The Long Game with Ashutosh Ade

AI can speed up the busy work, but it won't fix a schedule built on bad logic.

John Mouzakitis, PE, Co-founder of Syncify and Managing Partner at Accurise Consulting, joins Ashutosh Ade to break down the scheduling fundamentals that still matter: why scheduling is logic and not dates, the pattern he saw across 1,000+ projects, why field-team input is critical, and where tech like Syncify fits in.

🎙️ The Long Game with Ashutosh Ade, Tech & Innovation series

Real conversations for professionals playing the long game in their careers.

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:52 Welcome to The Long Game

01:12 From civil engineer to scheduler

03:20 The pattern across 1,000+ projects

05:43 From consulting to building Syncify

07:56 The biggest risk in building software

09:25 What got you here won't get you there

11:21 What makes a great scheduler

15:16 Run schedule meetings like chapters of a book

16:26 What Syncify does differently

19:18 Who benefits: schedulers, teams and owners

21:06 Syncify demo: dashboards and change logs

24:29 Compare, driving paths and change history

29:29 The monthly update process

36:33 Batch reports and working across multiple files

39:54 Built for large projects, public and private

41:24 4D site logistics with AI

45:32 Garbage in, garbage out: AI needs good schedules

47:09 Fundamentals first: scheduling is not dates

49:23 Quick-fire round

50:36 The one thing to remember

51:21 Where to find Syncify

52:58 Closing

👤 GUEST

John Mouzakitis, PE

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Syncify: https://www.syncify.com

🎙️ HOST

Ashutosh Ade, CCP, PSP, PMI-SP, PMP

Architect, PMI & AACE Certified Professional

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Why do most construction schedules fail, and what does that have to do with building a company?

Here’s a first look at Episode 1 of The Long Game with Ashutosh Ade and John Mouzakitis, PE, Co-founder of Syncify, shares the pattern he saw across 1,000+ projects and why fundamentals matter more than ever in the age of AI.

🎧 Full episode drops Tuesday, Oct 20.
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