Bassem Hamdy
CEO, Co-Founder at Briq
Expert insights
- I don’t think construction and these industries are slow to pick up technology. I think technology companies are slow to understand these industries and they are so different.
- There are 300,000 open positions in white collar swivel seats in these industries. Like people do not wake up Greg and go, 'Hey, you know, my dream is to be a payroll clerk at a...
- So these seats are empty. And so the lowest friction we did was bring in, I called it human augmentation. Now we kind of call it, unfortunately, human replacement technology tha...
- The president pulled me aside and goes, 'Yes, we saved two headcount. But last year we missed an insurance certificate. There was a loss on a project and that cost us $500,000 a...
- So yes, we love to talk about, we’re saving a couple of swivel chairs, but the real return is, you know, AI tends to do things better than a human. AI can read an insurance cert...
- What’s interesting, it’s like coming to Christmas dinner at a divorced couple’s house. This is the first time operations and accounting are talking about a work stream.
- It’s like, 'How do you buy something?' The accountant will say, 'I need a purchase order number,' and the operations person will say, 'I never use purchase orders.' They cannot ...