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Josh Bone

Executive Director of ELECTRI International, the foundation for the electrical construction industry, and a veteran construction-technology advocate.

Oct 1, 2026

0:59
Where are we at? Big contractors, small contractors, what are they investing in AI? How are they learning? What are they learning? Where are they at?
1:07
You know, Scott, I will say this is a dynamic situation.
1:11
It, it's changing very quickly.
1:13
One of the things I will tell you, a lot of larger contractors that have in-house IT have a lot of constraints on their ability to leverage a lot of the tools that are out there today.
1:23
So for larger contractors, while many of their project managers, many of, of their employees would like to be leveraging these tools on, on a more regular basis, on a deeper basis, there's a lot of governance rules and, and restrictions put in place for these larger companies.
1:42
Where I'm seeing some of the most sophisticated uses of AI are in our smaller, more nimble companies that are saying, "Hey, don't worry about it.
1:51
Let's take it, use it as a tool" and, and kind of throw off the bumper, you know, kind of put in those checks and balances that are in for the medium-sized contractors.

26 MINS LATER

28:04
I just wanted to, to ask you, first of all, do you think that's a future we can realize, and have you seen anybody experimenting with that idea yet?

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