Nomic CEO Andriy Mulyar joined the Construction Technology Podcast, hosted by three venture-backed ConTech CEOs — Mike Powers (BuildVision), Luigi La Corte (Provision), and Andrew Zukoski (Join) — for a candid conversation about what it actually takes to make AI work in the AEC industry.
The episode covers training custom models versus harnessing foundation models, Rich Sutton's "Bitter Lesson" and why the harness around an AI model drives most of the performance gains on construction tasks, change management as a binding constraint on AI adoption in construction, how outcome-based billing becomes viable as AI systems embed deeper into preconstruction workflows, and the value of reducing mental load on repetitive review work for estimators and project managers.
