The Blog (What's Happening)
Notes from building Estim8 Pro: estimating, AI, and the trades.
Estim8 Pro vs. Enterprise Takeoff Software: What's the Best Fit for Small Contractors?
What STACK, PlanSwift and Buildxact really cost in 2026, what they genuinely do better, and where a $49 mobile app is the right answer.
Meeting Supe: How Conversational AI Is Changing Construction Estimating
What an AI superintendent actually is, how a spoken description becomes a priced bid, and the honest limits of estimating by conversation.
How to Do a Construction Takeoff on Your iPhone or Android
A real takeoff from a phone: read the plan set, extract the counts, apply regional rates and markup, and send the bid before you leave the driveway.
What construction tech looks like in five years (and who gets left behind)
AI in Construction, part 4 of 4. The winners will be whoever demands the least change from the person using it. Four predictions, and the one mistake that will actually sink companies.
Automate the counting. Never automate the judgment.
AI in Construction, part 3 of 4. A machine can total a material list. It cannot tell a client what their budget really buys. The line I would draw, and the test for any tool that touches the numbers.
Construction doesn't have a skill problem. It has an information problem.
AI in Construction, part 2 of 4. Nearly every jobsite disaster is a fact that failed to arrive. That tells you exactly what kind of tool helps, and it is a narrower claim than the industry makes.
Why the AI wave skipped construction, and why that is about to change
AI in Construction, part 1 of 4. AI money went where the data already was. Construction had none of it. What changed is that the tools can finally work with the mess.
Nobody warns you that owning a construction business means you stop building
Coordination has no ceiling. Every job adds it faster than it adds capacity. Where the technology actually hands owners their hours back, and the honest caveat.
Is AI coming for your job? An honest answer from someone building it
Nothing I build can hang a door, read a room, or tell a homeowner the truth. What is at risk is the counting. A straight answer to a fair question.
Why a construction guy builds AI software instead of buying it
The tools built for contractors were not built by anyone who had done the work. Here is what we build on instead, and why construction specifically.
What Supe Actually Does (and What It Doesn't)
Where our AI superintendent came from, what it gets right, the miss that taught us the most, and what it will never do for you.
Estim8 Pro is live. Snap the plans, or just describe the job.
Out of beta and on the App Store and Google Play. What shipped, what changed since August, meet Supe, and what it costs.
Estim8 Pro is in beta. Here's what it does, and what I need from you.
A takeoff from your phone, in minutes. Why I built it, what the beta does, where it still falls short, and the one thing I need from you.