Insights
Practical notes on the handoffs between customers, projects, service work, the field, and finance, with automation and AI where they are genuinely useful.
# What Block's Buzz Tells Contractors About the Right Way to Team Humans and AI in Operations There is a particular kind of operational pain that contractors know well: a…
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# AI Powered Phishing Is Growing Fast. Here Is What That Means for Contractors Running on Email. Your email is not just for scheduling and status updates. It is the chann…
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# What a $6 Million Automation Investment in Ontario Means for Field Service and Project Contractors Most contractors don't spend much time watching factory automation ne…
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# What AMD's Full Stack AI Push Means for Field Service Contractors Who Run Agentic Tools If you're a contractor who has started relying on AI assisted scheduling, automa…
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# What Paper's $34M Series A Tells Us About the Future of Operational Software The design tooling world just got a significant signal. [Paper, a San Francisco based start…
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# What the Databricks Microsoft AI Partnership Actually Means for Field Service and Project Businesses Most contractors hear "enterprise AI partnership" and file it under…
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# What a $155M Vertical AI Fund Tells Field Service Contractors About Where Software Is Heading If you run an HVAC company, an electrical contracting shop, or a mechanica…
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# When Robots Do the Heavy Lifting on the Jobsite, Who Manages Everything Else? Most contractors aren't losing margin because their crews can't lift panels or move materi…
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# What the Microsoft Mistral Deal Actually Means for Operations Teams Running on Azure The conversation about AI in field service and project businesses tends to skip str…
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# SkyPilot Launches Out of Stealth with $20M to Unify AI Compute: What It Means for Operations Focused Businesses If you run field service or project operations, you may…
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# Why Your Operations Software Shouldn't Fight Your Accountant (And What to Do Instead) There is a sale pitch buried inside almost every field service software demo: "We'…
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# What CuspAI's $450M AI Materials Foundry Means for Field Service and Project Operations *Source: [SiliconANGLE, July 20 2026](https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/20/ai mat…
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