard.What you’ll learn:• Pilots avoid hard questions: pilots work because they quietly…
S2026E3 Vibe Coding in Construction: When the Field Builds the Tools
Episode summary: In this episode of A.I. Excellence in Construction, we explore “vibe coding” and the growing pattern of field and project teams creating their own A.I.-enabled tools, sometimes…
S2026E2 The Opportunity Map: 9 Construction A.I. Workflows to Pilot First
Episode summary: In Episode #2 of A.I. Excellence in Construction, we walk through a practical “Opportunity Map” approach for prioritizing A.I. use cases, so you can focus on workflows that are…
S2026E1 A.I. Excellence in Construction: Key Takeaways
This episode is a practical recap of the 2026 A.I. Excellence in Construction research, focused on the two areas that tend to make or break adoption at scale: talent and risk.• What “A.I. readiness”…
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