Beyond the Bid | Practical AI for Builders

365 Jobs Into One AI Model: A Builder's Precon Weapon


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⁠Sean Skellenger is the CEO of Skelly Build, an award-winning, woman-founded custom home and renovation firm in Austin, TX. He runs a 40-person fixed-price operation with specialized teams, an in-house cabinet shop, and 365 completed projects sitting in Builder Trend. Most builders let that historical data collect dust. Sean is feeding all of it — every plan set, cost code, sub bid, and timeline — into one AI model to make preconstruction his next competitive moat.

In this conversation, Sean breaks down his crawl-walk-run AI adoption roadmap, why preconstruction is where money is made and lost in residential construction, and how his team dedicates 2 hours every week to learning AI from the ground up. He also shares two IBS discoveries that changed how I think about AI on the job site — including an AI voice agent that calls the PM every morning to report which subs showed up and which didn't, using nothing but regular security cameras. This is one of the most tactical AI-in-construction conversations we've had on Beyond the Bid.


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See Skelly Build's work and team: ⁠https://skellybuild.com⁠

Connect with Sean on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanskellenger

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Introduction

02:06 Lifelong Learning

03:40 AI Implementation Strategy

06:09 Pre-construction Estimating

08:10 Leveraging Builder Trend

10:35 Technical Infrastructure

12:00 EOS and AI

15:20 Marketing Strategy

17:10 Strategic Data Analysis

41:50 Conclusion


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