Buildots
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A Product Market Fit Show 7
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Product managers must manually prove feature value in Excel before writing code
“I now tell my product people, I've been saving it for a long time. Basically, you will not send anything To development until you will show a customer that experienced this value without the actual product. Hack it in Excel and Power BI. Be the person for them…”
Early Buildots construction project contract values ranged from $20,000 to $200,000
“In ACV terms, they could fall into 20 to 200. Really depends on the size of that construction project.”
Buildots signed its earliest enterprise projects with negative gross margins
“At the time, every time we signed a project, we essentially lost money because our margins were negative.”
90% of early Buildots customers got next to nothing from the product
“10% of my customers did fantastic things with it. And 90% of them did next to nothing with it.”
Construction risk tracks weekly because daily variances are too negligible to measure
“Now, when things, you know, as things improve and costs go down in the future or whatever, maybe, ah, but right now this is more about sort of identifying your risks on the project and where performance is lacking, and that just doesn't change on a single day.…”
Project-based teams reject new technology that lacks immediate workflow utility
“Eventually you work with a project team. That project team is working on a project that will be delivered in two or three, however many years. They don't care testing something new if it doesn't help them, because by the time it will be tested, even if their c…”
An architect blocked an early deal by demanding $250,000 for BIM files
“And eventually they didn't use us on that one because they, we need a specific format of designs called BIM. And in that project, they didn't have that format. And then they reached out to the architect who told them, oh yes, I have produced your designs from …”
Construction schedules fail as designed, forcing site managers to rely on intuition
“And suddenly you realize that what you're talking about, I am talking about helping them manage a process in which there are different people involved, each with a limited understanding of the process itself. And therefore you have a schedule that isn't really…”
Buildots' founders built a computer vision engine with zero AI experience
“When we realized that to do this, we need to build a whole computer vision engine. And none of us have any experience in any type of, you know, of AI, but Yakir is Yakir. So he will just learn and build it because That's what he is, and he did.”
Construction knows it needs tech but lacks the talent to build it
“This industry needs new advanced technologies. This industry knows that it needs new advanced technologies. This industry is now very open to that, but it also doesn't have the people to deliver it. And therefore come, if you want impact, this is the place to …”