Titled “Revolutionizing Construction: AI-Powered Solutions for the Digital Age,” the session revealed not just a company’s origin story, but a blueprint for innovation in legacy industries.

Breaking Ground in Two Worlds

Franco Giaquinto’s entrepreneurial journey began in Latin America, where he launched what would become a leading construction technology (contech) platform under highly constrained conditions. From there, he scaled into the U.S. market—a leap that demanded not only product-market fit, but cultural fluency and ironclad resolve.

Today, Outbuild’s ProPlanner software powers over 700 projects across 130 customers, streamlining the planning and execution of complex builds using predictive AI and data-driven insights.

“We didn’t just digitize paper,” Giaquinto shared. “We reimagined how construction should operate—from the jobsite to the C-suite.”

Reinventing the Hardest Problems in Hard Tech

Karlsson steered the conversation toward the broader implications of Outbuild’s success: the potential to fundamentally rewire a $10 trillion industry. While construction has long lagged in tech adoption, the urgency of rising costs, labor shortages, and sustainability demands is creating a tipping point.

Giaquinto emphasized how AI is reshaping:

• Project scheduling and resource allocation

• Real-time risk management

• Cross-team coordination and transparency

And crucially, he highlighted how his team has overcome deep industry skepticism—not through hype, but by delivering concrete ROI and intuitive UX to professionals who traditionally resist new tools.

“The challenge isn’t just technical,” he said. “It’s emotional. You have to earn trust from the field up.”

The Future Is Built Differently

The conversation also cast a wide-angle lens on where contech is headed. From supply chain automation to sustainability modeling to smart labor deployment, Giaquinto sees Outbuild as more than a platform—it’s a scalable foundation for intelligent, efficient, and inclusive growth in the built world.

For investors, his story delivered a powerful case study in:

• The viability of AI in infrastructure

• The global scalability of founder-led platforms

• The opportunity to back companies that are both high-margin SaaS and deeply rooted in real-world operations

Revolutionizing Construction showcased the potential of applied AI not just to improve, but to redefine industries long considered impervious to change. With visionary founders like Franco Giaquinto at the helm, the future of construction is no longer about slow, siloed workflows—it’s about speed, precision, and adaptive intelligence.

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