Construction: Drowning in Data, Starving for Insights

Construction: Drowning in Data, Starving for Insights | Dave Knowles (Contractor BI / TopBuilder)

Contractors are drowning in data but starving for insights — and most leaders know it. They’ve got ERPs over here, project management tools over there, estimating software on another island, and three spreadsheets named “FINAL_v8” floating around the company like drifting buoys.

In this episode, Robert Zimmerman sits down with Dave Knowles from TopBuilder and Contractor BI to talk about the industry’s biggest hidden cost:

👉 Data chaos
…and the very real money contractors lose because of it.

We hit the issues every construction leader faces:
Why reports from your ERP and job-cost system never match
How to detect profit fade before it becomes a fire drill
Why “disruption” is the worst word in construction tech
How Contractor BI gives contractors a real-time snapshot of job health
Why small, repeated mistakes kill margins faster than “big failures”
How to actually roll out tech so people use it (and don’t sabotage it)

This isn’t a fluffy tech conversation. It’s field-tested, CFO-tested, superintendent-tested reality.

If you want better dashboards, cleaner data, and a simple path to predictable profit — this one’s mandatory listening.

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