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Alan Espinoza of Reconstructive AI handed his crew ten brand-new iPads — BIM 360 loaded, models loaded, Bluebeam sessions ready. A few days later he found his superintendent in the golf cart playing Candy Crush. That's the state of construction tech adoption in one image, and it's where this conversation starts.
Host Robert Zimmerman sits down with Alan to take apart the stat everybody quotes — that 95% of tech rollouts fail — and why it's almost never the software. It's the implementation: wrong person in charge, no executive sponsorship, and nobody ever asked why the team didn't want to use the thing. Alan's premise is simple: you can't fix what you don't know is broken, so map your broken workflows first.
They get into what actually works — one-on-one over top-down mandates, showing people what's in it for them (the Universal Studios story), capturing the institutional brain before your clash-detection wizard retires off a $400M job, and the incentives that move a job site the way Duolingo streaks and seatbelt beeps move everyone else. And the one that always lands with a sub: use the tool, get tracked faster, get paid faster. Cash flow is king.
Even when the subject is artificial intelligence, it comes back to people. That's the whole game.
