A VC fell asleep for 30+ minutes during a founder's pitch.

The round stillclosed.

This week on Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, we traded the VC horror stories founders never forget, debated whether the hottest AI startups are just "reselling tokens," and brought on three founders fresh off funding rounds: Guy Saxelby (Earlytrade, $25M total raised), Adrian Rhaese (EnvioTech, €1M pre-seed) and Ben Waters (LightTable, $22M Series A).

Tune in to find out about:

✅ Why Patrick calls Lovable, Cursor and Vercel "resellers of tokens" and what that means for their valuations

✅ How Earlytrade automates construction payments, with 10% of revenue already running with zero humans

✅ The streetlight startup saving cities 80% on energy while mapping how a whole city moves

✅ Dustin's no-mercy pushback on what it actually takes to be a "platform for pre-construction"

Listen now on Spotify and YouTube.

#bricksandbytes #bricksbytes #bricksbucksandbytes #aec #construction#constructiontech #ai #vcChapters00:00 Intro

01:10 VC Horror Stories Founders Never Share

07:05 The Weirdest VC Behaviour We've Seen

13:01 Why AI Costs Are Eating Your Margins

19:15 Will AI Companies Ever IPO?

25:49 How to Find Early Product-Market Fit

33:24 Expanding Internationally: What Actually Works

40:09 Where Construction Tech Innovation Happens

45:48 The Growth Playbook for the Next 5 Years

56:56 The Hardest Lessons of Entrepreneurship

58:11 Why Timing Beats Everything in Business

58:19 How Perception Shapes Professional Success

59:10 Why Being Eccentric Is a Branding Advantage

01:02:07 Where Tech Meets Construction

01:04:09 AI That Actually Manages Construction Projects

01:10:10 Why Pre-Construction Is Where the Money Is

01:16:16 Mastering the Critical Path

"We have 2,000 agents going through your document, checking every single item in detail."

This week we sat down with Brandon Smith and Raymond Zhao, co-founders of Structured AI, fresh off a $4.2M seed round they closed in just five days.

Tune in to find out about:

✅ How Brandon went from training an AI fighter jet at 17 to building construction AI after a single Reddit message

✅ Why agentic AI finally cracks drawing review when traditional machine learning never could

✅ The deterministic, no-confidence-score system with a full audit trail your team can sign off on

✅ Where this goes next - an AI coworker that fixes errors straight back into your Revit model

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"I currently haven't found a use case in which I haven't been able to build."

That was Brett Adams on what Palantir Foundry can do in construction.

This week on Bricks & Bytes we sat down with Dan Julien (Chief Revenue Officer) and Brett Adams (Forward Deployed Engineer and Head of Construction) of ForgeSight, the i4C born team implementing Palantir Foundry across the AEC industry, to cut through the rumours about what Palantir is actually doing in construction.

Tune in to find out about:

✅ Whether Palantir Foundry can really replace your ERP

✅ What "forward deployed engineering" actually means on a job site

✅ Whether Procore, Autodesk and Trimble survive a Palantir world

✅ How a contractor rebuilt its entire operation on Foundry in roughly a year

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Chapters

00:00 Teaser

00:18 What Is Palantir & Why Construction?

02:36 Palantir Foundry Explained

05:16 Who You Need to Implement It

08:35 Do You Actually Need Palantir?

11:01 Real Use Cases in Construction

13:19 How to Implement Foundry & Integrate Data

22:00 Sponsor

25:01 Getting Your Data Into Foundry

28:40 How Long Does Implementation Take?

30:31 Solving Software Integration Challenges

33:06 Can Foundry Replace Your ERP?

36:22 The Future of ERP vs Palantir (SAP, Oracle)

39:31 Palantir for Non-Technical Teams

42:58 Case Study: How Kavanaugh Uses Foundry

46:02 How Much Does Palantir Cost?

48:03 Who Foundry Is Actually For

49:41 Use Cases for On-Site Workers

56:12 Solving Common Operational Headaches